Oppo Gets It

"Jcarr" (jcarr) 11/29/2019 at 11:26 • Filed to: Planelopnik

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user314 > Jcarr 11/29/2019 at 11:44

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What might have been:

Can I just point out that the F-23A would be an absolute unit next to the F-22?

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 11/29/2019 at 12:05

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In slightly related news:

https://theaviationist.com/2019/11/27/the-northrop-yf-17-cobra-prototype-has-been-given-a-brand-new-paint-scheme-decals-and-top-gun-markings/

user314 > ttyymmnn 11/29/2019 at 12:11

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Hmmm, interesting...  

ttyymmnn > Jcarr 11/29/2019 at 12:18

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Jcarr > ttyymmnn 11/29/2019 at 12:27

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Oof, I know that futility.

VincentMalamute-Kim > Jcarr 11/29/2019 at 12:30

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Damn. We got:

Instead of:

user314 > ttyymmnn 11/29/2019 at 14:01

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My cousin is an airline pilot, his brother works with NASA’s wind tunnels in Cleveland, their dad was a mechanic for US Airways (going all the way back to their days as Piedmont , mind you) and I’m just an AvGeek. Every time we go t together we would start talking planes to the point that one of their wives or their sister starts rolling their eyes and saying “Blah-blah-blah planes!”,  at which point they’ll start talking cars instead. ;-)

ttyymmnn > user314 11/29/2019 at 14:07

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I am old enough to have flown Piedmont regularly back in the day. My brother and I used to fly unaccompanied between ORF and ORD, since our parents were divorced. IIRC, it was almost always Piedmont or UAL. 

coqui70 > Jcarr 11/29/2019 at 23:11

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It would have been faster, with better stealth, carry more ordnance and cost less. But the figher mafia wanted a replacement for the F-15, not a plane for the next likely war.