Special ops boss hopes replacing CV-22 clutches will keep airmen safe
Efforts continue to recover an Osprey after emergency landing in Norway
By Rachel S. Cohen
Sep 21, 03:49 PM
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. — Air Force Special Operations Command plans to replace components of its CV-22 Ospreys following a deep dive into a potentially fatal propulsion issue that has persisted for more than a decade.
Still, the organization’s three-star commander cautioned that there’s much more to learn about what’s causing the tiltrotor aircraft’s clutch — and in turn, the engines — to stall.
“What I intend to do is put a time-change requirement on those clutches,” Lt. Gen. Jim Slife told reporters at a roundtable here Tuesday. “The supply system is going to take a while to react to that because we don’t replace all that many of them right now.”
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