Posted on 01/19/2011 9:39:52 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
It’s not often the Pentagon’s top testers use the term “screech” to describe a problem with a weapons system, but that’s just what they are calling a problem with Pratt & Whitney’s engine for the Joint Strike Fighter.
“The [JSF] program began implementing plans to modify test aircraft to rectify the afterburner ‘screech’ problem, a problem that prevents the engine from sustaining full thrust. These modifications are necessary for the test aircraft to complete envelope expansion at the planned tempo,” said the annual report by Michael Gilmore, director of Operational Test and Evaluation. My colleagues at Defense News first reported the screech problem.
With the continuing political battle over funding for the F136, the screech may become a factor in the debate. However, GE’s often feisty spokesman, Rick Kennedy, was uncharacteristically soft-spoken in his email reply about how this would affect the program
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Screech problem —> WD-40.
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some kind of sonic resonance that they didn’t want, making the flame “flicker”?
Just keep throwing ca$h at the JSF. That will fix any & all perceived problems with this over priced, co$t climbing as I type, SINGLE engine, high ratio maintenance vrs. flight hours, piece of ___________ (fill in the blank.) At SOME point ya just have to realize it isn’t the save all aircraft it was touted as. With cost steadily rising and sagging/lagging progress schedules, at some point ya just gotta call a “boon-doggle” for what it is. This aircraft is a diaster waiting to happen and yet we continue to throw good money at it hoping for better result. Sounds like the definition of stupidity!
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