AA62,
See my post above. At least as far as the Chinook is concerned, it's been resolved as Boeing Helicopters in Philadelphia are now a DAOS accredited Aircraft Design organisation (ADO) for that aircraft, following MAA acceptance of their DAOS exposition.
I'm quite sure that there was no pressure placed on MAA at all to accept the exposition. No, perish the thought.
Just as an aside, each of the US services (Army, USN, USAF) acts as the DO for their aircraft. So, for the Chinook, the US DO is the Army's Heavy Lift Program Office, located in Huntsville, Alabama. One of the fun things dealing with Boeing - they are not allowed to tell the UK a single thing about any of the US Army's programmes. Modifications, trials, problems, incidents, accidents, configurations, build programmes, you name it, the Uk MoD gets nothing about the US in-service fleet from its ADO. They have to go separately to the US Army for whatever the Army feel like giving them. Of course, this also means that Boeing could get to charge twice (or thrice) for doing the same bit of work on two almost identical aircraft. You understand that I'm not for one second saying that they do, just that they could.
Regards
Engines
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