The families of five deceased Marines are suing Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and Bell Textron after a V-22 Osprey aircraft training exercise that crashed in June 2022. The lawsuit alleges that the manufacturers were not honest with service members and the government about the design, operation and safety of the aircraft, engines, transmission, clutch and other systems. […]
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Boeing, Rolls-Royce and Bell Textron Sued Over Fatal V-22 Osprey Crash
The families of five deceased Marines are suing Boeing, Rolls-Royce, and Bell Textron after a V-22 Osprey aircraft training exercise that crashed in June 2022. The lawsuit alleges that the manufacturers were not honest with service members and the government about the design, operation and safety of the aircraft, engines, transmission, clutch and other systems. […]
V-22 Osprey could see second life, with new drive system, wings in 2050s
The V-22 program office is studying the future of the tiltrotor aircraft, weighing both a technology refresh as well as whether it could rip off the wings and nacelles to add decades of additional life to the airframes. U.S. Marine Corps Col. Brian Taylor, the joint program manager for the aircraft, told an audience at […]