ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — 19-year-old Evan Strickland, who was from Valencia County, died during a training exercise in California in 2022. Four of his fellow U.S. Marines were also killed in the crash. His ...
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was a unique aircraft when it first took flight in 1989 before it became the world's first ...
Last Friday, the Marines, Navy and Air Force gave the V-22 Osprey the green light to return to flying status three months after the fatal crash of an Air Force CV-22 in the seas off Japan. It was a ...
The military will be resuming V-22 flights with the understanding that “catastrophic failures due to inclusions is as high as seven per million flight hours”—compared to the standard of one per ten ...
There are certain aircraft that refuse to be pigeon-holed. The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is one of them. The Osprey is unique among aircraft, being something of a transformer type. It's designed to ...
The crash of a CV-22 Osprey, call sign Gundam 22, off the coast of Japan in November 2023 has generated a wave of unfair scrutiny against the aircraft. The loss of any service member is an absolute ...
The Osprey made the entire mission during a Islamic State in Libya deployment possible, this retired lieutenant colonel writes. (Cpl. Lauren Brune/Marine Corps) In early December 2016, “Flight ...
In the wake of recent high-profile stories covering the V-22 Osprey, aspiring pilots and their families might be led to believe the Osprey is too complex or difficult to fly. That’s just not the case.
Anthony Krockel is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel whose most recent assignment was as the commodore of Training Air Wing FIVE responsible for undergraduate flight training for the Navy, Marine ...
The V-22 Osprey is a troop transport with a helicopter's versatility and a turboprop's speed. But the V-22 has crashed several times since becoming operational in 2007, killing over 50 people. The ...
The Pentagon is set to lift its ban on flights by grounded V-22 Osprey aircraft next week, according to officials. The tilt-rotor craft has been out of commission since a November crash left eight ...
CMV-22 Osprey, assigned to the ‘Sunhawks’ of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 50, sits on the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71), Aug. 13, ...