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In aircraft years — how old is too old?
San Antonio Express News ^
| 16 April 2011
| Scott Mayerowitz
Posted on 04/17/2011 6:31:10 AM PDT by Racehorse
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To: Racehorse
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posted on
04/17/2011 7:32:33 AM PDT
by
mylife
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To: Jack Hydrazine
They also said the Shuttle would be cheap access to space but now a flight costs close to a billion dollars. All the Shuttle proponents did was lie through their teeth.Holy cow! You mean to tell me that over thirty years operating costs go up? Who knew. This is an outrage. I demand an investigation. /s
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posted on
04/17/2011 7:38:56 AM PDT
by
SunTzuWu
To: mylife; rellimpank
And how ‘bout them Warthogs? A-10 Thunderbolt: 1972 - 2028 (and beyond?).
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posted on
04/17/2011 7:41:30 AM PDT
by
Racehorse
(Always preach the Gospel . . . . Use words if necessary.)
To: Racehorse
I would love to fly one of them warties
They turn on a dime.
Breathtaking to see one flying sideways through a mountain pass laying down fire.
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posted on
04/17/2011 7:45:08 AM PDT
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mylife
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To: SunTzuWu
They said it was going to be much cheaper than even when the first flights took place. Even if you took into account 30 years of operating costs and compared those with an adjusted 30 year cost projection it was supposed to be much cheaper.
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posted on
04/17/2011 7:47:47 AM PDT
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Racehorse
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posted on
04/17/2011 7:48:31 AM PDT
by
mylife
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To: rellimpank
the B-52s apppear to be good for another fifty or soI *love* that band!
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posted on
04/17/2011 8:03:20 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(The Democrat Party is Communist. The Republican Party is Socialist. The Tea Party is Capitalist.)
To: Grut
Lol...I plumb forgot about that! But they LOOKED new!
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posted on
04/17/2011 8:34:23 AM PDT
by
rlmorel
(Capitalism is the Goose that lays The Golden Egg.)
To: Waverunner; BobL
--I doubt that it is politically possible to build a bomber any more--by the time the polliticians got through with it , it woouldn't fly-
-I'm reminded of the days when we were going to haul Alan Cranston's "nuclear freeze" in the B-1---
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posted on
04/17/2011 8:46:59 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: Waverunner; BobL
--I doubt that it is politically possible to build a bomber any more--by the time the polliticians got through with it , it wouldn't fly-
-I'm reminded of the days when we were going to haul Alan Cranston's "nuclear freeze" in the B-1---
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posted on
04/17/2011 8:47:36 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: Grut
Actually (at least back in the '70s), bringing a plane back from depot was scary, they were so buggy 1967-1968, all our F-100s went through that, 16D's,2 F's, with only a few minor blips. But, they were in pretty rough shape before they were reset. Believe they said they were 1,000 hrs. past their expected life. Left silver, came back camo.
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posted on
04/17/2011 8:48:21 AM PDT
by
Wilum
(Never loaded a nuke I didn't like)
To: mylife
Standing a top a mesa and watching a B-52 fly through a canyon is astounding.
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posted on
04/17/2011 8:51:13 AM PDT
by
razorback-bert
(Some days it's not worth chewing through the straps.)
To: Jack Hydrazine
When i was in jr high school i was told a shuttle would be taking off once a week.
Guess that never happened....
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posted on
04/17/2011 8:55:11 AM PDT
by
mowowie
To: Racehorse
The USMC's fleet of CH-46E's are all over 40 years old.
To: rlmorel
They do. Regularly scheduled depot-level maintenance.
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posted on
04/17/2011 9:09:31 AM PDT
by
Hulka
To: Waverunner
Actually, the NexGen long-range bomber is in the works.
AOA’s and RDT&E are in full swing.
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posted on
04/17/2011 9:11:08 AM PDT
by
Hulka
To: mylife
A-10s fly over our house three or four times a week. They appear to cue up on the new Hwy 5 bridge over Lake of the Ozarks.
To: Jack Hydrazine
Yup, and that was based upon multi-year contracts that congress quickly denied and cut-back. Therefore, you have a limited supplier-base relying on an uncertain customer that is experiencing drastic budget cuts, so the end result is fewer suppliers and increased prices.
Increased prices as a result of supply and demand as well as the suppliers having to go on “risk” for items that take years to procure and there may be no guarantee that the program would be alive, therefore, increased prices to cover possible cancellation and loss of up-front revenue.
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posted on
04/17/2011 9:16:00 AM PDT
by
Hulka
To: Eric in the Ozarks
I never get tired of watching them fly.
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posted on
04/17/2011 9:24:18 AM PDT
by
mylife
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To: razorback-bert
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04/17/2011 9:26:08 AM PDT
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mylife
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