"Hard landing"
 

V-22 Osprey Suffers ‘Hard Landing’ in Syria, Two Service Members Injured

https://news.usni.org/2017/09/29/v-2...member-injured

Man, choppers weren't that bad after all. Never have liked those Ospreys.

Yep...we should have airplanes and helicopters...never should the two merge and mutate into what mutant aircraft like that.

Prayers out for the wounded!

Agree; from this pilot's perspective they give me the creeps. Create lift, or beat the air into submission, one or t'other. This gender-identity stuff has to stop.

Helo's can autorotate, tiltrotors can't. Fixed wings need ground effect to cushion the landing. Rotating the wings down, if there is even time, puts the prop/rotors in a position to hit first and cause drag and forward pith even though they are meant to splinter. My electrician was a helicopter mechanic in the Marines when the V-22 came online and he was warned to stay away from them.

Pat

Yemen raid
 

We lost one to a similar incident during the Yemen Raid...

http://www.janes.com/article/67317/u...-in-yemen-raid