A pair of V-22 Ospreys practice takeoffs and landings at Upolu Airport.
Posted in response to Becky’s October Squares challenge theme of ‘Kind.’ See more responses here.
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A pair of V-22 Ospreys practice takeoffs and landings at Upolu Airport.
Posted in response to Becky’s October Squares challenge theme of ‘Kind.’ See more responses here.
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Excellent shot – it prompted me to look at some videos of these craft flying. That tiltrotor mechanism is pretty incredible – lots to potentially go wrong though!
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They’ve had accidents, but it’s a military machine and those tend to be expensive and prone to mechanical problems.
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Expensive is putting it mildly – I was astounded when I saw the cost of these aircraft.
They must be complex to fly even when mechanically all is well – a bit like patting one’s head and rubbing one’s tummy at the same time perhaps?
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I believe that’s how the pilots operate them. You must have seen the top secret pilot’s manual!
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🙂
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Ones very like these fly overhead here as we’re fairly near an Army base 😦 Great shot though..
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That must get noisy at times because these are very loud. They’re not supposed to use Upolu very often and these days seem to be sticking to that. There was a period a couple of years back when they were there most days and a lot of people complained, so they stopped for a while.
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Luckily it’s all over pretty quickly when it happens.
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They are serous looking helicopters 🙂
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Yes, and very loud. When they’re flying, I almost always hear them before I see them.
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Terrific photo 😀
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Thanks, Cee.
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they look like very clever flying machines!
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Yes and no. They are of course enormously complicated and expensive, but their safety record is a bit shaky.
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yikes, that doesn’t sound good
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No, but there’s a fair amount of military hardware, worldwide, that could answer to that description.
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