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PICTURES: MV-22 tiltrotor makes Illustrious debut on UK carrier
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| 12/07/07
| Craig Hoyle
Posted on 07/12/2007 11:51:00 AM PDT by Freeport
A Bell Boeing MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor transport from the US Marine Corps' VMX-22 test squadron has made history by performing the type's first landing aboard a non-US vessel, touching down on the UK Royal Navy's strike carrier HMS Illustrious on 10 July.
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Technical; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bell; boeing; hmsillustrious; marines; mv22; mv22osprey; navair; royalnavy; uk
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posted on
07/12/2007 11:51:03 AM PDT
by
Freeport
To: Freeport
I bet the limeys had all the fire extinguishers on board maned and ready.
2
posted on
07/12/2007 11:52:53 AM PDT
by
Weeedley
To: Freeport
Is this the aircraft that some within the military have suggested will prove to be a dangerous flop?
3
posted on
07/12/2007 11:54:09 AM PDT
by
Gay State Conservative
("The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism."-Karl Marx)
To: Freeport
It'll never work.
(That must be true, I heard it many years of from self professed experts here on FR.)
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posted on
07/12/2007 11:55:07 AM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Pray for the deliberately ignorant)
To: ASA Vet
Wellll... it had a few... erm... setbacks. Pilot error, assuredly. So it’s understandable there were those who doubted it.
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posted on
07/12/2007 11:59:09 AM PDT
by
farlander
(Try not to wear milk bone underwear - it's a dog eat dog financial world)
To: ASA Vet
Don’t know about that.
But I do know two non-active Marines who say its a death trap.
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:01:49 PM PDT
by
NucSubs
(Rudy Giuliani 2008! Our liberal democrat is better than theirs!)
To: Gay State Conservative
That “mission” it has already accomplished. Cost to taxpayers about $30 billions.
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:01:50 PM PDT
by
Weeedley
To: farlander
The first one that went in was because of a computer error, so it wasn’t all pilot error. The second one was pilot error. I knew the pilot on that one, he came from the C130 community. Attempted to land with a little too much sink rate.
To: Freeport
Must have been successful. Illustrious is sitting at a pier at Naval Station Norfolk right now.
Man, is it small for a carrier. One of the Nimitz class carriers is at the next pier.
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:04:18 PM PDT
by
fredhead
(Teach a man to fish.......and he'll fish for a lifetime.)
To: Freeport
I saw one of these a couple of months back. It flew directly overhead. Really cool in terms of both looks and the sound it made.
10
posted on
07/12/2007 12:04:27 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Freeport
Great pics. Thanks.
Here’s a little article for the nay sayers.
11
posted on
07/12/2007 12:09:54 PM PDT
by
e_castillo
(We should fear the Environmentalist Inquisition...)
To: e_castillo
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:12:39 PM PDT
by
e_castillo
(We should fear the Environmentalist Inquisition...)
To: fredhead
Man, is it small for a carrier. One of the Nimitz class carriers is at the next pier. I'd think that anything would look small sitting next to a Nimitz-class carrier. :=)
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:12:41 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: Freeport
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:15:20 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: farlander
Just to play it safe, we must ground and discard any new plane which has had an incident no matter what its cause. It’s the only way to be sure.
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:16:35 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Pray for the deliberately ignorant)
To: Bob
You have a point there.
4 1/2 acres of sovreign US territory; where it’s needed, when it’s needed.
98,000 tons of diplomacy.
Those are the captions of two posters I have at home that were produced by Northrop Grumman Newport News, the shipyard that builds our aircraft carriers.
I served on three of the carriers; two nukes, Nimitz and Eisenhower; and the last conventional, John F. Kennedy.
After 6 months at sea, even these ships can seem small.
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:18:27 PM PDT
by
fredhead
(Teach a man to fish.......and he'll fish for a lifetime.)
To: fredhead
Did you ever find the bowling alley?
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:26:39 PM PDT
by
ASA Vet
(Pray for the deliberately ignorant)
To: fredhead
After 6 months at sea, even these ships can seem small. You should try a DDG. :=) They not only seem small, they are small. (And that happens after 6 hours rather than 6 months.)
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:29:16 PM PDT
by
Bob
To: fredhead; Bob
After 6 months at sea, even these ships can seem small.A carrier can look mighty small after thirty minutes at sea. If those thirty minutes are spent on a COD.
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:36:01 PM PDT
by
magslinger
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This is a medium volume pinglist.
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posted on
07/12/2007 12:39:31 PM PDT
by
magslinger
(Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors. And miss. R.A.Heinlein)
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