Ospreys

[OnMyWay]

I went down to the Subic Bay airport today to see what was going on with the military exercises.  Not too much but there were two Osprey aircraft idling by, so I hung out until they took off.  Very cool aircraft and I had never seen one up close.  Here is a video I made and a lot of it was shot through the chain link fence, so not too great.

https://goo.gl/photos/JNmWqHWo2M6LWiJv5

[Dave Hounddriver]

19 minutes ago, OnMyWay said:

two Osprey aircraft idling by, so I hung out until they took off

They are the funniest looking egg beaters I ever saw.  I thought they might be VTOL but they took off like regular planes.

[OnMyWay]

55 minutes ago, Dave Hounddriver said:

They are the funniest looking egg beaters I ever saw.  I thought they might be VTOL but they took off like regular planes.

I thought they might take off vertically but they did not.  It must depend on where they are.  It might use less fuel to take off on the runway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey

[not so old china hand]

1 hour ago, OnMyWay said:

I thought they might take off vertically but they did not.  It must depend on where they are.  It might use less fuel to take off on the runway?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Boeing_V-22_Osprey

It would almost certainly reduce the fuel burn to take off conventionally. With a vertical takeoff the engines are fighting gravity with no lift from the planes' forward motion.

 

AFAICR the Harrier jump-jet used around half its fuel load if it took off vertically. Hence the "ski jumps" on RN "through-deck cruisers" to allow the jet to build up speed and conserve fuel.

 

Edited April 4, 2016 by not so old china hand
Pesky apostropies!

[OnMyWay]

They are very busy tonight.  It seems like I hear them going by every 30-60 minutes.  There must be several.

[stevewool]

And here was me thinking it would be great to see Ospreys , so i have put my own up