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Osprey No. 24 launches from Naval Air Station Patuxent River on November 7 bound for the Canadian Forces base at Shearwater, near Halifax, Nova Scotia. The V-22 Integrated Test Team has sent a 67-person detachment to eastern Canada to continue the development of the Osprey’s de-ice and anti-ice system, known as the Master Ice Protection Control Unit. The Halifax area was selected for this phase of testing because of the characteristics of the ice that forms within clouds around the Maritimes. Osprey No. 24 will fly developmental tests out of Shearwater until late April 2004. (Photo by Randy Teufel.)