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[Jura The idiot]

landing on

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during the BALTOPS 2015 (I'm not allowed to say the name of the server at which I found it

 

[Jeff Head]

Jura...is the location of that image your server?

If not, then I need to remind you that SD Forum does not allow hot linking pictures.

If that space on BlogSpot is you own site, then no worries.

As it is...many navies are considering the Osprey for their various amphibious vessels...and even more will cross deck them from US forces.

The Osprey has had to work hard for it...and it was at significant cost...but the Osprey has proven itself and is not very much a sought after commodity.

 

[Jura The idiot]

Jura...is the location of that image your server?

If not, then I need to remind you that SD Forum does not allow hot linking pictures.

If that space on BlogSpot is you own site, then no worries.

...

Jeff, I found it in a blog which has SNAFU in it's name, and this was the source of my comment

(I'm not allowed to say the name of the server at which I found it

I infrequently check what that blogger has to say; the address is

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and it often is a wild stuff

 

[Jeff Head]

Jeff, I found it in a blog which has SNAFU in it's name, and this was the source of my comment

Well, Jura, the rules are clear.

DO NOT HOT LINK PHOTOS.

Does not matter if it is a blog unless it is your blog. Download the pic and place it on an appropriate server. Or make an attachment of it from your computer.

I deleted the hot linked pic and replaced it with an attachment.

 

[Jura The idiot]

Well, Jura, the rules are clear.

DO NOT HOT LINK PHOTOS.

Does not matter if it is a blog unless it is your blog. Download the pic and place it on an appropriate server. Or make an attachment of it from your computer.

I deleted the hot linked pic and replaced it with an attachment.

oh, only now I realized what I had done while posting #81: I used "Link" button instead of "Image"... I appologize

 

[TerraN_EmpirE]

Future of Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Uncertain Despite V-22’s Successes (UPDATED)
July 2015

By Stew Magnuson

A V-22 Osprey in Nepal
Only hours after a devastating earthquake struck Nepal in April, four Marine Corps V-22 Ospreys based in Okinawa, Japan, were in the air and making their way to the disaster zone with crucial supplies.

A half a world away in Fort Worth, Texas, Bell Helicopter that same month announced a second round of layoffs totaling some 1,415 employees, citing a slowdown in orders for the Osprey along with a waning commercial helicopter market that was supposed to take up the slack.

Despite the good news stories emerging as the aircraft chalks up successes in real-world scenarios, foreign military sales for the Osprey have been lower than anticipated, analysts said, raising questions about how long Bell can keep its factory open. The future of vertical take off and landing aircraft is also murky.

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[Jura The idiot]

I noticed "something" yesterday at

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Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is being awarded a $332,468,665 modification to the previously awarded fixed-price-incentive-firm target multiyear contract N00019-12-C-2001. This modification provides for the manufacture and delivery of five MV-22 tiltrotor aircraft pursuant to the variation in quantity clause in support of the government of Japan. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (24.6 percent); Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (19.2 percent); Amarillo, Texas (10.4 percent); Dallas, Texas (4.3 percent); East Aurora, New York (2.5 percent); Park City, Utah (1.7 percent); El Segundo, California (1.3 percent); Endicott, New York (1 percent); Ontario, Canada (0.9 percent); Tempe, Arizona (0.8 percent); Corinth, Texas (0.8 percent); Rome, New York (0.7 percent); Torrance, California (0.7 percent); Luton, United Kingdom (0.6 percent); Los Angeles, California (0.6 percent); Cobham, United Kingdom (0.6 percent); Irvine, California (0.6 percent); San Diego, California (0.5 percent); Yakima, Washington (0.5 percent); Brea, California (0.5 percent); Rockmart, Georgia (0.5 percent); Albuquerque, New Mexico (0.4 percent); Whitehall, Michigan (0.4 percent); Wolverhampton, United Kingdom (0.4 percent); Tucson, Arizona (0.4 percent); Erie, Pennsylvania (0.3 percent); Vergennes, Vermont (0.3 percent); Kilgore, Texas (0.3 percent); Shelby, North Carolina (0.3 percent); Avon, Ohio (0.2 percent); Santa Clarita, California (0.2 percent); Garden City, New York (0.2 percent); El Cajon, California (0.2 percent); Sylmar, California (0.2 percent); Westbury, New York (0.1 percent); and various other locations inside and outside the U.S. (22.8 percent), and is expected to be completed in June 2018. Foreign military sales funds in the amount of $332,468,665 will be obligated at time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.

but waited for article(s) describing/commenting on it:
Japan Buys Five Ospreys in Boeing’s First Export Deal

After years of trying, the Navy and Bell Boeing have announced the first foreign sale of the V-22 Ospreys, with five of the tilt-rotor aircraft under contract for delivery to Japan.

The $332.5 million contract for the Block C version of the Osprey included support, training, and equipment to boost the mobility of Japan’s Self-Defenses Force and provide a faster and more agile platform in response to natural disasters, Bell Boeing said in a statement Tuesday.

The five Ospreys were expected to be the first phase in the delivery of a total of 17 of the aircraft to Japan for a total cost of about $3 billion.

“The Bell Boeing team is honored to have Japan as the first international customer for the V-22 tilt-rotor,” said Mitch Snyder, executive vice president of Military Business for Bell Helicopter.

