The key US ally had sought the suspension of all non-emergency V-22 Osprey flights over its territory after one fell into the sea on Wednesday in western Japan.
  • Poem_for_your_sprog@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Read all the links, it’s nothing unique to the V-22. All rotorcraft suffer from the same condition.

    Pilots just have to be careful while descending with low forward velocity.

    • deranger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      I repeat - tiny heavily loaded rotors are the wrong tool for the job thus making it a bad design