The troubled, high-profile Pentagon effort to build a new fleet of presidential helicopters is facing a five-year delay, a previously unreported slip that promises to set back production of the most sophisticated and largest portion of the VH-71 executive rotorcraft fleet until fiscal year 2014. This new holdup, spelled out in internal Defense Department budget documents that detail new changes to the Pentagon's fiscal year 2009 budget plan, will not affect plans to field an initial batch of less-capable "increment...
