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"Henry J. Cobb" wrote in message om... "Kevin Brooks" wrote in message et... Why? Other (conventional) rotary aircraft currently within operating inventopries are susceptable to VRS and manage to handle it by knowing the limits--why do you think the V-22 should somehow be different? Illogical. http://198.65.138.161/military/syste...t/v-22-vrs.htm "This asymmetrical VRS phenomenon, which is unique to side-by-side rotor configurations, will have the initial resultant effect of inducing a large rolling moment in the yaw direction." That's what's different about it. So what? The chief test pilot said that after the latest flight tests they feel comfortable with thier procedures to handle it--that carries a heck of a lot more water than what either you or that "former" OT&E guy have to say about the matter. Brooks -HJC |
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"Hobo" wrote in message ... In article , "Kevin Brooks" wrote: Really? Last I heard the joint Agusta Bell AB 609 civil spinoff had gained some seventy advance orders, and made its maiden flight this past March. So far you are exhibiting a very low batting average in terms of accuracy of your statements regarding this program. I went to the BAAC website and could not find any specific informtion concerning advance orders that could be examined. You need to revisit Google--this same issue popped up earlier this year over in SMN (IIRC) and there are lists of the firms that have placed the advanced orders available via the web. At http://www.aeroboek.nl/ab-027.htm I found the 70 advance orders number, but it also said that the aircraft was expected to recieve FAA certification in 2007. No aircraft have been shipped. I am certainly surprised to find that a tilt-rotor has found 70 advance orders and so there is *some* commercial interest in the aircraft, but overall I think it is accurate to say that the commercial market does not see the tilt-rotor as a competitor to the standard helo or have significant interest in the idea. Those seventy-odd orders (the numbers fluctuate depending upon the source and date between fifty some and eighty some, with the seventies being the most prevalent IIRC) were advance booked by current rotary operators from around the world before the prototype even flew, and you don't think there is "significant interest" in the civil community? On that our opinions will just have to differ. I assume you are also backing off your earlier assertion that *only* the USMC is interested in the V-22, since the USAF has already been a partner in its development for the SOF role, and now the NGB has even expressed interest in it? Brooks |
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Kevin Brooks wrote:
"Henry J. Cobb" wrote in message om... "Kevin Brooks" wrote in message et... Why? Other (conventional) rotary aircraft currently within operating inventopries are susceptable to VRS and manage to handle it by knowing the limits--why do you think the V-22 should somehow be different? Illogical. http://198.65.138.161/military/syste...t/v-22-vrs.htm "This asymmetrical VRS phenomenon, which is unique to side-by-side rotor configurations, will have the initial resultant effect of inducing a large rolling moment in the yaw direction." That's what's different about it. So what? The chief test pilot said that after the latest flight tests they feel comfortable with thier procedures to handle it--that carries a heck of a lot more water than what either you or that "former" OT&E guy have to say about the matter. And here's what someone who's a lot closer to the program had to say, about 6 months ago, about someone with a similarly out of date, not to say biased, viewpoint (hopefully the formatting will survive): 'Morning, Gents. This author has never, in my recall, written a fair and balanced article about the V-22. I don't know who's pocket he's in, but he sure has a penchant for taking a grain of truth and building a mountain of crap. The High Rate-of Descent testing has almost finished Phase One, with some very interesting results. Two of the most prominent a 1. The envelope for VRS susceptibility predicted before Marana (flight restriction: 800 fpm@40 KIAS) was, if anything, conservative. No surprises have been found and the VRS recovery procedure of using forward nacelles has been verified as very effective. In fact, these data now support relaxing the restriction somewhat; perhaps to something like a maximum of 1200 FPS (edit: I meant 1200 