HMX-1 MV-22 surprise stopover

Those are so cool!

 

Cool sighting of the presidential MV-22s! That's very rare. The first I knew of their existence was when Obama used one to fly their dog up on one of their vacations.

 

The oddity about the Osprey is that the Marine MV-22 is basically a transport and should really be the CV-22. (After all, it replaced the CH-46.)

And the USAF CV-22 is nominally a special operations aircraft and should really be the MV-22.

Apparently the problem is the Navy's use of "CV" as a prefix for aircraft carriers, and the fear that the reference to "CV-22" for the Marine version would make people confuse it with a ship. So the USMC and USAF agreed to swap prefix letters. (Personally, I think the USAF should have kept the MV-22 designation, perhaps referring to theirs as MV-22C's as opposed to the Marines' MV-22B's.)

 

Very cool! Had one fly over my house on approach to KJYO a few months back. The sound was awesome. I swung by the field later on that day, but it was gone already.

 

Visiting Albuquerque (Kirtland AFB) several years ago... many Ospreys. Training base, maybe?

 

I was a Crew chief on these in the Corps.

Theres so much I have forgotten haha

 

Id call it home plate to them as the Air Force pilots are or were trained at MCAS New River NC. But its been a while.

Af has them in NM at 2 bases and one in florida all Special Ops

The A, B, C is just what airfame variation it was when built.

I have plenty of pics of V22s if anyone is interested in seeing them. I could start a picture thread.