Not safe. Been telling people that for a while after they pulled them from deployment, one just crashed recently..again . Shocking they use them for the president
You know. I talked with some people about this.
Turns out the osprey isn't as dangerous as you'd think. After doing some rooting and research.
[This is the data from the air force. ](https://www.safety.af.mil/Divisions/Aviation-Safety-Division/Aviation-Statistics/)
Take the numbers from the v22 (under "other") and compare it to any other aircraft.
It all boils down to the Blackhawk being the most dangerous. As all stats show. With things like the C130 and such still ahead of the Osprey.
The issue with the Osprey being “dangerous” is that there are things that can (and have) break/been broken that will result in the craft being impossible to recover. At least with a traditional single rotor winged ship there’s a chance for autorotation, etc. The Osprey has a very complex transmission system and a failure of that system is basically game over. So when the haters try to hate - they are focusing on this uncomfortable truth about this aircraft - and not the real safety record - and also not accounting for its considerable capability.
The transmission is what allows the rotor to turn. If the transmission fails, the rotor cannot turn, autorotation isn't possible, and the helicopter falls from the sky.
This is why an imminent transmission failure is an extremely serious EP. It's the most serious emergency a helicopter can have.
And you mean to tell me inertia doesnt exist and would lock the rotor in place immidiately and solidly, as well as a transmission failure meaning the gears inside will just sieze and not be ground to dust ?
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Look at the data published by the air force. Not much more than any other helicopter. The reason is the poor maintenance happening on all helicopters across the fleet due to the budget cuts a few years back.
Bell and Boeing probably assign engineers to monitor the VIP Ospreys full time, could you imagine if one of them crashed? And they still don't put the President in them, only staffers and press.
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