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| NATO aircraft crashes in Afghanistan, killing 4 |
| 2010-04-09 |
| A U.S. Air Force tilt-rotor aircraft crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, killing three service members and one government contractor, NATO said Friday. Other personnel aboard were injured and were taken to a military base for treatment, NATO said. The CV-22 Osprey went down about 7 miles (11 kilometers) from Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, NATO said. The cause of the crash was under investigation. |
| Posted by:ed |
| #4 They where rough prototypes put together in a few months powered by 1,500 hp Lycomings engines, discount gearboxes, off the shelf helicopter tail rotors and a boxy fuselage. The design was brilliant, being bullet proof as the osprey die from a thousand misdesigns or a bullet or two from the jihadis.. These prototypes where doing nearly as good with a QUARTER of the 12,000 hp of the Osprey! The final version WAS going to more than double the Osprey performances. I flew with one of test pilots and he was ecstatic about the machines. Yes, he had to bail out a couple times but it was due, he said, to cheap gearboxes installed AFTER the project was unofficially canceled... Look at the osprey's specs...CREW OF FOUR!!! to the one on the Dynavert... worse than a Russian plane!!! In case of, say, volcanic ash, the Dynavert can land with two dead engines, while the Osprey go down like a rock...no auto rotation and no wings!!! Having cost nearly a hundred billions, the thing would have been canceled long ago if the country had real leaders.(2Bushes, Clinton, Obama, the quartet of jokers!) Look like Melon-head Hussein will only have time to keep his own head on his shoulder, after selling the country down the river... Mexico had Santa Ana, we have Obama... |
| Posted by: Hotspur666 2010-04-09 16:34 |
| #3 It had twice the payload of the useless osprey, twice the speed and twice the range. My arse. Check the CL-84's specs again. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2010-04-09 15:39 |
| #2 In the seventies, Canadair(today Bombardier, then a General Dynamic's subsidiary)built five CL 84 Dynaverts for 85 million dollars. It was controlled by purely mechanicals from an armored control box. It had twice the payload of the useless osprey, twice the speed and twice the range. Alas, at the time, the communist hippies had won the psychological war in Viet Nam and everywhere. So, they made sure nothing came of it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadair_CL-84    |
| Posted by: Hotspur666 2010-04-09 12:46 |
| #1 My condolences, but this plane's a turkey. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2010-04-09 10:32 |