Re: Boeing Begins Flight Testing F-22 Block 3S Avionics

["Kent Kinal" <kinalk@earthlink.net>]

Ken,
    Thanks forthe corrections.  I knew it was congressman, but was just a
little more tired than I thought.  Interesting article, hard to believe that
AF leadership isn't trusted on the Hill:>)  It never ceases to amaze me with
the bonehead stunts that come out of the SAF/AQ community that we get any
funding at all!!.  As I said will post article from early bird next week.

Kent
Ken Garlington wrote in message
>To be fair, he's always said that his goal is to make sure the F-22 is
>adequately tested before a production contract is ordered. Reasonable
people
>(and unreasonable people, for that matter) can disagree as to the optimum
>amount of testing. I think the real point Rep. (not Sen, by the way) Lewis
>was trying to make last year is that there's a lot of expensive fighter
>programs in the out years, and it's not at all clear that the budget will
>support all those programs. He didn't feel that the DoD was adequately
>addressing the issue, so he got their attention.
>
>Note that I'm not agreeing with his position, by the way.
>
>There's a pretty good interview with Rep. Lewis at
>
>http://www.afa.org/magazine/0200jerry.html
>
>that covers the same ground.
>
>One person who does appear to have changed his mind is Rep. Randy "Duke"
>Cunningham. Originally, he supported Rep. Lewis. After having flown in a
>chase plane during F-22 testing, he has since said he thinks we should buy
>more F-22s than currently planned.
>
>"Kent Kinal" <kinalk@earthlink.net> wrote in message
>news:BO5O4.1746$x4.49690@newsread1.prod.itd.earthlink.net...
>> I was perusing the on line Earlybirds today and noticed that there was a
>> quote from Sen Lewis which acknowledged the importance of the F-22 and
now
>> instead of wanting to kill it he wants to be sure that it stays on
>schedule
>> and performs as advertised.  Was going to post link but it's behind a Mil
>> server and won't let me in.  I'll post article next week.  Just found it
>an
>> interesting change of heart.  Wonder what the reason for his animosity
>> toward the program was and what caused the change??
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