The helicopter I have now seems perfectly adequate to me. Of course, I've never had a helicopter before," said the president on Monday.
He's arriving at the wrong conclusion for the right reasons. The Vh-71 program is one long slow motion train wreck of inter-species erotica. Like a goat and a camel. That said he needs a new helicopter, the VH-3 is pretty old. I fixed VH-3As, they are excellent aircraft, I love and miss them but a little update couldn't hurt.
On the basis of presidential survival, if you're going to get in a helicopter crash the H-3 is a good one, over the years it didn't have the lowest mishap rate but it had the lowest fatality rate. Pretty crashable. Hopefully they will go buy a new fleet of S-92s or similar and kill the VH-71 mess.