FPM; thanks to Ray Norton for catching my flub) below 70 IAS. 2. Rolloff of the kind that caused the crash at Marana have occurred only (IIRC) eight or nine times in all of the HROD testing, including hundreds of attempts to approach/exceed the limits. The most striking finding WRT VRS was that the aircraft has to stabilize in flight well outside the authorized envelope for four to six seconds before enough VRS develops to cause a rolloff. Our earlier fear that dynamic control inputs by the pilot(s) would accelerate VRS entry have been shown to be unfounded. NOTE: this is a preliminary conclusion at this point, and we're still reviewing/discussing the data. But think what this means for operational pilots: they would have to a: exceed the flight limitation grossly(like 2X or more), thus triggering the HROD audible and visual warning system, and b: continue that for 4-6 secomds before anything like a rolloff would happen. And if they did drive the aircraft into a VRS rolloff, then no more than two seconds of nacelle tilt would let them fly right out of it. Can anyone guarantee that there will never be another VRS-induced crash? Of course not. But that hapless crew will have to strive really hard to abuse the aircraft into the ground. 3. Low airspeed Maneuvering: The lower left hand portion of the “N-V” envelope has now been filled in. After discussing these tests with Bell/Boeing test pilots and engineers it seems clear the flight envelope has now been completely sampled without any rotor stall or controllability problems surfacing. Again, a preliminary position, but it looks like the low-airspeed maneuverability question is no longer a concern. Regarding the chatter about "deferred tests": the program is, in fact looking at the remaining HROD tests and starting to sort out what needs to be done as a program responsibilty before returning the Fleet to flight, and what should properly be put into a new project of the "Science Fair" variety to investigate, jointly with NASA Ames, the aerodynamics of tiltrotors in various HROD conditions. This latter work would in no way detract from the confidence underlying fleet ops, and would mainly serve to advance the scientific community's understanding of HROD aerodynamics in highly-loaded proprotor sytems. It might well serve to support a future design of a "four-poster" tiltrotor to replace or augment the C-130. Anybody--even "Stryker Meyer" is free to have an opinion. We all know where they come from. But I have no patience for people who cling to pre-conceived positions while ignoring factual information and data that costs a great deal of time and money to get. GRRRRR! S/F TC In a later post, he mentions that testing has shown that dynamic control inputs actually _prevent_ entry into VRS, not cause it. Just to establish the above poster's bonafides, I'll include the post where he introduces himself to the MV-22 forum on the Popasmoke (USMC/Vietnam Helicopter Association) website, www.popasmoke.com, back in January : G'Day, Mates. Brand new FNG here, and Hello to all. By way of intro, let me say where I'm coming from. After some 410 missions in SEA (68-69) flying A-4s, the Corps decided I was survivable enough to go to TPS at Pax River. Got to work on some interesting stuff in the specialties of stall/spin (A-4M, TA-4, EA-6B, and T-2C) and peculiar birds like the Canadian tilt-wing CL-84, the XC-142, and the NASA STOL Buffalo. So while my roots are in jets, I "branched out a bit" as you can see. I first worked on what's now the V-22 in 1981 when I was assigned to the Director, Defense T&E office in the Pentagon. Except for five years as a Beltway Bandit (85-90) I've been doing the same thing since then. In addition to the JMVX program, I had the USAF Maverick Missile, the Navy HARM, and the Army DIVAD/Sgt. York programs. Yeah, I've seen a few rotten potatoes. I'm currently the AO (action officer) for V-22 in the office of the Director, OT&E in OSD; have been since 1990. Have known every V-22 PM since Harry Blot (who I relieved at Flight Test in 1971). Knew the operational testers, past and present, since they sorta' kinda' worked for my boss. Miss the lost ones. But enough about me. My assessment of the very-expensive, oft-delayed V-22 program now? It's on the right track to repair the damage done by a lot of past decisions that turned out to be bad ones. I fervently hope we're doing all the right things now, and by most accounts, we are. The overwhelmingly big question in my mind right now is this: In the warafre of the