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Bell [TXT] and Boeing’s [BA] V-22 Osprey has surpassed half-a-million flight hours, the companies said Monday, as the partnership moves ahead with a new readiness upgrade program for the aircraft. Company officials said the tiltrotor aircraft met the 500,000-hour flight mark with 375 Ospreys, spread across the Marine Corps’ MV-22s and Air Force’s CV-22s. “The V-22 provides unmatched capability for the U.S. Marines and U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command,” Col. Matthew Kelly, the Marine Corps’ V-22 joint program manager,…
