A U.S. Marine Corps MV-22B Osprey performs deck landing maneuverers aboard Royal Australian Navy landing helicopter dock HMAS Canberra (L02) during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Royal Australian Navy / Petty Officer Christopher Szumlanski
Defense One: Some Ospreys on Flight Restrictions Pending Part Replacement
U.S. military limiting the lifespan of a gearbox part to address V-22 hard clutch incidents.
The Marine Corps, Navy, and Air Force will implement a time limit on a gearbox part in the V-22 Osprey as part of the military’s efforts to resolve the aircraft’s hard clutch problem.
Air Force Special Operations Command grounded their Ospreys in August because of concerns with the hard clutch, though the Marines and Navy continued flying the tiltrotor aircraft. AFSOC returned their Ospreys to the air in September.
The flight hour limit comes from the V-22 Joint Program Office’s 24 initiatives to find solutions to the problem, the official said. “This recommendation was based on a progressive increase in these hard clutch engagement events. And from that, and looking at the totality of the data, we in recent weeks have been able to determine that this time limit was an appropriate step for us to take,” the defense official said.
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Pentagon Grounds An Undisclosed Number Of V-22 Ospreys Across Three Services Over Safety Concerns
Pentagon grounds 'subset' of Osprey fleet over safety concerns -- Breaking Defense
V-22 Ospreys grounded over hard clutch issue -- Task & Purpose
Undisclosed number of Ospreys grounded until clutch-related part fixed -- Defense News
US V-22 Ospreys Grounded Over Defective Clutch Parts -- Newsmax
2 comments:
Luckily it's just the "gear-box."
Are they called crayon-eaters because they're the only men dumb enough to entrust their lives to this system?
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