Northrop repeatedly faked factory tests of LN-100 GPS systems, whistle-blower suit claims

Donaldson […] [,] plant manager at Northop’s facility in Salt Lake City, where the navigational systems are assembled and tested […] was demoted, he said, after he complained that employees were faking tests of the devices.

Rather than performing the required 10-minute test, Donaldson said, employees were saving time by skipping the test and indicating in paperwork that the device had passed.

He said that he alerted Glenn Kemp, his supervisor, and Ken Bishop, a human relations executive, about the problems, but plant employees continued to “manually insert spurious data causing a ‘pass’ reading.”

Source:
The LA Times

B52 carry drop tank. They simply don’t drop them because of structural benefits and cost.

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The drop test:

From an author’s point of view, the good side to this sort of low-circulation specialised publishing is that such expensive books are not widely available, so are unlikely to be ripped off by ‘a guy with a scanner’. As a result, the author gets a decent financial return for his or her work.

At the other end, there is plagiarism. You might escape to the “guy with a scanner” just to end up being plagiarized by “the guy in your client’s team”.

But putting the specialized troops the Pentagon calls “Joint Terminal Air Controllers,” or JTACs, into combat comes with a cost. “The problem with putting JTACs on the ground is that once you get American boots on the ground—and one of those guys gets captured and beheaded on national TV or media,” the A-10 pilot said.

There is a problem here with the US press. ISIS is using terror as a weapon of war:
– Instilling terror among civilians to keep them quite (we have not heard about some kind of resistance in the occupied territory despite the presence of opponents)
– Terror among local troops
– Terror among coalition decision makers

It is important to cut them out of this ressource and US media should take the lead into that (Major Media networks, Youtube/Facebook, Politicians and on a relatively lower level, the press). By forbidding themselves to mention the level of atrocity inflicted to any captured trooper or civilian hostage (but not on local population) they will behead IS strategy out of this plentiful resource.

Coming around a general agreement with a request for enforcement by laws agencies will add effects to that (no spill of horrific images or worded details for rate audience).

Source:

http://www.thedailybeast.com

My radar seeker is getting big return signal from some of the female pilots. I would put my boom into their fuel receptical any day of the week
More seriously if the women can tly as good or better than their male colleagues good for them.

At least, flying away from misogynistic comments proves to be harder (don’t soar on that one) 😉

All very true, but the original question was more in lines of “what aircraft could be supplied to Iraq, for them to fight IS?” IMHO B-1, B-52 and other big bombers and high tech equipment/payload are out of the question.

In fact, we can guess that te question has been already answered long before. The choice made by the coalition makes it as a fact: no plane should be supplied to Irak until Irak has a future as a democracy. In the waiting, the coalition stands ready to do the Air job even down to the bloody CAS.

This is a direct result of the internal politic of the past years. Irak is far more closer than Eu and the US that Afghanistan was.

Yes but at what speed do they are supposed to operate ? (OT I know but stll interesting in that context – ditto Plane or Helo against ISIS down low?)

The A-10 uses a Turbofan engine…http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_TF34

yes Nuno. But consider that the TF34 as far less outsourced electrical power potential than a CFM56 or alike.

Alos, the speed at wich the DIRCM operate on those application might be only approach and landing speed. Faster, probably means more power. You certainly don’t want your 10 to make a strafing run at those speed 😉