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To: Gary E who wrote (20130)	4/5/1999 5:53:00 AM
From: Patrick Slevin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 44573

OT Blackhawk, a Sikorsky Helicopter? They built them up in Meridian, Connecticut. They offered me a job when the program was just getting started around 1979. The Engineering group was not one I wished to be a part of at the time. Also, the Sikorsky group was having a lot of trouble those days; it was one of theirs that fell off the (then) Pan Am Building. Also, Sikorsky Gunships were the ones that hung up on the Rescue Mission in the Desert during the Iran Hostage situation, I think it was. It was the third time I had turned down a job from United Technologies, a rather good company for an engineer to work for. I think the Apache is a Bell product. I never had any contact with Bell equipment. I was mostly familiar to some degree with GD Cruise Missiles, Fairchild's A-10 anti-tank plane, MacDonald's F-17 (I think) to some extent), and Boeing Wing Control surfaces for 747's. Also, guidance equipment of various types. I was just wondering what he flew because I'd seen many. Long Island used to be one big aircraft producing center.