Half of Osprey fleet requires engine fixes

[unhappycamper]

Engine trouble
Expect them back in service early next year.


Half of Osprey fleet requires engine fixes
By Erik Holmes - Staff writer
Posted : Tuesday Dec 11, 2007 12:20:12 EST

More than half of the Air Force’s small fleet of CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft are seeing only limited flight time while they await modifications to a faulty engine component that caused a fire in a Marine Corps version of the aircraft.

Four of the service’s seven Ospreys are being flown only “on an as-required basis,” while three have already been modified and are fully operational, said 1st Lt. Amy Cooper, a spokeswoman for Air Force Special Operations Command, which owns the aircraft.

Work on the remaining four aircraft should be complete “shortly after the new year,” Cooper said, allowing them to return to full service.

The Air Force has four operational Ospreys at Hurlburt Field, Fla., and three training aircraft at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

The modifications were ordered after a Marine Corps Osprey from Marine Corps Air Station New River, N.C., had to make an emergency landing due to an engine fire Nov. 6.


Rest of artile at: http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2007/12/airforce_osprey_071211W/



uhc comment: Now we know why we haven't been hearing about the Ospreys.

[Sweet Pea]

1. Wrong

"uhc comment: Now we know why we haven't been hearing about the Ospreys."

You didn't mention (perhaps you didn't know) the MV-22's in Iraq are assigned to the Marines (VMM-263, Al Asad Air Base) and all those aircraft had the engine mod in question installed prior to their deployment.

You aren't hearing much about the aircraft it in the news because there isn't much going on - no crashes, no engine fires, no operational problems, no shoot-down's, no "clogged engine inlet filters, no "nuttin'. SOP.

[catnhatnh]

2. This Bastard should be named the "Phoenix Failure"...

since nothing arises from it's ashes....