Arthur W. Linden joined the LHX program in September 1987 as the Sikorsky LHX engineering manager. He became the Sikorsky LHX program director in June 1990. In 1996 he went to the JPO, first as the Comanche deputy program director and then as the program director. He retired in June 2000, after his four-year rotation in that position. He is the primary author of the book. His three boxes on LHX/Comanche material were the original basis for the book. They included all the issues of the aviation press quoted herein. He authored numerous chapters from this material and served as coordinator and editor to put the full book together.