How not to land your $35,000,000 aircraft.
Jul 26th 2010, 9:21 am
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Re: How not to land your $35,000,000 aircraft.
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Jul 30th 2010, 9:07 am
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Re: How not to land your $35,000,000 aircraft.
Jul 31st 2010, 2:34 pm
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Re: How not to land your $35,000,000 aircraft.
Turns out we don't want the CF18s any more, so guess they are going out with a bang. Looks like we're getting 65 F35s at a cost of $16billion.
Jul 31st 2010, 2:40 pm
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Re: How not to land your $35,000,000 aircraft.
Edit: It's 9 billion for the planes. The rest is a service contract, wow, glad that ain't mine to service.
IMO they should buy the Euro-fighter, because i like it better...LOL. They don't say what variant.
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Jul 31st 2010, 3:18 pm
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Re: How not to land your $35,000,000 aircraft.
My lad is dreaming that one day he will get to fly the real F35's, he will just have to make do with his foam RC one for now. He's a bit miffed they didn't get VTOL but like you said, no carriers here pal.
Aug 8th 2010, 6:53 am
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Re: How not to land your $35,000,000 aircraft.
Im ex RAF (no i wasn't a pilot before someone asks, if i was i pilot i'd have said was a pilot
) and I also recall being told 3 ejections and no more fast jet flying. Having said that if you ejected 3 times would you want to continue on fast jets.
Aug 8th 2010, 7:15 am
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Re: How not to land your $35,000,000 aircraft.
. In all services it depends on passing FTF. Every crew member has to go through a medical after ejecting. Even after punching out once, a pilot can be grounded or reassigned.
