Posted on 07/29/2016 6:20:24 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Thank you Barack Hussein Soetoro 0dinga Soebarkah Gofukyourself 0bama, you worthless piece of dog turd.
Seems reasonable.
30 years... an upgrade is in order.
I guess they weren’t pulling enough g’s.
That he is.
I wonder what sort of quid pro quo for this deal was made.
Ah, just saw the Blue Angels’ first female pilot a year ago on youtube.
And the Fraud and co. will want to talk about this for the Queen’s flyover — in new jets.
Since the Blue Angels are and always have been marketing and recruitment tools, they should be flying the newest and best of the fleet. Amazing that they took so long to upgrade.
You don’t want to be stressing those old airframes too much.
$12 million? Uh is that the price without electronics and engines?
Still waiting for the cost benefit documentation that shows it is worthwhile to spend this money.
What are the specific benefits?
How many new recruits come in and at what cost?
Is this the best use of dollars?
I remember seeing them when I was a wee lad at the Selfridge ANG base airshow. I think it was Skyhawks at the time. Also got to see an A7, and other treats. Made me want to be a pilot when I grew up.
12 million is the price to take some Super Bugs already in the fleet and refit them as Blue Angel demonstration planes.
Why don’t you apply the same bean-counting attitude to TANF, SNAP, WIC, AFDC, Medicaid, and 0bamacare. Run that project to completion ... then come and talk about bean-counting the Navy to death.
A combination of aging airframes that need more TLC, difficulty finding parts that are no longer manufactured, and budget cuts have left Navy and Marine Corps Hornet squadrons struggling.
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A president who hates America has left them struggling.
Since the Blue Angels are and always have been marketing and recruitment tools, they should be flying the newest and best of the fleet.
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99.9% of the audience wouldn’t know the difference. As the article indicates the Blue Angels preferred the older aircraft for their agility. They don’t need all the equipment that makes them fighting machines.
The team chooses it next members and the female made the cut, she earned her spot.
$12 million is pocket change when it comes to a small fleet of jets.
It brings in millions of dollars just on the merchandise but also millions to every community that pays to host the Blue’s and all of the other acts. It is a very worth while goal and have recruited many top pilots because they saw the Blue Angels perform at an airshow.
You are correct however the problem still remains on getting old parts for currently flying aircraft.
After learning that 10% of Blue Angel pilots have died in accidents, I no longer enjoy the shows. It’s frankly immoral to ask some of our finest people to take chances like that for any purpose short of outright combat with the enemy. Much less entertainment.
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