future, will young V-22 pilots be able to accomplish all maneuvers needed in combat while avoiding VRS? And right at this moment, to be honest, I couldn't answer that question if the SecDef himself asked it. But about two years from now, I plan to be able to. Anyway, thanks for letting me in. Where's the bar? Semper Fi Tom Carter Leatherneck Edited to add: Can I be an honorary rotorhead? I pinned my son-in-laws Army wings on him two months ago at Ft. Rucker. He's just now finishing Blackhawk qualis and will be in Korea a month from now. Those of you who actually want to inform yourself with information from inside the program by people who actually work with the sytem, could do worse than read the posts on the forum, both positive and negative, and make up your own mind who's got the most credibility. Guy |
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In article ,
Guy Alcala wrote: (reformatted) And here's what someone who's a lot closer to the program had to say, about 6 months ago, about someone with a similarly out of date, not to say biased, viewpoint (hopefully the formatting will survive): 'Morning, Gents. This author has never, in my recall, written a fair and balanced article about the V-22. I don't know who's pocket he's in, but he sure has a penchant for taking a grain of truth and building a mountain of crap. The High Rate-of Descent testing has almost finished Phase One, with some very interesting results. Two of the most prominent a 1. The envelope for VRS susceptibility predicted before Marana (flight restriction: 800 fpm@40 KIAS) was, if anything, conservative. No surprises have been found and the VRS recovery procedure of using forward nacelles has been verified as very effective. In fact, these data now support relaxing the restriction somewhat; perhaps to something like a maximum of 1200 FPS (edit: I meant 1200 FPM; thanks to Ray Norton for catching my flub) below 70 IAS. 2. Rolloff of the kind that caused the crash at Marana have occurred only (IIRC) eight or nine times in all of the HROD testing, including hundreds of attempts to approach/exceed the limits. The most striking finding WRT VRS was that the aircraft has to stabilize in flight well outside the authorized envelope for four to six seconds before enough VRS develops to cause a rolloff. Our earlier fear that dynamic control inputs by the pilot(s) would accelerate VRS entry have been shown to be unfounded. NOTE: this is a preliminary conclusion at this point, and we're still reviewing/discussing the data. But think what this means for operational pilots: they would have to a: exceed the flight limitation grossly(like 2X or more), thus triggering the HROD audible and visual warning system, and b: continue that for 4-6 secomds before anything like a rolloff would happen. And if they did drive the aircraft into a VRS rolloff, then no more than two seconds of nacelle tilt would let them fly right out of it. Can anyone guarantee that there will never be another VRS-induced crash? Of course not. But that hapless crew will have to strive really hard to abuse the aircraft into the ground. 3. Low airspeed Maneuvering: The lower left hand portion of the “N-V” envelope has now been filled in. After discussing these tests with Bell/Boeing test pilots and engineers it seems clear the flight envelope has now been completely sampled without any rotor stall or controllability problems surfacing. Again, a preliminary position, but it looks like the low-airspeed maneuverability question is no longer a concern. Regarding the chatter about "deferred tests": the program is, in fact looking at the remaining HROD tests and starting to sort out what needs to be done as a program responsibilty before returning the Fleet to flight, and what should properly be put into a new project of the "Science Fair" variety to investigate, jointly with NASA Ames, the aerodynamics of tiltrotors in various HROD conditions. This latter work would in no way detract from the confidence underlying fleet ops, and would mainly serve to advance the scientific community's understanding of HROD aerodynamics in highly-loaded proprotor sytems. It might well serve to support a future design of a "four-poster" tiltrotor to replace or augment the C-130. Anybody--even "Stryker Meyer" is free to have an opinion. We all know where they come from. But I have no patience for people who cling to pre-conceived positions while ignoring factual information and data that costs a great deal of time and money to get. GRRRRR! S/F TC In a later post, he