Ah to be a bug on the wall during certain meetings....as quoted from a US Army Officer in re the OTS purchase of EC-145's for the US Army.....
"The Army may be learning that its performance requirements are so demanding that adapting commercial helicopters is almost as hard as starting from scratch on a new military design," Thompson said.
Reckon some Navy Officers consulted with their Army counterparts on how to do aircraft purchasing?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071109/...Ofp9OFiGtH2ocA
http://www.defensetech.org/archives/003664.html
Perhaps with the installation of air con on the new aircraft will lower the cockpit temperature to the level no damage will occur. I suppose all these civilian aircraft operating in areas where the cockpit temp exceeds 104 degrees F are death traps or something?