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Pentagon Official Approves Resuming Work on Tilt-Rotor Aircraft Built in Texas.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, December, 2001
By Richard Whittle, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 21--WASHINGTON--A key Pentagon official has approved a plan to resume testing the Texas-built V-22 Osprey, the tilt-rotor aircraft that's been grounded for a year after crashes killed 23 Marines, defense officials said Thursday.
The long-awaited decision by Pete Aldridge, undersecretary of defense for acquisitions, will take the Marine Corps' pet aviation project out of limbo after months in which it seemed to teeter on the brink of cancellation.
"He's going to resume the testing," said a senior defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity. "It's got some technical challenges, but they're going to move ahead with it."
Mr. Aldridge's...
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