Focus on Aircraft Production, 1958
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"We can't go on throwing money down the drain."
Oh yes we can -- and we did (UK example: the TSR-2) -- and we will...
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Look at what they've done to Nimrod another waste of a genius aircraft and stability of our defence
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"But dont worry you can always increase taxation" hahaha!!!
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Socialism sucks monkey balls!!!
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I once met a pilot who flew the Blackburn Firebrand. A victim of ministry despotism of the time, he was ordered to test fly the new aircraft with a massive torpedo underslung. To gain the lift required from the load, on the short wingspan available, the massive engine torque applied quite simply defeated any wing ability to resist, resulting in an uncontrollable roll as he climbed. Sensibly, he jettisoned the problem (over the Wash as it happened).
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@thisisnev And the rest, more like half a century.
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gggg
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Osprey has been in development for a quarter of a century! How many more personnel have to die in the damned thing before it's scrapped as a fundamentally bad design?
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I flew in the Viscount many years ago, under BEA.. A very nice aeroplane it was.
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It's too bad tax payers had to fund these things. Any time you put the gov't in charge (ANY gov't) it's going to use the money inefficiently. Using investors and private funds, the costs are usually watched much closer. If the idea is bad or even risky from the beginning, it just would not get the funding in the first place. Taxpayers have no say where they money is going.
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If you take the long view then the money wasn't wasted because the technology learned was used in other industries.
Bullettube 3 years ago 5
Hardly a death-trap. Death-trap would be the Blackburn Firebrand, where the service deliberately discredited pilots who spoke out about its deadly vices. Osprey is just something that has never actually seen service before. If we passed up on it, we might as well passed up all new designs and we'd still be flying cloth covered biplanes.
evilintel 4 years ago 3