USAF feels Oleg's pain

[Flying Pencil]

Originally Posted by Azimech

Can you believe carmakers wish to delete the physical connections between steer-wheels and pedal-brakes? I'm no luddite, but this goes too far. In a car you don't have the time to switch on a backup like in a plane.

Those enormous amounts of hardware & software aren't exactly in the spirit of Kelly Johnson. Instead of having a few aircraft that are the most complicated and expensive but clearly superior, why not a whole bunch of cheaper and simpler craft to maintain numerical superiority?

Not a single of those jets can fly in space yet the Space Shuttle's software is incredibly tiny in comparison. Instead of all those fancy computerized gizmo's why not develop a plane that can fly to twice the altitude of your competition so you can again dictate any rules of engagement? Think the X15 had a computer on board?

I like computers, that's not it. But I rebuilt my own 25 year old car and thank myself, I can repair it all by myself. The only computers that thing has operate the digital dash and the radio.

Youd thunk!

Can you image BETA Testing that??

This is Test flight 23b turing to final 27R, lowering gear...
OMG!!! The display has Blue Screen of DeAtH!

Someone some where had a wild idea that instead of a lot of simple, cheap planes, we build a few jack-of-all planes with complex systems.

BTW, depending on when, you have less time to react in an aircraft system failure.