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Old 6th Apr 2016, 11:51
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How about a moratorium on the use of "gas bag" and "snake oil"?

Or even a recognition that the hybrid idea (endorsed so far by LM and Selex-ES) might be worth exploring to see if it has value for up-to-200nm maritime patrol and point-to-point, no-roads cargo lift?

After all, even those who love the Harrier and don't think that the F-35B is an air pump peddled by lizard-lube marketeers, or that the V-22 is a worthless windmill touted by reptile-grease vendors, have to confess that many different ways to do those missions were invented and tested along the way.

Most of them failed...

The V/STOL Wheel

... but we didn't know which was going to fail and which was going to succeed until we put something in the air and tested it. And I'll bet you that many of the projects on the Wheel of Misfortune cost a good deal more, adjusted for inflation, than has been spent on hybrid LTA to date.
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