Ask about natural remedies.

Human bodies are also incredibly more complex than cars. The car analogy only carries so far.

Am awesome suggestion considering Lockheed has never built a rotary wing aircraft that went into production. Take seat I-3 on the next L-1011 leaving the gate.

Why are you even commenting on here when you could be elsewhere choking on a wheat grass smoothie?

Goddamn hippies.

Let's send you and all your beatnik friends to go sing Kumbaya with the murderous ISIS animals.

2/10 for weak and obvious trolling and deflecting with the term white guilty liberals. Maybe try harder next time.

Well, they didn't exactly waste $7B, really. A LOT of R&D from projects like this get implemented in other programs.

OH-13 Sioux

I think you are confusing this with the '61 Chevy Corvair.

The Kiowa Warrior is slated to retire in 2025, the Chinook in 2035, and both the Apache and Black Hawk will be gone by 2040. We thought we had a suitable replacement for all of these platforms in the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche.

You obviously vote Republican, and you're obviously not exceptionally wealthy. You parrot the dog whistle "lib" like some pejorative, and are a team based thinker. It's appallingly apparent you let other people think for you, more than likely from Fox News and American Thinker. You're no base level Free Republic…

and both the Apache and Black Hawk will be gone by 2040. We thought we had a suitable replacement for all of these platforms in the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche.

All US Army helicopters are named after Native American tribes with the exception of the AH-1 Cobra.

"The Kiowa Warrior is slated to retire in 2025, the Chinook in 2035, and both the Apache and Black Hawk will be gone by 2040. We thought we had a suitable replacement for all of these platforms in the Boeing-Sikorsky RAH-66 Comanche."

Would you walk up to a Native American and say "Hey Redskin, come here?" If not, why?

The RAH-1 Mennonite: we're going old school on you guys.

There have been grumblings, but for the most part the associated peoples have been proud to have such badass machinery named after them. The Lakota even bless some of our new helicopters.

There were rumors swirling that one of the reasons for the cancellation was that a small rock could get caught in and wipe out the shrouded tail rotor and trash the entire vehicle. Supposedly, they couldn't figure out a way to keep the rotor shrouded and prevent the problem. In theory, an unshrouded rotor wouldn't…

I used to work at the factory that made the Comanche. They were pretty awesome pieces of engineering. One thing I recall is that the composite body was made in two halves that were then fused together to cut down on joints and weight, the machine that made them was pretty impressive.

Hey - call it 'pure research' - people like that. It sounds so much better than 'wasted military spending'.