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lowflier03

lowflier03

So no $hit there I was
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Imagine being a test and eval pilot in those days. What an amazing, expansive variety of aircraft. In some ways its a damn shame that we don't actually have any real "need" for new airframes, or the competition of developers like in those days.

(And by need I mean the military actually acknowledging some of the shortcomings of our current airframes in certain areas. We all know no one is going to come out and admit that we might need something different than what we currently operate with the current political climate.)
 
jmcquate

jmcquate

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lowflier03 said:
Imagine being a test and eval pilot in those days. What an amazing, expansive variety of aircraft. In some ways its a damn shame that we don't actually have any real "need" for new airframes, or the competition of developers like in those days.

(And by need I mean the military actually acknowledging some of the shortcomings of our current airframes in certain areas. We all know no one is going to come out and admit that we might need something different than what we currently operate with the current political climate.)
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And a lot of smoking holes in the desert.
 
LFDtoUSMC

LFDtoUSMC

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lowflier03 said:
Imagine being a test and eval pilot in those days. What an amazing, expansive variety of aircraft. In some ways its a damn shame that we don't actually have any real "need" for new airframes, or the competition of developers like in those days.

(And by need I mean the military actually acknowledging some of the shortcomings of our current airframes in certain areas. We all know no one is going to come out and admit that we might need something different than what we currently operate with the current political climate.)
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If you havn't read YEAGER, I highly recommend it. Gen. Yeager goes into quite a lot of detail about his days of test/eval flying out at Muroc (now Edwards) AFB. Some of the stories he tells would land guys to jail these days.

http://www.amazon.com/Yeager-Autobi...6742/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1325463595&sr=8-1
 
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