In our news wrap Monday, the Pentagon grounded the V-22 Osprey fleet after weakened metal components were found following a near-crash in New Mexico last month, the EPA announced bans of TCE and ...
The V-22 Osprey is a troop transport with a helicopter's versatility and a turboprop's speed. But the V-22 has crashed several times since becoming operational in 2007, killing over 50 people. The ...
The military will be resuming V-22 flights with the understanding that “catastrophic failures due to inclusions is as high as seven per million flight hours”—compared to the standard of one per ten ...
The crash of a CV-22 Osprey, call sign Gundam 22, off the coast of Japan in November 2023 has generated a wave of unfair scrutiny against the aircraft. The loss of any service member is an absolute ...
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was a unique aircraft when it first took flight in 1989 before it became the world's first ...
In the wake of recent high-profile stories covering the V-22 Osprey, aspiring pilots and their families might be led to believe the Osprey is too complex or difficult to fly. That’s just not the case.
Anthony Krockel is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel whose most recent assignment was as the commodore of Training Air Wing FIVE responsible for undergraduate flight training for the Navy, Marine ...
The V-22 Osprey is a joint-service, multi-mission, medium-lift rotorcraft. The V-22 is a type of aircraft known as a tiltrotor, which is a unique design for a crewed military aircraft. A tiltrotor ...
There are certain aircraft that refuse to be pigeon-holed. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is one of them. The Osprey is unique among aircraft, being something of a transformer type. It's designed to ...
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