Instead of listening to Michael Byers, a professor and defence policy analyst at the University of British Columbia, why not listen to someone who understands the aircraft and why it may be cracking? I love the way they keep drawing parallels with the S-92. My company contracts a fleet of S-92s some of which are 15 years old, we don't have any tail cracking problems. The CH148 has a higher MTOM, folding blades and a folding tail. The S-92 tail is a hostile enough area without adding the complexity of tail folding.