[Rhodes22-list] airplane question for Brad or anybody

[Brad Haslett]

Mike,

I'm betting you are correct.  Another "beast" I won't touch with a ten-foot
pole.  A co-worker of mine flew Harriers in the Marines and tried to explain
to me how it flies.  I told him, "Stop!  If you can't explain it in one
short sentence I don't need to know!"

My guess is that the V-22 Osprey would take a book or two to explain.

Brad

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:16 AM, Mike Cheung <mikecheung at att.net> wrote:

>
> Sounds like you got to see a V-22 Osprey.  The Marines are using those to
> replace their workhorse twin rotor helicopters (or at least that's what
> they
> told Congress).
>
> Did it look like the bird at this link?
> http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/v22/index.htm
>
> Mike C
>
>
> Joe Babb wrote:
> >
> > While we were docked at Mackey's Marina last week I saw an odd sort of
> > plane take off and wondered if you
> > might know what kind it is.  I think it is probably of the vertical take
> > off variety.  It's two propellors looked huge in relation
> > to the rest of the plane but by the time I saw it, they were in the
> > "normal" forward direction.  It looked like something out of a science
> > fiction movie.
> > Joe
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