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Cat Mattress posted:It actually didn't, Boeing had to throw a tantrum to be declared the winner. No, I get it, that's where the bribery comment came from, but god drat has it been bad since Mazz fucked around with this message at 13:55 on Nov 14, 2019 |
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Mazz posted:No, I get it, that's where the bribery comment came from, but god drat has it been bad since Still hasn't stopped the 133d from flying the gently caress outta them up here. They are doing touch and goes and short field approaches every weekend now since August.
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Nov 14, 2019 15:44
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Mazz posted:I really wonder how the KC-46A actually beat the KC-45 a little bit more every day: We also don't like being beholden to foreign governments for strategic assets. Airbus was never going to actually be the supplier.
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Nov 15, 2019 03:26
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Godholio posted:We also don't like being beholden to foreign governments for strategic assets. Airbus was never going to actually be the supplier. I thought it was Northrop-Grumman pitch and that the actual airframes were going to be built in the US.
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Nov 15, 2019 03:31
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That was the play to get around it, but I was skeptical from the start that it would be enough (if enough assembly would even occur here). Airbus is still partially owned by several foreign governments.
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Which is worse: being beholden to (friendly) foreign governments or not actually having the tankers for an extra ~10 years Worth noting how almost nobody has chosen the kc-46 over the a330 tanker in countries where they have had a choice.
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Nov 15, 2019 04:35
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Is it too early to say that Boeing has forgotten how to make airplanes? Like their executives got so far up their own asses with corporate poo poo and buybacks and dividends that they rotted out the ability of the company to actually make a decent product?
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Only if you have access to a time machine
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LibCrusher posted:Is it too early to say that Boeing has forgotten how to make airplanes? Like their executives got so far up their own asses with corporate poo poo and buybacks and dividends that they rotted out the ability of the company to actually make a decent product? There's a compelling case that the McDonnell Douglas merger and breaking down the walls between the civilian and military programs caused the current sorry state of Boeing. I'm not sure I would hold out much hope that the current administration will pressure them in any way to significantly change anything.
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Mortabis posted:Which is worse: being beholden to (friendly) foreign governments or not actually having the tankers for an extra ~10 years Yeah the AF forgot to ask me before they decided.
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Impecable timing, shamelessly stolen from the Air Insanity thread:Cocoa Crispies posted:It’s heartbreaking. https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-airlines-managerial-revolution A long read that's entirely worth it. Boeing's MCAS, 349 heartbreaks - and how the company that bought McDouglas came to be heartbreak-Boeing.
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david_a posted:There's a compelling case that the McDonnell Douglas merger and breaking down the walls between the civilian and military programs caused the current sorry state of Boeing. I'm not sure I would hold out much hope that the current administration will pressure them in any way to significantly change anything. poo poo like this also helps that case along: https://www.seattletimes.com/busine...-to-machinists/ They had to phase out a set of manufacturing robots which they were going to replace a slew of machinists with but they ended up never working properly. Boeing are now throwing in the towel after years of making it work.
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david_a posted:There's a compelling case that the McDonnell Douglas merger and breaking down the walls between the civilian and military programs caused the current sorry state of Boeing. I'm not sure I would hold out much hope that the current administration will pressure them in any way to significantly change anything. Is this article actually true? I’ve always disliked how Norm Augustine is heralded as a thought leader in the defense world, the idea that he’s actually largely to blame for the M&A culture in defense leadership is convenient but seems like one of those it’s too good to be true scenarios. Edit: reading further this definitely smells like bullshit CarForumPoster fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Nov 15, 2019 |
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Impecable timing, shamelessly stolen from the Air Insanity thread: This was an excellent article, thanks for linking it here.
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CarForumPoster posted:Is this article actually true? I’ve always disliked how Norm Augustine is heralded as a thought leader in the defense world, the idea that he’s actually largely to blame for the M&A culture in defense leadership is convenient but seems like one of those it’s too good to be true scenarios. M&A in defense was inevitable simply because of the nature of the industry, not some force of personality.
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Impecable timing, shamelessly stolen from the Air Insanity thread: Didn’t even mention Boeing moving only the corporate HQ to Chicago, which was utterly insane.
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https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1195371851159093248 67 years ago, as big as fission bombs got. Would that have just been insane amounts of fallout? Wasn't the maximum efficiency of fission weapons somewhere around 20%?
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There would have been a stupendous amount of fallout, for an air burst. Even perfectly efficient fission is a huge mess, since each parent nucleus generates two generally fiercely radioactive daughter nuclei. Hard to say how it would compare to a ground burst though, which has all those bazillions of neutrons making friends with the nuclei in the ground.
