Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

"This is a world-class facility that provides a simulated flight environment allowing us to test these key subsystems individually and then integrated together to warrant out any issues prior to advancing to test flight. This will reduce the number of required flight test hours, resulting in significant time and cost savings to the customer."

Source: John Johnson, Program Manager for the CH-53K helicopter program, in comments made as testing is set to begin for the key systems to be installed on the CH-53K helicopter, the new heavy lift aircraft being built by Sikorsky for the U.S. Marine Corps, at a new Systems Integration Lab (SIL) which was recently formally brought on line to begin operations.

FMI: www.sikorsky.com