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Presidential Helicopter
Despite all the politics and planted press coverage around the VXX
decision, has no one has noticed that the Navy chose a less-safe, lower-performance helicopter for the Marines to carry the President of the United States? Coalition payback aside (and oops, the Italians just announced they're pulling out of Iraq), this is not a good thing. Just by virtue of when the S-92 and EH101 were designed, the VH-92 was a generation ahead of the US101 in safety and crashworthiness. A lot of the flaw-tolerant design methods used in the VH-92 just didn't exist when the EH101/US101 was designed. Now we're going to pay the Italians to bring the EH101 structures up to modern standards for crashworthiness, birdstrike protection, etc. And to get a wider cabin, the President will spend the next 30 years riding above fuel tanks. And oh yeah, Lockheed Martin also has to build a whole new secure manufacturing and support setup to include foreign workers in factories offshore. Hopefully, if the US101 runs late and over budget, we all get another chance at a new Marine One. |
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