We look forward to the rumoured sequel to Top Gun which will feature Tom Cruise trapped for five hours in his F-22 after which Nicole Kidman rolls up to tell "Maverick": "Don't you think this has gone on long enough? It's time for you to come out of the cockpit. You're not fooling anyone."
gauchogolfer said:I see a South Park episode being written as we speak....
Shamus said:LOL!! That is incredible.
The $180,000 dollar repair job wont hurt the budget too much though, considering the plane cost $134 mil.
Amazing!edesignuk said:
mad jew said:Surely he could just slam the big red EJECT button... He might have a bit of a headache for a few hours though.
Lord Blackadder said:Meh, people love to take a crack at defense spending, but if we ever need that aircraft nobody will be laughing anymore. Nothing else comes close to it in capability.
Lord Blackadder said:When I saw the title I thought a ground crewman had been ingested into the intake...that happens every now and then, mostly on carriers though.
Looks more to me like a laughing pelican.obeygiant said:that plane is wicked.. anyone seen the f-35 that can take off vertically and go supersonic?
http://www.jsf.mil/images/f35/f35_introduction_planes.jpg
it look a little like a duck
Lord Blackadder said:Meh, people love to take a crack at defense spending, but if we ever need that aircraft nobody will be laughing anymore. Nothing else comes close to it in capability.
When I saw the title I thought a ground crewman had been ingested into the intake...that happens every now and then, mostly on carriers though.
They certainly make more rugged ones. Russian planes are like tanks with wings. Reliable, maintainable, relatively inexpensive.blitzkrieg79 said:Meh, I think Russians make better war airplanes than Americans do
jsw said:They certainly make more rugged ones. Russian planes are like tanks with wings. Reliable, maintainable, relatively inexpensive.
jsw said:Looks more to me like a laughing pelican.
Military jets are cool. Using them? Not so cool. But the planes themselves are just stunning bits of work.
I believe they tried to save a few bucks and didn't purchase RaptorCare.telecomm said:This sounds like a manufacturing defect, so wouldn't it be covered by the warranty?
That made my day.jsw said:I believe they tried to save a few bucks and didn't purchase RaptorCare.
as the recipient of six replaced window regulators in my 2000 Jetta...Abstract said:^^That's because that part of the design was done courtesy of Volkswagen. It shares the same opening mechanism as the crappy power windows feature in 1998-2003 Jettas.