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Very good point. I had a senior engineer from Bell tell me last year that it takes about ten years to make a good rotorcraft engineer, and that the lack of new work has made it very difficult for the primes to recruit "new blood". The shuffling of senior management that F-14D brings up, compounds the issue I suspect. I find it concerning that the Europeans, Russians and to a small extent even the Chinese seem to be more aggressive with new capabilities than the US. It seems the US is having a difficult time just modifying existing aircraft (although the point regarding the 53K is well taken).

[QUOTE="yasotay, post: 38831, member: 291"] Very good point. I had a senior engineer from Bell tell me last year that it takes about ten years to make a good rotorcraft engineer, and that the lack of new work has made it very difficult for the primes to recruit "new blood". The shuffling of senior management that F-14D brings up, compounds the issue I suspect. I find it concerning that the Europeans, Russians and to a small extent even the Chinese seem to be more aggressive with new capabilities than the US. It seems the US is having a difficult time just modifying existing aircraft (although the point regarding the 53K is well taken). [/QUOTE]

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