Presidential V-22

"FJ80WaitinForaLSV8" (fj80waitinforalsv8)
07/31/2014 at 09:26 • Filed to: planelopnik

Saw this beauty hovering at about 100ft on my way to work this morning. It was beautiful. I kinda want to paint my car this color.

DISCUSSION (15)

Lekker > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
07/31/2014 at 09:30

I had no idea they had Presidential Offsprey's. That is AWESOME!

Jayhawk Jake > Lekker
07/31/2014 at 09:37

*Osprey. I didn't either. I want to see this thing land on the south lawn.

Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole > Jayhawk Jake
07/31/2014 at 09:38

Won't happen for a while. The President is forbidden to ride on it.

2222222222212 > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
07/31/2014 at 09:41

Two of these bad boys were parked in a field across from my office yesterday. One had its engines running and looked like it was preparing for departure. I wanted to hang around and watch, but the road was busy and I had just gotten off work. I'm going to visit the actual Airventure grounds tomorrow anyway, so I'll see them again.

Lekker > Jayhawk Jake
07/31/2014 at 09:46

Thank you sir. And if that doesn't say "What now?" , pull out the C130

Cé hé sin > Dukie - Jalopnik Emergency Management Asshole
07/31/2014 at 10:15

Haven't they this unfortunate tendency to crash and kill you?

William Byrd > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
07/31/2014 at 10:17

I've been seeing a TON of Osprey around DC. I live near Andrews and one was doing a concentric circle loop around the other day. Also saw three fly over the tidal basin downtown one day. They are loud, sort of a combination of plane and helo sound, whooop whooop whooop. I didn't know they had finally done one up in Marine White House colors, thought they had canned the idea.

user314 > Cé hé sin
07/31/2014 at 10:32

No more so than pretty much every other airplane or helicopter ever.

Cé hé sin > user314
07/31/2014 at 10:37

Not fixed wings so much, they still allow VIPs to travel in them. Rotary wing aircraft are always determined to crash.

It must be remembered that a helicopter doesn't fly, it beats the air into submission.

user314 > Cé hé sin
07/31/2014 at 10:44

True enough; the Osprey, though, has an undeserved bad rap compared to the aircraft it's replacing.

Chuck 2(O=[][]=O)2 > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
07/31/2014 at 10:45

Isn't living in/around DC great. (looks up and recalls 295/495/395/95/both 695s traffic)(The taxes are great too)

FJ80WaitinForaLSV8 > William Byrd
07/31/2014 at 10:47

Yeah this one was along the tidal basin. It was so low, traffic came to a virtual stop.

T5Killer > FJ80WaitinForaLSV8
07/31/2014 at 11:48

We have one of the 1st USAF V-22 Squadron here in Albuquerque(Kirtland AFB/ 71st Special Operations Squadron ). Its great hearing/seeing them. They also did some of the hot and high desert testing here and in Santa Fe before the 71st was reactivated so we got to watch V-22/MC130 mid air refueling as well as normal flights.

T5Killer > Cé hé sin
07/31/2014 at 11:50

V-22s have been operating out of Albuquerque since '05 and have yet to have a crash...Early in the V-22s development in the '90s there was some big crashes.

Wishin & workin for an E39 M5 > T5Killer
07/31/2014 at 14:23

Current Ospreys have an inclination to crash during low hover ops, while unloading troops, equipment, the dinky little tractor vehicle they are supposed to carry, and whenever you begin hoisting a load underneath, something about the unsprung weight cannot be balanced by the birds mounting harness. Basically, connect howitzer with intent to deploy it to forward base = crashy-town

Also, the worst place to be is under the bird for friendlies, the best place to be for bad guys is anywhere on the ground just outside of rotor wash zones.

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A V-22 experienced an uncommanded engine acceleration while ground turning at Marine Corps Air Station New River , NC. Since the aircraft regulates power turbine speed with blade pitch , the reaction caused the aircraft to go airborne with the Torque Control Lever (TCL, or throttle ) at idle. The aircraft rose 6 feet (1.8 m) into the air [31] (although initial reports suggested 30 feet), and then fell to the ground with enough force to damage one of its wings; the total amount of damage was approximately US$7 million. [32] It was later found that a miswired cannon plug to one of the engine's two Full Authority Digital Engine Controls ( FADEC ) was the cause. The FADEC software was also modified to decrease the amount of time needed for the switch between the redundant FADECs to eliminate the possibility of a similar mishap occurring in the future. [33]

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A V-22 experienced compressor stalls in its right engine in the middle of its first transatlantic flight to the United Kingdom for the Royal International Air Tattoo and Farnborough Airshow on 11 July 2006. [34] It had to be diverted to Iceland for maintenance. A week later it was announced that other V-22s had been having compressor surges and stalls, and the Navy launched an investigation into it. [35]

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A V-22 experienced a hydraulic leak that led to an engine-compartment fire before takeoff on 29 March 2007. [36] It was also reported at that time that a more serious nacelle fire occurred on a Marine MV-22 at New River in December 2006. [36] [37]

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An MV-22 Osprey of VMMT-204 caught fire during a training mission and was forced to make an emergency landing at Camp Lejeune on 6 November 2007. The fire, which started in one of the engine nacelles, caused significant aircraft damage, but no injuries. [38]

After an investigation, it was determined that a design flaw with the engine air particle separator (EAPS) caused it to jam in flight, causing a shock wave in the hydraulics system and subsequent leaks. Hydraulic fluid leaked into the IR suppressors and was the cause of the nacelle fires. As a result, all Block-A V-22 aircraft were placed under flight restrictions until modification kits could be installed. No fielded Marine MV-22s were affected, as those Block-B aircraft already incorporated the modification. [39]

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An Air Force CV-22 suffered a Class A mishap with more than a $1 million in damage during FY 2009. No details were released. [40]

Now almost all detailed reports of these events are classified Secret of Top Secret due to the danger they constantly put pilots, crew chiefs, and troops in every time they load the bird.