screw up by me, fixed thanks!
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originally there was a place for a third crewman that now serves as a little place to lay down and get some sleep Read more
Well could be, but Boeing would not be lying, they just don’t have archival info on it and the history itself could very well have been lost. Still I doubt it. Read more
Boeing loves planes just like us, huge thanks for them digging into it and finding what they could. It is an amazing testament to the company’s already storied past.
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Ben Rich said something like, if you have seen it in sci fi we have been there. That was like 20 years ago!
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I think something like that was said by the Jalopnik crew as this was being put together.
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Never heard of it, but interesting. Maybe during development? Read more
Well for a 70k foot flyer it is about right! Read more
The A model is like $115M or so R&D not included Read more
Both, but #2 was easily foreseen but foreseeing such problems doesn’t win contracts with low-ball bids and laughable timelines. Read more
That’s not true. Will address next week. Read more
Of all the variants, the B is really the best of the lot, the F-35 is really the best STOVL jet money can buy, the A and C, eh not so much. Read more
They still believe! It is unbelievable. Read more
Well it can. But then again do we need a F-35 at all to do many of its missions? On the low-end no, on the high-end, possibly not. Read more
It wouldn’t be pretty, but it would be fair. 1st thing on the list would be a big truth and reconciliation conference. Get it all out there. Then work to see what is really going on and try to get real attainable goals based on actual milestones not hollow ones. I would also look to slow production to an absolute… Read more
I have my revamped force structure coming hopefully next week. The deeper we get the harder it is to pull an audible. The most brilliant piece of F-35 engineering is the concurrency concept it was sold under. If you pull the plug you end up with a couple hundred half ass jets that now cost too much to support. It is… Read more
Bias or do the best they can to report facts that some don’t want to hear. People have a hard time of figuring out the difference these days. Not everything is a football rivalry. I don’t agree with some of their analysis, but I have never found them to be disingenuous. Read more
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1st and 2nd gen migs are unbelievably simple aircraft and are quite easy to maintain. The Tomcat is a whole other story, and 16 MHPFL is like better than Soper Hornet territory, the F-14 was worse Read more