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Mike Marron wrote:

Chad Irby wrote:
Mike Marron wrote:

You're not alone. Very few aviators (military or civilian) have shown
much interest in obtaining the FAA's new "Powered Lift" rating since
the V-22 seems to crash with distressing regularity.

For extremely loose definitions of "regular." Less often than the big
helicopters we're currently using, during their development, and none at
all in what, three years? Four crashes of an experimental aircraft type
in over a decade of development is actually pretty darned impressive.

Extremely loose definition of "development," too.

Then you're going to have to start screaming about that horrible "F-14
deathtrap," which had about the same number of crashes per flight hour
in development, and was, by no means, anything like the first swing-wing
plane.

The V-22 is hardly a new concept as tilt-rotors have been under
"development" since what...1951?!

Oddly enough, none of the crashes in the F-22 program have been caused
by design problems with the tilt-rotor system. One gyro wired
backwards, some hydraulics issues, and the discovery that you could get
it into vortex ring state if you flew it downwards faster than any big
helos are allowed to fly...

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