The Off Topic Topic

[The Brain]

Also, we sure spend a lot of money on "survivability."  Remember when the best fighter plane on Earth cost about as much as maybe ten regular cars?>

That would be, "never"?

OK, fifty or sixty regular cars (P-51 unit cost $51,000 [not typo], 1940 Ford coupe [apparently "coupay," according to Gatsby and Bonnie and Clyde] about $1000).  You take my damned point.

Are you counting coupe?

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

OK, fifty or sixty regular cars (P-51 unit cost $51,000 [not typo], 1940 Ford coupe [apparently "coupay," according to Gatsby and Bonnie and Clyde] about $1000).  You take my damned point.

10 and 50 are significantly different multiples.  Plus, that is cherry-picking numbers from a period of rapid technological development in the platform:

P-40 (1941): $24,000 (nearly doubled to $44,000 just three years later)
P-51 (1945): $51,000
F-86E (1953): $220,000
F-100D (1957): $697,000

[mongers]

OK, fifty or sixty regular cars (P-51 unit cost $51,000 [not typo], 1940 Ford coupe [apparently "coupay," according to Gatsby and Bonnie and Clyde] about $1000).  You take my damned point.

10 and 50 are significantly different multiples.  Plus, that is cherry-picking numbers from a period of rapid technological development in the platform:

P-40 (1941): $24,000 (nearly doubled to $44,000 just three years later)
P-51 (1945): $51,000
F-86E (1953): $220,000
F-100D (1957): $697,000

What was that, one of those funny looking snout nosed Super Sabres ?

[CountDeMoney]

You gotta problem with Super Sabres? 

[derspiess]

LOL ITS NO HAWKER HUNTER MATE.

[mongers]

You gotta problem with Super Sabres? 

The didn't look too bad, a bit like a 50s british 2-door sports car as compared to the bus proportions of their successor the Thunderchief. 

Certainly uglier fighters/FBs of the time like the British Lightning:



but also more aesthetically pleasing ones like the Hunter:

[11B4V]

You gotta problem with Super Sabres? 

The didn't look too bad, a bit like a 50s british 2-door sports car as compared to the bus proportions of their successor the Thunderchief. 

Certainly uglier fighters/FBs of the time like the British Lightning:



but also more aesthetically pleasing ones like the Hunter:

How can you possibly put that ugly ass Lightning with a Hunter. You should be ashamed.

[CountDeMoney]

I'm sure if I worked on it, I could come up with an amputee joke about a Naval Air Arm without any.

LOL PURSER BOB

[Ideologue]

If King Crimson were an airplane?

[Admiral Yi]

One goofy Gulf state air force was still flying Hunters in S&T's Oil War.  2-1 space filler.

[CountDeMoney]

Wiki says they're still active with the Lebanese AF.  That must be a hell of a lot of parking tickets.

[Ed Anger]

Holy crap, an Oil War reference.

Yi gets extra respect and prestige.

[Admiral Yi]

Wiki says they're still active with the Lebanese AF.  That must be a hell of a lot of parking tickets.

I don't get it.

[CountDeMoney]

Wiki says they're still active with the Lebanese AF.  That must be a hell of a lot of parking tickets.

I don't get it.

Just don't imagine the LAF getting a whole lot of flight hours.

[11B4V]

You gotta problem with Super Sabres? 

These boys had some sack. F-100F