>>65079569
Should have named it after some of those pacific natives with the wood armor and copper machetes. Tlingit or Haida

>>65079569
what does this do better

>>65079569
It just makes me sad remembering what happened to Cheyenne 1. She was too pure for this world.

>>65079582
It doesn't crash constantly.

>>65079606
Let's give it a few years of service before we can claim that. Those rotation gearboxes are begging for some dirt and dust damage.

>>65079582
Than the Blackhawk? IIRC it more or less doubles both the speed and range. Once they integrate “launched effects” it’s also a way to backdoor organic more or less fixed wing air support.

>>65079569
Cheyenne is not an ESL-friendly name. Salish would've been better

Not a fan of giving it the bame of an attack helicopter.
Should have been another bird of prey, maybe marine related due to it's resemblance of the osprey.
Ibis, Heron or Pelican might work (Wildcard: MV-75 Boobie)

>>65079785
They should call it
BIG DICK BIRD

>>65079569
We lost the SB-12 for a fucking osprey clone. Was the dual linkage rotors really harder than whatever the fuck this shit is.

>>65079791
Mallard.

>>65079825
yes

>>65079569
How do you pronounce that? My mind went immediately to cayenne pepper

>>65079862

Shy-Ann Too

>>65079785
>original Cheyenne was fucking amazing
>killed because the airforce got buttmad it was too close to a fixed wing aircraft
>new cheyenne is a tiltrotor that literally transforms into a fixed wing aircraft

You gotta love the cheek of it

>>65079785
I mean the Blackhawk, Chinook, and Iroquois (huey) all got injun names, though “blackhawk” does sorta double function as a bird name. I agree Osprey sets bird precedent but i dont think injun names are just for attack choppers.

>>65079569
Instead of the giant propellers why not just use turbo jets or high bypass then you dont have to worry about the blades hitting the ground.

>>65079931
that;s never been an issue smoothbrain

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>>65079578
Nobody knows how to pronounce those names. Everyone knows how to say "cheyenne" because is the name of that dog in the tutorial of Fallout New Vegas.

>>65079779
Yes it is. It's a very pronounceable name.

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>>65079569
I was hoping for "Yupik" instead of rehashing a tribe they already used.

>>65079862
I hope to God that you're an ESL thirdie or so underage that you haven't gotten to state capitals yet.

>>65079569
“Cheyenne II Because Fuck The Air Force” rolls off the tongue pretty well I think.

>>65079825
>SB-12
You mean the SB-1 Defiant?

>>65079997
Native Algic really fucks up euros

>>65079989
>Who should we name this aircraft after?
>Yupik.
>Well if you insist, then I'll pick the Cheyenne.

>>65080091
kek

>>65080091
I laughed a lot harder than I should.

>>65079569
looks like a fixed wing blackhawk.

>>65079707
The reason the Osprey had problems with dust and dirt is because of the jetwash. Now that the jets don't point down and it's just normal propwash kicking up dust, that shouldn't be nearly as bad.

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>>65079578
The Canadians have dibs on the Haida

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>>65079825
SB-1 was a big fat ugly bitch with most of its internal volume taken up by a ridiculously oversized gearbox. The pusher prop config had some advantages for their FARA entry, and then this would have parts in common, but with that program cancelled it just doesn't make any sense.

>>65079931
The Osprey would start brush fires with its exhaust, which is why they stay horizontal on this one.

>>65080091
Kek. Nice.

>>65080091
just what I needed after a long day at work

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>>65079582
it has more range and can autorotate

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>>65080366
>go to bell website
>they have a products tab with their helicopters
>when you mouse over the helicopter, it plays a little take off animation
This is the kind of MIC propaganda that works on me. Completely adorable.

>>65080091
Thats.....probably what happened kek.

>>65079569
>Blackfoot

>>65079946
>never been an issue smoothbrain
stop smooth brane hate

>>65079569
looks like an autistic black hawk

Why not just call it Cheyenne? AH-56 never went in to service

>>65080566
Yo, I wonder if they run Summer and Winter sales. I'd like to cop me a Venom.

>>65080820
Then google results would show a much cooler vehicle.

>>65079984
>fallout fags are retards
Yeah we know but the rest of us could

>>65080366
tilt rotors can't autorotate

>>65079578
Sorry, unless you're a South Western, Great lakes or Plains tribe that gave the US trouble during Western expansion or the Cherokee who took BWC lust to an unheard of level you don't matter and don't get to be on the cool toys

>>65079909
the Osprey is not an army helicopter so it's name doesn't matter. Marines name their birds gay shit like "sea knight", "stallion" and "grey ghost", only the army uses tribal names because the army spent most of its early life bulldozing through injun tribes in the actual continent and not the marines.

