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| Expensive to fly: The F22 | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 26 2011, 12:12 PM (259 Views) | |
| George K | Nov 26 2011, 12:12 PM Post #1 |
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http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htairfo/articles/20111126.aspx
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| The 89th Key | Nov 26 2011, 01:11 PM Post #2 |
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$44,000 per flight hour. Incredible. (And I looooooooooooove the plane) |
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| Dewey | Nov 26 2011, 01:35 PM Post #3 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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Translation: In peacetime, weaponry industries don't have the luxury of rushing unproven hardware into combat, using the members of the armed forces as expendable, low-cost test pilots and guinea pigs to do its debugging. I understand the realities of wartime, but while looking at the staggering costs, we also have to acknowledge what all that extra peacetime expenditure is really buying. Edit: and yeah - very cool plane... |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| 1hp | Nov 26 2011, 05:04 PM Post #4 |
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Fulla-Carp
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Somewhere I have a postcard that flew on the first test flight of the F22. I was working at Hughes Aircraft at the time and we were allowed to write postcards to ourselves, and they were carried on the first F22 flight then thrown in the mailbox............................... Now if I only knew what I did with the postcard. |
| There are 10 kinds of people in this world, those that understand binary and................ | |
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| The 89th Key | Nov 26 2011, 05:41 PM Post #5 |
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Here are some F-22 pics I took at the airshow in 2010:![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]()
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| George K | Nov 26 2011, 05:52 PM Post #6 |
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Is it really that big? |
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Dewey | Nov 26 2011, 05:59 PM Post #7 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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That's what... oh, never mind. |
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"By nature, i prefer brevity." - John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, p. 685. "Never waste your time trying to explain yourself to people who are committed to misunderstanding you." - Anonymous "Oh sure, every once in a while a turd floated by, but other than that it was just fine." - Joe A., 2011 I'll answer your other comments later, but my primary priority for the rest of the evening is to get drunk." - Klaus, 12/31/14 | |
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| Michael Scott | Nov 26 2011, 06:00 PM Post #8 |
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| George K | Nov 26 2011, 06:02 PM Post #9 |
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Finally
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A guide to GKSR: Click "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08 Nothing is as effective as homeopathy. I'd rather listen to an hour of Abba than an hour of The Beatles. - Klaus, 4/29/18 | |
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| Jolly | Nov 27 2011, 09:59 AM Post #10 |
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Geaux Tigers!
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The eternal question is how good is good enough? If the French had four times the number of this airplane available during the early days of the war: ![]() Would the battle for France been over as quickly as it was? |
| The main obstacle to a stable and just world order is the United States.- George Soros | |
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| Klaus | Nov 27 2011, 11:15 AM Post #11 |
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HOLY CARP!!!
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I wonder whether these are only the variable costs directly associated to the flight hour, or whether the fixed costs (buying price etc.) are factored into this figure. In the former case, $44K would be insane indeed. |
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