I agree!
Tilton, while a shot in the arm for the company, doesn't seem to understand the business. I also think she figured on winning the LUH contract and got smacked alongside the head in the process.
MD for a while seemed to be the only company engineering and innovating in the light to medium market.
Bell? Please!?! Yes, I'll give you that the 407 is nice but it's still a 206 on steroids.
Sikorsky? What light to medium market???
Robinson? Only now making inroads into the light turbine market.
Hughes/MD/MDhelicopters seemed to be the only innovative risk taker in the market - NOTAR/900/902.
Who was the brain trust when that was developed? Long gone I bet!! Good stuff with promise all but R&D takes money and... I'm sure the brain drain is apparent at MD these days. Pity
Enter EC...
Bell seems to have lost direction, Sikorsky has nothing between the 434?!? and the S76, Robinson? Kay Sa Ra Sa Ra! What's left? Kaman? Boeing? Nope!
I think we're screwed here in the good 'ol USA...
