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a major reason for the Typhoon not benefiting of economy of scale while being ordered in quite significant numbers (for a european aircraft, that is) was the fact that every partner nation wanted (and got) its own assembly chain… So if spaniards order more Typhoons, they’ll build them locally, just like the british would for and RAF order, germans for Luftwaffe order or italians for Aeronautica Militare order…

a rapid source (not always the most acurate, but in this case seems to be quite correct is wikipedia..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofi…tion_and_costs

and precisely::

“The Eurofighter Typhoon is unique in modern combat aircraft in that there are four separate assembly lines. Each partner company assembles its own national aircraft, but builds the same parts for all aircraft (including exports); Premium AEROTEC (main centre fuselage^[41]), EADS CASA (right wing, leading edge slats), BAE Systems (front fuselage (including foreplanes), canopy, dorsal spine, tail fin, inboard flaperons, rear fuselage section) and Leonardo (left wing, outboard flaperons, rear fuselage sections).”

you know that the F-16 was built on a same model, right? Many assembly or sub-assembly lines were located at partner location. I don’t think that the economy of scale has ever been mentioned as being… altered to the point of compromising the program.

The idea is where you source your components, how many of them and at what quality. The assembly line dissemination was only (probably) just one part of a the overall problem. The disaster with Airbus Puma gear boxes is the perfect example (they had two locations at a lower cost but with a horrendous quality discrepancy (I am always baffled that this has not led to any criminal investigation) ).

the Su-11 is a Mach2+ interceptor.

rgrt

the so called “petal turn”. That is a yawing maneuver, that is all I said.

isn’t it said “peDal turn”?

Maybe it’s because the Russian media are very much infiltrated in the Fr Press. :rolleyes:

I choose to post for once the RT news brief because it was the one that day that gave more details about the “age of the captain”. Don’t see trough further than that.

Northrop Receives $104M IDIQ to Supply Helicopter Mission Computers to USMC, DLA & Bahrain

Well, everybody that is interested by flying “his/her” plane would have found them (the ASRS reports). It is noteworthy that pilot are complaining that someone with the sole knowledge of piloting a jet would be required in front (particularly about #4)… I don’t want to be hard but the the MCAS was something that everybody should have known if in charge. It’s a really basic system (iterated you would say… perhaps) that have been among jet aviation since the age of the B-47 (1947+).

IMOHO there is only shame to claim for any pilot that persist to go in that direction.