[jettester]

You know, removing air-conditioning is not like changing the material of the seat covers (a rather simple change). Cooling, especially the kind that is tapped for avionics, is critical and should have been caught before the flight testing phase. If the avionics suite changed drastically over the commercial variant, a full-scale mock-up to test and measure cooling and temperature would have found this out earlier. Or, if the equipment is similar, the Army (or, much better the manufacturer) should have paid to gut a commercial version of its’ air-conditioning to get the temperature impacts way before the flight testing of the production models. The Program Manager for both the contractor and the Army ought to be fired or sweeping the parking lots over this one.

[decimon]

The Program Manager for both the contractor and the Army ought to be fired or sweeping the parking lots over this one.

There's a better chance that I'll be sweeping around his Lexus.