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2010-04-09 Afghanistan

NATO aircraft crashes in Afghanistan, killing 4

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Posted by ed 2010-04-09 08:06|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 My condolences, but this plane's a turkey.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2010-04-09 10:32|| 2010-04-09 10:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-04-09 12:46|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-04-09 15:39|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2010-04-09 16:34|| Front Page Top

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