The test is aimed at expanding the refueling envelope of the A400M to refuel a wide variety of NATO aircraft, and follows the ...

Gear and clutch problems in the Osprey have killed more than a dozen troops in recent years, leading to groundings of the ...

24 troops or 10,000 pounds of cargo Crew: Four (pilot, copilot and two flight engineers) The CV-22 Osprey is the U.S. Air Force special operations variant of the V-22 tiltrotor transport aircraft.

The V-22 Osprey is a versatile aircraft with plenty of strengths and weaknesses. It can transport as many as 24 troops if ...

With a price tag of about $84 million, the V-22 Osprey is the world's first production tilt-rotor aircraft. The MV-22 Osprey, flown by the Marine Corps, has the ability to take off vertically like ...

But the V-22 Osprey has also caused the deaths of 62 service members. A crash in Japan last year grounded the entire fleet. We compared accident data for the Osprey with that of its closest rivals ...

And because helicopters are transported to Afghanistan as cargo on a C-5 ... more than 1,300 hours in the Osprey, one of the highest numbers in the V-22 program.) Freeman is now convinced that ...

(Sgt. Armando Elizalde/U.S. Marine Corps) The Navy has awarded defense and aviation technology company Shift5 a contract to test predictive maintenance technology on the V-22 Osprey, which the ...