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Tilting at Windmills: A Status Report on the V-
22 Osprey
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Overview
• Brief History of Tilt Rotor Technology
• Procurement
• Current Operations
• Planned Upgrades
• Prospects for Future V-22 Sales
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From Helicopter to Tilt Rotor
Martin D. Maisel, Demo J. Giulianetti, and Daniel C. Dugan, The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft: From Concept to Flight NASA
History Series (Washington DC: NASA History Division, 2000) 3, available at http://history.nasa.gov/monograph17.pdf
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Early Days: Convertiplane Program
McDonnell XV-1(Compound Helicopter design) VS. Bell XV-3 (Tilt Rotor Design)
Credit: Boeing – The XV-1 actually did the first conversion from vertical rotor Credit: National Museum of the US Air Force
lift to horizontal winged flight.
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Operation Eagle Claw
Photos: Charles Tustin Kamps, “Operation Eagle Claw: The Iran Hostage Rescue Mission,
Air & Space Power Journal, September 2006.
Debris of an abandoned C-130 airplane at Desert One
Debris of an abandoned Sea Stallion helicopter at Desert One
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JV-X
XV-15 at Paris Air Show
Credit: MilborneOne, Copywright 2002, available at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:N702NA-Bell-XV-15A-Paris2.jpg
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Legacy Platforms
Replaces USMC CH-46 Sea Knight Replaces AFSOC MH-53M Pave Low IV
and augments MC-130 Combat Talon
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Program of Record
• 360 MV-22s – US Marine Corps
• 51 CV-22s – US Air Force
• 48 V-22s – US Navy (There is no formal requirement/funding for navy aircraft yet)
• 458 aircraft – Total Programme of Record (plus one more replacement aircraft for AFSOC, bringing total to 459)
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Procurement
• 170 Osprey aircraft operational with the
USMC and USAF today
• The V-22 Joint Program office is in the
midst of the 14th production lot overall
• About halfway through procurement of the
458 aircraft in the program of record
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Multi-Year Contracts
• Currently in the third lot of a five-year multi-year procurement (will procure 39 aircraft for the USMC and USAF this year in the third lot)
• Next year will deliver about 40 aircraft in the fourth lot
• About to start negotiating second multiyear, which will be produced at a rate of 21 aircraft per year
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Cost
• USD67 million
• Cost per flight hour trending below
USD10,000 per flight hour
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Navy Programs
• Carrier Onboard Delivery (COD) mission
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Rocky History
• 1991
• 2000
• April 2010
• April 2012
“I am confident in the V-22 and it’s design,”
– Colonel Greg Masiello, Manager, V-22 Joint Program Office
“Watching the progress we had made, I convinced my wife that none of us were anxious that it was not safe,”
– Lieutenant Colonel Jason Holden, Lieutenant Colonel Jason Holden, V-22 pilot and a V-22 planning officer at the USMC's Headquarters
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Squadrons • USMC CONUS squadrons: Six on the East Coast,
five on the West Coast
• Sixth standing up on West coast will transition to become the first overseas squadron based at Okinawa/2012
• AFSOC CONUS squadrons: Cannon AFB & Hickam AFB
• Plans to stand up first overseas base in Mildenhall UK/2013
• 2013- add V-22’s to HMS-1, the presidential support squadron in Quantico, VA
• 2013- first AFSOC overseas base at Mildenhall
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Upgrades
• MV-22 Block C
• Other upgrades: Data link; blue force
tracker; strategic nacelle initiative;
• Nacelle redesign
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Other V-22 Opportunities
• US Army’s Joint Multirole Competition
• US Air Force’s Joint Future Theater Lift
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