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  • Critics were calling the Osprey a boondoggle and a death trap, a “widow-maker.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Critics were calling the Osprey a boondoggle and a death trap, a “widow-maker.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Critics were calling the Osprey a boondoggle and a death trap, a “widow-maker.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • The V22 Osprey is an amazing story of system engineering failure.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 21, 2006 2006

  • Osprey is open source software for download that supports a service.

    Industrial-strength BitTorrent « Scripting News Annex 2006

  • Electron joined me in this novel tortured state, and I was so delighted by the unnaturalness of it I called Osprey and Enjah over to witness the magic.

    Archive 2007-08-01 Young Geoffrion 2007

  • Electron joined me in this novel tortured state, and I was so delighted by the unnaturalness of it I called Osprey and Enjah over to witness the magic.

    A time for work, a time for play Young Geoffrion 2007

  • The way they went about this is they inserted these soldiers from the south and the north, also using a new sort of airplane, if you will, called the Osprey which is an airplane and it also has helicopter capability which can land sort of similar like Harrier.

    CNN Transcript Dec 6, 2009 2009

  • The Osprey was a new aircraft with thousands of parts, and a lot of them were breaking or wearing out earlier than predicted.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • “Dan,” Wallace began, “the Marine Corps has been hiding the truth about the Osprey from the American public for months now.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

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