Mongo,
1st off welcome back.
Secondly, thank you for the instruction about the tail rotor.
Thirdly, I was shocked and surprise that you took this position. As a retired military officer, I thought you would have agreed with Scout and Bullet. Time to stop speculation because of reasons we all understand....classified.
I do get and respect you have 6000 hours in a rotary airframe. However, as you stated it occurred decades ago. 20 yrs ago the 18 was the plane for the Navy. However, technology has surpassed it an the 35 is the plane now. What the 18 can do and the 35 are not even on the same plane.
I have written this post multiple times, edited, tried again, trying to insure that I don't insult you, your experience, or dedication. However, there is just no way to do that without stating what I stated.
Yes, I proudly say I am a wife, a retired wife
. I have no TS clearance, I have no clue of how to get a military airframe off the ground. I
all that you guys do. I respect your knowledge. I trust your information.
That being stated, I also have seen how airframes like the 111 or 117 get bone yarded and if the last plane you flew was the 111, the 22 or 35 would seem unfathomable when you took your fini flight 20 yrs ago.
To sit and say:
Mongo said:
the stealth H-60 was a Lockheed Martin design contracted to Boeing to install on a Sikorsky product. In itself, a recipe for disaster.
Hurts our troops, especially when you state:
Mongo said:
No access to classified information in twenty years so this is purely speculative. Just almost 6000 flight hours of flight time, the majority of it rotary.
JMPO, but our troops need to believe we have the technology.
Our candidates and cadets also need to understand that TS clearance for classified info remains that, classified, and we should not second guess those with these clearances with our personal opinions on info we do not have access to.
JMPO.
Again, welcome back. I respect your sacrifice to this country, but I wish you would have stated Scout and Bullet are correct, no need to discuss the helo since every airframe is classified regarding technology.
Let's be real 20 yrs ago could anyone envision a 3 D tv? How about an IPAD or POD? Of course not. Heck 20 yrs ago people couldn't imagine satellite radio. That is just technology. In case posters don't know a lot of that comes from the military....take a guess where ABS brakes, computer chips in your car, Navigational systems, etc, etc, etc came from. Most came from the technology that was tested in the military. HUD's in the Vette were in jets yrs before GM decided to put them there back in 00.