[Bobsat]

My heart goes out to you and your family over the tragic and avoidable loss of your son.

I hope you will be spared the harassment and invective of those who seem to delight in ignorantly abusing anyone who impugns the suitability of the V-22 as a military transport, but I also hope you will speak out fearlessly about it.

Every aircraft design ever made has or will suffer a complete loss of engine power, and an inviolable design criterion for those that carry passengers is that the subsequent landing be survivable.

Every aircraft ever made has an uncontrollable flight region that should not be able to be entered in normal operations. That is also an inviolable design criterion.

The Osprey fails on BOTH of those criteria! When either one of them also involves the exigencies of battle, pilot fatigue, mission pressure, and the general tendency of human beings to just plain screw up, a crash will result. Human beings are always the weakest link in technology, and the design criteria are to minimize the consequences of the inevitible human failings to operate the technology safely.

As the Cato report reveals, there is no defensible mission for the V-22 that cannot be accomplished safer and cheaper by proven aircraft designs.

Semper Fi, marinemofof1, and may you be blessed in your efforts involving your son and in all aspects of your life.

[SMEDLEYBUTLER]

The CATO report is full of mistakes, Penas' lie about VRS and the capabilities of the V-22 on page one is only the beginning of them, which is exactly why you parrot it. Rejecting something you have admitted knowing little to nothing about is proof of your ignorance. Now go cry to the Adminmoderator and falsely claim that you are being personally attacked again, crybaby. Funny how those people selectively coddle the dishonest hypocrites and phonies on this forum.

By the way does your heart go out to all the victims of the 100+ Blackhawk crashes? I seriously doubt it.