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Aging airplanes

It's all good. We'll just keep drinking the Kool-Aid that the F-35 is still "right on schedule". We should seriously get a side bet going on when the F-35B will actually hit the fleet.
 
Junior said:
It's all good. We'll just keep drinking the Kool-Aid that the F-35 is still "right on schedule". We should seriously get a side bet going on when the F-35B will actually hit the fleet.
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I'll take the day after forever and a day.
 
The program has to be on track. You can't spend $10M/day if you are behind, can you?
 
MasterBates said:
I think my 11 year old nephew will do the acceptance FCF on the 1st fleet F-35B when he is a LtCol TPS grad.
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No kidding. I was told by my recruiter, while going over the NFO training track, that by the time I got to VT-10 the T-2's would be gone and I'd be flying T-45's.... That was 1985 :eek:
 
Pugs said:
No kidding. I was told by my recruiter, while going over the NFO training track, that by the time I got to VT-10 the T-2's would be gone and I'd be flying T-45's.... That was 1985 :eek:
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Hey, they are finally starting to train instructors on the T-45.
 
Junior said:
It's all good. We'll just keep drinking the Kool-Aid that the F-35 is still "right on schedule". We should seriously get a side bet going on when the F-35B will actually hit the fleet.
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We are going to run out of airplanes by the time we are in production of the F-35.

At least the Navy has the Rhino to fill the gap. The AF has 2 operational (not test or training) squadrons of F-22s.

Pretty soon we will see ANG squadrons losing their airplanes due to the needs of the AD. (Or the thunderchickens, as what happened to the Ft Smith AK Viper unit)
 
Of course, the tanker replacement and subsequent scandals (jail terms included) might say something as well - at least if the subject is AF's relationship with Boeing.

I wish there were more choices in the upcoming competition: personally, I find it impossible to root for Airbus, but I hate to see Boeing get rich on this project in the end.
 
Flathatter13 said:
That is pretty interesting that the Tankers are the only airplane to never have been replaced in it's service life.

Guess that says something about the 707/720 airframe, at least for use as a tanker.
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So was the KC-10 an addition? Don't really know the drama that bert is speaking of, just curious how the KC-10's fit in w/ the fleets of -135s.
 
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