Seen on the street in Kyiv.

Words of Advice:

"If Something Seems To Be Too Good To Be True, It's Best To Shoot It, Just In Case." -- Fiona Glenanne

“The Mob takes the Fifth. If you’re innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?” -- The TOFF *

"Foreign Relations Boil Down to Two Things: Talking With People or Killing Them." -- Unknown

“Speed is a poor substitute for accuracy.” -- Real, no-shit, fortune from a fortune cookie

"Thou Shalt Get Sidetracked by Bullshit, Every Goddamned Time." -- The Ghoul

"If you believe that you are talking to G-d, you can justify anything.” — my Dad

"Colt .45s; putting bad guys in the ground since 1873." -- Unknown

"Stay Strapped or Get Clapped." -- probably not Mr. Rogers

"The Dildo of Karma rarely comes lubed." -- Unknown

"Eck!" -- George the Cat

* "TOFF" = Treasonous Orange Fat Fuck,
"FOFF" = Felonious Old Fat Fuck,
"COFF" = Convicted Old Felonious Fool,
A/K/A Commandante (or Cadet) Bone Spurs,
A/K/A El Caudillo de Mar-a-Lago, A/K/A the Asset,
A/K/A P01135809, A/K/A Dementia Donnie, A/K/A Felon^34,
A/K/A Dolt-45, A/K/A Don Snoreleone

Sunday, September 17, 2017

Your Sunday Morning Rotor Noise

A V-22

7 comments:

Brad_in_IL said...

Got buzzed once by a pair of ospreys. Sounded like a C-130 Herc.

Tod Germanica said...

This turkey reminds me of the CSS Hunley. Wonder how many gyrene squads it's wasted so far.

Ten Bears said...

Quite a few Tod. There's no better example of a whole bunch of odd parts that shouldn't be together all trying to come apart. It qualifies as VTL.

But... I'm old school, Hueys 'n skycranes and shithooks.

J4rh34d said...

According to Wikipedia, the Osprey has killed about 3 squads. Two of the squads were in the previous millennium. One squad worth since 2000.

"The V-22 Osprey had 10 hull loss accidents that resulted in a total of 42 fatalities. During testing from 1991 to 2000 there were four crashes resulting in 30 fatalities. Since becoming operational in 2007, the V-22 has had six crashes including two combat-zone crashes,and several other accidents and incidents that resulted in twelve fatalities."

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

Tod Germanica said...

Yeah and the corp's Class A accident rate is very poor even compared to the navy, with a rate of 2.63 in 2016 compared to the Navy’s 1.27. McCain has decried this cascade of maintenance, training, fatigue and organizationally related crashes.
http://taskandpurpose.com/marine-plane-crash-data/

Old NFO said...

Helicopter trying to fly sideways...

dinthebeast said...

The Reno Air Races were this weekend.

-Doug in Oakland