Could have done with some balance in that video rather than just the bits that went well in 2015.
Agreed. On the other hand this was a
PR video about the Pax River test team, not the airplane. They were rightly thumping their chests and saying "See what
we did?"
What about telling us about the other bits that didn't go so well, the test points that have been removed from the programme and the good stuff they're going to be doing to make good all of that?
Good question. Maybe the answer is that the point of this video was not to report on the status of the airplane, but to do a little cheerleading for the test team testing the airplane. And given that the slightest negative reporting gets twisted into certain doom and gloom for the airplane, for its operators, and for the nation buying it, I can understand a certain amount of reluctance. (witness the post immediately following this one, which makes the claim that these Pax River test folks are......surprise, surprise........bought and paid for stooges of LM.) Nevertheless, the program has been remarkably open in publicly reporting negatives, in my opinion for more open than any other developmental program.