V-22 Osprey

[Orel]

Pues a mi gustar, gustar, sólo me gustaron (mucho) las dos primeras temporadas. La tercera cayó, y la cuarta se hundió. No sé si veré la quinta.

[champi]

Otro contrato para pruebas (12/3/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2536304/

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Bell Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded a $25,624,720 cost-plus-fixed-fee order (N00019-21-F-0008) against previously issued basic ordering agreement N00019-17-G-0002. This order provides flight test support for the V-22 aircraft in support of the Navy, Air Force, and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) customers. Work will be performed in Patuxent River, Maryland (68%); Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (17%); Fort Worth, Texas (11%); and Hurlburt Field, Florida (4%), and is expected to be completed in March 2026. Fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation (Navy) funds in the amount of $10,798,744; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $7,566,405; fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $3,294,642; fiscal 2021 research, development, test and evaluation (Air Force) funds in the amount of $2,194,929; and FMS funds in the amount of $1,770,000 will be obligated at time of award,and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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[champi]

Compra de dos unidades para la USAF por $168 millones (18/3/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2542529/

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Bell-Boeing Joint Project Office, Amarillo, Texas, is awarded an $182,176,913 modification (P00039) to previously awarded, fixed-price incentive (firm target), cost-plus-fixed-fee contract N00019-17-C-0015 for the production and delivery of two CV-22B variation in quantity aircraft for the Air Force. Additionally, this modification provides for post-production repairs in support of the MV-22B Common Configuration Readiness and Modernization Program for the Navy. Work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas (30%); Ridley Park, Pennsylvania (15%); Amarillo, Texas (13%); Red Oak, Texas (3%); East Aurora, New York (3%); Park City, Utah (2%); McKinney, Texas (1%); Endicott, New York (1%); various locations within the continental U.S. (28%); and various locations outside the continental U.S. (4%), and is expected to be completed in March 2025. Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $168,676,913; and fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $13,500,000 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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[champi]

600.000 horas de vuelo: https://boeing.mediaroom.com/news-relea ... tem=130841

[champi]

Contrato para ocho motores adicionales (29/3/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2554351/

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Rolls-Royce Corp., Indianapolis, Indiana, is awarded a $26,499,696 modification (P00025) to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N0001917C0081). This modification exercises an option that provides for the production and delivery of eight AE1107C engines for the Navy and four for the Air Force in support of the V-22 Osprey. Work will be performed in Indianapolis, Indiana, and is expected to be completed in December 2022. Fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Navy) funds in the amount of $17,666,464; and fiscal 2021 aircraft procurement (Air Force) funds in the amount of $8,833,232 will be obligated at the time of award, none of which will expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent River, Maryland, is the contracting activity.
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[champi]

Imagen de CMV-22B como ADGR ("Air Delivered Ground Refueling"): https://www.navy.mil/Resources/Photo-Ga ... 002610985/

Tamaño grande: https://media.defense.gov/2021/Mar/30/2 ... 0-4131.JPG

NYOKERN, Calif. (March 27, 2021) Two MH-60S Knighthawk helicopters assigned to the "Black Knights" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 4, stationed in San Diego, are refueled by a Navy CMV-22B Osprey from the "Titans" of Fleet Logistics Multi-Mission Squadron (VRM) 30. The CMV-22B is the U.S. Navy version of the Osprey, a multi-engine, dual-piloted, self-deployable, medium lift, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) tilt-rotor aircraft. The Air Delivered Ground Refueling (ADGR) evolution was a first for HSC 4, en route to Naval Air Station (NAS) Fallon. Air Wing Fallon is part of the pre-deployment training cycle for Navy's carrier air wings. HSC-4, along with VFA-2, VFA-192, VFA-113, VFA-147, VAQ-136, VAW-113, and HSM-78 comprise CVW-2 and are detached to NAS Fallon in order to sharpen their warfighting readiness through a rigorous 5-week curriculum. The training conducted during Air Wing Fallon drives air wing integration and ensures that all CVW-2 squadrons are ready to conduct the full range of military operations when they deploy later this year. HSC 4 provides vertical lift search and rescue, logistics, anti-surface warfare, special operations forces support, and combat search and rescue capabilities. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Shannon Renfroe)

[champi]

