Your opinions are like a breath of fresh air. I think our carrier honchos are thinking similarly to the battleship guys prior to Dec 41. Your description of the Norfolk base with the carriers in is eerily reminiscent. Read more

The Navy thought they were honoring a President

That link is a good deep rabbit hole. Read more

My family in Porterville often talk about a Triangle shaped plane that crashed into a mountain. But it was never reported on. A lot of government showed up and it was taken away in trucks. Often wonder what that was. Read more

This is the kind of reading material that Congressional representatives should have on their required reading list. Then again, it probably wouldn’t matter because without some sort of personal benefit from the military procurement process, they’d all starve to death. Read more

We didnt get it back.. Iranians AFAIK still have it. They tried to ‘reverse’ engineer it, and created a cool RC plane version of it, thats about it. I’m sure the Chinese/Russians/Whomever paid them a nice chunk of change to send some technicians over there to take a look. Read more

Arthur C. Clark portrayed this madness long ago: Read more

Have you written books? If you haven’t get started. I’m buying everything you write.
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Keep rolling these out Roger, and you are correct we need to know of these failings. As a past MSO I have relied on marine air support and currently have a son that will also rely on it. And with these out of control cost and risk of losing one in the roles of CAS I worry of the “cost equation” coming in play (is this… Read more

We had the same reaction here in the Flight Club mothership. Read more

It seems perfectly in context to me. This thing was supposed to be ready ages ago, but will not be ready till the end of the decade, maybe later. I wish people wouldn’t insult your awesome work. It’s not like you are saying the Navy is bad or something, you are just saying that the Navy needs to rework its procurement… Read more

If they added music it would be too heavy
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I once saw a biplane crop duster in Iowa land vertically, where the plane was deliberately stalled a foot or two off the ground and then just dropped. That guy had skills and really, seriously knew his airplane. Read more

Tyler,Your article’s are great and, I have much respect for your answers to replies. Heres one for ya. I work in the motorcycle industry(Japanese motorcycles).About ten years ago,the Chinese made a huge push making mostly small displacement scooters,ATV’s and,motorcycles.They were all clones of… Read more

Thanks for the time an effort you put into this. I don’t really understand the assertion that you’re “taking things out of context”, you’re writing a 5000 word essay, not mentioning a quote in passing... Your information seems balanced and thorough, and I for one am glad there are people like you keeping one of the… Read more

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Just because it’s happened before, doesn’t make this process of devolpment and production any more correct. Call me naive or what have you, but the catapult system was supposed to be far more reliable than steam due to much few component parts and consuable parts; such as steel cables. Yes, everything has teething… Read more

Well, at least we are getting a one-off ~15 billion dollar testbed, I guess. Even though from the sounds of your article it seems like most of the testing will skipped to cram it into service. Read more

It’s like a Hollywood Blockbuster Sequel, done concurrence style. Read more