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The Web site decoded and in April made public an edited version of the helicopter attack in a film it called "Collateral Murder".

Mr. Murtha's aides said he might insist on preserving funds for the basic version of the helicopter when Congress takes up next year's budget.

As a result, several influential lawmakers and defense analysts are now calling for a compromise that would salvage a simpler version of the helicopter that is already being tested.

But some defense experts and Congressional leaders who oversee military spending have said it would be cheaper to keep building a basic version of the helicopter than to scrap the project altogether.

Mr. Young said the basic version of the helicopter — built by Lockheed Martin and AgustaWestland, a European company — was meant to be used as a transition to the more advanced craft and has only been certified for several years of use.

In the past few decades, "the Pentagon generally has not bought what we call 'clean sheet designs,' or helicopters that are designed from scratch, but instead they keep buying the next improved version of the helicopter already in their fleet," explains Ray Jaworowski, a senior aerospace analyst at Forecast International.

But the Federal Aviation Administration rates a commercial version of the helicopters as good for 30 years.

Though some versions of the helicopter may eventually be equipped with an array of missiles, the Fire Scout is for now planned as a reconnaissance vehicle a role where entire missions, including taking off and landing on aircraft carriers, can be accomplished with just a few keystrokes.

The Black Hawks appear to have been never-before-publicly-seen "stealth" versions of the helicopter that fly more quietly while being harder to detect on radar than conventional models; due to the weight of the extra stealth equipment on the Black Hawks, cargo was "calculated to the ounce, with the weather factored in".

But a commercial version of the Sikorsky helicopter crashed off Newfoundland last month, killing 17 people, which safety investigators say may have been caused by a faulty gearbox.

On train and boat it's rarely busy, especially mid-week – except for one journey taken in haste on Christmas Eve when snow had stopped all flights out of London; a slightly more joyous version of the last helicopter leaving Saigon.