Oops, wrong helicopters! But this is an interesting article regardless! :-)
Posted on 10/21/2004 11:08:02 AM PDT by 1rudeboy
American Eurocopter has been awarded a $75 million contract by the Department of Homeland Security to supply aircraft to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency, American Eurocopter said Monday.
Grand Prairie-based American Eurocopter is a subsidiary of Eurocopter, a manufacturer of commercial helicopters, and EADS North America, the North American operations of EADS, the second largest aerospace and defense company in the world
(Excerpt) Read more at dallas.bizjournals.com ...
How many helicopters is this anyway? 10?
55
Something on the order of 55. Which you could've learned if you had bothered to click on the link I provided. And what, you don't care about the 100 or so high-paying manufacturing jobs? Is it because you are a protectionist, or because the jobs are non-union?
American aviation companies really seem to be falling behind the curve in the commercial market. Airbus is killing Boeing in the world market for airliners and now Eurocopter is dominating so much that they are being made here in the US! I wonder why that is? Are the EU countries subsidizing them so much that US companies can't compete?
What?
No clue what that means. Maybe they run on bio-fuel or hemp?
I think Airbus has roughly half of the market for airliners. That hardly qualifies as "killing."
Oops, wrong helicopters! But this is an interesting article regardless! :-)
LMAO
Yeah, but what was the market share 10 years ago? If Airbus has siphoned off 30 or 40% of Boeing's market share in the last decade, that would qualify in my eyes as "killing".
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