Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey Deploys Refuelling Equipment in Flight Test

摘要

The Bell Boeing V-22 Programme, a strategic alliance between Bell Helicopter Textron Inc and Boeing, has successfully completed an initial test of the V-22 Osprey performing as an aerial refuelling tanker. Adding this capability to the tiltrotor aircraft would further advance its versatility in combat, humanitarian and ship-based operations. In the August demonstration over north Texas, a V-22 equipped with a prototype aerial refueling system safely deployed, held stable, and retracted the refueling drogue as an F/A-18C and an F/A-18D Hornet flew just behind and to the side of the aircraft.