If you have any "insider", provable, personal info that would trump Nick's comments.
Nick's job was to promote the S-92, and undermine the US101. He did it well, and continues to do it well, not exactly un-biased. I don't believe Nick has any provable, personal info on the US101 project. If he did I suspect that his industrial spy within LM or AW has a limited career. He himself has admitted that for performance that he is doing "the best I can do from the data that the EH publishes"
The US101 is being developed by the US for the US, they own what they have paid for. I am in no doubt EH101 would have continued to develop without the US101 programme.
It seems the focus of this thread has moved from.
US101 can't do the job, it'll never fly. To
US101 is foreign and we are throwing our money away.
Strangely reminiscent of the Sikorsky marketing message during the competition.