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Is it built by boeing?

I lost several friends that I went to Marine Corps Boot Camp with in 1999. Shortly after that, they went down in a Osprey crash. USMC 1999-2007

2:40 I didn’t know they made m240s in 50 cal?

Enjoyed my time flying on the Osprey, never personally had a mishap, never once had doubts for my or the rest of the crews safety. Everyone has an opinion on something which is fine, but the only opinions I personally care for are from those who have logged flight hours.

All that and we didn’t even get a chart of flights hours per deaths or anything?

New technology has growing pains. This is not the first aircraft nicknamed "the widow maker", and it won't be the last. Unique capabilities come with risks, but the bugs will be worked out.

I absolutely love these machines and all things engineering but damn bruh 80 racks per hour per osprey 😂 shit cray

Thumbnail looks like the Osprey is flipping the double Bird.

I watched 5 osprey come in and land at Falcon in Mesa AZ from LA. Perfect landing….fuel… and take off to their next destination. They are majestic when changing from 200mph fixed wing to 50mph heli.

that is not a 50 cal that was a 7.62 mm aka not a 50 cal

This beast is magestic, i hope they find solutions to secure it :/

Been reading about these things going down

When the title makes you wonder: for the people in it or the people near it? 😂

Makes a good collection with the f-104 starfighter, making them known as the widow makers

3:11 That's not the actual wreckage of the crash in Yakushima in 2023. That's an image from the Okinawa crash in 2016. I was there in Yakushima during the crash, saw the search and rescue ops being executed everyday for weeks in person.

To stabilize the plane, they need to add thrust at the end of each engine of the propeller. So the propeller provides lift, while the thrust provides control and additional lift

For the other infamous widow maker, the F104, the main problem was pilot training. When Germany grounded the fleet and implemented a strict training protocol, accidents in the F104 in Germany decreased massively.

I still cant believe they use the same engines as a C-130 (An engine not designed for vertical use) Still a fun Aircraft to fly in.

That guy giving the numbers making it seem like the Black Hawk or Stallions are somehow worse based on the number of deaths, sort of "forgot" to factor in the sheer number of the amount of aircraft and flight times compared to the Osprey. Like bro... that's simple math. OBVIOUSLY the Osprey is the deadliest aircraft in the military. Everyone knows this. Here's the short layman's version with made up numbers for example. If there's 3,000 Blackhawks flying everyday and 15 people die a year and there's 30 Ospreys flying and 8 people die a year. Which do you think is statistically more dangerous? Noticed he neglected to mention that part.

Fun fact an Russia engineer Igor Sikorsky who relocated to usa is the founder of one of the military aircraft helicopters