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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Global HeavyLift Holdings Calls Boeing Announcement to End C-17 Production in 2015 “Irresponsible”

Boeing C-17 Engaged in McMurdo Station, Antarctica, resupply  Image: US Air Force

Bloomfield Hills, MI 19 September 2013 (eMOTION! REPORTS) – Global HeavyLift Holdings, Inc. (Defense Logistics Agency DLA listed) Managing Director Myron D. Stokes, who with colleagues in the academic, industrial and governmental sectors has been involved with Commercial variant Boeing C-17 (BC-17) Globemaster III business development at the original direction of SECAF Dr. James G. Roche, is calling Boeing’s announcement to end production of this superlative strategic/tactical airlifter with no operational peer or near term replacement  claiming lack of DoD orders and FMS interest irresponsible.  “Boeing management is fully aware of the not just strong interest being displayed by a multitude of foreign governments which now include Algeria and Israel, but continuing FMS orders or LOIs, not the least of which is India’s 10 with an option for 6 more. And given the current, largely unpredictable security environment created by China’s clearly aggressive stance to become the dominant hemispheric power, India, in re-assessing its ability to rapidly deploy division strength units to any point along common borders, can utilize up to 30 C-17s,” he said.

Stokes says Boeing leadership is also acutely aware of extraordinarily positive potential of business deriving from USAF directed conjoined efforts between Boeing, Global HeavyLift and strategic partners in academia and industry to develop a US/NATO controlled Heavy and Outsized industry (currently dominated by Russia/Ukraine with AN-124) HOM described as the movement of goods too large and outsized to fit in any door of any 747 or similar sized freighter, utilizing the near magical capabilities of C-17 relative to max cargo, short field take-off, self unloading and the ability to back up a 2% grade.  “No other aircraft in the world has these comprehensive capabilities, and the USAF has nothing to replace it short or mid term. And, considering Globemaster’s  hyper-utilization owing to a near 100% mission success rate and indispensability as a result of the Afghanistan, Iraq and an uptick in humanitarian missions globally, they are being worn out at levels approaching that of the venerable C-141 during the Viet Nam conflict.”
Stokes further notes that asserting irresponsibility on the part of Boeing, and for that matter the US Air Force, is knowing with certainty that shutdown of the C-17 plant in Long Beach ends this country’s ability to build wide body strategic airlifters critical to projection of power anywhere on the globe, in a world wherein asymmetric/conventional warfare exists concomitantly and the probability of new conflicts has risen exponentially.
“Boeing is effectively ceding provision of strategic/tactical airlift aircraft to AIRBUS with its vastly inferior A400M, a swept wing, turboprop aircraft whose design capacity has been reduced from 37tonnes to 25 due to overweight as it begins flight testing.  It is unable to carry a main battle tank, and struggles to accommodate light attack vehicles such as Stryker,” Stokes says.  “Moreover, and without  rancor, it can be rightly called a higher cost C-130J, and whose performance barely exceeds that of the over half century old Hercules.  We are nevertheless aware of elements within Congress and within the USAF, who have actively pushed for the elimination of Boeing C-17 and accommodation of AIRBUS overtures to provide 200 A400Ms soonest.  These individuals, which even include Boeing personnel, have been compromised by the European company’s lobbying efforts, and have no regard for the damage to US national security and economic security they will invoke.  The extreme damage to the US defense industrial and the industrial base, which are one and the same, is well articulated in the 2005 Department of Commerce study outlining the negative impact on this country’s economy as a result of C-17 production line closure.
“Global HeavyLift Holdings and Boeing itself recognizes that extensive business case developmental data which includes case studies with Exxon-Mobil, Conoco-Philips, DuPont, Black and Veatch among other corporations, countries and agencies, support 100 plus BC-17s and a proposed aerial firefighting variant to replace an aging, increasingly dangerous fleet of firefighting aircraft with an average age of 42 years, adding a least another 50 C-17s to be deployed in emergency response duties worldwide.
“At the very least, Boeing senior management is being disingenuous, as are elements of the US Air Force, and at worst irresponsible, knowing that ceding strategic/tactical airlifter production to AIRBUS is the beginning of a short march to Boeing being relegated to the role of minor player in overall defense, and the USAF rapidly becoming unable to fulfill its Constitutionally mandated role of national security.”
Stokes says that Global HeavyLift and others constituting an industrial base preservation team, have worked incessantly to maintain production of C-17 and the existence of Boeing itself.  “We will continue to do this,” he said, “And we are prepared now to provide another RFP, backed by up to USD 5BIL in bankable instruments, for up to 30 C-17s.
“Boeing”, he says, “Needs to rethink its position regarding C-17, and do so now.”
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Global HeavyLift Holdings, Inc., a Delaware incorporated, Michigan-based, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) entity, was founded in 2002 with a directive to bring together the intellectual resources from within industry, government and academia to craft architecture for infrastructure of a new globe spanning industry: A blueprint, if you will, without which no infrastructural project of this magnitude in history, as applied to the Erie Canal, America’s ( or any developed country) railroads, the Civilian Nuclear Program or the US Space Program, has come into being.

Implementation of this initiative will culminate years of unprecedented interaction and cooperation between industry and government; required owing to the need for the regulatory power and financial resources of governments, conjoined with expertise and capital from the private sector.

Ultimately, the project will be a factor in changing the face of global transportation infrastructure, inclusive of a strong logistics role in government and private space programs, while simultaneously providing much needed economic stimulus.

Current plans call for the 2014 initialization of support operations in the US and abroad.

