COMPETITION WAS POOR EXCUSE
In the early 1980s' beginning of the LHX light helicopter program, the Army, to broaden competition beyond companies with tiltrotor experience, backed off its performance requirements and imposed weight and power restrictions that a tiltrotor couldn't meet (AW&ST Sept. 19, p. 38). The Army got a...
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