re: #12 Testy Toad T

I can’t hold too much against the engineers trying to make a bad concept work. Sometimes they succeed and a marginal thing like the Osprey becomes usable.

That said, you can’t always fix something that was a bad idea in the first place. The idea of a single aircraft that can be all things to all users has always been a bad idea and this iteration of that mistake is no different than any of the ones that have preceded it. It is and will always be a failure. Even if one working version is eventually forced into service (FB-111, for example) it does not mean that the program was a success or that we haven’t wasted billions better spent on new air frames for aircraft models (emphasis on the plural) that can actually do the jobs required.