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

MEDIA ADVISORY: Veteran Automotive/Aerospace Journalist/Analyst Available For Interviews on State of The Industry, Its Product, and Risk/Benefit Analysis of Western Auto Companies Doing Business in The People’s Republic of China; One of Industry’s Stongest Advocates for Boeing C-17 Long Beach Production Line Retention

MEDIA ADVISORYRe: Veteran Automotive/Aerospace Journalist/Analyst Available For Interviews on State of The Industry, Its Product, and Risk/Benefit Analysis of Western Auto Companies Doing Business in The People’s Republic of China; One of Industry’s Stongest Advocates for Boeing C-17 Long Beach Production Line Retention

Contact: Benjamin Ballout or
Myron D. Stokes –
626-616-1655

eMOTION! REPORTS.com Publisher Myron D. Stokes Presents Ford’s Francisco Codina With Car of The Year Award for the 2006 Zephyr/MK-Z During the Chicago Auto Show   Image: Ford Motor Company

Los Angeles, CA -( LA Auto Show ) November 28, 2012 – Veteran Automotive Journalist/Analyst, ZINTRO Expert and eMOTION! REPORTS.com Publisher Myron D. Stokes, a former Newsweek, Newsweek Japan, Newsweek International special correspondent and Interim Bureau Chief, will be available for interviews covering a wide range of automotive/aerospace industry subjects inclusive of product technology,emerging markets, crisis management, the short sightedness of offshoring manufacturing capacity and the technology associated; a re-emergent US auto industry, and the economic and national security implications of failing to protect and secure the country’s ability to manufacture things of value.

“The US cannot exist as as consumer/service economy in the manner of Las Vegas,” says Stokes, “and expect to maintain its status, in symbiotic relationship with Great Britain, as THE world power economically and militarily.”

Moreover, Stokes is convinced, along with colleagues in the US policy shaping arena inclusive of the United States-China Economic and Security Commission, that US, European and Asian companies are at profound risk of losing virtually all control of manufacturing operations in China.

Stokes has proven capable of discussing virtually every aspect of auto industry analysis with a particular focus on the China presence of western car firms. He can discuss the risk/benefit of such presence by GM, Ford, Chrysler, the Europeans inclusive of VW; and the Japanese car companies who have been declared for all intents and purposes “enemies of the state”. Among other topics: whether the “bailout” of GM and Chrysler was really necessary and why Ford refused; the uncomfortable role that Wall Street played in creating a circumstance that made GM, Ford and Chrysler vulnerable to offshore takeover in the interest of short term gain.

GM Bankruptcy/TATA/Jaguar Land Rover

Stokes was directly involved in an effort to stop the declaration of GM bankruptcy through revaluation of global assets; coordinated with concerned European governments -excluding Germany – to prevent GM’s attempts to offload Opel resulting in an intervention by those governments; and a very specific role in changing the circumstances under which the Jaguar/Land Rover sale to TATA would occur by bringing Mahindra and Mahindra back to the acquisition table in conjunction with one of the world’s most powerful investment banking institutions working through Ford’s then CFO.
Actor Damian Lewis with new 2013 Jaguar F-Type during VIP reveal at Paramount Studios 27 November

Chrysler/Kerkorian

Among archived industrial base preservation activities, Stokes helped prevent the
Kerkorian takeover of Chrysler by bringing a “White Knight” into the mix and presented
to the Chrysler board through a senior communications executive. The intervention was
conveyed during an overseas call from Tokyo during the 1995 Tokyo Motor Show. It is now possible to reveal that the late Sir Alex Trotman approved Ford Motor Company’s acting in this capacity following a lengthy interaction with Stokes during a Ford media program.

Boeing Dreamliner

On the aerospace side, a recent analysis of Boeing Dreamliner with specific focus on the issues of a nearly unprecedented conjoining of composites to metal within critical aircraft structure, induced a rethinking of this approach and questioned, as did a GAO analysis the viability, accuracy and appropriateness of FAA certification processes foraircraft extensively utilizing composites. (Google -Boeing Dreamliner Analysis).

Stokes, along with national security strategist and Walsh College Academician Dr. Sheila Ronis, has been one of the strongest voices in advocating Boeing C-17 Globemaster III Long Beach production line continuance and preservation of over 250,000 core manufacturing positions in the US – when one correctly invokes Keynesian Economic Multipliers – of which at least 5,000 are in California.

Potential interviewers will find it useful to google the following terms: -auto industry analysis – (10 of 47 million) -2010 Auto Industry Analysis- (1, 2, 3 of 12 million) -Myron D. Stokes, China Auto Industry Analysis- -Boeing, Myron D. Stokes – -Boeing Dreamliner Analysis- (number 1 result of 645,000)-Boeing C-17, Stokes-. -Richard Holbrooke’s World–Deadra’s Flight- -GM’s Transition to China-.

Afghanistan Emergency Airlift Relief Mission

Lastly,in his capacity as Managing Director of Global HeavyLift Holdings, Inc, an entity involved in the creation of a new air transportation industry subset, Stokes has just completed coordination, in conjunction with Kalitta Air US, DHL UK, AviaPartner and Fast Forward Freight of Belgium, and the British Afghan Women’s Society, of a second emergency private airlift relief mission into the refugee camps of Kabul, Afghanistan. The mission was named “Deadra’s Flight” in honor of Stokes’
wife who recently succumbed to illness.

He will be available throughout the media preview and during the public show.

ZINTRO LINK: http://blog.zintro.com/2012/11/08/electric-cars-struggling-for-public-acceptance/
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