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To: yarddog

Pretty remarkable, and beautiful plane, but I think it had some major flaws:

1.) Expensive

2.) High Maintenance (as some beautiful women are)

3.) Swilled fuel like a drunk sailor


9 posted on 12/22/2012 10:05:38 AM PST by rlmorel (1793 French Jacobins and 2012 American Liberals have a lot in common.)
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To: rlmorel

As an example of how the plane suffered...

The power supply to the radar was under the ejection seat. To pull the power supply, you had to pull the ejection seat. (EOD qualified technician required). To apply power, the ejection seat had to be reinstalled. MTBF for the powersupply was on the order of 10 hours. The rest of the radar MTBF was also on the order of 10 hours.

There was a large weight that had to be suspended from the nose if the fuel was emptied. If you forgot that, it would rear up on its back legs.


15 posted on 12/22/2012 10:55:50 AM PST by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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