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Talking about nuclear testing fallout, the LA Times has a great, and disturbing set, of articles about the impact of US nuclear tests on the Marshall Islands: https://www.latimes.com/projects/marshall-islands-nuclear-testing-sea-level-rise/ It is less of a focus but they do also mention how US army personnel were dragged in to do a lot of the cleanup without any proper precautions or PPE. They also mention in passing that the US also tested biological weapons there.
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Memento posted:https://twitter.com/AtomicAnalyst/status/1195371851159093248 the brits had a fission device that was close to 800kt, Orange Herald.
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thatbastardken posted:the brits had a fission device that was close to 800kt, Orange Herald. Orange Herald was a boosted fission device, though. Ivy King was still the largest  ~pure~ fission test.
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Isn't the secret sauce of teller-ulam design that the fusion stage is mostly just there to blast out so many neutrons that the unenriched uranium bomb casing fissions?
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I got a new camera lens. It's the Nellis air show weekend. These two things are not unrelated. (Also this thread needs more airpower.) [  Aggressors are cool. They even let the public vote on that new paint scheme and they didn't screw it up!
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BIG HEADLINE posted:Orange Herald was a boosted fission device, though. Ivy King was still the largest splitting hairs is pretty close splitting atoms, i guess
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wkarma posted:Aggressors are cool. They even let the public vote on that new paint scheme and they didn't screw it up! The new Aggressy McAggressorface paint scheme?
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It's called Wraith. Ghost is also pretty drat sick. Both were selected by polls.wkarma posted:I got a new camera lens. It's the Nellis air show weekend. These two things are not unrelated. (Also this thread needs more airpower.) Keep watching. WSINT starts this week too.
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Godholio posted:That was the play to get around it, but I was skeptical from the start that it would be enough (if enough assembly would even occur here). Airbus is still partially owned by several foreign governments. Airbus is currently assembling A320s in the US in the facility that was planned for the tanker contract. And is now also assembling A220s there as well.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Airbus is currently assembling A320s in the US in the facility that was planned for the tanker contract. And is now also assembling A220s there as well. They bailed out Bombardier by buying up the A220 program and giving it a US home at that factory, but this hadn't happened before the tanker contract so some skepticism is understandable. Today theres not really much doubt that Airbus could do that "easily". Ironically Boeing's tantrums about the A220 and the A330 MRTT might be making more US airlines going all in on Airbus like Delta seems to be more practical.
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I wonder if the Alaska execs who were all  about buying up all of Virgin America's Airbuses are all  now.
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hobbesmaster posted:They bailed out Bombardier by buying up the A220 program and giving it a US home at that factory, but this hadn't happened before the tanker contract so some skepticism is understandable. Today theres not really much doubt that Airbus could do that "easily". The A320 plant was a fallback plan when the tanker contract went to Boeing. With the governmental approvals and everything already in place for the tanker assembly, pivoting to civilian production stopped all that from going to waste.
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shame on an IGA posted:Isn't the secret sauce of teller-ulam design that the fusion stage is mostly just there to blast out so many neutrons that the unenriched uranium bomb casing fissions? No, not really. The big deal about the Teller-Ulam configuration is that you can actually ignite the fusion stage at all. With most of the big Cold War designs, yeah, most of the yield is from the neutrons off the fusion stage fast-fissioning the U238 tamper, but you need the fusion burn to generate all the neutrons to do that with.
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and if you use the Lament Configuration, you get severe radiation poisoning and then cenobites show up at the hospital
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Kesper North posted:Lament Configuration Is that seriously what it's called. That sounds like something from an edgy teenager's poetry.
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Don Gato posted:Is that seriously what it's called. That sounds like something from an edgy teenager's poetry. I have such sights to show you it's from the CLASSIC HORROR FILM Hellraiser
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TEST TYPE EVA-01 ABSOLUTE TERROR FIELD LAMENT CONFIGURATION TOKYO-3
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Don Gato posted:Is that seriously what it's called. That sounds like something from an edgy teenager's poetry. Jesus wept.
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aphid_licker posted:I have such sights to show you it's from the CLASSIC HORROR FILM Hellraiser That's what I get for late night drunk posting. I also haven't actually seen Hellraiser.
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Don Gato posted:That's what I get for late night drunk posting. Just about hit the report button.
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Photo dump time! Deal with it! All clicky-able. Some of my winners so far from Nellis AFB Airshow this year, in no particular order.                   
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