Posted on 11/18/2010 11:11:08 PM PST by ErnstStavroBlofeld
The Pratt & Whitney F135 short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant propulsion system took one more step toward government certification recently with the successful completion of one of the most rigorous, demanding tests in the entire qualification program. Pratt & Whitney is a United Technologies Corp.company.
The high temperature margin test which took place at Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) in Tennessee involves intentionally running the engine to turbine temperatures beyond design conditions while simultaneously operating the turbomachinery at or above 100 percent of design conditions
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So why does P&W continue with the testing? I read an article just last week that the gubermint has now cancelled the F35 versions for the Marines to replace the soon to be retired harriers in addition to cutting back on the Ospreys as well. Although it is seen as a pressure tact to get the Mariine Commandant to accept gays, they are still on the road to kill it.
Better reread that article. There is a nonbinding recommendation from a debt reduction commission to kill the F-35B and cut procurement numbers of the MV-22. That's quite a ways from Congress implementing such a recommendation.
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10-4. So a non-binding commission recommends it and the Congress skates from the heavy lifting by saying the professionals told us what to do, so we did it. Just like the Base Reclosure Commission was the bad guy. So what is to say that Obama just issues another EO on the advice of his Commission? It was their fault, not mine!
I personally beleive this whole issue is more to do with the gays in the military than anything else and because the Marines are not for it, then they will be made an example of under the cover of a non-binding recommendation.
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