Ed Darack From Air & Space:
Scenes of a Marine unit flying the incredible, versatile Osprey.
Writer and photographer Ed Darack writes in our April/May 2010 issue of the time he spent in southern Afghanistan in December 2009 with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (VMM-261).
Many of the Osprey pilots used to fly the Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight, known colloquially to the Marines as the “Phrog.” “I felt safe in the Phrog because it had two .50-caliber machine guns,” says Captain Chris Meixell of VMM-261. "The greatest safety advantage [of the Osprey] is the performance of the aircraft itself, which allows us to climb quickly out of small-arms and shoulder-launched surface-to-air missile range.”
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My Comment: An incredible collection of pictures.