With the dollar dropping like it is the cost of the plane if negotiated in euros will be drastically higher also. We will have to ship out a lot more cash to the Europeans, this on top of the Sikorsky loss of the President’s chopper is an insult to us all.
You know who builds the S-92 don't you?
The US101 airframe is the best medium lift helicopter in the world. And quite frankly Sikorsky does not have the intellectual bandwidth to integrate the complex systems that need to go into the Presidents new transport. They are an airframer, not an integrator.
They lost that competition for all the right reasons.
No, instead of shipping out more cash because of the falling dollar, EADS/Airbus will just turn to the EU and beg for more subsidies... So they’ll still be getting subsidies claiming that airliner competition is unfair because the US “subsidizes” Boeing with defense contracts, while ignoring their own defense contracts (EADS gets nearly as high a % of revenues from such defense contracts already)... and then complaining that they need subsidies for those defense contracts because they can’t do it profitably...
No way in heck do they ever give up their subsidies on Airbus, even with every argument they have shot to death.