NOOOOOOOOO

I will not have the Osprey's good name besmirched like this, I'll have you know these things fly around here all the time and only ~~one~~ two have ever crashed in the forest outside town!

Did... Did another Osprey crash as you wrote this comment?
- No but I read Wikipedia's list of Osprey crashes...
I mean they fly all over Darwin Australia all the time, I've only heard of one going down here.
That was last year
- well your mother went down on me last night, Trebek!

this is osprey slander

osprey bros clutching their pearls.....if only they could reliably
Don't defend the osprey, it's not good for your health. It knows when you're lying and will retaliate in the only way a rotary aircraft with even more moving parts knows how.
- Do you like that pole vaulting guy.....
https://i.imgur.com/QNR0tKM.mp4
Yeah, Ospreys have a better crash record per flight hour than Blackhawks
- We've got a black hawk down, we've got a black hawk down. Super 6-1 is down
- How does the survivability compare?
It's Osprey libel. Slander is spoken, libel is written. Did the Veep make it to whatever?

Considering the level of protection the Secret Service provides, candidates are safer riding in an osprey than giving a speech.

Ya know,I've had Ukraine on my mind so much, I'd forgotten about that? Thanks for the reminder, I was going to hire a few retired agents as security for a concert in Aurora.

Don't get it

Flying deathtrap. VP on an Osprey, we just witnessed an assassination attempt!
It's a layered joke about an Osprey's safety record.
Ignore them. They're just haters who can't handle the fact that despite it's youth, the Osprey is already a legendary platform.
Think of it like the A-10, except instead of repeatedly slaughtering friendly forces, it just regularly kills anyone dumb enough to ride in one, or pilot it.
- It's called a meritocracy!
fudds like to call the osprey a death trap because they read some headlines early on and never bothered looking into the data. that's my understanding of it, as i have also not looked into the data.
- Unlike helicopters, they cannot autorotate, meaning if you lose power in any position other than forward cruise, you're fucked. Asymmetric power loss is also extra bad.
  The design is inherently less safe than either a helicopter or a fixed wing aircraft.

I'll allow it. 💅 🍵

I was watching a video about the crash in Japan just last night, actually.

Basically, they dismissed multiple warnings, and should have landed the aircraft much sooner than they did. They were on final approach when the failure happened, meaning if they'd landed a few minutes sooner, they would have been fine.

There's a thing on the stuffy r/credibledefense that might change your mind on pilot error. TL;DR the flight manuals and warning design failed the pilots and the checklists didn't communicate the urgency

Half Life prepared me for this

Ah cool, I was at the park with my kid Tuesday evening and saw this fly over us. We figured Kamala was in there but nice to have confirmation