“This is an important day for the Bell Boeing team in Japan and for the U.S.-Japan alliance,” said Shelley Lavender, president of Boeing Military Aircraft. “The V-22 redefines what’s operationally possible for a country, and we’re looking forward to delivering this capability to Japan.”

For years, the Navy and Bell Boeing have shopped the Osprey to other countries at airshows and other venues, touting its greater range, speed and lift capacity over conventional helicopters, but there were no takers until Japan.

In 2013, then-Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced a deal to send six Ospreys to Israel, but the arrangement has been on hold over financing.

The MV-22 version of the Osprey has been fielded by the Marine Corps since 2007. Air Force Special Operations currently flies the CV-22 version of the Osprey.

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[Miragedriver]

Japan becomes the first export customer of the V-22 Osprey tiltrotor

(defensa.com) The Department of Defense has announced the signing of a contract for the Joint Office of Bell-Boeing project with the Government of Japan for the sale of five V-22 Osprey convertiplanes worth 332.5 million of dollars. This represents the formalization of Japan as the first export customer for this aircraft ahead of Israel, which have temporarily suspended their acquisition.

Recall that in May the Security Cooperation Agency and Defense (Defense Security Cooperation Agency, or DSCA) notified Congress of the possible sale of 17 convertiplanes Japan V-22 Osprey and associated equipment for 3,000 million dollars. Therefore, the signing of an initial contract for only five of these aircraft could mean that the contract has been revised downwards or to be developed in several sections of this would be the first.

It specifies that 17 Osprey be the MV-22B Block C version, the latest version of the tiltrotor, which has a new weather radar associated with a moving map that can provide weather information and also enables the identification of vessels. Also it includes a new air conditioning system and electronic warfare equipment and enhanced self-defense and a new cabin with upgraded panels color.

The Osprey combines the benefits of an airplane as its high cruise speed around 480 mph but with the ability to land and take off vertically. These capabilities serve for Japan to support amphibious operations, one of the objectives of its current defense budget in addition to play humanitarian missions or aid following natural disasters. Besides Japan already it has the Izumo, the first of two helicopter carriers from which will operate the Osprey.

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Back to bottling my Grenache

 

[Jura The idiot]

kind of scary article with many details (which I don't fully understand ... maybe Scratch would comment):

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Marine Corps leaders have issued a fleetwide order to MV-22 pilots to wave off any landing in a dust cloud they can’t complete within 30 seconds, Breaking Defense has learned, a reaction to a fatal accident in Hawaii on May 17. The previous rule was 60 seconds, though experienced Osprey and helicopter pilots usually spend no more than 10 seconds or so in such risky conditions.

Investigators are still studying the training flight mishap in which an

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‘s hard landing killed two Marines aboard. They have yet to officially declare the crash’s cause, but BD has learned that the plane suffered reduced power in both engines and a compressor stall that knocked the left one out entirely after spending an unusually long 45 seconds hovering over a dusty landing zone.

The Marines issued the new flight rules based on tourist videos of the accident, data downloaded from onboard systems, and testimony from survivors,

Osprey pilots have been ordered to monitor engine performance during Reduced Visibility Landing (RVLs) and to brief all “engine failure in a hover” procedures to all aircrew prior to flying RVL training flights or missions in which such a landing is possible.

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occur when rotor downwash kicks up clouds of dust, sand, snow or other debris that obscure the crew’s view of the ground. A significant number of the more than 420 U.S. military helicopters that have crashed since 2001 occurred in such conditions.

The Osprey often encounters those conditions because of the

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whose diameter is smaller and whose blades have more twist than helicopter rotors so they can serve as propellers in forward flight.

Unlike all but the most modern helicopters, the MV-22B has electronic flight controls and a “glass cockpit” with a “Hover Page” and a “Flight Director” – an autopilot function — that can be coupled to help in RVLs. The Hover Page shows the pilot a “lollipop” – a circle with the aircraft at its center and a line pointing to the desired landing spot, which is designated by grid coordinates the aircrew enters in advance.

To eliminate the risk of drift, a pilot with sufficient time can put the aircraft into a hover above the cloud of dust or debris kicked up by its proprotors – usually 50 feet above ground level – and couple the Flight Director to the Hover Page to automatically land the aircraft. Sometimes the Flight Director and Hover Page fail to properly couple, however, forcing pilots to repeat the procedure.

The Rolls-Royce AE 1107C engines on the Hawaii plane ingested dust or debris that left the right engine of the Hawaii Osprey too weak to keep the craft airborne — as it should have been able to do — after the left engine failed. One factor may have been that the landing was one of the several the aircraft made that day at the same dusty zone. The Osprey also was hovering “out of ground effect,” which requires more power than hovering where downwash reaches the ground quickly. Also, the aircraft had 22 Marines aboard and thus was heavily loaded.

The accident also appears to reflect the chronic inadequacy of the V-22’s Engine Air Particle Separator (EAPS), a filter at each engine inlet that was modified years ago after suffering hydraulic leaks that caused fires and still allows far more dirt than is healthy to pass into the Osprey’s engines. The EAPS may be replaced by a new filter being developed by Bell Helicopter Textron Inc., which makes the Osprey in a 50-50 partnership with Boeing Co. But that won’t happen until 2017 or after under current plans.

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[Jeff Head]

Jura, here's ther tourist video of that V-22 crash in Hawaii in May. Clearly the aircraft lost power in the dust.

Tough to watch.