"First Ospreys Land In Iraq; One Arrives After 2 Setbacks"

On Oct 17, 4:24?pm, Dave wrote:
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On Oct 17, 3:53 pm, Tiger wrote:
The Media bashing of the V-22 is getting old. The B-58 had more
accidents than the v-22 ever had. Other programs have had troubled
histories: F4U, F7U, F-104, AV-8,etc...

How many of those has to transition from forward flight to hover in a
combat zone?

AV-8?

Does the AV-8 haul 24 soldiers???

Rob

Rob Arndt wrote:

On Oct 17, 4:24?pm, Dave wrote:


wrote in news:1192662843.030847.172810
:



On Oct 17, 3:53 pm, Tiger wrote:


The Media bashing of the V-22 is getting old. The B-58 had more
accidents than the v-22 ever had. Other programs have had troubled
histories: F4U, F7U, F-104, AV-8,etc...


How many of those has to transition from forward flight to hover in a
combat zone?


AV-8?



Does the AV-8 haul 24 soldiers???

Rob



No, but we could does the ch 46 or 47 feel any safer? Hell would could
be still be death trap flying gliders. The helos are big, slow, fly low
and are being shot down by ordinary rpgs. The Helo has techinical limits
in speed & altitude that your never going to best. Lets see how it does,
before dissing the thing.