Originally posted by PlatoSVT:
Obviously there are going to be alot of reservations about this airplane, as I said earlier, it's an entirely new type of aircraft, and MUCH testing (testing=failures, no way around it) has had to go into developing it. But due to the simple nature of TESTING, the plane has become a stout pig in the skies, or the Marines wouldn't be trusting their own in it. C'mon at least try and have some faith in the decisions of the higher-ups, even if this plane had some rocky starts, which is inevitable in this situation.
The biggest stink around the Osprey isn't even in the airframe, but in the program management. Some no-load supervisors who didn't want to look bad when the most advanced VTOL aircraft design in decades started to fall behind in development milestones were making stuff up instead of owning up to problems that *were fixable* with the appropriate attention. That's what killed Marines...the desire not to look bad on the books.
"Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed." Clarkson on the Mondeo.
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