what is the meaning of FIAT?

“Let there be” in Latin. “Fiat lux” = “let there be light”

Each country is responsible for purchasing, storing and maintaining their own spares inventories. Those inventories are not shared between countries. Speculation that USAF has confiscated Poland’s spares is simply untrue because the spares for a new block 52+ will not fit the USAF’s older block 30/40 jets.

Every new user of a new airplane type goes through a learning process for maintaining their new fleet. During that learning period, which can be 2-3 years long, the maintainers will learn how to troubleshoot & maintain their new jets and the logisticians will learn the appropriate spares stock levels needed to support the fleet for the type of flying the Polish Air Force does.

What heppened to “this part is guaranteed to work for a kazillion hours?”. Starting from that assumption those logisticians planed for spares shopping. Maybe this is happening to the Poles. They were told that a certain part will work a certain amount of hours…and yet…it failed for some reason.

This reminds me of an ancient Vulcan saying: “Only Nixon could go to China” 😀

This reminds me of a scene from the movie “Exit Wounds”. Two guys go to buy a car and they find one that they like. One of them asks how much does it cost and the salesman says it costs 285k dollars (or an amount close to it…can`t remember exactly). The guy who asked jumps and says “For 285 it better s*ck and f*ck” (sorry for the language).

So is with F-35. For a 5th generation (as it is called) it better do all those things…otherwise they`d built a lemon.

Its not been fitted with any guards over the engine inlets. I thought they were virtually standard fit these days to prevent seabird ingestion ?

Great pics

Romanian Pumas don`t carry any filters or guards over the engine intakes. The only ones that I`ve seen with filters installed were the ones dispatched in Bosnia.

Nice. My birthday is on July 13th…nice present. Although, it looked better in the light grey paint scheme.

Sa fie intr-un ceas bun.

what it probably means is that it can keep a turn going at Mach 1.4 and 25 degrees AOA.

This I can understand.

Yes, the F-22 is flying level with the nose pitched up at twenty-five degrees

This I cannot understand if the plane is flying at M1.4. If it`s flying at 120 KIAS..then I can understand.

It can fly with the nose pitched up twenty-five degrees at Mach 1.4 also.

I just didn`t understand this. It can fly horisontaly at M1,4 with the nose pitched up at 25 degrees? Erhm, how exactly?