V22s

[atpcliff]

Hi!

I've seen a BUNCH or helos on a stick. I remember that Kaman (sp?) one in ABQ. It is a dual rotor bird with the two rotors placed side-by-side at a big angle so they intermesh! It doesn't look safe.

cliff
YIP

 

[mzaharis]

I remember that Kaman (sp?) one in ABQ. It is a dual rotor bird with the two rotors placed side-by-side at a big angle so they intermesh! It doesn't look safe.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HH-43_Huskie

 

[Deuce130]

I have never seen a helo on a stick at any Air Force base I have ever been to. I have been to quite a few in my years with the AF.

Not enough of them, apparently!

 

[McGillicutty]

From talking to guys in the know, they are exceeding all expectations in Iraq and performing superbly.

They do fine carrying toilet paper from the boat to shore or from FOB to FOB. As an air assault/special ops platform, however, it has an uphill battle to fight.

 

[Be 23]

You will soon see -53's on sticks somewhere. A loss to the community to say the least. .

I saw 68-4433 on display at ABQ this week. It was a HH-53B initially and finished as a MH-53J. It's over by the flying boats, near the HH-43.

Interesting to note that as the CV-22 replaces the AF H-53's that special ops is buying MH-47G's to fill that niche (flown by the 160 SOAR). The V-22 may yet be a fine aircraft, but a 53 replacement it isn't.

 

[414Flyer]

In 1995 V-22s were flying past my house in Angel Fire NM doing high altitude ops testing. My house there is almost at 9000 ft elevation.

Also that year when I was up there, there was an HH-60 crash, right on the road to my house. Ironically, it crashed on the grounds of the Vietnam Veterans memorial, killing the crew chief who was to be on his very last flight before retirement.

 

[DOVPILOT]

One another V-22 note, Bell is turning over the 100th ship tomorrow.

Don't you mean Boeing

 

[mzaharis]

Don't you mean Boeing

Bell-Boeing joint venture. Bell's name is always referred to first, so my guess is that Bell has at least an equal share.

http://www.bellhelicopter.com/en/aircraft/military/bellV-22.cfm
http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/v22/index.htm
http://www.boeing.com/rotorcraft/military/v22/docs/V-22_overview.pdf

From the last one:

Production:
Boeing Rotorcraft Systems is responsible for the fuselage and all subsystems, digital avionics, and fly-by-wire flight-control systems. Boeing partner Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., is responsible for the wing, transmissions, empennage, rotor systems and engine installation at its completion facility in Amarillo, Texas. Current production plans call for 14 aircraft deliveries, including 11 newly manufactured (9 MV and 2 CV) and three updated pre-Block A aircraft, in 2007.​

 

[Coool Hand Luke]

Don't you mean Boeing

Well, I guess since Bell has them last, and the Bell test pilot's do the shake down(s) before handing them over to the DCMA I figured I'd call em' a Bell product.

It's really no different than the airliners Boeing makes even though a thousand different companies provide various parts for them.

 

[saab fixr]

As a replacement aircraft for the CH53 i dont think its ready to serve as long as they did. I know its been worked on for many years, but ive read there is no engine out procedures in vertical mode how safe is that? cant even autorotate and not to mention what happens if those big ASS rotors hit the ground cause they wont return back the vertical postion? It seems the military needs more amoured vests and protection systems for the people doing the fighting not some VIP transport for the DVs to show off our tech advances !! but thats my opinion further, the question i have is why so many ground troops get killed when we have all this high tech equipment ? the priorites dont seem right
Lastly as a tax payer now and a former Marine i dont think the Marines need this POS and we dont need to waste anymore money on it !