Dan
Air conditioning is standard in commercial versions of the aircraft, which have not had overheating problems. But the military usually avoids air conditioning in military aircraft to reduce weight and increase performance.
"We don't need air conditioning in the Blackhawks, so we didn't think it would be an issue" in the Lakota, McCuin said. "But when we got the helicopter into the desert, we realized it was a problem."
Looks like a perfectly good aircraft screwed up by the UNITED STATES MILITARY, lack of forethought, lack of planning, and making decisions they later regret.. Then blame somebody else
Nice one.
Lets not turn an otherwise amusing thread (well it is for us Europeans
) into another anti US101 thread, you and your esteemed colleagues from Connecticut already have a thread in which to do that to your little hearts content.
