Thunder Chickens

[LetsEatMudd]

I bet there is one guy in the basement of the white house smoking a doob and making up names for shit.

[bigbadalf]

was with them when they were still flying the frogs

[callmeshane303]

I think these are incredibly cool machines - but I am just SO frightened to death of those HUGE propellers....

NASTY SHIT in a survivable crash landing.

Parachute -> back door.

[CaptainJetJakal]

....The Marines need a dropship like the one from Aliens.

[Si3z3]

so its basicly a upgraded chinook

[daladek]

@Si3z3 actualy they fliped it 90 degrees

[streamingmadly]

Wasn't there a  super marionation children's show called Thunder Chickens are Go!

[ChrisW1507]

Just like the vertibird from Fallout 3!

[winn21]

@ChrisW1507 no, the vertibird is just like this

[darklegenddl16]

the us army ordered around 20 of these cause they are so expensive

[390315001]

hey this chopper was in transformers 1

sick lol

[Stone7851]

this was on avatar!

[amartinjoe]

THUNDER COCKS.

That's what they oughta be called.

[Texjohn68stang302two]

I am as of now only about 25 miles from the air base and camp lajune, n.c i get buzzed all day long day and night by fighter, hueys, cobra's and that chicken bird ..and well me being a Army vet and was in aviation and been in a tank unit and tradoc and s-1 and the like ..i like it here..smell of victory and not the mention only about 60 miles from the big army base as well and airforce base too..ha..heck man i got it right next to me..get some...

[gunnyb1973]

Thunder Chicken is all they could come up with?

Gunny B. USMC

"73-95"

[clcplc8]

your mules and camels dont stand a chance

[evilferris]

All caps. They really are evil.

[farsallel]

WE WILL KILL YOUR ARMY AND YOUR MARINE. Trust us we will make you

Suffer .

لا اله الا الله......محمد رسول الله

اللهم انصر الشيخ اسامة بن لادن علي كلاب الصليب

[CrewChiefD]

@farsallel Have you been drinking haji juice again? We kill you mongrols by the thousands and will continue to do so.

[sgtSqeegee119]

Yea right, YOU FAIL.

نعم لكم الحق يفشلون

[Arcink]

DAYUM that thing will murk someone

[Jaw464]

not a "perfectly good aircraft" design is kinda cool with tilt rotor. they smoke like hell when they run up too, cant carry as many marines as a 53, cant lift as much as a 53.... im sure there could be more things done for improvement.

[MP7A3]

I wanna be a thunder chicken when I grow up!

[FamousBlinker]

Brilliant design and aircraft in general. But please, correct me if I'm wrong, which I probably am, but must the aircrafts descent rate be kept to a low to keep it from entering a VRS and if so. Doesn't this leave the Osprey as a flying target? Just curious

[crhrocket22]

That is definitely true to an extent. With a low forward airspeed the rate of descent has to be kept low, but with some forward airspeed it can descend fairly quickly. Sorry, I dont have any exact numbers as far as airspeed/descent.

[qunniq]

all helicopters can enter VRS

[evilhecouldbe]

Some people should get there facts straight before posting crap about perfectly good aircraft like the osprey

[DillardxDUH]

all of you are dumbasses...the v-22 has not been decommissioned. all the pilots that fly this volunteered, trust me i work with them in VMMT-204 the Raptors.

[crhrocket22]

Sweet, I should be there by about Nov. I just have to finish up the helo part of the pipeline in P-cola. Some of these people are jackasses who need to stop watching CNN.

[TejanoChimbo]

► The jackasses are in the cockpit

[crhrocket22]

Yeaaaa and what are you doing with your life?

[ivedigga]

Worst air craft ever glad they got rid of this shit can, it was a deaf trap.

The Bush administration forced this shit can down everyone neck when most of the pilots were scared to def of this thing and it was for a good reason.

[crhrocket22]

HAHA soooo wrong...Cheney wanted to shit can it, and its not gone, Im training to fly it right now. It has been in Iraq for the last 3 years without incident, so its not quite the 'deaf ' trap that you say it is. All the pilots who are flying it right now love it too.

