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ABC's Brian Ross barely suppressed a giggle as he showed us "the laughing stock of the aviation world." That is the moniker for the $63m prototype of the USNavy's DP-2 replacement for helicopter transports. In his Your Money report, Ross contrasted the "slick animation" from contractor Anthony DuPont that shows the plane "taking off straight up and then flying at 700mph right into Iran carrying 50 troops" with actual footage of the prototype in San Diego "that can barely get off the ground." It turns out that the local congressman is Republican Presidential candidate Duncan Hunter: "We need to put more money in it not less." Hunter has received $36,000 in campaign contributions from DuPont and insists that those funds have "nothing to do with" his support for the project.
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