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T.S. Smelliot posted:She used to tell me stories about how in the 70s there were men who would learn there was a woman pilot and they'd refuse to get on the plane lol Please start a thread. I would love to read that. My mom got a Cessna 172 in the late-80's and whenever me as a ~5 year old kid would mention to people that we had a plane they would usually respond with, "Oh, your dad flies" and I'd say no, my mom is a pilot.
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Gobblecoque posted:If I was the president and on my way out I'd probably want to play with one of our most extravagant ways of killing people one last time too. Remember, you get two free hits, and if ya don't use em, ya lose em.
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A Man With Tiny Hands posted:A lot was put out, and when they say a lot, a lot meant about 90 planes. They were having a lot of difficulty. There was no movement and I was able to get $600 million approximately off those planes. Foxtrot Alpha posted:it turns out Trump had nothing to do with it. At all. As the Post notes, the head of the F-35 program at the Pentagon announced a cost reduction of six to seven percent per plane on December 20th, days before Trump’s team actually started meeting with the defense industry. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/f-35-a-great-plane-now-thanks-to-president-trump-1791824958 Sormus fucked around with this message at 19:49 on Jan 31, 2017 |
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Lockheed has been promising a unit cost below $100M for a while now. A quick Google shows me this announcement from July.. I recall hearing that number even earlier, though, but it's hard to find it in amongst the news of the "new" deal. Lockheed has been promising a price below $85M by 2019 for a long time, though. It's smart for them to go along with this, though. In addition to making Trump look good to his rube base, it makes the F-35 program look like it's become a good "deal," and might help them turn their PR around, at least in right wing media circles.
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Lockheed has been promising costs of well under $6 for some time now
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Lockheed has been promising a plane for some time now
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This space saved for news on Australia cancelling their order due to being insulted by Trump
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The delays in the F-35 program have probably saved the lives of many pilots. Lockheed's F-104 was responsible for destroying more Luftwaffe aircraft than the top 5 British WW2 aces combined. (Actually I think it's the top 6, but when it comes to F-104 accident rates you have to understate things so they'll sound believable.)
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Syd Midnight posted:The delays in the F-35 program have probably saved the lives of many pilots. Lockheed's F-104 was responsible for destroying more Luftwaffe aircraft than the top 5 British WW2 aces combined. (Actually I think it's the top 6, but when it comes to F-104 accident rates you have to understate things so they'll sound believable.) On the other hand, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyBDEG9dg-Q
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hopefully trump insults our allies enough that they cancel, dooming the whole project
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mlmp08 posted:On the other hand, The aircraft with the highest skill ceiling, and hardest of skill floors.
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Dandywalken posted:The aircraft with the highest skill ceiling, and hardest of skill floors. All aircraft have the same skill floor. It's called the ground.
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Indy posted:This space saved for news on Australia cancelling their order due to being insulted by Trump lol our prime minister has no spine and the one good thing to come from a trump presidency will be him getting negged on the regular
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