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on the F22
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Turn on 60 Minutes right fugging now - pilots in uniform blowing the whistle (Original Post)
malaise
May 2012
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KeepItReal
(7,769 posts)1. Who designed the F-22? Our enemies?
Why should taxpayers have to pay for manufacturing or design defect with the oxygen systems?
NNN0LHI
(67,190 posts)2. What did my shithead teabagger congressman Adam Kinzinger have to say?
I knew he was supposed to be on but I got busy doing something else around here and missed it.
Don
dems_rightnow
(1,956 posts)7. Basically
He is trying to make sure there isn't retribution for their whistle blowing.
bahrbearian
(13,466 posts)3. That about half of the Problems
The Titanium Airframe has about a Half of the designed life span due to improper heat treating. Plus electronic problems. But we still pay for them.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)4. Pilots breathe air that went through the jet engines first
I expect that the air was ported off from the compressor, but it still sounds bad to me.
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)5. If you ride in airliners, so do you
It's called bleed air and it's a common way to pressurize an aircraft cabin.
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)6. It sounds bad the way they said it
I didn't say it was bad.
proud patriot
(100,704 posts)8. just starting on the west coast
I'm watching