V-22 component failure during blade fold.

[HbryantSO]

Man, there's always something on these things that's broken one way or another.

[Teh101TageMonster]

1:03 looks like sticking middle fingers up

[McParcero]

so much shyt for high tech .. lame ..

[stuntmanmike37]

Come on man! Shoot some foam on that mother fucker!

[hiphopguy0]

I was expecting one of the blades to just...fall off.

[saltydog45]

A classic and exspensive example of why most engineers follow one simple rule..."Keep it simple stupid,The more complicated it is,the more chance of it failing"

[ak7wyf]

@SICSEMPERTYRRANNIS haha u got proved stupid hahahahahaha.

[wilsontt88]

It looks like its giving 2 fingers in the end.

[Craigpv2d]

I wish I could go on TV and explain to people how an aircraft procurement program works and why an aircraft seems so expensive. Unlike most private ventures, the military pays for R&D which gets rolled into the unit cost. Also they pay for all spares, tooling, simulators, training, manuals, etc. Very little risk for the companies. Ford spent over $1bil to bring you the Taurus. Luckily they sold millions of them. When u buy a car it doesn't include any of the above items.

[eloyex]

this is a so faulty and problematic airplane that should be retired and burned. it is a widow maker, obsolete and pathetic system. Boeing has beenn fighting and fine tuning this airplane for centuries already. Let it die ....  (I am a Boeing big fan by the way).

[BiggRobb1011]

@eloyex that's funny you say Boeing is "fighting and fine tuning" it.... that's funny, seeing as how Boening builds the fuselage in PA and the empennage( tail section) is built at a company called Triumph Aerostructures - Vought Aircraft Division and you know, the meat and potatoes of the aircraft is developed at Bell Helicopter... the wing... nacelles, the engines are (Rolls Royce), oh and final assembly is in a little place called Amarillo, Texas at a Bell Helicopter facility..

[n4120p]

Very expensive and compromised design ,, a the rate we are going it wont be long when congress wont be able to pay for all of this anymore.

[RaptorDiablo]

@SICSEMPERTYRRANNIS UMAD BR0?

[iRacingWrecks]

i would hate to be a crew chief on that......thing

[08morefirejules]

@SICSEMPERTYRRANNIS You are a dick, your post prove you know nothing about aviation engineering, the fact you try and compare RC to real life proves this!

[dlstb]

@SICSEMPERTYRRANNIS Did I forget to mention that they have a payload capacity higher than a ch-53. You know, the largest rotary wing aircraft in the Navy's fleet. They can outlift it and fly faster. They also have a shaft between the two engines that allows them fly or land with only one engine operational. Hafcrak was right, the standard huey killed more pilots in testing than this bird did. Its just that we have mass media now that tracks these things. 1 cobra crashes on Pendleton every year.

[dlstb]

@SICSEMPERTYRRANNIS I would. Have you ever seen one of these birds perform casevac in Iraq at double the speed of a huey, blackhawk, or ch-46? I have. Their speed is an asset that the other birds just don't have. And in a few years they'll all be fitted with ball turrets top and bottom and probably the capability to install rockets.

BUT, we should also have ac-130's in the not to distant future that carry a laser that has an effective range of over 50 miles and multiple target tracking.

[asianiinvasion]

@SICSEMPERTYRRANNIS You could buy 3 Apaches for the price of 1 V-22 Osprey, and you'd still have enough cash left to buy 10 Tomahawk missiles.

[hafcrak]

@SICSEMPERTYRRANNIS Don't really believe heap of crap defines this machine at all. It does what it was designed to do. Also is an aircraft with one of the fewest crashes in its history. Flown in them myself several times. Seen them land with only one engine operable. 

[1meantransam]

@hafcrak at least some of us know what the hell we're talking about, i'm a crew chief on them, and can give you a Plus 1 on your comment

[m1leswilliams]

@hafcrak The reason it hasn't had many crashes is because it hasn't be about that long. Does seem a lot of moving parts doing the work of something more simple, like a helicopter.

[BiggRobb1011]

@m1leswilliams Really, hasn't been around that long, huh??? the tech has been around since 1930 my friend ( go look it up)..... of course it didn't look like this incarnation, but the idea has been around....

[ChargedTTq]

I'm just wondering is it really necessary to have animatronic folding on this thing?

would it not be much more reliable (AND CHEAPER) as a hand-folded, or mechanically folded design?

[hafcrak]

@ChargedTTq Actually it does have both of those features. However doing it hydraulically takes less then 90 seconds where as doing it by hand, or even pneumatically takes a couple hours

[BiggRobb1011]

@hafcrak couple of hours... hahahahaha, that's funny...

[borbor122]

Fuck yeah I'd ride that shit!

[MrFattyfatfatboy]

took his hand off the button ,press retry but dont get any one else just hit retry like your playing space invaders.

[Minecraft123TNT]

oh mah goodness sparks what are we gonna do!

[heroineworshipper]

Expensive sound

[discofishing]

Is the shaft driven compressor part of the hydraulics system providing pressurized air? I would've imagine bleed air from the APU would have been used, but who knows, maybe that's not enough for this beast's hydraulic system.

