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Pentagon's Best-Kept Secret: F-35 Fighter Is Progressing Nicely
That kind of misleading behaviour has a history. And has been covered before.
Here is an explanation from almost 3 years ago.
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The guy could probably market snow mobiles to the Royal Saudi Arabian Army. Cha ching. Check please.
Let's get this new-found F-35 progress straight:
1. It's ahead of a much stretched out flight test plan that is accomplishing really difficult tasks like: 1st night flight, 1st night refueling, carrying weapon shapes externally.
2. Cost going down. If this is so, why are LRIP5 negotiations still far apart after over 5 months of talks?
3. Problems are being fixed. If the design is now stable, why is the Scrap & Rework rate still TWICE what previous developments have been at 100 piece production?
4. Foreign buyers still waiting in line. ROK wants to actually fly one before committing. Wonder if the LM High Fidelity Simulator has shakers attached to simulate the in-flight buffeting & helmet problems? Bet not...
...Whoo / I'm major, I roar, / I swear I'm not a whore, / We cheer and we lead, / We act like we're on speed, / Don't hate us 'cause we're beautiful, / Well we don't like you either, / We're cheerleaders, / We are cheerleaders. /Roll call...
("Bring it On", Kirsten Dunst,Eliza Dushku, Gabrielle Union, 2000)
Cheerleading indeed! Re:"By the end of this year, the most common version of the plane — the one that will be used by the Air Force and exported to most foreign customers — will be 45 percent of the way through all its flight tests."
The first mistake jet, known as AA-1, started flying in December 2006. So, after six years of flight testing they will be 45% complete on the "A" model. It is likely the easy 45% that is done and the hard stuff remains. It is not unreasonable to expect another six years to ge the envelope expanded. Reality check...Progress is excruciatingly, painfully, tortuously slow. I gotta go, you're killin' me.
Everone here is being too hard on Loren. Do you realizse how truly difficult a job he has?....Trying to dream up positive things to say about the F-35 program? Hang in there Loren...
The just released GAO Report on the F-35 seems to take an entirly different view of program progress as stated in Mr Thompson's "Infomercial".
Ah, another fine item created by Dr. Feelgood. Drink that tasty mood altering Kool-Aid. It must be nice to get paid big bucks to make up stuff like this!
The best kept secret certainly does not include the Chinese who have been successfully hacking into the JSF Program and its sub-contractors for the last 10 years.
Our only hope is that they include in future aircraft one of the many semi-functional vaporware systems from the F-35!
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