For Don B --- LOL

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Don, take a look here.




LOL !!!!!

I put in a comment right after yours. Mine didn't get approved. Yours did. I visit an hour later and see the above.




---Here is the comment I submitted....

Quote stolen from someone else: "The Donner Party was 'on-track' not on schedule". The F-35 program is years behind, has not cleared U.S. DOD procurement milestone-C (that little thing that makes low-rate initial production...legal) and has significant shortfalls, including another little detail that it is likely to get shot down against emerging (and some existing) threats. My bet at the pokies (if I did such a thing) would be $55,000 per flight hour. Interesting as Australia (Howard, Hill and Houston) made this decision based on zero, credible analysis.

“It’s about $37 million for the CTOL aircraft, which is the air force variant.” - Colonel Dwyer Dennis, U.S. JSF Program Office brief to Australian journalists, 2002-

". . . US$40 million dollars . . "
-Senate Estimates/Media Air Commodore John Harvey, AM Angus Houston, Mr Mick Roche, USDM, 2003-

" . . US$45 million in 2002 dollars . ."
-JSCFADT/Senate Estimates, Air Commodore John Harvey, Mr Mick Roche, USDM, 2003/2004-

". . average unit recurring flyaway cost of the JSF will be around US$48 million, in 2002 dollars . . "
-Senate Estimates/Press Club Briefing, Air Commodore John Harvey, 2006

UPDATE- witnesses saw both Don's and my comments.