I don’t know how you manage to forget this, but the average person needs a truck primarily to haul furniture.

Wikipedia has the stall speed at 126mph, and the c-130 115mph stall speed came from the manufacturer stating that it was “as low as 115mph” which leads to believe that it’s actually higher in most configurations.

I know what stall speed is, smartass. The ospreys is a touch over 125mph. A very cargo plany c-130 has a stall speed of 115mph. You’ll notice those are really close. If a c-130 can make an emergency landing with not power, the osprey has a decent chance of accomplishing the same feat.

That doesn’t pass the mustard test. Or the ketchup and horseradish test. Clearly, the osprey can fly with the rotors tilted forward. When the rotors are tilted forward, they do not provide any lift. Therefor, something else has to provide lift. I suppose it doesn’t have to be the wings, but some magical device is…

Roflmao. Been doing the same here!

Do you happen to know what it was made out of?

If that was the case, it couldn’t fly with the engines tilted forward. Something has to generate lift.

Unless you are using an extrenally powered supercharger, like a 2 stroke diesel, what’s to keep the exhaust from coming out of the intake port?

After ingesting an unmentionable ammount of drugs, I got an idea to make torches idea even crazier:

Just wish it would have had a story worth following.

Loosing party pays both parties legal bills

It’s not a very good search and rescue tool. But it could be a good rescue tool.

d’oh forgot where the engine sits

I’d be less concerned about electrical problems than I would be about inhaling a cylinder worth of water. But looks like he got lucky.

So you won’t be dropping off assault troops from this thing anytime soon. But you should be able to evacuate 1-2 wounded. More, if you aren’t evacuating them very far.

No no, gliding is how you get to the crash.

I looked at the promised 1,000lbs payload, but it would be better to use the 1,400lbs actual. At top speed it uses 360lbs fuel/hr.Lets assume 200lbs/ passenger.

They have wings, so they should be able to glide.

10 passengers? It’s really more like 3 and a little over an hour worth of fuel. assuming 200lbs/passenger.

Very nice!