worked on a Beech Stagger Wing... mounted a transponder under the back seat... the control box on the instrument panel.. wouldn't work... did all kinds of tests... wooden airplane no common ground from instrument panel to frame of airplane
McClellan AFB 5 miles east of Sacramento Metro..as a controller we always watched planes coming in from NE..
when they lined up on MCC "United 123, start your right turn now to enter base leg for rwy 16" always happened at night... you'd see those landing lights turn toward SMF... pilots would usually call on phone and thank us..
Boeing going down the Douglas path... don't design anything new..keep modifying existing planes...didn't turn out well for Douglas DC10 to MD11... Dc9 to MD80 to MD90...
old line...can't make a purse out of a pigs ear... never to imply the 737 is a pig...fine aircraft but.. something NEW is needed if they're to survive... 737MAX and 777-900 not gonna do it for them
old guy... always appreciated having 4 on the wing rather than 2... flew Lockheed Constellations and definitely needed 4 in the old days... especially over the oceans... but, the damn turbines are so reliable now
15 years so the Russians and Chinese know everything about it... Didn't this start out as a Lightweight all purpose fighter to replace the F16? Think that when the AF discovered they weren't gonna get any other fighter for awhile they loaded it up with everything they could.. kept changing it...adding things.. Lockheed? went along but I think the AF tried to make..ah..ah.. "a purse out of a pig's ear"
