Amazing - The President's ride has been a Sikorsky's since 1957. This was one of the most hotly contested contracts due to the visibility involved and now of the few areas where the European defense contractrs have made inroads into the US military.
That aside, it'll be interesting to see what this means for the Canadian decision to go with the SuperHawk and not the EH. I'll bet a lot, in terms of economies of scale and shortened development time, will turn out poorly for the CAF without the US pushing to get it done.
It's been a bad month for US aviation... with the A380 and now the EH101 trumping the best the US has to offer....
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