Zuckerman said:
Things may have changed at Sikorsky since my time.....
Nick sez:
As an expert and having visited all the world's helicopter manufacturers, with friends and associates at each one, I can assure you that your recollections are pretty much off target as things used to be, and your comments are of no use as things are now.
Virtually everything you recall about helicopter manufacturing as stated in your above post is no longer true, if it ever was.
I meet daily with the Sikorsky people who make Sikorsky rotor heads, transmissions and the like. The machines that cut the metal and mold the composites are lined up on the enormous factory floor for all to see.
It is particularly mysterious how you get the ideas that well up in your posts. History has proven one thing - trying to convince you is of no use. Say what you will, Lu.
[ 26 December 2001: Message edited by: Nick Lappos ]</p>