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The Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) has announced that until further notice he has suspended his 52 aircraft due to "increased safety issues", including aircraft accidents. All CV-22 Ospreys have been grounded. Clutch, says the report.
CV-22 Osprey — a state-of-the-art tiltrotor aircraft capable of vertical take-off — has two decisions in the past six weeks, and four total safety decisions since 2017 Done after the above issue. AFSOC spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Becky Heiss told Breaking Defense.
"An airman's safety is paramount. Therefore, the AFSOC CV-22 will not fly until the cause of Hard Her clutch engagement is determined and risk management measures are taken." she told Digital Magazine.
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US Air Force Bell Boeing CV-22 Osprey Tiltrotor Military Aircraft takes off for an evening training flight from RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk, England, July 2020.(Jon Hobley/MI News/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
AFSOC stated on its website that the clutches were installed on theaircraft's two engines. Power is transferred to the other as part of the design feature to keep the aircraft flying in the event of a slip inside the gearbox connecting one to the rotor and a partial error. Migrate. engine failure.
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If the defense is breached, the first clutch re-engages and power returns to the first engine, but Heyse said: Uncontrolled landing of the aircraft.
US Air Force tilts his CV-22 Osprey Rotor warplanes will be seen in Portland, England in March. (Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images)
But so far, she said, no one was injured or killed in the incident. The professionalism of Air Force units operating CV-22s.
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" Working with the Joint Program Office, AFSOC has not been able to gather enough engineering data analysis to pinpoint the root cause, which could be mechanical, design, software, or We don't know if it's a combination of them," Heyse told Breaking Defense.
US CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor warplane 2 Aircraft Air Force flies over Kyiv, Ukraine during aerial training in March 2020.(Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
According to the website, subsequent incidents often lead to gearbox and engine failures. replacement will be required. Repairing the damage will cost him over $2.5 million.