Originally Posted by
The Sultan
A quote from an SB executive:
He forgot the old truism;
"Familiarity breeds contempt."
And SB have a lot of dirty laundry with which to fuel this contempt, such as:
Boeing;
- KC-46 tanker fiasco. (How could the company that developed aerial refueling have F'ed this up so badly?)
- Starliner, couldn't get to orbit and designers didn't know it is humid in Florida.
- 737 Max
LM/Sikorsky
- F-35 cost and reliability.
- Freedom class LCS. (So bad the Navy is scrapping the entire series at a 1/4 of their life.)
- CH-148 Cyclone (Years behind schedule and $ billion or so overrun)
- CH-53K (Ditto)
- FLRAA demo program
Bell seems a scrappy little startup by comparison!!
Just don't tell the Army about the V-22's painful development... (although it is technically the Bell-BoeingV-22...)