......and technology out of Europe to the United States," he said in an interview yesterday,
The EH-101 is not technologically advanced nor is it designed to superior European standards. Agusta has for some time been a licensee of major American helicopter firms (Sikorsky, Hughes, Boeing (Vertol), and Bell. If you look closely at the EH-101 dynamic system and the powertrain it has Sikorsky written all over it. They have created little and copied a lot.
I worked in Germany for a company that formed an alliance with a top of the line American Company that designs and builds hydraulic servos among other things. The alliance was to be a two way street that required technical information interchange. It turned out to be a one-way street and once the German firm got the American companies design handbooks the street was closed to traffic.
