{"id":188033,"date":"2010-12-25T07:11:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-25T12:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/25\/this-has-fiasco-written-all-over-it-2\/"},"modified":"2010-12-25T07:11:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-25T12:11:00","slug":"this-has-fiasco-written-all-over-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/12\/25\/this-has-fiasco-written-all-over-it-2\/","title":{"rendered":"This Has Fiasco Written All Over It"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img20.imageshack.us\/img20\/1803\/b08ef73e5bba426fa6cb8d4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img20.imageshack.us\/img20\/1803\/b08ef73e5bba426fa6cb8d4.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Well, it&#8217;s not quite this bad<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img824.imageshack.us\/img824\/3482\/b7a37b37defb4164856d43b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img824.imageshack.us\/img824\/3482\/b7a37b37defb4164856d43b.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>We have the Army Tilt-Rotor<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/img810.imageshack.us\/img810\/9004\/4fac8ac1541b44509a5e7e2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img810.imageshack.us\/img810\/9004\/4fac8ac1541b44509a5e7e2.jpg\" width=\"390\" \/><\/a><br \/>and the USAF STOVL Hoover<\/span><\/div>\n<p>So, the USAF wants a STOL cargo aircraft with greater capabilities than the C-130, while the Army wants a VTOL cargo aircraft with roughly the carrying capacity of the C-130.<\/p>\n<p>Well, it appears that they are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/aviation_week\/on_space_and_technology\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;newspaperUserId=a68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9c&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3Aa68cb417-3364-4fbf-a9dd-4feda680ec9cPost%3A64495c60-65ef-4e6d-be20-3797e1323a44&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest\">looking at a common airframe intended to do both<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So a jack of no trades and a master of none, because when you combine these disparate needs, and requirements, you end up with something that just does not work.<\/p>\n<p>See the cancelled Naval F-111B, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m with Bill Sweetman on this, &#8220;The people promoting these abominations are secretly working for Airbus Military.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s not quite this bad We have the Army Tilt-Rotor and the USAF STOVL Hoover So, the USAF wants a STOL cargo aircraft with greater capabilities than the C-130, while the Army wants a VTOL cargo aircraft with roughly the carrying capacity of the C-130. Well, it appears that they are looking at a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1006,982,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-stupid","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188033"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188033\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}