2 trillion dollars for a plane that can’t fly in rain.
2 trillion dollars for a plane that can’t fly in rain.
What kind of sorcery is this, we ask again?
The engineers must have been high on something strong,
To create a flying machine so horribly wrong!
You know how we all found out that Boeing had dry rotted from the inside because the 737 Max started falling apart? Whose to say that Lockheed hasn’t gone through exactly the same shit, but we just barely get glimpses of it through the smoke of classified documents.
You’d think that the F-35 Lightning II, being a Lightning-type Pokémon, could survive lighting attacks.
Something to do with being unable to make the fuel tanks inert. If you Google it there’s quite a lot about it. I’m no expert so I can’t tell you what that really means
I did google it, that’s why I was confused; https://www.defensenews.com/air/2024/04/02/f-35a-lightning-cleared-to-fly-in-lightning-for-first-time-in-4-years/
It’s about lightning, not rain, and only affects the A variant which is, at least in the US’ case, a bit over half of all variants.
Would this be called a ‘Boondoggle’?