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To: Hardraade
Also, it seems not to be named v-22 osprey anymore but v-280 Valor. Seems to be the same plane, though.

There was a lot of compromise built in the V-22 because of the requirement to fold up while shipboard.

Take away the requirement to fold up, and you can have larger rotor discs for lower disc loading (reducing the envelope for vortex ring state, the pilot error condition that killed all those Marines,) and a much lighter airframe that doesn't have to pivot the wing which allows for much higher performance.

30 posted on 11/03/2013 4:00:15 AM PST by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

Hopefully the one the Israelis are getting (the Valor?) doesn’t have the folding wings (Israel has no carriers) and some of the other advantages you’ve mentioned.


32 posted on 11/03/2013 5:53:56 AM PST by steelhead_trout (MYOB)
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To: Yo-Yo

Yep, but it would still have some of the other rotor wing weaknesses.

Which it is rather amazing that no one seems to have specifically targetted. Yet.


34 posted on 11/03/2013 9:26:06 AM PST by Hardraade (http://junipersec.wordpress.com/2013/10/04/nicolae-hussein-obama/)
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