F-35 training hazards

Eric Palmer | May 29, 2010
This from Inside Defense (www.insidedefense.com subscription)-

JSF Training Commander Confident He Will Get First F-35 Aircraft In Fall

EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, FL — The commander of the Joint Strike Fighter training wing is confident the Pentagon will receive its first F-35 jets this fall, leading to the graduation of the first cadre of pilots and maintainers next year.

This is how goofed up things are. Flight testing of the aircraft itself is way behind by over 1000 flights. Yet we are going to give a woefully under-tested aircraft to operational testers before they have a complete operators manual showing the performance limits of the aircraft. This means that the operational testers will get a very thin “Dash-1″ for one of the worlds most complex combat aircraft.

This is so stupid it stinks.

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