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Bell-Boeing V-22 Latest Entry For Navy’s Presidential Helo RFI

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Wednesday, April 21st, 2010

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By Geoff Fein A Bell Helicopter Textron [TXT]-Boeing [BA] team developing the V-22 is the latest entry to propose a response to the Navy's VXX presidential helicopter request for information (RFI). Meanwhile, at industry request, the Navy has granted a 60-day extension of the RFI response deadline for VXX until mid-June, according to Cmdr. Victor Chen, a Navy spokesman. "The Bell Helicopter-Boeing program office is preparing a response to the RFI request with a VV-22 solution," Tom Dolney, a Bell…

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