avatar helicopter

[Marsellus Wallace]

http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16...08,00.html

I think the U.S. ruined the avater helicopter for everyone by making a shitty one. 
Maybe it's a great aircraft but your engineers suck balls.

It has so many benefits, it can fly like a plane and then stop still like a helicopter, that is amazing, could be very useful for rescue mission, cuz it's faster.

plus, it looks fucking badass.

[SteelCurtain]

What?

The Avatar Helicopter was modelled after the V-22, not the other way around.

That MV-22 has proved its mettle in combat situations with its heavy lift/combat drop capabilities.

Saying it doesn't shoot straight is like saying a C-5 doesn't shoot straight. They're not a fighter or attack vehicle.

[Thumpalumpacus]

As complex a design as a helo is, the Osprey must of course be even more complex -- the engines rotate.

Of course there are going to be crashes. Three during development, in this case. But --

By the time the Marines first put the Osprey into service in Iraq in 2007, though, it had cost more time, money and lives than any other piece of equipment the Corps has ever bought — 25 years, $22 billion and 30 deaths in crashes during its development. The Osprey was a very ugly duckling.

Since then, the saga has taken a very different turn, but many of the Osprey’s loudest critics – notable among them the New York Times editorial page – went to sleep in the middle of the story. In February, the Times declared that “the unsafe V-22 Osprey aircraft should…be scaled down now.” In April, the Times again called for cutting the “accident-prone V-22 Osprey.”
Labeling the Osprey “unsafe” and “accident-prone” could be justified a decade ago, when two of the three fatal crashes that occurred during its development had just occurred. Yes, that number is correct; there were only three fatal crashes before the Osprey went into service. Thirty people died in them because the Osprey is a troop carrier, and 19 Marines – 15 of them passengers – were killed in one star-crossed test flight alone. After the last of those terrible crashes, though, the Pentagon grounded the Osprey for 17 months – and fixed what was wrong with it.

As I described in The Dream Machine: The Untold History of the Notorious V-22 Osprey, between 2001 and 2005, the Osprey was redesigned and retested. Sloppily laid out hydraulic lines were rerouted, putting a stop to frequent and dangerous leaks. Flaws in flight control software, which in combination with a hydraulic leak had caused one fatal crash, were fixed. A trio of brave test pilots deliberately and repeatedly flew the Osprey into the little-understood aerodynamic condition that caused its worst crash and figured out how a pilot could get out of it. Cockpit warning devices were installed to keep future pilots from putting an Osprey into this “vortex ring state” in the first place.

http://breakingdefense.com/2011/08/the-v...th-buying/

Read this as well: http://www.forbes.com/sites/beltway/2011...g-critics/

[Marsellus Wallace]

then why the hell isn't the V-22 the popular war aircraft of heavy combat like traditional helicopters(ex: Apache) ?

[Jackalope]

then why the hell isn't the V-22 the popular war aircraft of heavy combat like traditional helicopters(ex: Apache) ?

Because the Osprey is a transport, and the Apache is a gunship?

Just a guess.

[AFTT47]

The only point of something like the V-22 is when you need VTOL plus greater range and/or speed than is possible with a helicopter.

[Marsellus Wallace]

then why the hell isn't the V-22 the popular war aircraft of heavy combat like traditional helicopters(ex: Apache) ?

Because the Osprey is a transport, and the Apache is a gunship?

Just a guess.  

well, they should make it more like this
 

[SteelCurtain]

That thing isn't even a tiltrotor aircraft. It's just a nimble helicopter armed to the teeth.