[JRandomFreeper]

We lost an enormous amount of flight test guys during the cold war. We were still fly-then-fix, then. Mach 1 was the holy grail. We lost one of 2 of the first flying wings after the war.

Certain folks are willing to hang it out on the line even without a terrible hot war going on. It's a mind-set. We had 'true grit' back then. Apparently, we don't now.

Frm. Sect. McNamara is pleased.

/johnny

[Locomotive Breath]

Sorry, I’d rather see a plane get busted on a computer before we put a highly trained pilot’s life at risk. We might need those guys to fight a war or something.

A whole lot of the problems that need to be solved can’t be solved in the air anyhow. You can’t fly then fix a fly-by-wire system because you can’t fly it in the first place.