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Are these protests about the Osprey flying machine that are causing a right fuss now here valid?

Or is it the people who dislike the bases just latching on to it and doing what they can to make a big fuss?

Watching the news, you'd think it was a real threat to the lives of everyone.

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They don't call it the widowmaker for nothing!

 

I guess they are also just a bit sensitive here after a US Sabre crashed in Okinawa...

 

 

...into a school killing 11 students..... after the pilot ejected.

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It seems this is being taken to somewhat hysterical lengths.... today they had the people of Numata - in Gunma! - being intereviewed about how worried they were that it was going to fall out of the sky on top of them.

Gunma?!

 

One of the planned low-altitude practice flight paths for the Osprey reportedly goes over Numata.

So not silly to interview the people who live there.

 

On the other hand, we get low altitude fly-overs from jieitai aircraft all the time, and I have never heard anyone complain about them (never bothered me, either).

 

But it is always going to be a more delicate issue when it is a foreign military plying the skies, eh?

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I don't know what all the fuss is about.

 

Granted they do fall from the sky a lot

 

but they usually come back up with a fish

 

 

 

osprey-fishing-2-fish.jpg

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