Talk:AgustaWestland EH101
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[edit] Table
You are aware that we're trying to get away from tables, right? —Joseph/N328KF (Talk) 15:27, 2005 Jan 29 (UTC)
[edit] Should be in Separate Article
I removed the italicized section below since it has very little to do with the EH-101 and relates more to Sikorsky and Canadian procurement practices. Plus, the tone is not neutral, and allegations (e.g. "bungling", "political interference") are presented as simple statements of fact. This info (along with similar points in the H-3 Sea King article) should be consolidated under a seperate article relating to the Sea King replacement saga, and POV should be eliminated as much as possible.
Controversy again followed this procurement process, centering around several points:
- Political and bureaucratic interference in the military's procurement process, resulting in the separation of the airframe from the onboard avionics. A similar separated (and bungled) procurement process was seen during the CP-140 Aurora purchase in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Separation of the airframe permitted the government to look at alternatives to the previously fiscally (and operationally) attractive EH101.
- The alleged unwillingness of Paul Martin's Liberal government to select an aircraft which had been expensively rejected by his predecessor, Jean Chrétien, a few years earlier; the Liberals were frequently accused of rigging the selection process against the EH101.
- Nearly $1.2 billion in industrial offsets by Sikorsky; the price per aircraft was lower than EH Industries could offer. This because Sikorsky, having never sold the S-92 military model, was willing to significantly subsidise the Canadian purchase.
- The inability by Sikorsky, some say, to prepare the S-92 for military use. It should be noted that the S-92 is merely an enlarged version of an already-flying maritime patrol helicopter, the SH-60 Seahawk, and that Sikorsky has a long tradition in the maritime patrol field.
- Allegations that Sikorsky would be unable to meet the contracted delivery deadlines, causing Canada to go even longer without an adequate navy helicopter.
Also removed:
The Canadian government refers to these machines as AW 320s, carefully avoiding the EH101 name.
The gov't has never referred to them by this name. --Aardvark114 28 June 2005 05:11 (UTC)
[edit] Images
Per the fair-use image policy (Always use a more free alternative if one is available), I removed a huge swathe of non-free images from this article. We already have two freely-usable images, which is enough that there's not much justification for having a large number of unfree ones. Shimgray | talk | 17:52, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
- There is a beautiful picture of an EH101 on the Japanese Wiki here [1]. It is probably a Tokyo Police unit, but I can't read the Japanese captions. The pic is public domain (that part is in English), but I don't know how to get it over to the English side to be used, or to the Commons. Can someone check this out? Thanks. - BillCJ 06:52, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
