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Originally Posted by RN7
Well I would think that the pilots are a bit more important than machines.
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Yes, they certainly are, which is why it's important to keep those highly trained and expensive assets in the air.
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Originally Posted by RN7
Thats F-16 there Legbreaker  |
Note the "etc"? I'm not talking about just one type of jet aircraft, I'm talking about them all.
If it takes say 500 man hours to build an F-18, 1,000 man hours for an F-22, and 300 man hours for an F-16, I know which one's more likely to see production ramped up in the latter half of 1997. You've got to keep pilots in the air even if it means a downgrade in overall aircraft performance. Chances are the enemy won't have a lot of their more advanced aircraft left either so the reduced performance
shouldn't be a major problem.