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Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey: to begin testing new "re-configurable" blades

Washington, Usa - Sometime in 2006

Team involved in the development of the Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is set to start tests of new "re-configurable" blades aboard the aircraft sometime in 2006. Blade designs are currently under study in the Naval Research Labs. "They should emerge next year, then we’ll start looking at them in a test program", says colonel Dan Schultz United States Marines Corps, head of the joint test team taking the O...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 33556
Rome, Italy, 09/17/2002 15:19
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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