[Rhodes22-list] airplane question for Brad or anybody

[Brad Haslett]

Mike,

He got into nozzle force vectors and this and that envelope, yada, yada,
yada.  "Tell ya what, buddy, I like machines where the electricity goes
forwards, the thrust goes backwards, and most of everything I need to do is
mounted on one stick!"

Brad

On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 10:47 AM, Michael D. Weisner <mweisner at ebsmed.com>
wrote:

> 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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