1 posted on
01/29/2005 3:57:18 PM PST by
Jordi
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To: Jordi
To: Jordi
The Army does helicopters far more extensively than does the Navy. I wonder why the Navy was the decision-maker on this one?
3 posted on
01/29/2005 4:00:02 PM PST by
xzins
(Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It!)
To: Jordi
The presidential chopper (that's a minigun underneath, it's firing is timed to the rotation of the front wheel)
4 posted on
01/29/2005 4:00:17 PM PST by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: Jordi
The title is misleading. It is a European-American built helicopter. Get it straight Reuters.
5 posted on
01/29/2005 4:01:05 PM PST by
cyborg
To: Jordi
I'm sure I'll get flamed for this, but why not use the MV-22 Osprey? If it's such a hot item, I'd think it would be great for the president.
7 posted on
01/29/2005 4:05:03 PM PST by
ProudVet77
(Survivor of the great blizzard of aught five)
To: Jordi
Hmmm. Will the next Air Force one be an airbus?
9 posted on
01/29/2005 4:06:16 PM PST by
glock rocks
( Miss Kitty, the sun hasn't come up on the day that Marshal Dillon can't take care of himself.)
To: Jordi; Admin Moderator
Actual headline: Lockheed Team Wins Presidential Chopper
12 posted on
01/29/2005 4:07:57 PM PST by
berkeleybeej
(Help me break even -- buy beef.)
To: Jordi
I was assured yesterday by a fellow Freeper that the majority of the components will be made in America.
15 posted on
01/29/2005 4:12:15 PM PST by
dljordan
To: Jordi
Blackhawk is bad design. So many have crashed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Something wrong with it.
16 posted on
01/29/2005 4:15:35 PM PST by
seppel
To: Jordi
From the TEAMUS101.com site:
BUILT IN AMERICA - BY AMERICANS
Built by Bell Helicopter in Texas, integrated by Lockheed Martin Systems Integration in New York, powered by GE Aircraft Engines in Massachusetts, and supplied by American companies across 41 states, the US101 platform will sustain and create hundreds of high-technology jobs to build the next presidential and combat search and rescue helicopter fleets.
The US101 also will save $2 billion in research and development costs already paid - costs the American taxpayer otherwise would have to bear.
All told, 90 percent of the program's dollar value will benefit the American economy.
17 posted on
01/29/2005 4:16:26 PM PST by
AgentEcho
(If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers)
To: Jordi
To: Jordi
But lower cost, a larger cabin and faster delivery schedule allowed No. 1 Pentagon supplier Lockheed to prevail with its US101, based on the three-engined EH101 made by AgustaWestland Inc., a unit of Italy's Finmeccanica SpA. "On October 10, 1989, an Agusta 109A helicopter crashed in New Jersey, killing the pilot, co-pilot, and three passengers, who were top-echelon employees of the Trump Hotel and Casino enterprises." - link
To: Jordi
I agree with Lieberman. I think it's naive to believe that we're ready for a purely global economy.
27 posted on
01/29/2005 4:23:24 PM PST by
risk
To: Jordi
Please include original titles.
Thanks.
To: Jordi
This is my favorite European helicopter.
30 posted on
01/29/2005 4:26:36 PM PST by
Alouette
(Learned Mother of Zion)
To: Jordi
I haven't recently looked at the financial of Loc Mart, nor their actuals, but I do know many fellow engineers in King of Prussia, Pa, that are employed in this Company.
I was not aware that there was a European component to it, but hey...
I always thought of it as American.
33 posted on
01/29/2005 4:32:29 PM PST by
bill1952
("All that we do is done with an eye towards something else.")
To: Jordi
23 U.S. presidential helicopters, Why in the world do we need this many high end helicopters for the executive branch? Seems like a lot of taxpayer's money for ostentation.
35 posted on
01/29/2005 4:34:34 PM PST by
glorgau
To: Jordi
The decision was a stunning setback for Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp.'s Red States : 2
Blue States: 0
To: Jordi
"Sikorsky had wrapped itself in the American flag to pitch its twin-engined VH-92..."
For effed up, biased "reporting" from Rooters. To hell with them.
53 posted on
01/29/2005 7:08:49 PM PST by
Texas_Jarhead
(I believe in American Exceptionalism! Do you?)
To: Jordi
"Sen. Joe Lieberman, a Connecticut Democrat, said the decision was "outrageously wrong" because Sikorsky had vowed to build a helicopter that was "100 pct made in America."
Wonder if he had anything to say when the US company Haliburton received gov't contracts?
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