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3T3L1
Differentiated Mouse Fibroblasts
Lubbock, Texas
1347 posts, Mar 2001
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posted 10-26-2001 03:38 PM
  
Sorry, Dunk.  
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Thermit
Tech
Houston, TX
2733 posts, Jul 2000
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posted 10-26-2001 03:40 PM
Lockheed-Martin picked to build Joint Strike Fighter; program could exceed $200 billion.
[Edited 1 times, lastly by Thermit on 10-26-2001]
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Duncan Kunz
Senior Member
582 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 10-26-2001 03:55 PM
Standing shivering on corner in a deserted Mesa, Arizona traffic crosswalk, the raggedly-dressed engineer opens up the battered case, pulls out a Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjo, pastes an artificial smile -- more of a rictus -- on his face and begins picking a chorus of "Little Maggie", hoping that a generous passerby will drop a fifty-cent piece in the case....
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Molliani
Senior Member
Illinois
422 posts, Mar 2001
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posted 10-27-2001 12:10 AM
Cheer up Duncan
You can always count on
2 cents from XPig ..... probably more
than you'd get at a debunker board.
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defender
TELEVISION IS MIND CONTROL
Level 64
1115 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 10-27-2001 11:33 AM
I wouldn't worry about Boeing too much. If the JSF battle is anything like the General Dynamics F-16 Falcon vs. Northrop-McD Douglas(?) F-18 Hornet duel, they ended up producing both of them. We may yet see Boeings JSF produced too. I also heard that the B-52 will be operational up until the year 2040!On the other hand, there is talk about high-speed rail and MagLev (Magnetic Levitation)trains in the U.S. future. But I wouldn't be surprised if the aerospace giants haven't started development on those as well, just to cover all the bases? The hard part will be designing an intercontinental stealth train that can fire Sidewinders and cruise missiles! 
[Edited 2 times, lastly by defender on 10-27-2001]
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Duncan Kunz
Senior Member
582 posts, Oct 2000
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posted 10-28-2001 01:39 AM
Molliani, that was great! ROFL I'd completely forgotten tht TheXPig was the head of a vast worldwide organization that provided money to down-and-out aerospace weenies. Even if his only grant is two cents, at least you don't have to fill out all those federal grant proposals....Defender, you have a point. I don't think there's a need for two JSF aircraft (where there are basic differences between the GD F-16 and the MD F-18 in that the latter is stressed for carrier operations and the F-16 never was used that way). However, the government is not the least bit happy that there're only two aviation systems integrators left from twenty years ago when there were a lot more. My guess is that we will get a good-sized piece of the JSF, just like we have a big piece of the F-22 which is also a LockMart design. Non-airplane stuff: Lot of aerospace companies tried that, usually with disastrous results. We made furniture, boats, and some other things over the past fifty years but it flopped. LockMart does make traffic-photography systems, but they're only a small part of the mix. One of the most horrid attempts to get aerospace into public transportation was when Grumman (now a part of Northrop-Grumman) decided, since it could build canoes, would try it's hand at an articulated bus system. Their "FlXible" bus system almost bankrupted them. When and if The USA ever goes to maglev trains, they will probably get them from the same place that the Japan Railroad Shinkansen gets theirs: Fuji Heavy Industries, Mitsubishi, Mitsui -- Japanese firms. Those boys are the experts. Duncan
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TheXPig
Devil's Advocate
CS, CO
64 posts, Oct 2001
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posted 11-01-2001 05:08 AM
quote:
Molliani, that was great! ROFL I'd completely forgotten tht TheXPig was the head of a vast worldwide organization that provided money to down-and-out aerospace weenies. Even if his only grant is two cents, at least you don't have to fill out all those federal grant proposals....
That's right Duncan, no federal grant proposal forms to be filled out here. I happy give your, I mean my, momey away. Just tell me where to send it. ------------------
Just my $2 mil. TXP
[Edited 1 times, lastly by TheXPig on 11-01-2001]
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