What is really going to bug me in the next few years, i think...
Is the fact that even if the selectors based their decision on which aircraft best suited the mission and requirments- some one will say that it was politically motivated...
if the S92 had won the same equally would have been said too.
I'm sure that they are both good aircraft, in their own way and I'm sure that both teams worked really hard to win the contest fairly and squarely.
As an aside I reckon every government in the world practises protectionism sometimes- after all, the voters want jobs and governments want voters.
Still, we've bought plenty of US aircraft in the past and the US have bought some British ones too...
