V-22

[poadeleted21]

Dunno much about these things. The cool factor is there, talked to the pilots of em' for a bit... No they wouldn't give me a ride.

 

[Anthony]

Cool birds, made in Ridley, PA. I saw a formation of them flying a while back at Miramar. It was the first time I saw one fly in person, and I was just mezmorized.

 

[MachFly]

Every time I see those things on the ground with their props forward I think "there is no way he can take off like a normal airplane."

No they wouldn't give me a ride.

 

[flightwriter]

Every time I see those things on the ground with their props forward I think "there is no way he can take off like a normal airplane."

Which is why they don't!

With the 58th Special Operations Wing based at Kirtland, I see them all the time in the skies over Albuquerque. They have a very distinctive noise signature.

 

[CBeaulieu]

I see them flying around from time to time. They make a distinct sound.

 

[35 AoA]

@ OP, be glad you didn't get a ride......it is perhaps the most frightening maze of hyd/fuel lines, ECS ducting, wires, and an otherwise skeleton of an interior. Cool airplane, but I really have no desire to try it out

Cool birds, made in Ridley, PA. I saw a formation of them flying a while back at Miramar. It was the first time I saw one fly in person, and I was just mezmorized.

They were the bane of our existence at NKX. They would launch, on the same departure as us, and continue along at 12 kts or whatever they climb out at, and your entire flight would be stuck on deck for 10 mins waiting for them to clear the airspace on the way out to the area/W291. Cool to watch though. There is a landing pad/strip on the beach side of I-5 just a few miles north of Oceanside (but within the confines of Camp Pendleton), where I would frequently see them up close and personal inserting their Marines. Very strange to watch this giant thing fly over your head, stop, hover, and then land next to you.

 

[Seanaldinho]

You should see them fly at night. Those big 38' foot props have a little LED light on them and you get a big green ring and a big red ring flying at you 300' above ground.

The climb rate on them is phenomenal.

 

[Fearless Tower]

@ OP, be glad you didn't get a ride......it is perhaps the most frightening maze of hyd/fuel lines, ECS ducting, wires, and an otherwise skeleton of an interior. Cool airplane, but I really have no desire to try it out



They were the bane of our existence at NKX. They would launch, on the same departure as us, and continue along at 12 kts or whatever they climb out at, and your entire flight would be stuck on deck for 10 mins waiting for them to clear the airspace on the way out to the area/W291. Cool to watch though. There is a landing pad/strip on the beach side of I-5 just a few miles north of Oceanside (but within the confines of Camp Pendleton), where I would frequently see them up close and personal inserting their Marines. Very strange to watch this giant thing fly over your head, stop, hover, and then land next to you.

Are the MV-22s finally fully operational at NKX? My last WESTPAC, the west coast MEUs were still deploying with -46s. I'll be getting my first up close and personal interaction with the east coast Ospreys in the next month.

 

[35 AoA]

Are the MV-22s finally fully operational at NKX? My last WESTPAC, the west coast MEUs were still deploying with -46s. I'll be getting my first up close and personal interaction with the east coast Ospreys in the next month.

As far as I know they were/are. There are still Phrog squadrons at Pendleton (good friend of mine is deploying with one of them soon), but IIRC the last Phrog squadron at Miramar left about a year or so ago.

 

[flyingron]

I was down in Southport NC a few years ago and they had one come by and it went through a number of take off an landing regimes (vertical, slow, normal). Pretty cool.

I was flying down to my place in western NC, and getting flight following. The controller asked some guy with a military call sign what he was flying today. V22. He then called it out to us as traffic. I just had enough time to snap a picture as it past 500 feet below us.

 

[poadeleted21]

Went back to the airport this afternoon. Apparently these are the guys from Miramar they're doing some sort of training and decided to stay here because one of the pilots' parents live in Missoula.