And these aircraft are HOW expensive?
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To: IonImplantGuru
I heard a story years ago when the Air Force was flying the B52 with nuclear bombs for attack against Russia.
They would reach their Fail Safe points and their compasses wouldn't work. There was no such thing as GPS. They needed a qualifed navigator who got them there to tell them where they were.
The Russians never attempted Polar routes. The closest they came was Greenland.
Perhaps someone knows the details better and would care to post.
73 posted on
03/15/2007 6:31:30 PM PDT by
Prost1
(Fair and Unbiased as always!)
To: IonImplantGuru
"And these aircraft are HOW expensive?"
100 Million each. Then again, we spent how many billion to send a probe to Mars and they forgot to convert feet to meters?
74 posted on
03/15/2007 6:32:13 PM PDT by
EQAndyBuzz
(The Clintons: A Malignant Malfeasance of the Most Morbid)
To: IonImplantGuru
In the world of aircraft and aviation weapons systems test and evaluation, the testers always insist on flying:
Across the poles
Across the equator
Across the International Date Line
Across the Prime Meridian
In my 28 years in the business, every Program Manager, Program Executive Officer, and Systems Commander insists on deleting those test requirements as unnecessary and too expensive.
As a result, what should have been caught in a very early Developmental test event, is detected after fielding or in a Follow-on Test and Evaluation (FOT&E) event.
Invariably, it is a divide by zero problem with a trigonometric function.
We never learn....
To: IonImplantGuru
Must be runnin' Windoze Vista.
86 posted on
03/15/2007 8:35:29 PM PDT by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: IonImplantGuru
Why does a plane need to know the local date?
89 posted on
03/15/2007 8:51:57 PM PDT by
Sloth
(The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
To: IonImplantGuru
Think how long and hard it was to get B-29s that flew right. Then we had to figure out HOW to use them.
95 posted on
03/15/2007 9:54:38 PM PDT by
RobbyS
( CHIRHO)
To: IonImplantGuru
well, at least they discovered the problem prior to using them in a wartime situation.
Carolyn
126 posted on
03/16/2007 6:21:36 AM PDT by
CDHart
("It's too late to work within the system and too early to shoot the b@#$%^&s."--Claire Wolfe)
To: IonImplantGuru
These are very complex aircraft. Projects have issues and this issue, thankfully, did not kill anyone. I am sure this is fixed and we are moving on. Why does everyone expect perfection with every American endevor. Life is about challanges and how we deal with our mistakes is at least as important as how we deal with our successes.
To: IonImplantGuru
Hmmm...they're not using UT (Greenwich)?
149 posted on
03/16/2007 9:58:36 AM PDT by
skinkinthegrass
( just b/c, you suffer from paranoia, doesn't mean they're not out to get you. :^)
To: nnn0jeh
154 posted on
03/16/2007 5:26:00 PM PDT by
kalee
(The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we write in marble. JHuett)
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