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This Is What It Looks Like When A V-22 Osprey Refuels Right In Front Of Your Face
This Is What It Looks Like When A V-22 Osprey Refuels Right In Front Of Your Face-December 2024
2024-02-19 EST 22:14:08

An F-35 refueling right in front of your face as you hang out the back of a KC-130 tanker aircraft is cool, but what about a V-22 Osprey? That tilt-rotor has 38-foot-wide spinning blades of death attached to each engine, and it’s sort of terrifying.

Just... one... little... touch... in the wrong direction...

Let’s not think about that. Oh god let’s not think about that.

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