HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. – The 8th Special Operations Squadron returned with their CV-22s during the week, wrapping up their first operational deployment with the tilt-rotor aircraft. The squadron deployed to Iraq with a Boeing contractor as part of the team. The Osprey, which came to Hurlburt in 2007, has the vertical takeoff and landing and hover capabilities of a helicopter and the long-range and speed of a turboprop fixed-wing airplane. The squadron returned to Hurlburt Thursday. (Source: Northwest Florida Daily News, 11/12/09)
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Friday, November 13, 2009
CV-22s return to Hurlburt
HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. – The 8th Special Operations Squadron returned with their CV-22s during the week, wrapping up their first operational deployment with the tilt-rotor aircraft. The squadron deployed to Iraq with a Boeing contractor as part of the team. The Osprey, which came to Hurlburt in 2007, has the vertical takeoff and landing and hover capabilities of a helicopter and the long-range and speed of a turboprop fixed-wing airplane. The squadron returned to Hurlburt Thursday. (Source: Northwest Florida Daily News, 11/12/09)
