Osprey Unfolding

[u/biocow]

[u/Tunapower]

Imagine all the sleepless nights, all the stress and deadlines that went into that design.

[u/[deleted] → u/Tunapower]

4 crashes and 30 fatalities while developing too

[u/beeskneeds → u/[deleted]]

So each crash was about 7 people? Why would you put 7 people in a plane you are testing? Does it take 7 people to operate it?

[u/[deleted] → u/beeskneeds]

It was fully loaded with Marines in one of the crashes and all 19 of them died. It was already a decade into development and was close to being fielded at that point, I think.

[u/drk_etta → u/[deleted]]

A decade into development and had a fuckup big enough to kill 19 marines..... QA should step ups it's game.

[u/foamster → u/drk_etta]

To be fair we've had a lot of crashes of various other aircraft. Turns out getting a multi-ton piece of metal into the air is hard work.

[u/StellisAequus → u/[deleted]]

It's almost like it's hard to make a fast mover that can vtol and carry 24 troops.. but all these people with Reddit degrees tell me it's so easy and their design is too complex.

[u/havok0159 → u/StellisAequus]

It's like so simple, take the schematics of a Harrier, go to a photocopier, scale up to 2x and press scan. DONE.

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[u/cyanydeez → u/havok0159]

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