My Lockheed versus Bell déjà vu comment was to highlight the irony, not the historical equivalence of this competition match up.
Still, I enjoy reading history regarding the Cheyenne development. A lot of this has been lost overtime.
The thing I was trying to explain that Cheyenne and Cobra were not a more and less complex proposals to meet the same requirement. They were different craft proposed for different programs with different requirements. For a long time, stories have floated around that the AH-1 was Bell's plan to kill the Cheyenne to meet the Army's requirement. It wasn't. It won a competition to develop something to hold the line in Vietnam until Cheyenne could get there.
Now as to what Bell might be thinking once Cobra was fielded and Cheyenne still wasn't moving along may be another story...
