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On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:54:30 GMT, Vincent Brannigan
wrote: What you are missing is my response was simply to the claim that this was " the type of stuff that happens with any new aircraft." It's not a "new aircraft" "New" has nothing to do with age; it has everything to do with time in service. |
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On Mar 28, 8:38*am, Bill Kambic wrote:
On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:54:30 GMT, Vincent Brannigan wrote: What you are missing is my response was simply to the claim that this was " the type of stuff that happens with any new aircraft." It's not a "new aircraft" "New" has nothing to do with age; it has everything to do with time in service. Something Vkince and the anti V-22 crowd seem to ignore. |
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On Mar 28, 1:28*pm, Matt Wiser wrote:
On Mar 28, 8:38*am, Bill Kambic wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:54:30 GMT, Vincent Brannigan wrote: What you are missing is my response was simply to the claim that this was " the type of stuff that happens with any new aircraft." It's not a "new aircraft" "New" has nothing to do with age; it has everything to do with time in service. Something Vkince and the anti V-22 crowd seem to ignore. Twenty years of flight and still new. Interesting idea, stupid, but interesting. |
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Jack Linthicum wrote:
On Mar 28, 1:28 pm, Matt Wiser wrote: On Mar 28, 8:38 am, Bill Kambic wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:54:30 GMT, Vincent Brannigan wrote: What you are missing is my response was simply to the claim that this was " the type of stuff that happens with any new aircraft." It's not a "new aircraft" "New" has nothing to do with age; it has everything to do with time in service. Something Vkince and the anti V-22 crowd seem to ignore. Twenty years of flight and still new. Interesting idea, stupid, but interesting. I think "new" in this case is relatively low operational hours. I was in the first Air Force unit to get UH-60A which type the Army had already been flying for several years. Ours were new from the factory. I no longer recall the specifics, but the entire fleet, Army and Air Force, was grounded due to an Army mishap. The Air Force fleet, small as it was, was grounded for over a year. If memory serves it was over a year and a half. We had the helicopters a relatively short time before the grounding. H-60 is a much simpler system, but these things happen and we did wind up with a good helicopter. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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To Vkince and the rest of the anti-Osprey crowd, that alone justifies
cancellation. "Dan" wrote in message ... Jack Linthicum wrote: On Mar 28, 1:28 pm, Matt Wiser wrote: On Mar 28, 8:38 am, Bill Kambic wrote: On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:54:30 GMT, Vincent Brannigan wrote: What you are missing is my response was simply to the claim that this was " the type of stuff that happens with any new aircraft." It's not a "new aircraft" "New" has nothing to do with age; it has everything to do with time in service. Something Vkince and the anti V-22 crowd seem to ignore. Twenty years of flight and still new. Interesting idea, stupid, but interesting. I think "new" in this case is relatively low operational hours. I was in the first Air Force unit to get UH-60A which type the Army had already been flying for several years. Ours were new from the factory. I no longer recall the specifics, but the entire fleet, Army and Air Force, was grounded due to an Army mishap. The Air Force fleet, small as it was, was grounded for over a year. If memory serves it was over a year and a half. We had the helicopters a relatively short time before the grounding. H-60 is a much simpler system, but these things happen and we did wind up with a good helicopter. Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired |
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