you seem like you know whats upThis is the boldface for what they probably encountered...
UNCOMMANDED NACELLE MOVEMENT
1. NACELLE MOVEMENT - ATTEMPT TO OVERRIDE
2. NACELLE CONTROL DISABLE SWITCHES - DEPRESS
Basically...if the nacelles are moving and them bytches don't disengage after pressing the control disable switches...cancel Christmas.
The thing about the CV is that it is designed for low altitude flight as its not pressurized as well.
That means that you will most likely encounter ground effect as well as not have time to ditch safely. Those props are big as fukk and there will be metal, earth, fire, hot liquids, fuel, hydro, etc flying around.
22s are not to be taken lightly.
I feel like casuals inherently dont trust themseem like they been having problems damn near their entire service life
you seem like you know whats up
why did the military just not abandon this?
This shyt has crashed so much its clearly unstable
Them shyts been fukking up since I was in the military. And I got out in 2000
And the Marine Corps is the wrong branch to maintain that type of aircraft.
theres too many conflicts right now for there not to be an alternativeCongressional mandate...last one was 2021 and delivers till 2025...SOCOM tapped out and said no more.
Nobody is going to order more as per the most recent Intel.
The clutch and gearbox issues are the elephant in the room...Bell just got awarded a big contract to fix it...I guess to patch these shyts up until they all go to the boneyard or in the ocean.
They (DoD) want the airframe to last into the 2050s.
The Army has the stick right now on the next replacement for vertical airlift.
We'll see.
theres too many conflicts right now for there not to be an alternative
Congressional mandate...last one was 2021 and delivers till 2025...SOCOM tapped out and said no more.
Nobody is going to order more as per the most recent Intel.
The clutch and gearbox issues are the elephant in the room...Bell just got awarded a big contract to fix it...I guess to patch these shyts up until they all go to the boneyard or in the ocean.
They (DoD) want the airframe to last into the 2050s.
The Army has the stick right now on the next replacement for vertical airlift.
We'll see.
Is the new V-280 has the same gearbox problem as V-22?Congressional mandate...last one was 2021 and delivers till 2025...SOCOM tapped out and said no more.
Nobody is going to order more as per the most recent Intel.
The clutch and gearbox issues are the elephant in the room...Bell just got awarded a big contract to fix it...I guess to patch these shyts up until they all go to the boneyard or in the ocean.
They (DoD) want the airframe to last into the 2050s.
The Army has the stick right now on the next replacement for vertical airlift.
We'll see.
This is why I don't fw any type of helicopters, even these new ones. Even before Kobe, just looking at a helicopter always had the