Do these people just make up stuff because they don’t know history?
I’m retired from Bell Helicopter. We developed two proof-of-concept aircraft designated the XV-15 beginning decades ago and one is in the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. They led to the much larger V-22 configurations for Navy, Air Force and Marines. ....Carrier qualifications for the V-22 were initially perfomed successfully MANY years ago, not just this March. ....These qualifications were probably for the pilots, not the aircraft.
I served in Catapults on a carrier in the Navy and before we deployed for a multi-month cruise to the Med, we’d conduct day and night ops to qualify the various squadron pilots that were to be deployed with the ship.
Me, too! I worked on the XV-15 in the '70s and right up through the XV-22 development until the early 1990's then spent the next 10 or so years on the Model CF-412 production and delivery program.