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File Name |
Size |
Title |
Remarks |
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275,987 |
Readiness of the Marine Corps’ V-22 Aircraft for Full-Rate Production |
Donald H. Rumsfeld - The Secretary of Defense (February 20, 2001) |
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3,679,232 |
Report of the Panel to Review the V-22 Program |
The Blue Ribbon Panel 30 April 2001 |
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|
79kb |
Rotorcraft and V/STOL Expertise |
Anser Analytic Services (a not for profit Research Institute) |
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16,727 |
Blade Mounted Devices for Tiltrotor Performance Enhancement & Noise Reduction |
A necessary prelude to the introduction of the AB609 - which detracted from V-22 testing |
|
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7,701 |
Active Control of Tilt Rotor Aeromechanics |
more noise-testing to qualify the civil variants |
|
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25,928 |
Tilt Rotor Noise Reduction |
more noise-testing on the XV-15 |
|
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21,685 |
Determine effects of rotor operating condition on wake geometry and vortex strength. |
a distinct pity that they ever took this to its natural conclusion and discovered asymmVR. |
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2,769,156 |
Rotorcraft Visions by AHS etc |
Hyperbole on the Civil Short-Haul Variant |
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4,377,433 |
The American Helicopter |
an overview of Helicopter Developments 1908-1999 |
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276,480 |
Presentations to the V-22 Blue Ribbon Panel |
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797,273 |
Tilt-Wing Tests |
NASA Langley 1957 |
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354,304 |
Tilt-Rotor Times |
DEC 1997 |
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50,176 |
Uncovering the MV-22 Deceits |
a letter from a concerned MV-22 Sqn mechanic |
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418,816 |
The GTM-85 Alternative |
The Stopped Rotor/Wing Concept |
|
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507,904 |
Osprey Facts - Boeing |
March 2000 |
|
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103,424 |
Analysis of Civil Helicopter Accidents |
HeliExpo 1998 |
|
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379,956 |
Osprey Facts - Boeing |
Feb 2000 |
|
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176,128 |
Accident Report by BASI |
on settling with power (Vortex Ring) |
|
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357,271 |
Osprey Facts - Boeing |
Dec 1999 |
|
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464,132 |
Osprey Facts - Boeing |
Sep 1999 (Formerly "TiltRotor Times") |
|
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445,580 |
Osprey Facts - Boeing |
July 1999 | |
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334,848 |
The Genesis of the V-22 |
An Executive Summary |
|
|
2,133,210 |
The VZ-2 Tilt-WING A/C |
FEB 62 Summary of Flight-Test Results |
|
|
701,866 |
Tilt-Rotor Aeroacoustic Modelling |
critical for civil certification |
|
|
348,608 |
XV-1 5 Tiltrotor Low Noise Terminal Area Operations |
critical for civil certification |
|
|
989,177 |
Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model Research Program |
NASA AMES Test and simulation |
|
|
530,472 |
NASA AMES |
T/R in the Dutch Wind-Tunnel | |
|
4,917,857 |
NASA AMES Vertical Motion Simulation Complex (VMS) |
1998 Report (annual perf summary) |
|
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684,585 |
NASA AMES Vertical Motion Simulation Complex (VMS) |
1997 Report (annual perf summary). Reports show the increasing unavailability of wind-tunnels (from early 1991)that required increased dependence upon fallible GCHAS computer simulations. |
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834,103 |
ditto |
1996 |
|
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1,620,667 |
ditto |
1995 |
|
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655,068 |
ditto |
1994 |
|
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554,371 |
ditto |
1992 |
|
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979,740 |
ditto |
1993 |
|
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687,611 |
ditto |
1991 |
|
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541,620 |
Tilt Rotor Aeroacoustic Model (TRAM): |
A New Rotorcraft Research Facility | |
|
507,904 |
OspreyFacts |
April 2000 |
|
|
351,232 |
OspreyFacts |
August 2000 |
|
|
280,717 |
OspreyFacts |
May 2000 (post Marana MV-22 Crash) |
|
|
288,750 |
Tiltrotor Acoustic Flight Test: Terminal Area Operations |
The XV-15 with advanced technology blades (ATB) shows no noise improvements |
|
|
934,888 |
XV-15 Structural-Acoustic Data |
A US Army Research Report |
|
|
566,272 |
OspreyFacts |
Oct 2000 (claims "good news" - less than a month before the next crash) |
|
|
3,353,600 |
V-22 Test and Evaluation Issues |
"The Coyle Report" (to the Blue Ribbon Panel) |
|
|
1,966,952 |
Draft Audit Report |
USDoD Office of the Inspector General |
|
|
245,760 |
The Setting up of the Blue Ribbon Panel |
Dec 15, 2000 Appointment Letter |
|
|
513,024 |
Suitable for Full-Rate Production?? |
08 Dec 2000 |
|
|
359,424 |
THE CV-22 "OSPREY" AND THE IMPACT ON AIR FORCE COMBAT SEARCH AND RESCUE |
The future of the CV-22 variant is also in doubt (only a few having been delivered). |
/ A
Hyperbolic Morass |
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"That Vexing
Vortex Ring" |
