Air Force report says ($100 million dollar) V-22 has design flaw

[unhappycamper]

Air Force report says V-22 has design flaw
October 07, 2010

Inside The Pentagon is out with a report this morning about a design flaw in the V-22 Osprey aircraft that has been known about since 2006, caused a serious mishap in March 2009 and still has not been fixed on 40 percent of the Marine and Air Force Ospreys in service.

The report (subscription required) is based on a long delayed Air Force mishap report of the mishap at Kirtland Air Force base after a CV-22 made an emergency landing after losing an engine on takeoff.

ITP says the Air Force report "blames the accident on a design problem associated with the mount support brackets, bonding straps, and bonding strap mounting hardware on the Central De-ice Distributor (CDD) units" located inside the prop-rotors that propel the Osprey.

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The aircraft involved in the mishap landed safely but the engine was ruined by ingesting pieces of the broken parts.

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The report says 48 of the 120 Ospreys now in service still have not been equipped with upgraded parts. The V-22 is jointly built by Bell Helicopter of Fort Worth and Boeing.

[Orrex]

1. Every video I've ever seen of the Osprey shows it crashing

In fact, the only time I've ever seen it work was in the Transformers movie.

$100M a pop? By comparison, $22.3M worth of stimulus checks sent to dead people doesn't seem like such a big deal.

[unhappycamper]

2. I saw and heard a bunch of these noisy toys during

Marine Week in Boston this summer.

[Odin2005]

4. +1,000,000

[msongs]

3. they are designed to attack the US treasury and get away with $$ - mission accomplished nt

[Golden Raisin]

6. Exactamundo!

Just what Ike warned us about. Big, juicy contracts for defense companies buttressed by non-stop wars.

[Odin2005]

5. Most of this crap is corporate pork.

It is a waste of money that does nothing to actually help our military effectiveness.