[matolies]

Yeah, well. Maybe the money could have been spent for example educating you in proper grammar.

[whotheBeeeeeP]

v-22's rep was smeared by the accidents of development.

[USMCfosho]

I'm glad the Marines officially decomissioned the Thunder Chicken (Osprey). when the props would rotate the the forward position, they would often cause uneven air lift causing them to flip or spin out of control killing everyone inside upon inpact. or destroying any cargo inside.

[samzasadny]

They aren't decommissioned. I'm a USMC pilot in training and we can select this aircraft track out of Primary training. Get your facts straight before you comment. They only went operational about a year and a half ago, why would they decommission a brand new aircraft? Lot of my buddies are pumped to fly the Osprey. Only people who have no idea what their talking about, who just watch that one crash video, trash talk the Osprey. Let it go folks...it's legit and here to stay.

[mingitup]

Thunder Chickens = USMC VMM-263 Squadron

Osprey = MV-22 (NOT decomissioned)

Please do some research, and I'm not sure what inpact is...

[killerlarryusmc]

@USMCfosho

wow. you're an idiot. where the hell are you getting your info from? they worked out great in afghan just like they did in iraq. those were mechanical issues that were worked out a decade ago. and often? happened twice, i believe. definitely very often. jackass.

[MP7A3]

@USMCfosho If they decommissioned the osprey, why did they use it to transport Barack Obama around in Iraq when he was visiting the troops... in 2007?

[SouthUKGuy]

I believe its operational debut was when it camre to the aid of the Black Mesa facility in 'Half Life'

Kidding aside though these are awesome machines, the teething problems appear to have been fixed.

For something so radically different it's worked out pretty damn well.

If only us Euro's could build something similar but fat chance we can't even get a transport right - the A-400 disaster project I'm of course refering too which isn't radical or challenging (or shouldn't be) in any way..

[callingmar11]

lol i know right dude u read my mind

[RazeEmission]

It took a long time to get the osprey flying, and it even took lives in some crashes unfortunately. Looks like it's paying off, kind of makes me think a little bit about the pelican in halo for some reason...

Wonder how an osprey 2 may turn out?

[americansamoan08]

people these days sure do love Halo!

[MUSTANG408W]

Some of us in the USAF are going to be slotted to work on the USAF's version of the Osprey once the Pave Hawk is put out to pastures within the next few years.

[mcjrotc1775]

I agree. I think if one looks at the pro's and con's of the MV-22 compared to other types of rotory aircraft, the MV-22 can gain speed, distance, and altitude a lot faster than say the CH-46 or the CH-53. I think the MV-22 will do a lot of good for the Corps

[RoyalDog214]

Nice Helicopter.

[socrat11]

its vstol porkypiggles lol

[socrat11]

its the machine not the call sigen of the hybrid...

[PorkyPiggles]

VTOL's always look unstable to me. This ones no exception. But great to watch.

[IdidURmom2]

this plane/helicopter is good...

[dzneill]

I saw these flying above Baghdad just before I left Iraq.

[politirel]

Thunder Chickens, who comes up with these names?

[pottsykp123]

whoever it is shouldnt be in charge of naming ANYTHING else...not even the coffee machine

[LC65]

I think the name comes from the way it crashes down, I am not joking. They have a controversial history of accidents prior to their approval for deployment. Due to seemingly political connections, the contract was approved despite costs and safety concerns.

[261madmike]

Harriers had the same bad reputation in the begining, now everyone wants or haves them. This coming from a old Marine who work on CH-46's

[RoyalDog214]

What the hell are you talking about?

They got it name from during the Vietnam War because the Vietnamese doesn't have a word for Eagle.

[ow1ow1]

@politirel americans.. it explains alot.

[SuperMike82]

@politirel they got the name during the Vietnam war because the Vietnamese didn't have a word for either Eagle or Hawk. I forget which