On the tire swing for the Osprey

AP writer Bradley Klapper says the V-22 Osprey, our military’s biggest waste of money in the last decade outside the war in Iraq itself, really does work.

Of course, in his own story, he notes that the V-22 Osprey isn’t used on daytime flights at all.

And, he ignores the fact that, Marine pilot enthusiasm aside, it’s apples and oranges comparing it to a helicopter nearly 40 years old. (I could make a Sea Knight II better than an Osprey, I have no doubt, especially if I borrowed from Russian as well as U.S. helicopter expertise. Remember the Hind of Rambo films?)