You actually posted this in a thread about massive misspending and stupidity?

Buzz - I can tell you with certainty that there is systemic corruption in the defense acquisition world. I work auditing defense systems of many types and pentagon spending in general. I do this all day.

I agree with Buzz, education is definitely bad and should be stopped.

How is it irrelevant?

What is this anti-military nonsense? I bet he is some pinko commie liberal who never served a day for our country.

The actual line is, “First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?”, which DOESN’T MAKE A GODDAMN BIT OF SENSE. I can think of a half dozen cynicisms that could be joked about as a “first rule” in government spending; that one doesn’t even MEAN anything.

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Why build it once when you can build it twice for twice the price?

Loved the sound but yes we threw pistons and turbochargers on a regular basis :( I was a radar operator/ICT on EC and RC-121's in the 60's. Most memorable takeoff was from McDill AFB during the Cuban Missile crisis, as the pilot opened the throttles a pack of F-105's on the parallel runway hit the afterburners :)

Get in line, idiot.

I think that’s why the literally used to have engineers as a flight engineer. It took an incredible amount of knowlege and know how to keep those things in the air.

The engineer’s panel on the Connie is amazing. There’s selectors for engine number, then rotary knobs for cylinder number, I haven’t looked at it in years but presumably CHT, EGT, maybe intake vacuum, etc. I think on some version you could even scope the pattern of individual cylinders from the panel. Big job keeping…

It was Howard Hughes who was responsible for the Connie. Lockheed just took his money.

Ugh. Video recordings never get the sound of piston aviation engines right. You really need a professional sound recorder for that.

That sounds like the sound you hear when you know someone is headed straight to (Mad Max) Valhalla.

The Constellation - back when Lockheed was more interested in building great airplanes than pumping the government well dry.

Columbine, so named because it was First Lady Eisenhower’s favorite flower.

Damn that thing sounds like Freedom...

The first new FA article will be about the Triple T Tank.