Alright, you lazy sodomites, the link to
our previous item on the USAF changing its mission (& culture). And for sods too lazy to click there & click again to the inspiration, here's the Matty Y.
original.
Now, from TIME, we see the Air Force going
back, back, back ...
[Cancelling the F-22] sent an unmistakable message to the two new top Air Force officials Gates recently appointed, and now the service is seeking 100 slower, lower-flying and far cheaper airplanes — most likely prop-driven — that it can use to kill insurgents today and use to train local pilots — such as Afghans or Iraqis — tomorrow.
Here's a shot of one of the possible candidates. Judging from the lines of this beauty, we wonder why they don't pull out the plans for a P-51 Mustang & build a few.
Possibly because the P-51 may be too fast for the job of
murdering civilians "killing insurgents."
sometimes you have to kill civilians with the plane of many parts (Mustang body, Corsair wings)that you have, not the plane of many parts (F1-11, Mirage, Boeing P-26)that you want.
ReplyDeleteNow the P-26, that's what you need in terms of low flying and slower.
Flight Editor Fears:
ReplyDeleteWe've probably lost the technology to make huge-ass radial engines like that.
We wonder how that puppy flies w/ those Corsair wings.
Corsairs did Ok with them. I guess a lot depends on the type of glue you use to put them on the Mustang body.
ReplyDeleteSolvent & Huffing Editor Declares:
ReplyDeleteThe type of glue is very, very important. Very.
Remember there is that huge field of no longer used planes out in Arizona or somewhere? Even as we speak, skilled gluers will be picking over the wreckage making new aircraft to become strike force components in the War of Terror.
ReplyDeleteNational Security Editor Advises:
ReplyDeleteYes, Davis-Monthan AFB; it is in Ariz. Don't tell anyone though, it's a secret.
Psst Pssst you wanna buy some A4Skyhawks NZ has 'em going cheap.
ReplyDeleteSecond Amendment Editor Drools:
ReplyDeleteVery handy the next time the LAPD sends a helicopter gunship to orbit the bunker for three hours in the middle of the night.