Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Aviation Week tries to play nice. Amy (Wonder Woman) saves the day...again!
I once asked on the boards over at Aviation Week's blog Ares...how come you guys never report the good news on the F-35 program?
I was told (and I'm paraphrasing here) that we don't report the routine...only the important.
Well looks like the 'editorial' stance has changed. Wonder Woman (also known as Amy Butler) has two stories out on it today...
Check the stories out here and here.
This is tooo sweet. I would love to be a fly on the wall for those meetings! Lockheed Martin still should MAN UP AND CANCEL THEIR ADVERTISING....Ares declared war. Ares drew first blood. Time for Lockheed Martin to strike back!
UPDATE.
Sweetman's not happy. This is a comment that he left on Wonder Woman's story about staff changes..
Nothing confirms that the program is going tickety-boo like the second big management shake-up in seven months, bringing in a new deputy with no ties to Aeronautics, Fort Worth, Navair or USAF.Oh and if you're like me and have no idea what "tickety-boo" means then have no fear. The definition is here...
Told ya he wasn't happy!
Hawaii plays hardball...US Army play nice.
Read the entire article but if this doesn't highlight the issues with liberal states and military training then nothing will.The Army is shifting at least some high-altitude helicopter training from Hawaii to Colorado — at a taxpayer cost of up to $11 million — following an additional environmental review imposed by the state.The regulatory process has already delayed training by four months, creating a tight deadline for Wheeler Army Airfield pilots preparing for a yearlong deployment to Afghanistan in January.Now Gov. Neil Abercrombie has informed the Army it must conduct a state environmental assessment in addition to a federal environmental assessment to use six existing landing zones high on the slopes of Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa.
AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcat
The AgustaWestland AW159 Lynx Wildcat (previously called the Future Lynx) is an improved version of the Westland Super Lynx military helicopter.
The AW159 will serve in the battlefield utility, search and rescue and anti-surface warfare roles. The helicopter has been ordered for the British Army and Royal Navy. It is to enter service with the Army in 2014 and with the RN in 2015.
F-35C starts carrier suitability testing
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| NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md. -- Flown by test pilot Lt. Cmdr. Eric "Magic" Buus, F-35C test aircraft CF-2 lands at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in New Jersey June 25. CF-2 and the F-35 integrated test team from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md. are at the NAVAIR facility in Lakehurst for the first jet blast deflector (JBD) testing, in preparation for carrier shipboard testing in 2013. The team is at the JBD test facility to evaluate deck heating, JBD panel cooling, and vibro-acoustic, thermal, and hot-gas ingestion environments. The F-35C is the carrier variant of the three-service Joint Strike Fighter, and has larger wing surfaces and reinforced landing gear to perform in the demanding carrier environment. The F-35C and F-35B are undergoing test and evaluation at NAS Patuxent River prior to eventual delivery to the fleet. (Photo courtesy of Lockheed Martin) |
The F-35 is moving right along.
You know that certain parties (Sweetman...Wall...APA....fellow travelers) are banging there heads saying please make it stop!
I love it!
F-35 arrives at Lakehurst
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| F-35 carrier variant CF-2 flies to NAVAIR at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., from Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md., June 25 for Jet Blast Deflector testing. |
Russia's Army can't be in this bad a shape can it?
English Russia has a pretty damning photo expose' on the Russian Army. If things are this bad then the Russians are a threat only to themselves.
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