Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck, A/K/A Dolt-45,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset., A/K/A P01135809

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Your Sunday Morning Rotor Noise

A V-22

Posted by on or about 06:07
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7 comments:

Brad_in_IL said...

Got buzzed once by a pair of ospreys. Sounded like a C-130 Herc.

9/17/2017 10:06 AM
Tod Germanica said...

This turkey reminds me of the CSS Hunley. Wonder how many gyrene squads it's wasted so far.

9/17/2017 10:57 AM
Ten Bears said...

Quite a few Tod. There's no better example of a whole bunch of odd parts that shouldn't be together all trying to come apart. It qualifies as VTL.

But... I'm old school, Hueys 'n skycranes and shithooks.

9/17/2017 11:29 AM
J4rh34d said...

According to Wikipedia, the Osprey has killed about 3 squads. Two of the squads were in the previous millennium. One squad worth since 2000.

"The V-22 Osprey had 10 hull loss accidents that resulted in a total of 42 fatalities. During testing from 1991 to 2000 there were four crashes resulting in 30 fatalities. Since becoming operational in 2007, the V-22 has had six crashes including two combat-zone crashes,and several other accidents and incidents that resulted in twelve fatalities."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_V-22_Osprey

9/17/2017 12:33 PM
Tod Germanica said...

Yeah and the corp's Class A accident rate is very poor even compared to the navy, with a rate of 2.63 in 2016 compared to the Navy’s 1.27. McCain has decried this cascade of maintenance, training, fatigue and organizationally related crashes.
http://taskandpurpose.com/marine-plane-crash-data/

9/17/2017 1:39 PM
Old NFO said...

Helicopter trying to fly sideways...

9/17/2017 9:09 PM
dinthebeast said...

The Reno Air Races were this weekend.

-Doug in Oakland

9/18/2017 1:53 AM

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