Posted on 11/05/2005 7:33:08 AM PST by JRios1968
11/4/2005 - EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- The Air Force’s second CV-22 Osprey arrived here Oct. 27. -- two months earlier than the contract’s due date.
The first Air Force CV-22 was delivered for electromagnetic testing to Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., Sept. 16 and will arrive at Edwards in December. The third CV-22 will be delivered in February 2006.
The Air Force Operational Test and Evaluation Center will use these three aircraft to conduct an operational utility evaluation next summer. If the CV-22 completes the evaluation successfully it will be certified for use in training operations at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., next fall. The initial operational test and evaluation for the CV-22 is planned to begin October 2007.
The Navy’s Operational Test and Evaluation Force and AFOTEC operationally evaluated the MV-22, the Marine variant of the Osprey, between March and June this year. They rated it operationally effective, suitable and survivable.
The CV-22 is the special operations forces variant of the V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft. Modifications to the Osprey aircraft made for the CV-22 variant are concentrated in the areas of communication, navigation, mission management and aircraft survivability. The Osprey flight characteristics, including vertical takeoff and landing, short takeoff and landing and conversion to airplane mode.
The Air Force and U.S. Special Operations Command plan to purchase 50 CV-22s to conduct day or night long-range infiltration, exfiltration and resupply of special operations forces.
lets hope this one can fly through clouds...
What the heck is flying past that plane?
Meteors?
That turkey wont fly.
I predict nothing but disaster for this ill-concieved, flying pig.
DoD needs the capability, but the Osprey is NOT the answer.
It will be grounded again by this time next year.
Pray for the flight crews!
Those are counter-measure flares.
Thanks.
But fired from where?
Doesn't seem to have originated from the Ospre.
Just makes a more dramatic picture I guess.
They do come from the Osprey. The most impressive thing I have seen is the C-5 dispensing flares...sorry, no pic, though.
The flare launchers are angled forward making the flares more effective against certain seeker algorithms.
This turkey has been in gestation far too long. The first contract was let way back in the 80s. Cheney and DoD tried to kill it once. Politicians kept it alive, not the military.
Thanks.
Just seems to be coming from behind in the picture.
Looks like it is.
Thing's been flying (trying to fly) for dozens of years with the Marines. They'ed had some mechanical problems, but have had more budget problems than flight problems. (Except the one CO who trashed repair records.)
Syrprized the USAF is re-re-retesting it at Edwards.
You are a polemicist then...:)
There is another thread here on Osprey, naming names of experts that disagree with the Osprey.
What do you think?
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“I believe concentration should be made for F-22 eto F-35 and Comanche, and expand C-17 Global..III and new generation of it. This hybrid airplane is looking eto fore flying duck in sky. This is just her opinion.”
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thank you all
looks like reflections on window from inside aircraft taking the picture
Hang on, the shills will be here any minute to say it's the greatest thing since sliced bread and really won't kill that many more marines.
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