Nick & co. will have better insight, but I'd hazard a guess that the 'depriorization' of the X2 demo in late 2006 - officially attributed to the demands of SAC's bread & butter (H-60/H-53) programs - was in reality driven by early intel coming out of the JHL CDAs confirming the Army's preference for a tilt solution. Post-JHL, the X2 focus now appears - going on SAC's representation at Quad-A etc - to be on a 6K UCAR (coincidentally sized around the demo ship!
).
(As for
tempus fugit, let's just hope that Mr. tempus regularly checks for TFRs, otherwise he'll soon discover he has company!
)