[MilCom] Re: V-22 Plant frequencies

[Blaine Brooks]

> As some of you may know we
> have a Bell Textron l/Boeing  MV-22 Osprey plant here in Amarillo. I
> have  yet to find many of their operational ( test ops ) frequencies
> but I'm searching.   Does anyone have a list of Bell frequencies (
> > say for the Ft Worth Textron plant) 

I was under the assumption that the Osprey program 
was scrapped for safety concerns in response to all of 
the crashes associated with the aircraft. After three crashes
and the loss of 26 lives, I'd be scrapping the program too.
Many believe it was rife with problems from the get-go. 
I personally thought it was one ugly aircraft. And not exactly
the kind of aircraft that you could just drop off a bunch of 
Marines, and not wake up everybody in the neighborhood. 
Stealth it was not.... 

Down here in the Dallas Fort Worth metro they no longer 
flight test them, and haven't for a while. Most of the stuff 
out of the Hurst facilities are choppers, and folks going
through the customer training academy. They still have 
some facilities at Arlington airport, and are also doing 
some testing of the new civilian Bell/Agusta Aerospace 
BA609 at Alliance Field. But from my experience, radio
traffic is pretty minimal. Occasionally, you'll hear some 
choppers up puttering around, but nothing earth shattering.


Blaine Brooks
Flower Mound, Tx.