Wednesday, June 22, 2011

Wonder Woman to the rescue

Wonder Woman No. 601 by *AlexGarner


Ya know.  I don't know the guy that's in charge over at Aviation Week but the guy must be about ready to punch walls.


I mean seriously.


His star reporter has a hard-on for the F-35....and he can't get the boy  under control.

So what does an editor in chief do?

Do you sack the guy?

No.

A couple of other publications would be all over him.

Do you suspend him?

Naw...tried that, it didn't work.

So what do you do?

You have other reporters on your staff write corrections.

Let me introduce you to Amy Butler aka Wonder Woman.

Partners to Get Equal JSF Stealth
Posted by Amy Butler at 6/22/2011 9:17 AM CDT
JSF partners and customers will be able to have the same stealth characteristics as the U.S., according to Joe Dellavedova, the F-35 program office spokesman. 

There is a caveat: "each partner will have the option to add 'unique' capabilities that may have minor LO characteristics," he tells Aviation Week. One example, he says, is the addition of a drag chute, an item Norway has eyed. 

Such "capabilities may have minor implications on LO characteristics," Dellavedova says. Dellavedova made his comments in response to follow up questions during the F-35 briefing at this week's Paris Air Show. During the briefing, deputy program manager USAF Maj. Gen. CD Moore and Lockheed Martin executive vice president Tom Burbage seemed flatfooted at a question posed by a journalist asking whether a report in the Australian media that the radar cross section capability would be degraded for the partners. 

Moore said, "All I can tell you is we have every intent on meeting the KPPs on the aircraft as designated by our partners," adding that the report was "speculative." 

After the briefing, a program source also said the discussion about RCS is largely classified.
Totally different from Sweetman's earlier post huh?

Aviation Week must be in turmoil!

I wish I could be a fly on those walls.  Watch your back Amy!  The Dark Lord might be after you!
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3 comments:

  1. Drake1Wednesday, June 22, 2011 8:33:00 PM

    I lauged out aloud reading this. Very funny.

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  2. SMSgt MacWednesday, June 22, 2011 8:45:00 PM

    This is hilarious when you think about it.
    The question that was asked was imprecise enough to require the F-35 reps to qualify their answer. When they qualify their answer, Bill Sweetman gins up a frothy speculation dripping with assertions that the F-35 program isn't forthcoming with the 'TRUTH!'.
    Half the problem is that the chattering class assumes there MUST be a difference they don't know about and that MUST also be hidden from the international partners, and the other half of the problem is they are too ignorant to even ask the right questions or right questions correctly. If the JSF program reps had answered with a categorical “yes- the ‘stealth’ is identical”, then in the not too distant future it would be entirely possible that someone could be expected to make wild claims that it wasn't 'true' because the different partners will put different systems on their versions that in turn changed the RF/IR/Visual signature in some way, and then it would be entirely possible that ‘someone’ would also allude to (accuse?) the Program Office evasiveness, deception or outright lying.
    The only question is: Would the program office be more likely to answer these kinds of questions with a simple ‘yes’, if the stink of ‘gotcha’ journalism wasn’t already hanging in the air? I have access to an excellent technical library with old bound copies of AV Week. So I would answer that question with “Perhaps… once upon a time.”

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  3. SolomonWednesday, June 22, 2011 9:30:00 PM

    Drake1...thanks bud!

    SMSgt Mac...i think you nailed it on the head and when i re-read Wonder Woman's post it screamed that you were dead on.

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