Originally Posted by
SplineDrive
What ability to design new helicopters? Boeing has bought/merged into every helicopter in their suite of offerings, or licensed the design for them. Even the YUH-61 had an MBB derived rotor system.
Absolutely! Every helicopter they've ever had in service was designed by another company. In fact, in their entire history they only built four airframes of their own design that ever flew, three YUH-61 and one model 179 (proposed civil version).