[Spaceships] Ornithopter Wings no longer TL5+2!

[RyanW]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

The V-22 has been in service since 2007. There's been only one crash since then and it was a pretty typical combat aircraft incident (and could of happene to any aircraft under the same circumstances).

And of the four prior crashes, three were general failures that could happen to any aircraft (especially a new aircraft undergoing testing) and the other was due to vortex ring state.

The investigation of that crash revealed that the Osprey is actually more resistant to entering, and more easily recovered from, a vortex ring state than a conventional helicopter. The pilot in that case just let the sink rate get way too high, about twice the allowed limit, and flew down into his own prop wash.