VTOL the most sought after

Well last few week is really breaking story regarding VTOL aircraft. That "Vertical or short takeoff and landing", hence VTOIL. This characteristic on aircraft has been sought as early 1950s.

The famous Osprey V-22 aircraft finally got to see an action in Iraq amid the controversy .

Bellow is an interesting excerpt that I found from posting in craigslist.org.

QUESTION: WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ARE TRUE?

The Osprey V-22 aircraft was designed to maneuver like a helicopter, while flying as fast as a plane.

The Osprey V-22 aircraft cannot maneuver as well as a helicopter or fly as fast as a plane.

Boeing & Bell failed to deliver 1,000 Ospreys in under 10 years as stipulated in their contract with the Pentagon.

It took Boeing & Bell 25 years to deliver less than 500 Ospreys at a cost to U.S. taxpayers of $55 BILLION.

Prior to being depolyed, the Osprey aircraft has already KILLED 30 MEN.

The Osprey has NO FRONT GUN to provide cover on approach landing.

After spending $45 MILLION redesigning Osprey to accommodate a front gun, the Pentagon cancelled the plan.

The Pentagon's top aviation consultants have little confidence in the Osprey.

After 12 years and $13 BILLION spent, NOT ONE Osprey was battle ready.

The Pentagon abandoned the Osprey project in 1983.

In 1991 an Osprey crashed during take off.

In 1992 a SECOND SPREY CRASH killed SEVEN more MEN.

23 MARINES WERE KILLED in Osprey crashes in 2000.

Pilots were told to fly Osprey “less aggressively” so that flaws would not be detected.

Ospreys create a dangerous DUST STORM when landing in places like Iraq with desert terrain.

The Osprey’s rotors, designed to “auto-rotate” for “soft” emergency landings, CANNOT AUTO-ROTATE.

Emergency landings are treacherous since Ospreys can't glide like planes or hover like helicopters.

Our brave military men and women will die due to the Pentagon’s mismanagement and lowered expectations.

The Pentagon and Boeing and Bell have spent no less than 25 years trying to design and build the Osprey.

War profiteers Bell Helicopter and Boeing have made BILLIONS from their failed efforts.

The Osprey demonstrates the extreme level of dysfunction and corruption in our government.

The Osprey V-22 is another politically driven Pentagon fiasco, will be in Iraq next week.

The Osprey V-22 exposes the life threatening compromises that are made when narrow interests collide with common sense and

The Osprey V-22 shows how our government fails at its most significant task, by placing in jeopardy those we count on to protect us.

Osprey is another example of how defense contractors bribe Pentagon generals and or civilian leaders to keep a worthless program alive and should be investigated by Congress.

Pentagon efficiency is of little concern to lawmakers: "Almost every program the U.S. military is now buying takes longer to develop, costs more than predicted and usually doesn't meet the original specifications and requirements," says Gordon Adams, who oversaw military spending for the Office of Management and Budget.

The U.S. spends over $750 BILLION a year on defense programs and war. Crooked congressmen who took money from Bell Helicopter, Boeing and 2,000 suppliers created the Tilt-Rotor Technology Coalition to keep the dying project alive. All of these congressman should be investigated and tried in a court of law.

Aviation expert Rex Rivolo, who called the decision to deploy Osprey in Iraq "unconscionable" in a confidential 2003 Pentagon report, is afraid to be interviewed.

"In simulations," the Osprey flight manual warns, "the outcome of (emergency) landings varied widely due to the extreme sensitivity to pilot technique and timing."

The director of the Pentagon's testing office stated in a 2005 report stated that emergency landings below 1,600 ft. "are not likely to be survivable."

Sending the V 22 into combat armed with ONE TINY gun that points backward is, to put it quite simply, criminal.

The Pentagon website falsely claims that the Osprey "will be the weapon of choice for the full spectrum of combat."

10 Ospreys are going to war in October each with one TINY rear mounted 7.62 mm gun that fires when it’s too late. The gun's rounds are about the same size as a .30-06 hunting rifle's, and it is capable of firing only where the V 22 has been — not where it's going — and only when the ramp used by Marines to get on and off the aircraft is lowered.

In March 2006 an Osprey actually took off on its own with three people aboard and flew for 3 seconds. After crashing from an altitude of just 6 feet, the Osprey lost its right wing and suffered more than $1 million in damage.

A flawed computer chip that could have led to crashes forced a V 22 grounding in February 2007.

Bad switches that could have doomed the aircraft surfaced in June 2007.

In March 2007 the Government Accountability Office warned that V 22s have “serious defects."

An internal Pentagon memo warned in June that serious and persistent reliability issues could "significantly" reduce the aircraft's anticipated role in Iraq.

The Osprey has been compared to the Harrier jump jets, which crashed 143 times killing 45 troops. The difference between the two aircrafts is that a) each Harrier carried ONE PILOT in an EJECTION SEAT with a PARACHUTE and Ospreys carries 26 TROOPS with NO ejection seats — and NO PARACHUTES!

The .... administration is fully that Osprey is an unsafe and unpractical combat aircraft.

The .... adminstration does not care about the safety of our troops. No body armor. No up armored humvees. No anti RPG devices for our tanks. No defined mission. No exit strategy. And now...the OSPREY!

ANSWER: All of the above statements are true.
(For a Record:-This is from American citizen point of view and not mine)

By the way Boeing/Bell should be commended for V-22 Osprey effort, since somebody have to investigate by any mean of available technology and perfected it.

About few month ago RMAF Sikorsky S-61A Helicopter crash near Karak Genting rainforest,and the setup incident committe just released the result of the crash. Its seem that its a pilot error rather than mechanical failure, the pilot flew too low because of the weather and swoop the rainforest canopy. For a record this Heli been in service since 1968, so now RMAF sought for its replacement. What a relief.

So people still looking for an aircraft "or" worthy of it like seeing in movie like StarWars-The Clone war, where it's land anywhere in battle with ease. The coming JSF Stealth Fighter F-35 is next candidate to roll on.