[quote][b][url=/v3/forum/h%C3%A9licopt%C3%A8res-50/topic/bellboeing-v22-osprey-consorts-256/?post=94558#post-94558]nico2[/url] a dit le 22/12/2013 à 10:02 :[/b]

[url=http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Security-Industry/2013/12/18/Navy-releases-funds-for-V-22-procurement/UPI-67461387387135/]Navy releases funds for V-22 procurement[/url]
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[url=http://www.thebaynet.com/news/index.cfm/fa/viewstory/story_ID/34775]V-22 program executes second-year contract[/url]

[quote]The U.S. Navy executed funding procurement for the second year of theV-22 aircraft’s $6.5 billion multi-year procurement (MYPII) contract, the service announced Dec. 17.

This action identifies full funding to defense contractor Bell-Boeing for the second year of the V-22 MYPII contract and provides $1.3 billion for the procurement of 22 V-22 aircraft (three Air Force CV-22s and 19 Marine Corps MV-22s) and Advance Procurement funds for 19 MV-22 aircraft to be fully funded in fiscal year 2015.

The MYPII, signed in June 2013, authorizes purchase of 100 V-22s over the next five years (fiscal 2013-2017).  The multi-year contract will procure 93 MV-22s for the Marine Corps and seven CV-22s for the Air Force. (...)

“From combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to therecent disaster relief and humanitarian assistance in the Philippines, the V-22 continues to prove itself as a game-changing aircraft. Ospreys enable our Marine Corps and Air Force Special Operations to execute missions not possible with conventional aircraft. The V-22 has helped save lives where others could not.” (...) The V-22 successfully blends the vertical flight capabilities of helicopters with the speed, range, altitude and endurance of fixed-wing transports.  [b]The Marine Corps Osprey, the MV-22, is the replacement for the Marine Corps CH-46E Sea Knight medium-lift assault support helicopter.  The Osprey provides twice the speed, six times the range, and three times the payload of the Sea Knight. [/b][/quote]

En tant que grand supporter de cet appareil depuis des années {depuis la première heure en fait}, c'est un vrai plaisir des yeux que de lire cela.

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[url=http://www.delcotimes.com/general-news/20131205/boeing-workers-see-fruit-of-their-labor-as-v-22-osprey-lands-in-ridley]Boeing workers see fruit of their labor as V-22 Osprey lands in Ridley[/url]

[quote]RIDLEY TOWNSHIP — At 10:43 a.m., Reggie Price looked to the sky as the V-22 Osprey emerged from the clouds over the Delaware River by the Boeing Company’s Delaware County facility and he pumped his fists. (...) The aircraft was visiting for the day on a dual mission after an hour and a half flight from New River, N.C., where it’s based with the Marine Operational Test Evaluation Squadron 22. About a third of plant’s 6,200 employees work on the V-22’s fuselage, empennage, digital avionics and fly-by-wire flight-control systems. The remainder of the tiltrotor aircraft from the wings, the transmissions, rotor systems and final assembly is finished in Amarillo, Texas, by Boeing partner, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.

“When you have employees working day in and day out building the aircraft (and) they get to see the capabilities here and they’re quite proud of what it can do and they’re quite proud of the performance,” Kristin Robertson said. (...)[/quote][/quote]