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Oversight Panel Calls For Halting V-22 Production

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Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford The head of a House oversight committee called yesterday for halting production of the V-22 Osprey after government auditors highlighted shortcomings with the Marine Corps' tilt-rotor aircraft including availability and reliability challenges in Iraq. "What we have heard today convinces me that the dream of a viable high-speed, long-range, tilt-rotor aircraft has not been realized," House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Edolphus Towns (D-N.Y.) said in a statement at the end of a hearing with both Marine…

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