SurelySerious

I don’t care if they fly a LOC or LPV, but radio navaids in the NAS are a dying breed, and 6-9 times out of 10 you get an RNAV SID/STAR you can’t comply with or find a field you want to go to that isn’t compatible. “Unable, vectors to final” sure, but complying with RNAV stuff would be nice.

As much as John McCain did in his time, he was a loud voice against a lot of military compensation. “we didn’t need this kind of money to be patriotic back in my day” is what I took away from his position and lobbying on all those items.

It’s not for lack of trying; maybe the BUFFs need a new plan of attack (other than R), but USAFE was not game for it the last few times they were in the UK.

The AF is 100% still in RNAV 2004

With the second seat, they probably have lots of capacity.

Allegedly the airframes are at the end if their service life, so maintaining that fraction of the per flight hour cost would require acquiring a new airframe.

Let alone making a case to Congress to increase the maximum amount that was set in the, what, 1990s?

I took it more to mean aircrew are not the only people who run the engines, but yeah let mx do mx runs.

Or the maintainers propped it up there after the crew hopped up inside. It’s happened with a mx laptop in the wheel well of a different global strike platform within the last few years.

It seems to be the only political stance she has keeping her afloat.

It’s the charging time, that’s the impractical part.

No, I’m saying he’s just an opportunist with a vision and an empty market trying to make a monopoly. Also, 350 miles doesn’t even get you halfway across Texas, so it’s not like this is some hurculean distance to want to drive without having to sit for 96 minutes waiting for a vehicle to charge.

The political identity of the technology isn’t capable of doing the same thing as what it’s trying to replace yet? Hopefully Elon’s trying to work towards the weaknesses of what he currently has, but let’s not kid ourselves that he’s just some environmental altruist; his goal is to grab as much market share as possible in a new area before anyone else gets a good foothold.

It’s not inevitable that it will never charge as fast as a fill up, they just haven’t figured it out yet. It’s not ready to replace ICE.

The tech isn’t ready. I’m not spending 96 minutes at a time on a road trip charging a car. Get back to me whet it’s 5 minutes.

Charging stations the grid can’t support don’t fix the 96 minutes it takes to charge the vehicle. Also the more I read about this “infrastructure” bill, the more it sounds like New Green Deal...

Truth. Even our trainers, whose primary mission is flying in the NAS can’t. #acquisitionswin

That just highlights that the tech isn’t ready for prime time.

*than the government is willing to pay for Auto thrust reduction would 100% solve the problem, works with the C-130J, too. Whether the AF is willing to fork over money to have the FADECs do their thing is another matter. And that’s also why they’re keeping 8 engines. Changing to 4 would be a TON of engineering work for the pylons and subsystems etc they’re not interested in. They’re barely interested in doing the work to make the engineering for a nearly similarly sized engine work.

Plus or minus the Blue Angels footage.

VA hospitals were getting marginally efficient at care, so the terrorists had to knock it back down to deplorable.

So the there’s also less engineering work to do with keeping 8 similarly sized engines when you consider all the hydro subsystems etc., although figuring out how to deliver the power with modern gens has been an issue they have worked through. Clark wrt more thrust, that’s actually not a good thing. Would over stress the wing spars etc. It’s never a thrust limited airplane; there’s virtually no condition heavyweight where more thrust is needed. Control authority and steel brakes are the limiting factors.

Banging a subordinate? Sounds like something you’d expect a leader to be fired for.

That was also phenomenal.