"Want to ride in a V-22 Osprey?" Sure, let me update my life insurance....

[wingnut]

When we re-deployed back to the states I'm pretty sure we were all on a C17 but at least we had somewhat normal seats. Just weird facing the rear of the plane the whole way back. Take off facing backward will fuck with you!!

Indeed it does, although i think you may have been on a C5, but i got out when the 17 came in...does it have the same backwards seats as the C5?!?

[IPD]

i've flown facing backwards for almost 4 years.

p.s.

jeff, do you favor keeping the antique 53's in service instead of the v22?

[anyonebutme]

I guess nobody remembers how bad the blackhawk was before the 15 million upgrades it sorely needed. Oh, now's a good time for transmission failure, lets just drop like a spinning rock into the ground and kill all aboard. Again. And again.

[whitedragon]

I guess nobody remembers how bad the blackhawk was before the 15 million upgrades it sorely needed. Oh, now's a good time for transmission failure, lets just drop like a spinning rock into the ground and kill all aboard. Again. And again.

Or ya know...any new aircraft platform.

[ntcmpjg]

I flew from Baghdad to Kuwait on a C-130 in the web jump seats it sucked lol. I also flew in a C-17 redeploying and we flew jump seats then too it sucked. But the Blackhawk ride from COB Spiecher to Baghdad was the most fun I had the whole time in country.


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[wingnut]

I guess nobody remembers how bad the blackhawk was before the 15 million upgrades it sorely needed. Oh, now's a good time for transmission failure, lets just drop like a spinning rock into the ground and kill all aboard. Again. And again.

Blackhawk, pfffft...i went thru air assault school in the hueys

[DrGonzo]

Blackhawk, pfffft...i went thru air assault school in the hueys

WOW!! You must be pushing like 60 then...

[anyonebutme]

Blackhawk, pfffft...i went thru air assault school in the hueys

They had surprisingly few teething issues, actually. Helps that it was about as simple as a economy car, lmao. Maint wasn't that great on them (heli's don't fly, they beat the air into submission), but I never got into one and wondered in the back of my mind if it was going to fall out of the sky.

[wingnut]

WOW!! You must be pushing like 60 then...

lol nah, im only in my 40's...the huey started getting phased out of the 101st Airborne Division in the early 90s...

...dont tell me you were in grade school then

[Turbo Beast]

But, the Osprey's look so cool, even when they just sit on the tarmac. Id pay good money just for a ride on one of them!