In our news wrap Monday, the Pentagon grounded the V-22 Osprey fleet after weakened metal components were found following a near-crash in New Mexico last month, the EPA announced bans of TCE and ...

The V-22 Osprey is a troop transport with a helicopter's versatility and a turboprop's speed. But the V-22 has crashed several times since becoming operational in 2007, killing over 50 people. The ...

The military will be resuming V-22 flights with the understanding that “catastrophic failures due to inclusions is as high as seven per million flight hours”—compared to the standard of one per ten ...

The Pentagon’s troubled V-22 Osprey program recorded more serious accidents in each of the last two fiscal years than the average during any of the previous eight years, congressional auditors said, ...

The entire fleet of V-22 Ospreys -- a hybrid aircraft that takes off, hovers and lands like a helicopter but flies like a regular plane -- grounded in December 2023 after a tragedy in Japan.Photo by ...

Anthony Krockel is a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel whose most recent assignment was as the commodore of Training Air Wing FIVE responsible for undergraduate flight training for the Navy, Marine ...

The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey was a unique aircraft when it first took flight in 1989 before it became the world's first successful military tiltrotor aircraft, merging the ability to take off and land ...

In the wake of recent high-profile stories covering the V-22 Osprey, aspiring pilots and their families might be led to believe the Osprey is too complex or difficult to fly. That’s just not the case.

The V-22 Osprey is a joint-service, multi-mission, medium-lift rotorcraft. The V-22 is a type of aircraft known as a tiltrotor, which is a unique design for a crewed military aircraft. A tiltrotor ...

Japan—a key United States ally in the Indo-Pacific—has completed the deployment of its U.S.-made Osprey aircraft fleet, bolstering the defense of its outlying islands near China. Newsweek has reached ...