[RFEngineer]

"Blackhawk is bad design. So many have crashed in Iraq and Afghanistan. Something wrong with it."

Actually, it's worse than that......the Blackhawk already had it's chance as Marine One. They had some outfitted to become the presidential helicopter......and one of them crashed in testing......so they stuck with what they had.

Sikorsky should have seen this one coming - they had their chance already.

[A.A. Cunningham]

the Blackhawk already had it's chance as Marine One. They had some outfitted to become the presidential helicopter......and one of them crashed in testing......so they stuck with what they had.

Don't tell that to the Marines at HMX-1 who fly and maintain those VH-60Ns or the President when he's onboard one of them.

The May 1993 VH-60 crash was on a post maintenance check flight of a bird that was already part of the fleet.