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Comments on: Osprey Down https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/06/14/osprey-down-2/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:43:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/06/14/osprey-down-2/comment-page-1/#comment-59745 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:38:28 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=25646#comment-59745 I’ll add an update to the post, but it sounds like they went in too low and caught a rotor blade on the ground or a tree, because the aircraft was on its back. It was flying the wing slot on a two aircraft firing pass on the range, and the lead aircraft wasn’t aware of a problem until they couldn’t make contact after the pass, and then discovered the bird on its back just past the end of the range.

]]> By: Badtux https://whynow.dumka.us/2012/06/14/osprey-down-2/comment-page-1/#comment-59739 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 06:47:43 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=25646#comment-59739 It is provably impossible for the Osprey to fly during the transition between level flight and hover. It goes into a stall and sort of a controlled crash for a few moments during that transition — *if* you’re lucky. If *not* lucky… well.

The core problem: Computers aren’t very good at dealing with the impossible. It literally blows their little mind. The programmers have spent a long, long time trying to teach the Osprey’s flight computers how to cope with the fact that what it’s trying to do is literally not possible, but all it takes is one more unexpected little thing to go wrong during all of this and…

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