Originally Posted by
Foghorn Leghorn
Hmmm not really, it’s dishonest marketing. Just because others do it doesn’t make it right. This has nothing to do with trade brokerage or the sentiment you speak of. They’ve been telling customers they’ve got F-16s, done deal, no problem, we will give you demonstrations - when it quite simply isn’t the case. For reference, see the brochure Duck Dodgers presented.
I think you’ve argued your own point in your second paragraph; you’d have thought it was easy to move the jets around. It’s not and that’s been the problem and they’ve been caught out.
Hmm let's agree to disagree.
This behaviour pretty much par for the course in aerospace/defence - I've encountered all kinds of shysters and bluffers at the likes of DSEi, Farnborough, Le Bourget etc. It didn't take much to uncover their BS back then, and will be even easier now. All any savvy customer would need to do would be to request a demo, and their whole story would have collapsed. If any were mad enough to pay for a demo etc without some rudimentary due diligence, more fool them.
Anyhow it looks as if the deal may finally be done so lets see if they can do any business with their shiny old F16s.