Online Public Relations Thoughts

 Another Marine tiltrotor Osprey aircraft has crashed.  It has been a troubled plane since its first construction, but the Marines want it for its melding of a helicopter's vertical lift and a conventional airplane's forward speed.  This time three Marines died and eight are in a hospital.  The Osprey is a public relations disaster, but the corps won't give it up.  They find the plane too valuable when it works, and they tend to overlook the problems when it doesn't.  It's an oddity among the military's air frames but an enduring one.