1. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Why do we even have these flying coffins?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      Money

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      None meme answer: its a logistical work horse. Its still safer compared to most helicopters if you compared their crash rates.

      • 1 month ago
        Anonymous

        >safer compared to most helicopters
        You want to show us the numbers on that? There's no way that the tiltrotor nightmare here hasn't had more accidents than your average Bell

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          Sure. There's been 51 H-60 crashes and 6 V-22 crashes in the past 10 years, while there's 2,800 H-60s and 450 V-22s, meaning the H-60 has an extra ~20 crashes versus the V-22 proportional to fleet size.

          https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/type/H60/3

          [...]

          the normalization of total ignorance of statistics in favor of anecdotes in the right has done a shitload of damage

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            >There's no way that the tiltrotor nightmare here hasn't had more accidents than your average Bell
            Why are you pushing this myth?

            Fleet size doesn't mean a thing when it comes to aircraft accidents. At the time of the 737 MAX's introduction, there were only a few in the world... quite a few crashed. What is actually relevant is how OFTEN these are sortied, and on what kinds of missions. Average flight hours per accident is a much more accurate statistic.

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              number of sorties matters, flight time matters, fleet size matters. it all matters - we just don't have all of that info. nobody here is smart enough to make heads or tails of it anyway. this thread is for talking shit only

            • 1 month ago
              Anonymous

              >Fleet size doesn't mean a thing when it comes to aircraft accidents. At the time of the 737 MAX's introduction, there were only a few in the world... quite a few crashed.
              What do you mean

              Not many 737 MAXs out there, quite a few crashed, the ratio is fucking terrible for the 737 MAX for good reason. What point were you trying to make?

              • 1 month ago
                Anonymous

                he made the same mistake as people who dont understand black crime stats lmao

          • 1 month ago
            Anonymous

            Jesus burger helis suck.

        • 1 month ago
          Anonymous

          >There's no way that the tiltrotor nightmare here hasn't had more accidents than your average Bell
          Why are you pushing this myth?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      1 osprey costs $84 million

  2. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    yes

  3. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    It's angry.

    I still don't understand why PrepHole doesn't automatically ban someone who just posts a greentext/reaction image reply.

  4. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    My dad was one of the engineers for the turbines and test pilots for those, his best friend died in a test flight and my mom made him quit. He designed, flew, and crashed a lot of other cool stuff like the huey 800 and rah66 but the osprey was the last straw.

  5. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    Explanation?

    • 1 month ago
      Anonymous

      US helicopters suck.

  6. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    The V-22 is an amazing aircraft because it was once a total deathtrap that a more sensible government would have stopped funding the development of, but thanks to my former local congressman Curt Weldon and his pork barrel politics it was kept alive to save the Boeing plant here a ended up an excellent and revolutionary aircraft.

    However, bad news for Boeing in Ridley now is that the same tech from the V22 is what Bell used to win the Blackhawk replacement contract. Now, unless more V22 orders come in or a lot more Chinooks get bought that plant is in trouble.

  7. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    *with no survivors

  8. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >yet another osprey thread today because anon didn't learn his lesson

  9. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    *sinks*

  10. 1 month ago
    Anonymous

    >FORGET ABOUT FREEMAN WE ARE ABANDONING THE BASE

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