I’ve always been told that numbers wise (non-combat crashes) they’d technically be the safest. I still prefer the Blackhawks and Chinooks the Army used when we had to get around lol.
US military grounds entire fleet of Osprey aircraft following a deadly crash off the coast of Japan
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I’ve always been told that numbers wise (non-combat crashes) they’d technically be the safest. I still prefer the Blackhawks and Chinooks the Army used when we had to get around lol.
zayk35
Superstar
And they designed the damn thing in the early 80s and still can't get it right.
ORDER_66
The Fire Rises 2023
Look at it!!! 
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Richard Glidewell
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There is always a new problem with the VSTOL for some reason or another going back past 2012.......I always loved that shyt......watching a harrier vertical launch off an amphib had me sexually aroused the first couple times I saw it.....i feel like ospreys get grounded every 4 months
Richard Glidewell
All Star
Politicians.........military industries.........retarded voterswhy is the military still using old model planes that need desperate repairs and upgrades????
OperationNumbNutts
Superstar
Should have happened decades ago. The military pushed hard for that aircraft knowing all the problems associated with it.
Marine here there's never an ex, anyways when they first brought these In around 97-98 they asked people in my Squad where I was stationed in Yuma if anyone wanted to volunteer to go on a Flight. Me being me back then was like hell naw!!! One thing you learned in the Corps is to never volunteer for anything. Long story short we had cats in our battalion that volunteered and we never saw them again because the Osprey crashed.amd they died. R.I.P to those that died
I know may have chopped it up, but was you ever in Yuma?
Amerikan Melanin
Veteran
Are any of these armed gunships?
Nah, they’re mostly used for logistics and troop transport.
the main reason chinooks stay out the limelight is because of the osprey imo
when i was in hawaii, shyt was
every time the weather shiftedthe main reason chinooks stay out the limelight is because of the osprey imo
when i was in hawaii, shyt was
Once I got used to being in side of one, and accepted the potential of a crash, I had some of the best naps of my life in chinooks. I could see too much from the inside of a. Blackhawk, plus no matter how many times they’d been in one, joes would scream the whole song of “fortunate son” when if we flew with the doors open.
Some of my fav helo's. There is guy on YT that bought a Blackhawk and flies it on occasion
Son Goku
Great Sage Equalling Heaven
I actually knew one of the dudes that passed on last AF crash, and mighta met another one. 
Yeah, I flew on a CV and had no issues with it.
They are mechanically complex and have some of the weaknesses of both planes and choppers.
Yeah, I flew on a CV and had no issues with it.
They are mechanically complex and have some of the weaknesses of both planes and choppers.