Message posted by Magoo on March 31, 2001 at 15:39:58 PST:

Comparing a Blackhawk and a V-22 is like comparing a Cessna with a C-130!

The V-22 is designed to replace the CH-46 and CH-53, not the UH-1 or UH/SH-60! They have very different missions. The only thing they have in common is that they can take off and land vertically, and that they're basically transport aircraft.

The V-22 can fly almost twice as fast, and carry three times the load over three times the distance of a UH/SH-60. The UH-1 isn't even in the same league as either!

How can production "speed up", if noone buys them?
Boeing aren't going to build a heap of them and then drop the price by $20M a unit just in case someone wants to buy them!

New technology costs money but in the long run, if the V-22 is successful, it will spawn a whole new range of commercial and military VTOL transport aircraft far more capable than we currently have.

Magoo

In Reply to: Re: we don't need no dirty stinking fighter planes...yes we do!. posted by Sturmwehr on March 31, 2001 at 9:47:24 PST:

Replies:

• Re: we don't need no dirty stinking fighter planes...yes we do!. Sturmwehr 04/03/2001, 17:18:57 PST (3)
  • Re: obviously my mistake!....(?) Magoo 04/03/2001, 21:46:44 PST (2)
    • Re: obviously my mistake!....(?) Rocketfox 04/05/2001, 17:37:09 PST (1)
      • Re: V-22 armament Magoo 04/05/2001, 20:13:45 PST (0)