Aviation Geeks unite?! Anybody else care about planes here?
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If it's a piloted aircraft, then by definition it's not a drone.
Fixed that for you.
The flight controls are not that different to a drone so my opinion is it's very much like an upscaled drone with passenger seat
While that may be true, the FAA doesn't consider it one due to being piloted.
That's true and somewhat a stumbling block right now for certification
Ask the FAA, I'm sure they're still figuring that aspect out.
Its part 103 ultralight. No license needed.
I've long called the F-35 the joint strike turkey.
now the US Government Accountability Office has come out with damning reported on the program as it continues to fall behind with block 4 aircraft which are supposed to addressing current emerging threats won't be ready for6 years and will cost more to delivery less.
and the manufacturers are still making a pretty big chunk of change. under the contract they be receive incentive payments to get things moving along.
so as the program slip behinds they've received multiple millions in payments.
and even when they've been fined $5mil per aircraft that has been delivered but not combat capable (will be used for training and avoids Lockheed-Martin having nearly 100 aircraft at it's facilties) that's small percentage of the cost.
now the US Government Accountability Office has come out with damning reported on the program as it continues to fall behind with block 4 aircraft which are supposed to addressing current emerging threats won't be ready for6 years and will cost more to delivery less.
and the manufacturers are still making a pretty big chunk of change. under the contract they be receive incentive payments to get things moving along.
so as the program slip behinds they've received multiple millions in payments.
and even when they've been fined $5mil per aircraft that has been delivered but not combat capable (will be used for training and avoids Lockheed-Martin having nearly 100 aircraft at it's facilties) that's small percentage of the cost.
Blame the DoD's Sole Supplier rule when it comes to manufacturing Acquisition.
The Government / DoD awards "Sole Supplier" as part of the rule making process instead of including everybody into the manufacturing chain to work on the Winning Design which baffles me.
There's no competition between manufacturers to get things out on time along with seperating parts of the update / design group from manufacturing where necessary.
Defense Contracting is always a large bureaucratic mess, but it doesn't help when Congress likes to stick in all sorts of extra Bureaucracy around it as well.
