Originally Posted by Jabba_TG12
thing is though, because we did a licensing deal to stop Westland from being shut, we ended up paying over the odds for these things compared to what we could have done if we had bought off the shelf from Sikorsky.
Sikorsky would have had to buy the design from Boeing (MCDD, as was) first, though. Which would have "us" a pretty penny to underwrite. Sikorsky having never, ever, anything to do with the Apache. Good grief.
Then again, maybe - just maybe, and I might be guessing here - Jabba is a
Sciolist.
PS: Lewis Page is, and always has been, an un-informed dramatist.
PPS: Therefore, anybody who takes him seriously cannot themselves be taken seriously.
PPPS (and this one's pedantry, I admit): There's no such thing as a "WAH-64D". It's a "WAH-64".