[ductrungdkt30]

thiet ke mot chiec may bay nhu the de cho met them

[BrassAxe]

Everyone that thinks this thing was made in china, or it's a piece of junk because the fold didn't work is a moron.. I've worked with this shit for years. Not a V-22 specifically, but helicopters. I can't even count the number of times a 60 would fail to fold for one reason or another and a 53 is the same.. Blade fold failures are so common nobody gets surprised or upset about it.. Go back to your video games and hot pockets unless you know how hard it really is to make an aircraft fly..

[9493760]

I AM NOT AN EXPERT BUT WATCHING THIS FLYING MACHINE JUST SITTING ON THE TARMAC LOOKS LIKE I'TS DOING A BALANCING ACT , THE TWO MASSIVE MOTORS AND BLADES FAR OUT OF CENTER .THE WIND COULD THROW THIS THING TO THE GROUND. GIANFRANCO FRONZI. SEPT./ 27 / 2011

[lindo745]

@9493760 You are very wrong with your assumption.

[xekul]

well, that little foul up is going to cost $400,000 to fix

[darkpower723]

lol middle finger

[Harr1sk]

what a shitty transformer

[aForkandaSpoon]

what is its benefit, I know it is cool, but does it have any advantage over a Boeing CH-47 Chinook other than more to go wrong?

[dieseltwitch]

@aForkandaSpoon speed.... the CH-47 is slow, twice the size, and its just a slow flying outdated pig

[aForkandaSpoon]

@dieseltwitch Ok I found that out and it was a smack head duh moment.

[HbryantSO]

@dieseltwitch actually, the CH-47 is the fastest helicopter in the Army's inventory. Even though the Army doesn't fly the MV-22

[truck501]

DAM NEED TO SEE MORE ???????????

[hayhursm82]

Holy Hell people, if it's built by man then it's gonna eventually break... period! So ease up because this piece of machinery is quite impressive in action!!!

[nevsky1961]

The failure isn't clear to me, but this things pricetag is. That is the real failure of the Osprey. :(

[aaronzack14]

this is what happens when the american military relies on china for spare parts.

[ipodtouch1996]

MADE IN CHINA :D

[xxkil]

oh my giddy aunt you never saw a harrier fuck up like this TILT MY ARSE

[bpeterdude316]

proudly made in the USA :D

[7249xxl]

what hapend pleas reposte

[ck7250]

Anybody know what the failure was? I would assume SDC?

[marksoutermusic]

@ck7250 It had chlamydia....

[brizzlewcu]

@ck7250

marine? i think its funny how all these people posting shit just try talking shit about it, when all they know about the osprey is the one clip of the big crash and they hear its killed 30 people. ignorant people... it says in the description it was sdc failure. you know what squadron this is? kinda looks like 261 with the shitters behind them

[CptLoRes]

watcher1727: Yes, why would they make sure a unnecessary and complicated function if there was no need for it. Could it be they wanted store two units in the same space as a single one. Or maybe they found it important that the V-22 would fit in the cargo/aircraft lifter on a hangar ship so that it can be used in naval operations. Or possible it has to do with being able to fit the v-22 in a large cargo airplane for transportation.

[watcher1727]

Why the hell does the wing need to rotate? I'm an engineer, and this is another example of JUNK SPECIFICATION that has nothing to do with functionality, reliability and simplicity. Some engineer probably spent 2-5 years figuring out how to rotate the damn wing and all the hardware/actuators involved. Not to mention documentation and specifications. Why didn't some project leader stand up and declare this function unnecessary?

[trains457]

@watcher1727 they need to be able to store more on a aircraft carrier and in a hanger

[bc1969214]

@watcher1727 Very standard for US Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. It's been a requirement for years so they can fit aboard ships after landing.

[bc1969214]

@watcher1727 more examples watch?v=XV-B9Hx305k or watch?v=4eOEQ4OWRIs

[nakazatoGTR]

@watcher1727 this "engineer" knows shit about logistics and storage. please never believe anyone on the net blatantly calling themselves engineers, soldiers, delta's pilots etc, and post crap like this.

[EvilPlasticPlate]

@nakazatoGTR I am with delta force and i can voutch for you because i am really not in delta force... :D

[IwAtChViDeOz44]

@watcher1727 they need to rotate because it is required on every USMC/USN aircraft. It is required to make the to make every Carrier operable aircraft have to fold the wings/rotors to make space for more firepower that we can carry with us to war. You call this "JUNK" while it is necessary so we can win our battles. This beautiful aircraft wouldn't exist if it didn't fold is bales,wings, and engine housing.

[hellcatdave1]

@watcher1727 You're a idiot. Obviously if you were a engineer you would know that the MARINES OPERATE OFF OF CARRIERS. And that the NAVY USES THEM. You have any idea how large the V-22's wingspan is? How do you expect them to fit atleast ten or twenty of them in a carrier with fighters if they can't fold the wing. It's necessary.

[masterflizzle]

I know we don't have cameras on the flightline at MCAS New River.