“I’ll try not to make a headline here” but “if there is a pilot flying an F-35 that’s worried about being ‘gunned down,’ we can always put that pilot in a C-12 or something, if they’re worried about getting gunned down,” he said, alluding to a military twin-engine, turboprop transport aircraft.
Bogdan, a pilot, protected his “6” last week in the clarification letters.
“My attempted humor” was “interpreted as being critical of the young pilot (or anyone) who speaks out against the F-35. Nothing could be further from the truth.”
With that, the F-35 is at severe risk in combat simply because of a number of really bad assumptions used to sell the idea to a gullible U.S. Congress.
