I read where there was 28,000 american aircraft in world war II, that said a lot about Rosie the riveter and americans in general. Hell, I’ve bucked rivets myself.
I was in the largest Phantom squadron (Marines)in history (avionics). It’s hard for me to accept that 20+ f-22’s the air force has (am I correct on that?)
is a major deterrent to other country’s. I hope they make about 4000 of these super hornets and keep major squadrons of f-14, f-15, f-16 around the country.
While I was deer hunting in my section of the state I watched a f-16 pilot do repeated low level passes over me and flick his wings vertical and look at me. He was screeching this thing near the sound barrier, Falcon was an apt name for this plane.
This was a special treat for me because I had drawn the f-16 engine on the drafting board at half scale many years ago. Just think of all the honest jobs generated from this observation, not some liberal kickback schemes.
I remember in 92 when the Air Force General was deridng the first planned cut of F22s from about 1000 to 700. He was saying he needed 1200 of these. Now we have less of them planned than the French Air Force has Rafales and even the GOP says it’s too much. Ridiculous. Rumsfeld is also at fault, because right after Afghanistan where it was proven one or 2 B1s could do much more than 2 squadrons of F16s, decided to cut the force by 86 B1s.
These idiots think like executives, gaining points making savings instead of thinking strategy and national defense