World's most expensive rotorcraft...?
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World's most expensive rotorcraft...?
The top three unit program costs for rotary- and fixed-wing apps, as detailed in the DoD's latest Selected Acquisition Reports to Congress, were as follows:
1. F-22 Raptor: $338M
2. C-17 Globemaster III: $331M
3. VH-71 (EH101): $287M
Now I appreciate that the POTUS requires specialist DAS, TEMPEST compliant secure comms and various others bells & whistles, but $287M ? Are they using that $7,600 coffee maker from the C-5 again...?
Makes the Osprey (#8 in the list at $110M apeice, just behind the F-35) look like a bargain.
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1. F-22 Raptor: $338M
2. C-17 Globemaster III: $331M
3. VH-71 (EH101): $287M
Now I appreciate that the POTUS requires specialist DAS, TEMPEST compliant secure comms and various others bells & whistles, but $287M ? Are they using that $7,600 coffee maker from the C-5 again...?
Makes the Osprey (#8 in the list at $110M apeice, just behind the F-35) look like a bargain.
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Imagine they need to make sure that all the extras they think would be useful are airworthy and won't cause interferance with the main systems - extras like the Speak'n'Spell Bush uses for vocabulary training . . . 
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Originally Posted by The Hustler
Imagine they need to make sure that all the extras they think would be useful are airworthy and won't cause interferance (sic) with the main systems - extras like the Speak'n'Spell Bush uses for vocabulary training . . .
In fact, it is highly insulting to Speak'n'Spell users everywhere. Please peddle your insults somewhere else and not on this helicopter forum. Thank you.
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Originally Posted by The Rotordog
This statement is highly insulting to our President and I personally am offended. There is absolutely *no* evidence that GWB uses now or has ever used a Speak'n'Spell.
In fact, it is highly insulting to Speak'n'Spell users everywhere. Please peddle your insults somewhere else and not on this helicopter forum. Thank you.
In fact, it is highly insulting to Speak'n'Spell users everywhere. Please peddle your insults somewhere else and not on this helicopter forum. Thank you.
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From: UK
Originally Posted by The Rotordog
This statement is highly insulting to our President and I personally am offended. There is absolutely *no* evidence that GWB uses now or has ever used a Speak'n'Spell.
In fact, it is highly insulting to Speak'n'Spell users everywhere. Please peddle your insults somewhere else and not on this helicopter forum. Thank you.
In fact, it is highly insulting to Speak'n'Spell users everywhere. Please peddle your insults somewhere else and not on this helicopter forum. Thank you.
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Good one rotordog
Maybe its also gonna have for the first time on helicoptes a figurehead,
like the bulldog on the mack truck,
or as on the galleons of auld.
Only this time it might be in gold, the busk of Hilary recently unveiled in the New York museum of sex.
No link found. quite attractive
Maybe its also gonna have for the first time on helicoptes a figurehead,
like the bulldog on the mack truck,
or as on the galleons of auld.
Only this time it might be in gold, the busk of Hilary recently unveiled in the New York museum of sex.
No link found. quite attractive
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From: highlands
Robbo Jock - Man take a chill pill or something!! sh%t everyone on here should be able to take a wee bit of sarcasm!!!
everyone is aloowed their own opinion and if others find it insulting then thats their loss,different people have different opinions on other things!!! relax man!!
everyone is aloowed their own opinion and if others find it insulting then thats their loss,different people have different opinions on other things!!! relax man!!
What a lack of humor...... cmon GWB is probably the worst thing that has happend for USA since his father was president 
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From: Edinburgh, UK
Originally Posted by The Hustler
Imagine they need to make sure that all the extras they think would be useful are airworthy and won't cause interferance with the main systems - extras like the Speak'n'Spell Bush uses for vocabulary training . . .
Originally Posted by Cyclic Hotline
Maybe you should check out your main system, as it appears to be providing you with novel ways to spell!
Besides - all this stuff about "Woe is me - we have Bush in charge!!!"
What do you do if you have Bush's lapdog in charge?
