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Bell Helicopter Textron, Boeing to Suspend Aircraft's Flight Tests.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, March, 2003
By Katie Fairbank, The Dallas Morning News Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Mar. 7--The V-22 Osprey's flight tests will be suspended for a couple of weeks to replace some hydraulic lines that have not met standards.
The grounding was announced Thursday by manufacturers Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. of Fort Worth and the Boeing Co. of Chicago. The manufacturers found out that the hydraulic lines were not sized correctly from the company that supplies them.
"The first evidence showed up late last year when a leak was found in a manufacturing test aircraft. That aircraft hasn't flown," said Bell Helicopter spokesman Bob Leder.
The incorrectly sized hydraulic lines are unlikely to result in a cancellation of the program,...
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