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National Security
Air Force CV-22 Crash at Florida Base Injures Five
CNN Wire Staff, CNN
Are U.S. Military Leaders Lying About Afghanistan?
Dana Liebelson, The Week
Loss of Supply Lines in Pakistan Costs $100M a Month, Says Panetta
Carlo Munoz, The Hill
Financial Oversight
Charting the Cozy Connections Between JP Morgan and the Senate Banking Committee
Cora Currier, ProPublica
Incoming Regulator Promises No More Coddling of Banks
Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica
JP Morgan and Other Banks Must Yield to the Big-Picture Risks
Editorial Board, The Washington Post
Contract Oversight
Senators Back Off Call for Automatic Contractor Suspensions
Matthew Weigelt, Federal Computer Week
Pentagon Probes Leonie's Taxes, Treatment of Afghan Workers
Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today
SNC Files Suit Over Super Tucano Cancellation, Decries 'Broken' Acquisition System
Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Aol Defense
Army's Mishandling of Afghanistan Police Contract Boosted Costs
Zach Toombs, iWatch News
Nuclear Weapons
Energy Dept. to Rescue Cash-Strapped Uranium Enrichment Project
Steven Mufson, The Washington Post
Revolving Door
Ex-Lawmaker Lobbyists More Likely to Put Leftover Campaign Money to Political Use
T.W. Farnam, The Washington Post
It is unfortunate the Marines do not enclose the 2 rotors of the V-22 in ducts as Bell did with their X-22 in the 1960s. The addition of the ducts would allow stator vanes to be added behind the rotors. The stators would straighten the flow out of the ducts and prevent the asymmetric vortex ring state that has killed and injured so many of our service men in V-22 crashes. Another thing the ducts would do is allow the rotors to be smaller in diameter. They could be reduced from the current 38 feet down to less than 27 feet. This would allow the craft to land like an airplane, which is an important safety improvement due to the fact that the V-22 cannot auto-rotate like a helicopter (and like Boeing told us it could when proposing the V-22). All aircraft should be capable of a "dead stick" landing. The V-22, with its abysmal safety record, is certainly no exception.
Posted by: Dfens | Jun 14, 2012 at 10:32 AM