USAF feels Oleg's pain

[Flying Pencil]

Originally Posted by Azimech

Can you believe carmakers wish to delete the physical connections between steer-wheels and pedal-brakes? I'm no luddite, but this goes too far. In a car you don't have the time to switch on a backup like in a plane.

Those enormous amounts of hardware & software aren't exactly in the spirit of Kelly Johnson. Instead of having a few aircraft that are the most complicated and expensive but clearly superior, why not a whole bunch of cheaper and simpler craft to maintain numerical superiority?

Not a single of those jets can fly in space yet the Space Shuttle's software is incredibly tiny in comparison. Instead of all those fancy computerized gizmo's why not develop a plane that can fly to twice the altitude of your competition so you can again dictate any rules of engagement? Think the X15 had a computer on board?

I like computers, that's not it. But I rebuilt my own 25 year old car and thank myself, I can repair it all by myself. The only computers that thing has operate the digital dash and the radio.

Youd thunk!

Can you image BETA Testing that??

This is Test flight 23b turing to final 27R, lowering gear...
OMG!!! The display has Blue Screen of DeAtH!

Someone some where had a wild idea that instead of a lot of simple, cheap planes, we build a few jack-of-all planes with complex systems.

BTW, depending on when, you have less time to react in an aircraft system failure.

[Azimech]

Originally Posted by Flying Pencil

Youd thunk!

Can you image BETA Testing that??


Someone some where had a wild idea that instead of a lot of simple, cheap planes, we build a few jack-of-all planes with complex systems.

BTW, depending on when, you have less time to react in an aircraft system failure.

Probably, some idiots in the Air Force have no idea what it all means, and have been brainwashed with marketing slogans from the industry.

You know what Scotty used to say to Kirk? A phrase like "I'll need at least 6 hours to get it working again Cap'n!" Then he did it in 2, and made himself a name as a miracle worker. Who would know, he wrote the book on warp engine dynamics himself.

Now imagine the reverse, the Air Force wants software but the brass doesn't know sh*t about programming. Imagine the amounts of money is made by the industry, and how easy some men can be corrupted. Who can read through all that stuff anyway? It's not like someone can take a ruler to measure dimensions. It's like DNA, we've got a huge amount that is decribed as "junk" and no-one knows what it does. What if programmers have added huge amounts of code that doesn't do anything than point to dev>null and made a few intentional bugs while they where at it?