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Comments on: How Nice https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/06/03/how-nice/ On-line Opinion Magazine...OK, it's a blog Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:52:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Bryan https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/06/03/how-nice/comment-page-1/#comment-36936 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:52:42 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=4259#comment-36936 It’s a matter of scale, Jams. If it had worked, the Nimrod conversion would have saved money. Of course, that ignores the reality that old airframes have a tendency to fall out the air, like F-15C fighters after a couple of decades.

It’s the batch purchases that screw everything up. If they would add a few at a time, they could catch problems and fix them, but when you buy a lot of them all at once for “efficiency of scale” the problems just get worse.

Instead of one helicopter with problems, you have 8. You have to wonder about the testing program that missed these problems early in the development. It’s not like the Chinook is a new design.

]]> By: jams o donnell https://whynow.dumka.us/2008/06/03/how-nice/comment-page-1/#comment-36928 Wed, 04 Jun 2008 12:26:24 +0000 http://whynow.dumka.us/?p=4259#comment-36928 It’s been a titanic balls up but it has yet to eclipse the fiasco of trying to convert the Nimrod into an AEW aircraft. A billion or so pissed away and the RAF got the AWACS – Exactly what it should have purchased in the first place!

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