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Posted on 09/07/2011 10:41:16 AM PDT by dragnet2
Dear God, take command of this entire situation, in the name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ! Let those fire fighting planes become airborn to fulfill their mission according to thy Will! Amen
Now American civilian deaths to Hussein’s credit.
Hoo boy. I thought the unions and Obama were best forever friends. Why should they have any squabbles with Uncle Sam?
I am in agreement with you.
Oh, Lord in Heaven, have mercy on Texas!!!
Such evil, such unnecessary evil.
His hands are dripping with blood now.
The Government doesn’t care what the planes look like, or the mission they can perform, they care what the paperwork looks like. Annual inspection is only a small part of an overall maintenance program. Without the proper long term scheduled maintenance and air frame inspection detailed and documented by the aircraft operator, these planes will not meet the basic requirements to remain under US Gov’t contract.
The airlines work exactly the same way. An airliner can not carry passengers until ALL the paperwork is in order.
It isn’t helping the air tanker’s case that one shed a wing on video a year or so doing a drop mission. Determination was fatigue cracks in the main wing structure, not an uncommon problem with aircraft of this type used in low level, high performance flight envelope.
“I thought the unions and Obama were best forever friends.”
My understanding is that Aero Union is a nonunion shop and I am convinced that the union issue is the problem.
We desperately need to get this clown out of office. He is costing us lives.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they were not “green” enough. More American jobs shipped out of the country, this time to Canada.
The moslem-in-Chief is doing everything in his power to turn my country into another Haiti. What a shame.
Obama is indeed evil.
If he doesn’t do something he is turning the Southwest into HADES!!
A day doesn’t go by that this administration doesn’t do something to make me want to pull my hair and scream!
As the Church Lady would say... How conveeeeeeeeeeeeenient
The government has been trying to get away from using big old ex-military aircraft as tankers for a while now. The highly-public crashes of some old USAF-surplus C-130As (the incident you mentioned among them) accelerated that, although there was actually a bit of a government scandal around the operator getting those 1950s-vintage Hercs.
What makes no sense to me is hearing that they’re going to be replacing those P-3s—anti-sub aircraft that were designed for low-level flight—with Convair 580s? Those are turboprop-converted Convair 340 twin-engined airliners that are probably older than the Orions! I’d feel safer doing fire attack in an Orion than in a CV-580.
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Why didn't you mention that the budget actually increased once the annual budget was “balanced”?
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