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Originally Posted by North Beach Person
They will occasionally fly over my goose blind out of NAS PAX.
They still scare me. Any aircraft that it takes 25 years to figure out how to make it stop crashing and work right scares me.
Another example of spending so much money you can't cancel the program.
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A lot of the problems with the early test birds can be laid at the feet of the Squadron that was doing the implementation. The Sr Mgmt of the squadron was lying on the aircraft forms about preblem severity and what it took to repair them. Everything from signing off problems as 'entered in error' and 'CND' (Could not Duplicate) to pressuring junior members into not writing problems up and handling them 'informally'. I believe there eventually were some Courts Martial about it and some resignations and forced retirements.
This all caused false data to be collected which skewed the maintainability numbers. That causes false manning numbers among other things.
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