not to that amount afaik

Again that “generation argument”. Actually we are speaking about survivability and mission capability. F-35 MAY show a gap in the future. Presently they are produced on a faster pace they can be retrofitted… In the end LM will be the only american fighter producer, and nearly killed every european builder. See potential consequences?

You know aswell as all of us here how this market was biased… US are world leaders in terms of open market except theirs.

In the 50’s the odds were even thinner that a small resurrected company would have play on par ten years after with the big US firms that cashed millions producing materials needed by the ally…

And believe it or not, with a rightful leadership, ingenuity and guts (and help from the US), that very same company produced one of the best selling fighter in the west hemisphere and began a success story on the BJ market( thx to Pan, Am interest)…

If you are going in the wrong direction, don’t blame the horse, the muddy trail or the signs somewhat drawn in the clouds… Blame the riders.

OMG! There’s a new mad theory for you! Tin foil hats every one!!
Rgds Cking

CKing that’s rather insulting.

I will remind you that to assess the truth in such event you’ve to turn and twist around what is plausible and then checked it out. That’s what I tried to do here. No alien, no meteor or whatever theory from me.

By the way thx for answering for the recorder. I shld have known that but it went out of my mind.

I believe that some pings were heard at a second location, but if ships start picking up pings in different areas it makes them less likely to be credible. Something else which springs to mind is that the cockpit voice recorder only records the last two hours of the flight, and if we had a ghost flight, the events leading up to the change in course will not show up. Authorities are going to have to review the recording time, which is presently limited due to pilot union pressure.

If the plane suffered a fire in the frwd section, wouldn’t it be plausible to see a dispersion of locators along its flight path. Could be interesting to plot all those signals on a map.

@Alex Smart: Did you get something near what you asked ?

@J Boyle : thx a lot. But the thread is huge and despite searching per date I wasn’t able to plot what I was looking for.

The USN needs a navalized engine. End of arguments. Some seems to forgot that very basic fact.

“we are flying the C/D avionic in front seat and the new avionic in Back seat” (on the 39-7 test article)…

Brilliant! Never heard such thing before. Someone know if this is commune practice?

Russian reconnaissance flights test Bulgaria’s Black Sea airspace

Russia may be deliberately provoking such flights to exhaust the flying capacity of Bulgaria and other’s Russian-made jets, Plevneliev said, adding that Romania, Turkey and Bulgaria should boost their cooperation in air policing.

Bulgaria and Roamania are pushing frwd a mutualisation of air policing cap to preserve their fleet potential

“At the moment, one Russian air plane forces the take-off of two Romanian, two Bulgarian and one Turkish planes. This is quite ineffective,” Plevneliev said [President and commander in chief of the Bulgarian army].

Sources:

http://sofiaglobe.com/

Reuter
Courrier International

ouch…. Gun on wrong side… But you’ll have to say that its the new secret DEW 😉 Nicely done otherwise!