Design remings me of something...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidents_and_incidents_involv...

rootusrootus 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The Osprey has a reputation, for sure, but it's mid-pack. They called the F-104 the widow maker for a reason, for example. And the F-16 has a fairly high accident rate, too, slightly higher than the Osprey. Though I think the F-16's history is a bit more lopsided, they made some changes after early production airframes proved pretty accident prone.

	▲	hyperific an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe the Osprey's reputation is due not only to the accident rate but also to the fatality rate. A fatal accident in a standard F-16 (not the 2 seater), assuming no one outside the plane is killed, means 1 death. A fatal accident in a V-22 with the same assumptions would have a minimum of 2 deaths (pilot and copilot) at a soft maximum of 26 deaths (2 crew + 24 passengers, possibly more if overloaded).
	▲	nstj 17 minutes ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> The Starfighter had a poor safety record, especially in Luftwaffe service. The Germans lost 292 of 916 aircraft and 116 pilots from 1961 to 1989, leading the German public to dub it Witwenmacher ("widowmaker").[0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-104_Starfighter
	▲	sedatk 4 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		In Turkey, F-104 was called “flying coffin”.

▲

conorbergin 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The Osprey's accident rate is not that bad, and the US Army have ordered a new smaller tiltrotor, the v280.

	▲	owlninja 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They officially named it recently to the 'MV-75'.

▲

5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

[deleted]

▲

burnt-resistor 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

L PRGB CHIP BURN

Any time there are planetaries or splines attached to jet engines, it's a really weak spot. This holds for ordinary turboprops too.

▲

yabones 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The next generations of accidents are going to be even more looney-tunes in nature.

▲

5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

[deleted]