Very efficient. No operating costs, no repairs before retirement, just straight to the boneyard. Next year they can be chopped up and sold for scrap metal.
My guess is that there’s a fix in.
The AF will sell them as excess equipment to some Obama contributor for waaaay under costs, like a million or so per copy, so they can start their own cargo hauling company to funnel contributions to the DNC.....................
“Very efficient. No operating costs, no repairs before retirement, just straight to the boneyard. Next year they can be chopped up and sold for scrap metal.”
I have a more efficient idea yet - pay the manufacturers NOT to make aircraft. It is the ultimate in JIT manufacturing. Think how “green” that would be! This is not as crazy as it sounds, we have been doing the same in agriculture for decades, paying farmers not to plant crops.