Made in America a prime goal in helicopter competition (*Bush chopper)

[stevedeshazer]

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WARSHINGTON -- With the nation on high terrorism alert and wartime patriotism still strong, a Connecticut company is hoping the Pentagon will prefer to buy American and select a fully U.S.-built helicopter to transport the president.

At a news conference Wednesday, Stratford-based Sikorsky Aircraft announced that its entrant in the Marine One competition _ the VH-92 Superhawk _ will be developed and built almost entirely by American companies on U.S. soil. Its only competitor for the $7 billion program, the US101, is being built by a team headed by Bethesda, Md.-based Lockheed Martin and a British-Italian company, AgustaWestland.

Both companies have been touting their red, white and blue blood to fend off suggestions that the president could be ferrying about in a foreign-made helicopter.

"It will be so close to 100 percent (American parts) so as to be indistinguishable from 100 percent," said Sikorsky President Steve Finger.

more: http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--sikorsky-presiden0107jan07,0,593534.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire
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I don't even know where to start. This might as well be straight out of The Onion. Maybe this helicopter will be the last 100% American-made product. Or, at least, "indistinguishable from 100%."

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. It either is 100% or it isn't

"It will be so close to 100 percent (American parts) so as to be indistinguishable from 100 percent," said Sikorsky President Steve Finger." What????

Anyway, WTF do we need to buy this for anyway? To keep us safe from terrorists and protect our freedoms?

[Ernesto]

3. Yeah, that's what they said about Hondazookies & Toiletotas

When the Japanese started their economic colonization of America.

[mouse7]

2. Which means about 4%

With that 4% outsourcing to China by the end of 2004.