Our planet is wild

The full saga of Margie and the Nuns (so far). Realised I never compiled these in one place.! Also, bonus Margies!

For context, the osprey was designed as a troop transport alternative to helicopters that would have the speed of a fixed-wing aircraft but be capable of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) like a helicopter. And they’re a nightmare.

Those tilting prop nacelles create so much down-draft in VTOL/hover mode that in anything but ideal landing conditions, they kick up so much dirt and debris that it blinds the pilot, the troops they’re moving, and any other craft nearby. Trying to mitigate the visibility problem by fast-roping troops to the ground from slightly higher up also proved purulent because the prop wash can rip people right off the rope.

The effect is so powerful that it can pin disembarking troops to the ground and door-gunners have to fight it to keep their guns from being pinned against the fuselage. Use of the Osprey for water rescue had to be abandoned because it could force whoever is being rescued underwater.

From everything I’ve heard, the osprey actually combines the fixed-wing craft’s power and speed with the helicopter’s intense desire to crash, kill everything onboard, and litter the countryside with debris.

This version is really funny to me because unless it’s a future with radically different tech, jet engines would add blast and burning damage to all of those scenarios. I’m no engineer but I think if you tried to land or take off on anything but a reinforced surface, you’d displace a few cubic meters topsoil, asphalt, loose rock every time. If it’s picking up or dropping people off, I could see having to cut the engines to keep from roasting them alive or showering them in flying debris. If it’s just a personal craft, going from port to port, if it’s an enclosed, pressurized, heat-shielded fuselage, all that is going to be less of a factor.

Also...these panels

Don't dull your shine for anybody! ✨

▶️ Watch this episode of Adventuring Academy on Dropout!

One of the reasons I was okay leaving the Los Angeles voice acting scene was because so many directors out there give this exact kind of feedback on line reads. I can't tell you how many times I was instructed to make it more boring, more neutral, more standard anime.