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...Osprey aircraft to be falsified to make the plane appear more airworthy than it really is. That, however, may be comparatively good news for the project: An analysis of the anonymous letter making the charge - believed by senior Marine officers to be true -alongside recent reports on the tilt-rotor program indicates the Osprey program is in worse shape than most Pentagon officials had believed...
...inside the Pentagon." Rumsfeld will almost certainly be backed by Dick Cheney, his protege and the new Vice President. Cheney shocked the Pentagon during his tenure there a decade ago when he killed the Navy's pet A-12 jet and tried to cancel the Marines' V-22 tilt-rotor, the troubled $40 billion project that was saved only by its congressional backers. The Crusader's fate will show just how vigorously Rumsfeld is willing to shake up the Pentagon's cold war mind-set or whether he will yield to the pressure of the gun's influential supporters...
Dick Cheney's first target in a second Bush administration may well be to finish a job he never completed as defense secretary in the first Bush administration: Kill the Marines' controversial MV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft program. He got a tragic boost in that quest last night when one of the hybrid planes crashed in the North Carolina woods, killing all four Marines on board. The Pentagon is still trying to perfect - and buy - the Osprey a decade after Cheney vainly tried to scrap it during his tenure as defense secretary. The corps, backed by powerful allies...
...troops will then fly into a foreign hot spot on huge, ungainly tilt-rotor aircraft. The C-130-size "quad tilt-rotor" will be able to carry nearly 100 troops more than 2,000 miles. The rotors, perched at the ends of a pair of big wings, act like a helicopter's for takeoffs and landings, eliminating the need for runways. But once airborne, the rotors tilt forward and pull the plane through the sky at more than 350 m.p.h...
...Osprey has been considered good technology, but at too high a price," says Thompson. "[Bush secretary of defense] Dick Cheney tried repeatedly to kill the program, but support in Congress was too strong to overcome." The debate now, says Thompson, is over whether this revolutionary aircraft - which uses tilt-rotor technology, enabling it to take off and land like a helicopter but fly like a plane - is worth its hefty price tag. But with the unwavering support of congressional delegates from two powerful states (Pennsylvania, where Boeing's helicopter division is based, and Texas, home of Bell Textron) the plug...