mentions that testing has shown that dynamic control inputs actually _prevent_ entry into VRS, not cause it. Just to establish the above poster's bonafides, I'll include the post where he introduces himself to the MV-22 forum on the Popasmoke (USMC/Vietnam Helicopter Association) website, www.popasmoke.com, back in January : G'Day, Mates. Brand new FNG here, and Hello to all. By way of intro, let me say where I'm coming from. After some 410 missions in SEA (68-69) flying A-4s, the Corps decided I was survivable enough to go to TPS at Pax River. Got to work on some interesting stuff in the specialties of stall/spin (A-4M, TA-4, EA-6B, and T-2C) and peculiar birds like the Canadian tilt-wing CL-84, the XC-142, and the NASA STOL Buffalo. So while my roots are in jets, I "branched out a bit" as you can see. I first worked on what's now the V-22 in 1981 when I was assigned to the Director, Defense T&E office in the Pentagon. Except for five years as a Beltway Bandit (85-90) I've been doing the same thing since then. In addition to the JMVX program, I had the USAF Maverick Missile, the Navy HARM, and the Army DIVAD/Sgt. York programs. Yeah, I've seen a few rotten potatoes. I'm currently the AO (action officer) for V-22 in the office of the Director, OT&E in OSD; have been since 1990. Have known every V-22 PM since Harry Blot (who I relieved at Flight Test in 1971). Knew the operational testers, past and present, since they sorta' kinda' worked for my boss. Miss the lost ones. But enough about me. My assessment of the very-expensive, oft-delayed V-22 program now? It's on the right track to repair the damage done by a lot of past decisions that turned out to be bad ones. I fervently hope we're doing all the right things now, and by most accounts, we are. The overwhelmingly big question in my mind right now is this: In the warafre of the future, will young V-22 pilots be able to accomplish all maneuvers needed in combat while avoiding VRS? And right at this moment, to be honest, I couldn't answer that question if the SecDef himself asked it. But about two years from now, I plan to be able to. Anyway, thanks for letting me in. Where's the bar? Semper Fi Tom Carter Leatherneck Edited to add: Can I be an honorary rotorhead? I pinned my son-in-laws Army wings on him two months ago at Ft. Rucker. He's just now finishing Blackhawk qualis and will be in Korea a month from now. Those of you who actually want to inform yourself with information from inside the program by people who actually work with the sytem, could do worse than read the posts on the forum, both positive and negative, and make up your own mind who's got the most credibility. Guy -- cirby at cfl.rr.com Remember: Objects in rearview mirror may be hallucinations. Slam on brakes accordingly. |
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On 10 Dec 2003 17:29:16 -0800, (Henry J. Cobb) wrote:
"Kevin Brooks" wrote in message et... Why? Other (conventional) rotary aircraft currently within operating inventopries are susceptable to VRS and manage to handle it by knowing the limits--why do you think the V-22 should somehow be different? Illogical. http://198.65.138.161/military/syste...t/v-22-vrs.htm "This asymmetrical VRS phenomenon, which is unique to side-by-side rotor configurations, will have the initial resultant effect of inducing a large rolling moment in the yaw direction." That's what's different about it. -HJC A "rolling moment in the yaw direction"????? Is it just me, or does that make no sense at all?? Al Minyard |
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Alan Minyard wrote:
A "rolling moment in the yaw direction"????? Is it just me, or does that make no sense at all?? I'd read that as "It will yaw and then try to roll in the direction of the yaw." So if the nose swings left, it will also try to roll left, sort of a corkscrew movement. -- Tom Schoene Replace "invalid" with "net" to e-mail "If brave men and women never died, there would be nothing special about bravery." -- Andy Rooney (attributed) |
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 03:23:39 GMT, "Thomas Schoene" wrote:
Alan Minyard wrote: A "rolling moment in the yaw direction"????? Is it just me, or does that make no sense at all?? I'd read that as "It will yaw and then try to roll in the direction of the yaw." So if the nose swings left, it will also try to roll left, sort of a corkscrew movement. That does make a lot of sense out of a senseless phrase :-) Al Minyard |
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