Posted on 09/09/2015 7:09:07 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How did America make so many classic planes during WWII and the 1950’s but can’t seem to make a good plane now?
Kelly Johnson died.
This is sounding like Windows 10.
Bingo.
That and today’s engineer is either making the next social media god send or wasting time with some green save sewage for consumption process.
Committee designed bomber. What could go wrong?
Well, the tech was a millionth as complicated. But I take your point.
RE: This is sounding like Windows 10.
At 75 Million installations in just one month, I wouldn’t pass judgment in this one just yet...
It’s simply a reflection of the level of corruption in our political system and in our officer corps today.
And without reform, this same corrupt procurement system is about to build us a bomber. Get ready for the F-35 on steroids.
Just keep throwing money down the rathole, please, I’m long in Defense stocks.
The B-2 was the result of 1990s bomber generals with 1940s brains. It was the wrong plane at the wrong time.
The F-35 was the result of 2000s fighter generals with 1940s brains. It was the wrong plane at the wrong time.
Neither was well thought out. One came from SAC generals who came from bombers and after TAC took over and SAC was eliminated the fighter generals wanted their piece of the pie.
They can’t build a modern fighter anymore. What makes them think they can build a bomber?
Bingo. Ben Rich was no slouch either but unions and Democrats had a lot more power in his tenure. Not that he wanted it.
I LIKE Windows 10. But, its development and release were accelerated because Windows 8 was considered a dud.
I actually used Windows 8.1 for a while, and thought it was very stable, but that the interface was more difficult than it needed to be. Windows 10 seems to have fixed that, and I’ve had no problems with stability. Of course, I had to opt out of all of the data-collection MSFT does as default.
But, back to the F35: Maybe the improved new plane version will fix some of what’s wrong, and not take 20 years to develop.
When costs "spiral upward" for welfare programs the Democrats and their Republican collaborators just keep adding more money to the program. These welfare programs never seen to get canceled. They can't even cancel funds for Planned Parenthood. When was the last time a welfare program was canceled and not replaced with something else?
Seems to be an article that’s based in real journalism, surprising for the source, in my mind at least. The one fact that’s being danced around is they know the system is broken but was able to be worked around/thru at Lockheed’s skunk works to develop the U-2 and SR-71. This success needs to be repeated right now. Who’s going to be this generation’s Kelly Johnson?
I am of the opinion that every generation of generals (20 years or so) that the wheel turns from specialized planes to multi use, platform planes. By that I mean that the Air Force cycles between the specialized role air frame (such as ground attack (A10 Warthog) and air superiority (F22 Raptor) and bombing (B52 / B1) etc) and decides to go with the multi-role airframe to do all of the above (F-35).
A lot of the multi-role attitude stems from the fight over budget dollars.
Unions
Too many pentagon “studies groups” wantign a “perfect airplane” ... (That cost 2 billion dollars per airplane, but can’t carry any more bombs any faster nor further than the 1952 era B-52.
“Best and perfect” means the latest bomber costs more than an entire cruiser. And we aren’t making any more of those either. The cruiser’s are the size of what used to be a destroyer. And we are no longer making more merchants, oilers, ammo carriers and UNREP stores, repair docks, nor amphib’s - because those will be lost as well.
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