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.

NoPe
NH-90 is largely ahead of the two contenders!!!!

Says who? NH-90 doesn't have the cabin volume.

Is M. Bush so Fat?

"Helowriter" skrev i meddelandet
oups.com...
Says who? NH-90 doesn't have the cabin volume.


If the problem is lack of height in the cabin the NH-90 can be ordered with an extra 30 cm height,
just like those on order for the Swedish armed forces.

http://www.hkpflj.mil.se/ronneby/pho...9713&nid=23433


Regards,

Per Nordenberg

If we're talking Presidential transport, it's headroom and length, and
(I'm not sure about width on the NH-90 cabin. Northrop Grumman is
pitching the NH-90 for the US Air Force Personnel Recovery Vehicle, and
that seems to need a cabin somewhere between the MH-60G and PRV.

As to Mr. Bush's dimensions, he was not the one feeding off the
oil-for-food program with Saddam Hussein. Apparently, that was Jacques
Chirac's feeding spot.

HW

No need for Chirac...But Bush largely needed Ben Laden money to pay for
his bankrupted oil cy....