Sometimes, the spin gets to be annoying.
a few excerpts, and my comments ...
By Andrea Shalal-Esa WASHINGTON | Mon Dec 17, 2012 3:57pm EST
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Air Force on Monday approved the formal start of pilot training on the A-model of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter at a Florida military base, paving the way for 36 expert pilots to be trained next year as instructors for the new stealth warplane.
Is that a new USAF designation? I know about Command Pilots, but Expert Pilots? Is the journo maybe laying it on a bit thick, or is this extracted from a USAF
PR release?
Rice said training pilots to fly the F-35 posed some unique challenges because it is the Air Force's most complex weapons system and there is a large degree of concurrency, or overlap, between development and production on the program
Maybe the pilots will be
experts after the training, then.
Sorry, but sometimes I get annoyed with the
PR machine.