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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.
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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/ny-bc-ct--sikorsky-presiden0107jan07,0,593534.story?coll=ny-ap-regional-wire____________________________________________________________________
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%."