OSPREY'S FIRST LANDING ON DUTCH SHIP |
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QUITE AN EXEPTIONAL HAPPENING: A USAF OSPREY LANDS ON A DUTCH VESSEL |
A photographic impression is presented to you here, the article can be found on this page below |
We show just a few pages of the book without comments, for your impression |
Witness the succes of this weird bird... |
Is it a plane, or is it a helicopter ? Or perhaps a helicoplane ? |
No, it's an Osprey ! |
A Plane that can fly like a plane to transport special forces fast to all kinds of locations.... |
....and can land on places without a proper runway as a helicopter. For instance for medevac flights as well. |
The propellors are much larger than conventional aircraft |
Show your face, buddy ? |
Advantages of such a plane are for instance that certain operations can be carried out from ships in a much more efficient way. |
Sales abroad first were not quite succesful |
Bit now the bird is seen more often |
Cockpitview in flight |
Cockpitview static |
Quite some space in the aircraft |
The Zr.Ms. Karel Doorman, where the Osprey decklandings took place (a small sailing airport) |
The loadmaster has various tasks |
Landing Osprey on a USAF base |
Refuelling air-air is of course possible with a good pilot in the cockpit and a very good boomer on the other side |
'All on board' on an American carrier |
Detail of the immense engine |
Static at Fairford's RIAT |
Downwards to the paltform |
Another view from out of the cockpit on a faraway site |
1- A view of the Osprey landing at the Zr.Ms. 'Karel Doorman' (Mindef NL) |
2- A view of the Osprey landing at the Zr.Ms. 'Karel Doorman' (Mindef NL) |
3- A view of the Osprey landing at the Zr.Ms. 'Karel Doorman' (Mindef NL) |
4- A view of the Osprey landing at the Zr.Ms. 'Karel Doorman' (Mindef NL) |
5- A view of the Osprey landing at the Zr.Ms. 'Karel Doorman' (Mindef NL) |
6- A view of the Osprey landing at the Zr.Ms. 'Karel Doorman' (Mindef NL) |
7- A view of the Osprey landing at the Zr.Ms. 'Karel Doorman' (Mindef NL) |
8- A view of the Osprey landing at the Zr.Ms. 'Karel Doorman' (Mindef NL) |
A view of the Osprey landing at an American carrier |
Brother to brother on patrol |
To make such a picture... Chapeau ! |
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