Osprey down off Japan, body sighted
Fixes for one of the well-known problems with Hard Clutch Engagement funded from 2026 - $48M for 45 kits - full program in due course will cost $138M for 328 kits
U.S. Navy Budgets For V-22 Clutch Upgrade As It Narrows Down On Root Cause | Aviation Week Network
U.S. Navy Budgets For V-22 Clutch Upgrade As It Narrows Down On Root Cause | Aviation Week Network
Marines Go All In
https://www.twz.com/air/how-the-mari...into-the-2060s
While the Marines and Navy are flying their Ospreys again, it has been reported that the Air Force has not, almost two months after the ungrounding. The above indicates the Marines/Navy are going all in to keep the Osprey through 2060. Perhaps it is time to transfer the V-22 special op missions from the Air Force to the Marines along with their aircraft. Always seemed that is where they belonged anyway.
While the Marines and Navy are flying their Ospreys again, it has been reported that the Air Force has not, almost two months after the ungrounding. The above indicates the Marines/Navy are going all in to keep the Osprey through 2060. Perhaps it is time to transfer the V-22 special op missions from the Air Force to the Marines along with their aircraft. Always seemed that is where they belonged anyway.
Do you have any idea how many single points of failure there are in a rotary wing aircraft? As but one example, there was an Apache crash near Houston about 8 years ago where one of the rotary wings departed the aircraft during flight. There is more than one way that such a calamity can happen, (Yes, that one ended in tears).
But people get into helicopters every day.
Maybe DogTailRed2 is playing Chicken Little.
Last edited by Lonewolf_50; 2nd May 2024 at 12:51.
https://www.twz.com/air/how-the-mari...into-the-2060s
While the Marines and Navy are flying their Ospreys again, it has been reported that the Air Force has not, almost two months after the ungrounding. The above indicates the Marines/Navy are going all in to keep the Osprey through 2060. Perhaps it is time to transfer the V-22 special op missions from the Air Force to the Marines along with their aircraft. Always seemed that is where they belonged anyway.
While the Marines and Navy are flying their Ospreys again, it has been reported that the Air Force has not, almost two months after the ungrounding. The above indicates the Marines/Navy are going all in to keep the Osprey through 2060. Perhaps it is time to transfer the V-22 special op missions from the Air Force to the Marines along with their aircraft. Always seemed that is where they belonged anyway.
https://www.twz.com/air/how-the-mari...into-the-2060s
While the Marines and Navy are flying their Ospreys again, it has been reported that the Air Force has not, almost two months after the ungrounding. The above indicates the Marines/Navy are going all in to keep the Osprey through 2060. Perhaps it is time to transfer the V-22 special op missions from the Air Force to the Marines along with their aircraft. Always seemed that is where they belonged anyway.
While the Marines and Navy are flying their Ospreys again, it has been reported that the Air Force has not, almost two months after the ungrounding. The above indicates the Marines/Navy are going all in to keep the Osprey through 2060. Perhaps it is time to transfer the V-22 special op missions from the Air Force to the Marines along with their aircraft. Always seemed that is where they belonged anyway.
I guess one problem with the perception of risk of the Osprey is that it looks like a chubby, benign Turboprop Transport aircraft - i.e. the ones which have to be actively forced out of the sky while its accident statistics are on a typical helicopter level (which it indeed is), compounded by its points of failure being novel (appearing additional ones while in reality being mostly simply different ones) compared to helicopters.
Yes, henra. New tech brings with it its own failure modes.
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/ai...urn-to-flight/
Again, it seems that the special ops missions that the Air Force conducts with their V-22’s could better be done by the Navy/Marines using the Air Force’s CV-22’s at a substantial cost savings.