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VH-71 project: Guarguaglini replies to US government

Moscow, Russia - "President Obama will fly on a Finmeccanica helicopter"

After the US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates suggested the interruption of the VH-71 program (see AVIONEWS), yesterday from Moscow, where he was for the Italian-Russian agreement about the Superjet-100 (see AVIONEWS), arrived the answer of Finmeccanica president and CEO Pier Francesco Guarguaglini: "The US government must decide what to do. The story starts now, but we will not wait seated". Anyway...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1102609
Rome, Italy, 04/08/2009 13:58
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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