[Rhodes22-list] airplane question for Brad or anybody

[Michael D. Weisner]

Brad,

I'm surprised that he couldn't explain its flight characteristics in a 
single sentence!  It flies, for the most part, like a rock!  Give me a FW 
aircraft with a glideslope any day.

Mike
s/v Shanghai'd Summer ('81)
Nissequogue River, NY

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:26 
AM
> 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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