Holy Hell. It annihilated that tree.

hahaha yeah it did!

I'd hate to be under it for a pullout. It blows people around. Imagine being under it for a hot evac . . .

yeah "Party time" FTW! but I think they'll use is as a Supply drop only cause it makes little noise unless your like with in 300 feet of it...

kick the supples RUN or quick drop and runs.

I guess.

the Osprey planning committee!

Sad, but true.

Well, there's a bit of good news in this --- the Osprey isn't unarmed after all!

V-22 Flying Anvil FTW!

*clang*

http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/V-22_Osprey

How many casualties?

A few people got bowled-over, but nobody had to be hospitalized.

THIS time.


BTW: Sorry for my slow response --- my modem gut hung-up, and I couldn't access the Internet for a couple of days.

Meh, it's okay man.

Yeah, I gotta ask too: How many folks got hurt.

looking at the derbies maybe 16 to 20,

Yeah, it was not a good time.

Is... is that a BODY around 0:56 to 1:00 bottom mid left?

haha! Same direction From mid-Bottom left 1:22 Paramedics racing to the aid....

1:14

*Nods* And imagine a fast dustoff- half the rescuees would be tossed off and away.

Stranded soldier 1: "Hey, I hear a helicopter! We're saved!"

Stranded soldier 2: "ZOMG, V-22 Osprey!"

Everyone in the vicinity: "AAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHH!!!"

*Bodies fly through the air*

Most of the attempts to create propeller aircraft outside their usual usage areas have failed badly or have turned out to be extremely unpleasant machines, in the 1950s the US Airforce tried to create a supersonic propeller aircraft, what they got instead was a machine that was capable of producing a constant sonic boom even when idling, guess what that did to anybody nearby.
In this case the aircraft is too heavy and cannot adapt adequately to adverse conditions, meaning that even a slight breeze is capable of overturning it.

The repeated accidents that this anvil gets into just goes to show that the V-22 is easier to flip than a V-173 "Flying Pancake" landing into a headwind with locked airbrakes while it's pilot is off his tits. At least the V-173 can survive a crash and be still useful immediately afterwards.

I remember hearing a recording of the xf84h in flight.

The Tiltrotor concept is almost as old as the Helicopter itself (give-or-take a decade or so), but hasn't "taken-off" until the V-22 --- and it isn't out of technological ignorance;
http://www.g2mil.com/tiltrotors.htm

http://www.rusi.org/downloads/asset.....n_0207_RDS.pdf

Holy shit! It destroyed that tree.

and what looks like 5 people to boot

It actually injured 10;

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/new....._202661-1.html

yeah I was just going on the people you could see in the vid at the end.

They call it a "dustoff" mission for a reason!

With the V-22's tornado-force downwash, they'll have to start calling it a "boulderoff". XD

Hmmm, if it were more stable in flight, perhaps that 'lethal downdraft' could be used for proper military purposes, like injuring the ENEMY instead of civilians.

"Hey, why's that enemy tiltrotor hovering over u-*"

*tumbles away*

Lol, that's so great! We're just good at killing aren't we?

Too bad the people we're so good at killing aren't the enemy.

They shoot we loot~

OMG epic fail! Is it just me or all these hyped up new weapons really suck? I mean the Huey is soooo much better.

If this is the beginning of a larger trend of Tiltrotor downwash casualties, I wonder if Congress will enact a "Tiltrotor Downwash Remembrance Day"?

...

Probably not --- Bell-Boeing-Textron bought-off a lot of Congressmen; http://www.g2mil.com/scandal.htm

I'll stick with the Huey thank you very much, the Osprey sucks!

yeow!

I'll say --- look at what it did to that tree!