Did I hear correctly that the one of the first two P-8 organizations to go through an AMI got shut down for some period of time?
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First flight of the P-8A Poseidon and all things related to transition
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Nice to see 434 in the air, moving along from when I visited the Boeing plant in September and 432 was still in production!
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Don't know, hadn't heard that, but it wouldn't surprise me.
434 says NAVY on the fuselage, but has N5320S instead of a BUNO. Does that mean it hasn't been turned over to the Navy (yet)?
BzB
BzB
434 says NAVY on the fuselage, but has N5320S instead of a BUNO. Does that mean it hasn't been turned over to the Navy (yet)?
BzB
Generic Boeing test reg that is used for flight test purposes. They get recycled often. Airbus does the same.
Snakes on a P-8? Are the Indians planning on using it for CAS
Quickstrike mines.
Learn something new every day.
Snakes on a P-8? Are the Indians planning on using it for CAS
Samuel L. commented on that...
Choose your favorite version of the story. WRT MAD on P-8, I've heard all of these from Admirals at one time or another:
1. It was too heavy.
2. The proposed hardware was "too noisy" to be effective.
3. They hit a snag during the integration test phase and rather than pull the program off its timeline to fix it, they just canx'd the system. "If we really need it, they can add it on late in a Spiral XX update."
4. The top brass knew this plane would never really spend much time doing ASW, especially at low altitude. This makes the transition to ISR platform easier.
5. The program was going over budget, and to avoid a Nimrod-type fiasco, the community opted to cut some items to keep costs down before fleet integration.
Yet most of that doesn't really hold water (except number 4) when you look at the Indian P-8, which happens to have one.......
Where is the mad on the Indian birds? No stinger?