It has more to do with who is paying for it. If the Saudis come in with a C-5 full of cash and ask us to build them an airplane, we’re going to do it. That money helps offset development cost for capabilities also used by the US, and we’d rather know exactly what they’re getting.

But but but what if the tail hook had caught a power line?

Having lived across the street from a guy that owned an AMC Eagle, I’m not surprised.

Fun for the flying parts, not so much for the acting/writing.

Don’t know about Osprey pilots, but the several USMC helicopter pilots I know have said, bailing out of a helicopter that is going into the water is “number 5 of your best three options.” The main point being, and they all agreed, once the hilicopter is touching waves, they will ride it out until the rotors stop…

I don’t have anything against the Bradley itself, the acquisition process was screwed up, but so was every major Army program since then. The Army is starting up a program to replace the 113, called Armored Multipurpose Vehicle (AMPV). One team, BAE Systems, wants to take the Army’s retired Bradleys and pull the…

Maybe the part where this was 100% human factors and not the aircraft. The only criticism of the aircraft in this was that it didn’t do enough to prevent the people involved from screwing up.

No K-7 Kalinin?

I just can’t believe that Italy thought they could replace this with the F-35.

Delta Comfort+ for one.

Valid points all. However...

using 90 GPH of $6/gallon aviation fuel

putting B52’s in to service as CAS platforms

They cancelled the Comanche but this thing is still bleeding the forces dry? Shit.

But it was cool to see the slat drop when he started really cranking on it about 4:15

Military pilot, airline pilot, other commercial pilot, private pilot?

For some reason I had it in my head that the deck issues were primarily a landing concern because vertical take offs will be extremely rare. Might be less of an issue if they could go to rolling landings, but I don’t know what that does for management of the deck space on a flat top gator.

Marketing exercise? The Brits are already just as pregnant with this as the US. This was actual testing.

I wonder what altitude (I can’t really tell from the video) they were at when this happened and why the lower guy decided not to cut away. If they were at an altitude where normal mortals would start a stack they should have been well above the safe cut away altitude. This, in theory, would have reduced the load on…

Oh, come on. I grant that his almost rabid F-35 hate calls into question his objectivity on the subject, but this isn’t simply a news aggregator site. He is genuninely adding editorial content in most cases and we should all expect some spin in these articles. At least he is backing his position with information and…