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Hi Cyrus, this Jeff P. I bought a Mustang from Jade and you 6+ years ago. I just saw your video. I will be taking delivery of my 505 towards the end of October 2024. Hopefully we can get together sometime.
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My unit demoed the 505 when bidding for a new helicopter. I work in a large county on the west coast with 10,000 ft + mountain peaks. The 505 is a nice machine to replace the Bell 206 or OH-58.
Police Helicopters also create psychological reactions in people trying to escape from ground based Officers. They know that once that Helicopter is 'on them', they have virtually no possibility of escape! I expect Drones will be utilised more and more by Police Departments, in addition to the Helicopter Air Wing, rather than in place of it! Police Helicopters are a huge public relations tool as well as an asset to ground based Officers.
Not if they're so f****** loud that they get discovered upon coming in and not if they can't maneuver fast enough to get on the ground and out of the LZ. It certainly appears that you're just making up doctrine to fit the positives you're trying to exploit with the capabilities that you've only been able Garner limited capabilities instead of featuring and formulating a craft to highest survivability capabilities In-N-Out of landing zones maneuverability time to altitude stop time drop time and acceleration time maneuverability and ability to traverse terrain but I guess if you want to go with one matrix for claiming doctrine even if it abandons most credible experience and vulnerabilities who should stop anyone from marketing bulshit for sound principles
Tiltrotors are under development since mid 1950’s, the Osprey, a 40 year old design still keep falling of the sky. The propaganda “twice the speed, twice the distance” is just what it is, propaganda.
I always find it odd to read the comments on the V-22 Osprey. Many people still parrot superstitious beliefs that this aircraft is unsafe. Meanwhile many are oblivious to the fact that the CH-53 early variants had a high mishap rate and a higher death toll. Between 1969 and 1990 (21 years) the CH-53 and it's early variants has killed over 200 servicemen. That's more than the Osprey in its combined testing and operational years which is about 35 years. So while people gave the CH-53 a pass for being new with the concept of helicopters being also new, I do think they should also give the VTOL concept that same benefit with the Osprey being the very first production aircraft. For being new as an aircraft and a concept, the Osprey's mishap rate is not that bad and before the recent accidents it had one of the lowest. And for the current version of the CH-53, the MH-53E Sea Dragon version of it has had the highest mishap for the Navy between 1984 to 2008 recorded as 5.96 per 100,000 flight hours. Which is more than double the Navy's average mishap rate for helicopters at 2.26. Between 1984 and 2019, 132 people died on the Navy and Marine versions of the MH-53E. That's a 35 year operation history sample of these two E variants, about the same number of years the Osprey is currently flying in 2024, but this MH-53E and CH-53E can't make the excuse that it is a new aircraft nor say it is pioneering the helicopter concept unlike the Osprey. Additionally there are 172 MH-53E and CH-53E built according to Wikipedia. In 2020, there were 400 Ospreys variants built. The other misinformation I routinely see is the comment that if VTOL loses an engine they are screwed. That's untrue, there are driveshafts connecting the 2 engines so one can send power to the other. Also, the blades don't go into a dead stop if the engine goes out. From what I gather the Osprey's emergency method of coming down is a run on landing which something that is done for helicopters too. The Osprey pilots have control over the pitch of the proprotors similar to what helicopter pilots do when they have to make an emergency landing. It's not an ideal way to come down, but neither was losing power. Oh and "twice the speed, twice the distance" isn't propaganda. It is a fact of tilt rotors.
@@bl8danjil Well, first of all we have to remember that helicopters came from the VS300, a single seat almost useless machine to a twin turbine metal monster IFR equiped S-65 in about 30 years. Tiltrotors on the other hand is a 70 years old machine design that still has not proven anything because if it had there would have a lot of more Tiltrotors, wouldn't it? When you say that in 21 years the "CH-53 helicopter has killed over 200 serviceman" we shall not forget that it includes Vietnam war time era and it was probably rushed into service and it is not fair to compare the timeline (1969-1990) to 1989-nowadays as things in the past were a lot more difficult and the Osprey was designed with computers instead of pencils and rullers like the CH-53. Another thing, when we talk about safety we have to compare not only the total accident rate by flight hours. How and where were those airframes used? Wouldn't one type be used more in a brownout environment than the other, for example? Although I do consider that the tiltrotor concept is a mechanical nightmare the real problem with tiltrotors are not mechanical, but it is called physics. Small rotors are just plain aerodinamically ineficient, they have to move the same amount of air than a larger rotor for the same weight so their downwash are ridiculous, they are a lot more prone to Vortex Ring State and so forth and as far as I know the propaganda "twice the speed twice the distance" is only possible at 20.000ft but guess what, the Osprey is not pressurized! For me Tiltrotors are like ducks, they fly, they swims and they walk, but are not good at any of those. It is a bad helicopter and a bad airplane IMHO.
