Defense News reports, “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.”
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USAF’s CV-22 Ospreys Cleared to Resume Flying Amid Unresolved Gearbox Issue
Aviation Week reported that on September 2, US Air Force Special Operations Command “returned its CV-22 fleet to flight after more than two weeks of grounding because of an issue with the tiltrotor’s gearbox for which the service still does not have a root cause.”
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