Nothing new about this, towards the end of World War 2 the military did the same thing, as late as 1948 they were still building and mothballing aircraft, many were flown from the assembly line to the crusher....1000’sas the aircraft companies were given Gov contracts and they couldn’t be canceled mid production.
The C-27J is a good little airplane.
What’s going on here is that these aircraft were originally to be bought by the U.S. Army for use as theater tactical lifters to take some strain off of their CH-47 fleet which were having to do all of the heavy lifting. The U.S. Air Force, being the precocious pricks that they are, threw a fit about the Army operating a serious fixed wing air asset so they finagled and got the project assigned to them. Now, the U.S. Air Force does want to do theater tactical and has no plans to actually help the Army so instead of putting these fine airplanes to use they are being stored.
Utter horse$hit.
The C-27J is a good little airplane.
What’s going on here is that these aircraft were originally to be bought by the U.S. Army for use as theater tactical lifters to take some strain off of their CH-47 fleet which were having to do all of the heavy lifting. The U.S. Air Force, being the precocious pricks that they are, threw a fit about the Army operating a serious fixed wing air asset so they finagled and got the project assigned to them. Now, the U.S. Air Force does not want to do theater tactical and has no plans to actually help the Army so instead of putting these fine airplanes to use they are being stored.
Utter horse$hit.