"Helowriter" wrote in news:1110895207.080893.269810
@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com:

For starters, the S-92 and EH101 were designed a generation apart as
far as flaw-tolerant design and birdstrike and turbine burst
protection. For the next 30 years or so, the US101 will still seat the
President above aircraft fuel cells. Also like an earlier generation
of helicopters, the EH101 structure does meet current crashworthiness
requirements for forward impact strength. Strengthening the core
EH/US101 up to the latest standards will put cost and risk into the VXX
program, just what the Navy said it was trying to avoid.

I think you'll find that the selection of the US-101 was precisely to
minimise programme risk.

The selection team thought that the Sikorsky capability vs the required
updates to the S-92 were riskier than those needed for the US-101 in the
hands of Lockheed Martin & friends.

toad.