Hints and tips:
...The BA609, conceived by Bell and Agusta as the civilian version of the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor, has had what is possibly an even more difficult birth than the military Osprey....
...The defeat of Sikorsky’s bid for Marine One by Lockheed Martin and AgustaWestland, the Anglo-Italian manufacturer, still smarts. Earlier, he had said the deal was a case of “win or drop dead”....
...Its Agusta helicopter group was lashed on to the UK’s Westland in a 50-50 venture with GKN, the British manufacturing group....
International Edition