From Flightglobal
“The engine is reliable, and we’ll continue trying to make it more reliable,” Bennett Croswell, president of P&W’s military engines business, told reporters on 27 April. Croswell acknowledges the accuracy of the GAO’s numbers, but says that report does not reflect the overall picture of the F135’s reliability record.
That is exactly what P&W said about the PW F100-PW-200 engine that powered the F-16A/B. What happened subsequently is history. The one thing about history is we learn we don't learn. Mr. Croswell apparently never studied the history of the F-16 Fighter and its initial single sourced engine.
The other business history lesson is that you never publicly criticize your customer whether you are President or not, especially when you say your deficient management systems don't represent the end product.
