随着99月14 OSPREY展示了其技术为倾转旋翼DAY演示 通过Gidge达迪 V-22公共事务

Naval Air Station PATUXENT RIVER, MD �The first production tiltrotor aircraft, the MV-22 Osprey, currently being tested here by the Multi-Service Operational Test Team (MOTT), flew over the watchful eyes of hundreds of spectators who assembled at the Pentagon Sept. 8 for a much anticipated event.
倾转旋翼日，由国防部主办，是一个机会展示给广大观众，包括那国会议员，国家和国际媒体和军方高官，在倾转旋翼机技术的过去和现在。降落在五角大楼河入口处练兵场之前只是瞬间，鱼鹰，莫特操作测试LtCol基思Sweaney和LtCol吉姆·谢弗试点，在其第一个原型，在XV-15和CH-46直升机也将迎来代替。
After the aircraft were positioned, the event�s guest speaker, Secretary of Defense William Cohen said, �Every few decades of this century the world has witnessed the arrival of weapons platforms that have truly revolutionized national security. The powerful and innovative aircraft you see here today, the tiltrotors, will have just that effect in the coming century. They are going to revolutionize not only our force projection, they are going to transform the entire way America conceives and sustains its policy of engagement in the decades ahead.�
Cohen then pointed to the MV-22 and said, �This is the revolution in military affairs.� He continued by describing various scenarios in which V-22 technology would provide greater survivability to get pilots and crew home safely, cut response times to days or hours vice weeks, provide versatility, and give forward deployed forces more support. He compared the potential impact of the tiltrotor with that of the aircraft carrier in World War II and the use of modern bombers and jet fighters in Kosovo. �These aircraft, through development and now in production have stayed on time and within budget � this is no small accomplishment,� he said.
在几秒钟后，局长科恩总结讲话，众人迅速作出他们对停在草地阅兵场因为美国国会的一些成员谁在对V-22，高排名的军事和平民飞行的飞机的方式，以及飞行员可用记者和其他感兴趣的人交谈。这架飞机参加展示和开放供游客参观最多的一天的。
该MV-22上显示是第一个低速初始生产飞机交付给海军陆战队在1999年5月额外生产三架飞机定于今年年底交付。这些飞机将用于下一个大的里程碑，作战能力评估，这开始于十月并通过2000年春季继续。

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