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	<description>...a weblog for the aviation in defense industry</description>
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		<title>MV-22 Keeps Supplies Moving in Iraq</title>
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(Source: US Marine Corps; dated Jan. 22, web-posted Feb. 4, 2008)







AL ASAD, Iraq &#8212; Marines from Combat Logistics Battalion 4 and Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 263 worked together to complete an external lift resupply mission utilizing the MV-22 Osprey Jan. 18.Three MV-22 Ospreys transported a total of 32,000 pounds of food, water, clean laundry and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2008/02/06/mv-22-keeps-supplies-moving-in-iraq/</link>
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		<title>CV-22 Osprey Flies First Search and Recovery Mission</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: US Air Force; issued Oct. 25, 2007
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. &#8212; A CV-22 Osprey assigned to the 58th Special Operations Wing here participated in the aircraft&#8217;s first search and recovery mission, responding to the fatal crash of a medical aircraft in the mountains of southern Colorado.
Airport officials lost contact with the Arizona-based Beechcraft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/10/26/cv-22-osprey-flies-first-search-and-recovery-mission/</link>
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		<title>Rockwell Collins CAAS Cockpit Declared Operational in CH-47F</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source:  Rockwell Collins 10/8/07
WASHINGTON, D.C. &#8212; The Rockwell Collins Common Avionics Architecture System (CAAS) in the Boeing CH-47F cockpit has been declared operationally ready for deployment by the U.S. Army.
&#8220;The significance of this upgrade is our CAAS cockpit will provide enhanced levels of situational awareness for CH-47F pilots and can be easily upgraded as new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/10/09/rockwell-collins-caas-cockpit-declared-operational-in-ch-47f/</link>
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		<title>The Quad TiltRotor</title>
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Unique in the preliminary design features of the Quad Tiltrotor is the use of two V-22 type wings, forward and aft. Each wing of the Quad Tiltrotor will have an engine and proprotor mounted to the outboard tips similar to that found on the V-22. Significantly larger than a V-22, the Quad Tiltrotor could carry [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/10/08/the-quad-tiltrotor/</link>
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		<title>Op-Ed-V-22 Exposé: Further Evidence of Time Magazine&#8217;s Decline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Loren B. Thompson, Ph.D.
Source:  The Lexington Institute
There&#8217;s sad news from our nation&#8217;s capital this week friends. It turns out that the Marine Corps has been run for a quarter century by incompetent leaders who have worked closely with corrupt members of Congress to put young Marines in aircraft that will get them killed. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/10/05/op-ed-v-22-expose-further-evidence-of-time-magazines-decline/</link>
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		<title>BAE Systems Launches New V-22 Defensive Weapon System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did Mark Thompson&#8217;s investigative reporting cover this?  Things that make you go hmmm&#8230;.
Read on..
Source: BAE Systems; issued Oct. 2, 2007
QUANTICO, Va. &#8212; BAE Systems today unveiled its new remotely operated, turreted weapon system, the Remote Guardian System (RGS), designed to provide 360 degrees of suppressive fire for the Marine Corps V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft.
In recent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/10/03/bae-systems-launches-new-v-22-defensive-weapon-system/</link>
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		<title>Rolls-Royce Awarded $700 Million Contract for V-22 Engines</title>
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(Source: Rolls-Royce plc.; issued Sept. 28, 2007)







Rolls-Royce has signed a $700 million production contract with the Naval Air Systems Command to produce 370 AE 1107C-Liberty engines for the US Marine Corps’ MV-22 and the US Air Force’s CV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft.
The five-year contract coincides with the first combat deployment of MV-22 aircraft that took place [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/10/01/rolls-royce-awarded-700-million-contract-for-v-22-engines/</link>
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		<title>Time rips apart Osprey</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you read this blog entry any further, you must read this article by Mark Thompson.  No relation I can assure you.  Time has managed to make this their cover story for the week of Oct. 7th.  My problem with this article is that the article is biased and unilateral in viewpoint.  I must say [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/09/28/time-rips-apart-osprey/</link>
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		<title>GAO Decision on CSAR-X Protest</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source: US Gov. Accountability Office
On Aug. 30, GAO sustained a second round of bid protests by Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky against the US Air Force’s handling of the contentious $15 billion CSAR-X search and rescue helicopter contract. Boeing’s HH-47 Chinook was selected by the air force.
GAO decided to sustain LMSI’s and Sikorsky’s protests against the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/09/17/gao-decision-on-csar-x-protest/</link>
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		<title>Boeing Builds First GPS IIF Satellite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ST. LOUIS &#8212; The Boeing Company has successfully assembled and integrated all flight hardware onto the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite. GPS IIF will bring new capabilities to the GPS constellation such as full onboard encrypted military code, a new civil signal, crosslink enhancements, signal power increases and longer design life.
&#8220;GPS IIF is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://electronicassociates.us/blog1/2007/09/14/boeing-builds-first-gps-iif-satellite/</link>
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