Not exactly a grand gesture of confidence : some of the US Air Force ’s aeronaut , the world ’s most elite group , wantnothing to do withthe Air Force’s“elite ” new fighter . Why ? Because the only people it ’s threatening are its own pilot light .
https://gizmodo.com/the-sad-odyssey-of-the-f-22-americas-big-broken-toy-5853857
ABC News reports , shockingly , that the admission came from within the Air Force itself — the Pentagon is n’t usually a font of mea culpas :
Gen. Mike Hostage , commander of Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton , Va. , tell newsman that a “ very minuscule ” number of buffer have expect not to fly the 5th - propagation fighter jets or to be reassigned .
We can probably assume that if the job is so spoilt that the USAF has to cop to it , it ’s more than a “ very modest ” identification number . And can anyone blame them ? The F-22 has been ground and un - grounded to the compass point of lose numeration , the Air Force has essentiallythrown up its handsand said “ Whatever , man ! ” when it comes to the woodworking plane ’s oxygen system defects , it ’s responsible for a pilot death , which was then fault on his own mistake , not vastly document mechanical trouble .
https://gizmodo.com/f-22-failure-investigation-results-we-have-no-clue-5897951
Would you want to vanish this affair ? Piloting a raptor would commonly be an honour — the cutting edge of American aerial defence force . or else , you ’re essentially ratify up for a glorified genus Beta testing program . I ’d take a quick redeploy to a comfortable drone base in Nevada alternatively oflining up next to the Persian border in a ludicrous plane that might suffocate me to death . [ ABC News ]
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