Bell Boeing V-22

The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps have seen their rates of series aircraft incidents decrease but the cost for each mishap has risen significantly.

The Air Force, Marine Corps and Navy are replacing the input quill assembly in the tiltrotor’s gearbox every 800 flight hours.

The 14-aircraft fleet, all based at the JGSDF Camp in Kisarazu, stood down on July 22.

A long-known V-22 gearbox flaw caused the accident, the investigation found.

The UK Royal Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, has returned to sea after nine months of repairs.

The U.S. Marine Corps has known since 2010 of a critical safety issue on its V-22 Osprey fleet.

The Navy announced in February that it was negotiating a sole-source contract with Bell-Boeing to shut down V-22 production.

The USMC modernization plan for aviation focuses a starting a new loitering munition program and investing in vertical take-off and landing systems.

With Osprey orders ending and the Chinook awaiting a major U.S. Army decision, Boeing is devising a new future for its Philadelphia campus.

Mercury Systems had a respectable fiscal 3Q, but overshadowing the performance was significant pressure on margins tied to slow-moving development programs.

Metrea’s business case rests on the uncomfortable fact that hundreds of Air Force-owned air refueling aircraft cover only a fraction of the potential demand.

The U.S. military’s V-22 operators—the Marine Corps, Navy and Air Force—have reached the end of their programs of record for the tiltrotor.

One or more experimental aircraft could start flying in 2027 to prove the feasibility of a transporter that can speed up like a jet and land like a helicopter.

DARPA will start a new program aimed at high-speed, runway-independent aircraft.

The time-limit restriction now applies to the input quill assemblies inside the engine nacelles for the entire V-22 fleet.

The changes under review within the U.S. Marine Corps are so extensive that replacing the Bell Boeing MV-22 with a new aircraft is possible.

The U.S. Marine Corps is halving its planned 2021 buy of F-35Bs to 10 jets, while the Navy is purchasing three fewer F-35Cs than in the previous year’s budget projection.

Leonardo has begun flight tests of the latest iteration of its Osprey active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar.