Originally Posted by
Turbine D
HH & Biggus,
Info on the B-52 fatigue life:
One B-52H was badly damaged a couple of years ago so another was brought out of the Arizona graveyard and refurbished to replace it.
I do think the USAF will get 1700 F-35s in the end. The Washington, DC Congressional folks will assure that happening. It is a political airplane where work and jobs were created in nearly every Congressional district. Any Congressman/woman that doesn't support it risks the tag of a job destroyer and probably will not get reelected, reelection happens to be their main focus year after year, everything else is secondary.
Ain't that the truth TD, ain't that the truth.....the military/industrial complex have [sic] done a good job with this one..