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Well, you seemed so...cavalier about it.

• nickpsecurity 11y ago
  I do have an odd way of speaking sometimes. Nothing gets created in defense sector without time. I guess I figured people would assume there'd be some process to getting rid of them.
  • engi_nerd 11y ago
    The Osprey, from what I have heard, seems to be doing okay now. But, as you referred to, it has a rough history. Have you read "The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey" by Richard Whittle? I read through it, and found no glaring technical errors (though my experience with a V-22 involves climbing inside one, once, to look at home someone did something I needed to replicate on something else, and a quick test flight in a V-22 simulator years ago as part of a "hey come work here we are really cool" career fair I attended). It's competently written and talks about the issues the V-22 encountered in detail.
    • nickpsecurity 11y ago
      Sounds interesting but I'll probably not have the time to spare. The radical nature of the craft means it would definitely have issues. That was going to be true from the get go. Other commenter implied the things that came before it were much worse and if true then it's necessary evil. Cool that you got to get in one, though.
      • engi_nerd 11y ago
        Interestingly enough, while I was in the sim, another person was flying and managed to put the aircraft into vortex ring state -- the exact cause of a real-world V-22 crash. That person crashed in the sim, too. The flight controls won't stop you from doing so. But the aircraft does detect flight conditions where it's likely to happen and warns "SINK RATE, SINK RATE" over the crew's headsets. So then it's the pilot's responsibility to knock it off.
        • nickpsecurity 11y ago
          That's a trip. I'm glad they at least have a warning. Probably is the reason the accident rate isn't higher.