The President's new dog and basketball carrier aircraft.
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Funny how Obama, Mooch, Mooch's mom and the mini-mooches won't be using it.
Posted on 04/09/2014 6:40:43 AM PDT by hattend
SOMEWHERE OVER THE POTOMAC RIVER – A sharply painted hunter green MV-22 Osprey taxies up near a hangar at the sprawling Marine Corps Base Quantico in central coastal Virginia. It has been pouring down rain and the sky is a gray soup of fog. Yet in the time it takes to walk 100 yards to the awaiting hybrid aircraft, the slick, saturated tarmac beneath the massive idling propellers has become bone dry.
It’s the first indication of the massive amounts of power employed by the Osprey – part helicopter, part airplane – that the passengers on this particular flight are about to experience.
The Marine Corps’ HMX-1 squadron, tasked with transporting the president and his entourage, took on the MV-22 as the new tool of their trade last summer. The aircraft that began with a very troubled development phase has subsequently matured into the workhorse of the Marine Corps, ubiquitous in its presence in Afghanistan and considered essential in long-range crisis response missions such as Libya or the Philippines.
It received formal endorsement from the White House last summer to become a primary mode of transportation on executive branch trips for senior presidential staff (excluding the commander-in-chief himself) as well as Secret Service support teams and White House press corps.
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Barack O’Bondage has a new flying crib.
The President's new dog and basketball carrier aircraft.
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Funny how Obama, Mooch, Mooch's mom and the mini-mooches won't be using it.
No doubt the USA owns a bunch of $500 million versions for the Executive Branch. How many combat-ready versions are available for the Marines?
I’m surprised that “US News and World Reports” still exists.
There are 8 (EIGHT!!) soon to be 12 (TWELVE!!) of these planes on the Presidential Air Force roster.
It’s good to be King.
Ever wonder why the scum bag never has it's side of the family to the whorehouse?
He doesn’t know who his side of the family really is.
His mom apparently got around.
Only on line. The weekly print version was discontinued several years ago. My parents and I subscribed to it from 1965 to the time they discontinued the print version. It was certainly the most conservative of the three weekly news magazines, which include Time and Newsweek.
Around 140 or so. There are currently 14 active squadrons with ten MV-22 each.
Yep. And he's apparently just one of many little bastids his dad deposited around the globe.
...which goes a long way to explaining why he's so effed up.
“long-range crisis response missions”
Define “long-range”.
My riding lawn mower is “long-range” if I’m following a fuel truck.....
This is nauseating!
This country cannot afford to spend tens of thousands of dollars per few minute trip to haul a bunch of gd bureaucrats around!
Period!
It’s air refuelable and gets a lot better mileage than a regular helicopter.
According to Boeing,
Range:
Unrefueled mission radius with 24 troops, nm (km) — 390 (722)
Self-deployment, nm (km) — 2,100 (3,892) with refueling
My riding lawn mower is “long-range” if I’m following a fuel truck.....
get it?
390 nm is NOT “long-range”!!!!
I have sen the pictures...
That's right, Obastard bought and outfitted an Osprey, it's most important duty being hauling the first dawg around.
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