![]() 11/29/2019 at 11:26 • Filed to: Planelopnik | ![]() | ![]() |
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?
![]() 11/29/2019 at 12:05 |
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In slightly related news:
11/29/2019 at 12:11 |
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Hmmm, interesting...
![]() 11/29/2019 at 12:18 |
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![]() 11/29/2019 at 12:27 |
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Oof, I know that futility.
![]() 11/29/2019 at 12:30 |
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Damn. We got:
Instead of:
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. ;-)
![]() 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.
![]() 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.