Otro contrato (5/4/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2561626/

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Universal Propulsion Company Inc., Fairfield, California, is awarded a $10,831,651 firm-fixed-priced requirements contract for the manufacture of up to 5,000 cartridge initiators and thrusters used in V-22 and CV-22 aircraft. This contract includes a five-year base period with no options. All work will be performed in Fairfield, California, and is expected to be completed by March 2026. Fiscal 2020 Navy Marine Corps procurement funds (57%); fiscal 2019 Navy Marine Corps procurement funds (24%); fiscal 2020 Air Force procurement funds (14%); and fiscal 2019 Air Force procurement funds (5%) in the amount of $2,854,748 will be obligated at the time of award, and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. Delivery orders will be subsequently funded with annual funds beginning with fiscal 2020 at the time of their issuance. One source was solicited for this non-competitive requirement under authority 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), with one offer received. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity (N00104-21-D-X801).
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[champi]

Contrato logístico (13/4/2021): https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Contra ... e/2571500/

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Bell Boeing Joint Program Office, California, Maryland, is awarded $143,198,723 for a delivery order (N00383-21-F-0U51) under previously awarded performance-based logistics requirements contract N00383-19-D-U501 for the logistics and repair support of MV-22B, CMV-22 (Navy) and CV-22 (Air Force) Osprey components. All work will be performed in Fort Worth, Texas. Work is expected to be completed by December 2025. Fiscal 2021 working capital funds (Navy) in the full amount of $143,198,723 will be obligated at time of award and funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. One source was solicited for this non-competitive requirement pursuant to the authority set forth in 10 U.S. Code 2304 (c)(1), in accordance with Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1, with one offer received. Naval Supply Systems Command Weapon Systems Support, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is the contracting activity.
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[champi]

Los efectos del "downwash" del V-22. Recordemos que los proprotores tienen 1,5 m menos de diámetro del ideal por los requerimientos de espacio y seguridad de la USN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObfdLy-QlsU

[Atticus]

Y lo curioso es que esas cosas estan ahi para evitar precisamente que haya cosas volando por todas partes.

[PelotonRueda]

Los efectos del "downwash" del V-22.

A mi me toco estar una vez con un extintor de carro cerca de la toma de un "CHINOOK", y las planchas de acero (gruesas y pesadas) que había para tapar unas zanjas por donde pasaban unos carros de combate se empezaron a levantar con el efecto del aire de los rotores . Mi reacción fue agacharme tras el extintor para protegerme de la fuerte corriente existente.

Se tienen que tener en cuenta los posibles daños que pueden producir las remolinos de aire generados por las palas del helicóptero, ya que pueden causar serios destrozos, o incluso muertes a personal cercano por alcances.

[ruso]

Estaba leyendo y me ha venido la música a la cabeza, así que lo pongo.

[PelotonRueda]

Si señor, muy buena serie. La primera vez que vi a un helicóptero tomar tierra cerca de mi, fue uno sanitario militar parecido a esos. Y la ambulancia, si no era igual, era prima hermana .

Como evolucionan las cosas .

[Atticus]

Volvi a ver MASH hace un par de años (la vi en su tiempo, lo cual me coloca en "grupo de riesgo") y lo que me sorprendio es que fuera una serie considerada como de marcada tendencia ideologica progresista en su momento ¡Y hoy seria imposible de emitir por todo lo contrario! El argumento estaba lleno de cosas como esos medicos persiguiendo enfermeras, esas mujeres florero, y nada sutil precisdamente, etc, que la colocarian inmediatamente en solfa. Justificadisima, eso si. Pero resulta curioso desde ese punto de vista.
Desde el resto de angulos, la serie sigue siendo divertidisima y una joja de la television.

[Daishi]

Los efectos del "downwash" del V-22. Recordemos que los proprotores tienen 1,5 m menos de diámetro del ideal por los requerimientos de espacio y seguridad de la USN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObfdLy-QlsU

Y lo curioso es que esas cosas estan ahi para evitar precisamente que haya cosas volando por todas partes.

Aquí, al efecto de los rotores hay que sumarle el de los gases de escape de las turbinas...Durante el aterrizaje no parece haber problema - es verdad que requiere de menos potencia que al despegue -, pero en el despegue si le sumamos todo el proceso de arranque y comprobaciones etc, son muchos minutos en los que se está "bañando" la superficie con aire muy caliente, y el efecto final "decapador" es mas que evidente.

Saludos