>>65081068
>the army was committing genocide on behalf of commerce and capital while the marines were busy ending the slave trade in the Mediterranean
Sounds about right yut yut

>>65081218
>implying the injuns didn't commit Mongol-tier levels of raiding, raping, scalping and murdering AND slaving all on their own

I too cry every night over the destruction of the those-murdering-fuckers-coming-all the time tribe at the hands of the federal government

>>65080915
You forgot the Seminole

>>65081231
Mongol tier implies the razing of cities with wholesale slaughter of millions included so you can't even think of a proper analogy

>>65081253
you know what happened to the mound people along the mississipi before the colonists even got there?

>>65079951
With how thirsty helicopters are I bet you can physically see the rest chug fuel if you had a clear fuel tank.

>>65081256
Ah yes, who could forget when the Iroquois used captives from the conquest of New York to mount a forlorn hope during the Siege of Boston. Their brutality was truly without equal.

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>>65079578
>Chilkat
Everyone can pronounce it and the manufacturer could use some traditional patterns in the branding and seats, floor texture, etc.

>>65081287
Damn, just think how many awesome woodwork armors must have existed that we will never see.

>>65081265
Never question the brutality of the Iroquois and their allies. The Great Law of Peace only existed for those inside the compact.
>t. abenaki mutt

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>>65081295
>be shipwrecked Jap fisherman
>drifting for weeks
>only the occasional seagull for company
>drift into a harbor, there's a village, smoking fires, people
>several war canoes with dozens of guys dressed like this paddle out to enslave you

>>65080915
What about the Chinook?

>>65079569
Didn't realize Valor was just Bell's name before the Army gives it one, I liked that one

>>65080895
They can if you design them right. One of the things they made sure worked was the ability for it to autorotate because Osprey cannot, which contributed to it's (overstated) reputation for crashing. It's harder to do autorotation than on a helicopter but the MV-75 can do it.
And either one of it's engines can power both rotors in the event that one loses power, again unlike the Osprey. I don't think people realise just how much the Osprey's reputation motivated a lot of the R&D for FVL

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>>65080895
not with that attitude

>>65079569
Of course the Army chose to rehash the same name like the Air Force did with the F-35 and A-10, how lame. Could've been named something cool like Quapaw or Osage but no, we can't think outside of the box.

>>65080820
no one calls it the "F4 Phantom-II"

>>65080091
genius

>>65079606
>It doesn't crash constantly.
Show your data.

>>65081467
i vote for pomo

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>>65081313
>>65081287
Just imagine, you're a Russian settler out fir trapping one day when y-HEYAHOYAHEYAHOYAHEYAHOYAHEHAHOYA

>>65081467
>Osage

They have to save that for a future Boeing product that burns oil

>>65081464
Carlos!

>>65079569
Having flown in Ospreys multiple times this thing feels like it'll kill so many service members fuck tilt rotor aircraft with a knife.

>>65081218
>the army was committing genocide on behalf of commerce and capita
the army didn't get all the fun, the Marines committed genocide for the Dole Corporation

>>65079825
the rotors on the Defiant are called contra-rotating. Bell's tilt-rotor Valor has a much higher cruising speed and probably greater range because of that.

>>65080895
If a Chinook can autorotate, then so can a tiltrotor.
>>65081448
The Osprey can power both proprotors with one engine. That's partly why it's so complicated, because the wings had to fold for storage in a ship's hangar yet it hat to have that massive single driveshaft running through the length of the wing.

>>65080895
Autorotation capability is determined by disk loading. If the V-22 had larger rotors and a longer wingspan, it would likely be able to autorotate, but then it would not fit in the hangers on the Amphibs.
>>65081448
The V-22 engines are linked.

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>>65081698
>>65081313
>>65081287
>>65079578
The Russians are still butthurt about getting their shit pushed in by these guys 200 years ago.

>>65079606
>doesnt crash constantly
>isnt even operational
So you're retarded got it.

>>65079825
>he thinks government contracts select for the best system
lmao

>>65081933
Sikorsky showed up at the be fast with good range competition with something that was worse at both, no shit they lost.

>>65081933
>>65081593
The V-22 was designed to be as retarded as possible and kill everyone aboard at the first opportunity. The V-280 was designed to be like the V-22 except not retarded and suicidal this time.

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>>65080732
>why yes Anon, I'm a Blackfoot pilot, wanna check?

>>65082511
It was and still is a revolutionary aircraft other countries are just now trying to compete with 50 years later.
>>65081918
Russians btfo them. Read a book.

>>65079569
But what if they were towed gliders?

>>65079997
show him the horse shit that is upstate new york

"Canahoughstottaway" is an easy one, pop. 8 status as hamlet lost 20 years ago.

>>65079569
I like it but I'm pretty biased towards the name Cheyenne thanks to old cowboy movies and the fact it's one of the only truly home grown American names

>>65079997
Not him, but I'll be honest, I usually forget that Wyoming exists.