On Osprey Safety and Sustainability

This report highlights articles we have published in 2024 which focus on the Osprey from a safety and sustainability perspective.

These seems to be a cottage industry of critics of the aircraft who focus primarily on the perceived safety and reliability record.

But this perspective is presented frequently without reference to the combat record of the aircraft or the con-ops innovations enabled by the aircraft which have enabled warfighters to land in combat areas much more safely than on rotorcraft,

My book entitled A Tiltrotor Enterprise: From Iraq to the Future will be published next year. The book is built around the many interviews and experiences I have had with the enterprise since 2007.

This report is a harbinger of the forthcoming book.

Featured image: The first East Coast-assigned Navy tiltrotor vertical/short takeoff and landing (V/STOL) aircraft CMV-22B Osprey lands at Naval Station Norfolk, April 5. The CMV-22B Osprey belongs to Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 40 the “Mighty Bison.” The CMV-22B airframe will provide the fleet’s medium-lift and long-range aerial logistics capability, replacing the C-2A Greyhounds of Fleet Logistics Support Squadron (VRC) 40 over the next several years. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Sylvie Carafiol)

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