Just read that the USAF had a nice experience with one of their new F-22 Raptors. It's canopy stuck shut at Langley AFB with the pilot inside. They had to use chainsaws to open it up. It cost them $182000 to fix

Got to love the US Military.

Can't live with them can't live without them

Ross

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hahaha...quality control...is not here

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Facta non verba. "Deeds, not words"

You Brits know you love us. Unfortunately a lot of other folks don't.

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You guys know how to spend a few dollars yourself !! At least the F-22 is kind of good looking. I should put this in the ugly airplane thread too.
http://www.spyflight.co.uk/Nim%20aew.htm

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Problem is they probably added the cost to the F-35 development list and us dumbies will end up paying for it!

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Whe're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ - 6 Australian Infantry Div, Bardia January 1941

You guys got burned buying F-111's you would think the goverment buyers would buy Russian instead or Swedish.

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In Finland two Hornets collided early May this year. Trying to play hide and seek up there?

Two Karelia Air Command’s F-18 Hornet air defense fighters on a training mission collided.

The pilots were uninjured, but the aircraft sustained damage. The canopy transparency of one aircraft disintegrated while the other jet lost a piece of 20 x 40 centimeters from the tip of the left vertical stabilizer.

http://www.ilmavoimat.fi/index_en.php

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wow...you would think they would see each other on radar...

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"Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -Winston Churchill

Pretty good bargain once they stayed in the air.

Still a quality strike bomber 30 years plus down the road

The F one-double one it is a lovely plane,
Flies at twice the speed of sound,
Scatters bombs like rain.
Wings go back & forward
Its the greatest thing around,
Its a pity that it isnt safe
To take them off the ground......

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Whe're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ - 6 Australian Infantry Div, Bardia January 1941

Cool poem ! I wish you guys could have bought a better and safer aircraft for all that money, perhaps some B-52's. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

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That is pocket change to an army. Those planes cost millions. Tho, how much were the chainsaws? It was probably in Alabama.

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"They couldnt possibly hit us from way ov..."

Its a song, I'll try to find the rest of it.

We didnt, and still dont, need B-52, B1 or B2's. Who do we need to nuke!! (Apart from New Zealand)

The F111 was the ideal aircraft for the strike role we needed, and I believe the USAF is still wishing it didnt scrap theirs, with the equivalent technology it would beat the Mud Hen into the ground.

They're built like Brick Dunnies too, last week a pilot landed one "wheels up" after the wheels fell off, someone forgot a split pin or similar. It'll be in the air again.

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Whe're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ - 6 Australian Infantry Div, Bardia January 1941

Those Aborigines have weapons of mass destruction and are planning to overthrow the government according to the CIA. You need to nuke them ! [img]tongue.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/bullet.gif[/img]

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Yeah, And we probably deserve it for the way we treated them.

But then we only followed the Colonial cleansing theories of our forefathers.

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Whe're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful wizard of OZ - 6 Australian Infantry Div, Bardia January 1941