Bell,
Boeing Get
$10.6M Navy pact contract
| Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey-roll of the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit conducting a parachute Drop at Fort Picket. Scenes include a helicopter flying overhead, Marines jumping from the aircraft and landing in a field below.... . |
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news September 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON (AP) -- A strategic alliance of
Boeing Co. and a unit of Textron Inc. received a $10.6 million delivery
order from the Navy for work on defensive weapon systems for the V-22
Osprey helicopter, the Pentagon said late Tuesday.
The Osprey, a tiltrotor vertical, short takeoff and landing aircraft,
is jointly built by Boeing and Textron's Bell unit. Boeing is responsible
for the fuselage and all subsystems, digital avionics and flight-control
systems, while Bell is responsible for the wing, transmissions, rotor
systems and engine installation.
Work will be performed in Ridley Park, Pa., and Johnson City, N.Y.,
and is expected to be completed by March 2012.
Shares of Chicago-based Boeing added 6 cents to $53.20, while shares
of Providence, R.I.-based Textron fell 5 cents to $19.32 in morning
trading Wednesday.
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The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is the first aircraft designed from the ground up to meet the needs of the Defense Department's four U.S. armed services. The tiltrotor aircraft takes off and lands like a helicopter. Once airborne, its engine nacelles can be rotated to convert the aircraft to a turboprop airplane capable of high-speed, high-altitude flight.
The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey offers twice the speed, three times the payload, five times the range, and can fly more than twice as high as older rotorcraft it is destined to replace. It is the world's first production tilt rotor combining the vertical performance of a helicopter with the high speed and range of a fixed wing aircraft.
The V-22 Osprey provides unique capabilities offering: increased speed because it's twice as fast as a helicopter. much longer range resulting in greater mission versatility than a helicopter. multi-mission capability: amphibious assault, combat support, long-range special ops infiltration and exfiltration, transport, search and rescue, medevac, and, in the future, tanker capability.
The Bell, Boeing V-22 is Powerful and Reliable Engines and have two Rolls-Royce AE1107C Liberty turboshaft engines supply power for the V-22, producing 6,150 shp (4,586 kW) each. For safe, reliable flight, the V-22's cross-coupled transmissions allow either engine, separately or together, to power the rotors.
The V-22's multi-mission capability is like no other. From all manner of assault, support or transport to whatever the need requires in a speed-to-scene, coupled with a hovering capability, the Osprey delivers faster, better - and without peer.
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Reported by catch4all.com, Sandra Englund, September 23rd, 2009 |
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