reply to post by C0bzz
How many airline pilots are ex mil school boy ? If they are ex mil there is no exit from official secrets .They are bound for life .
Nice try but as usual the armchair experts are blowing smoke to crawl up the ladder .
I dont need to keep a log (ho hum) . you guys and your 'by the book' professional banter !
And as for that wetdreamliner , its just a desperate attempt to make up lost ground to the new airbus , the CIA having failed to sabotage it like
they did concorde .
Carbon is notoriously brittle and has poor shock absorption . Rolls Royce went bust trying to make carbon turbine blades work.
The real future is titanium alloys ,which america does not have any hard cash left to purchase on the open market . The Russians on the other hand
have #loads of the stuff...
American aerospace is going down the toilet due to arrrogance ,greed ,incompetance and a chronic lack of homegrown talent .
half the reason for overreaching in Iraq was to save the defense industry from its own incompetence .
most all of their aerospace tech is stolen form russia and europe because they can never figure the hard stuff out for themselves .
The vaunted raptor is in fact over twenty years old , the design again a rip off from a foriegn power . Its been a disasterous failure in operations
,which is why 'officially' its still in the testing phase .
And it all boils back down to the US oil dollar . Holding back cleaner alternatives so that they can live in the past and blow smoke all over the
planet . What is it with american generals and their 'big cigars' anyway ?
Well now the almighty dollars spell is broken ,we can all look forward at least to embracing the alternatives that the the US corporate machine has
been stomping on for SO DAMN LONG .
[edit on 26-3-2009 by reconpilot]