Well this will make the usual suspects foam at the mouth, I'm sure:
In successive paragraphs, Thompson covers testing, production, cost, teamwork and orders. In every area both progress and success are undeniable. Well, except for the critics, who adept at denying reality on a daily basis.
Make sure to read the whole thing.
Graff
Thirteen is looking like the F-35 fighter’s lucky number. After struggling for a dozen years to make program realities match government expectations, in 2013 prime contractor Lockheed Martin saw everything come together. Technical risks were retired. Flight testing progressed rapidly. The price-tag for each plane continued declining. And a new management team discovered that its government customers weren’t so hard to get along with after all. So when the history of the Pentagon’s biggest weapon program is written, 2013 is going to look like the point at which the effort really took off — the year doubts melted away and the F-35 became unstoppable.I'd say, as a short synopsis of the year, this pretty much describes it. Loren Thompson, who wrote it and, as usual, discloses that LM is one of the contributors to his think tank, nonetheless lays out a pretty persuasive case for his lead paragraph in the remainder of the article.
In successive paragraphs, Thompson covers testing, production, cost, teamwork and orders. In every area both progress and success are undeniable. Well, except for the critics, who adept at denying reality on a daily basis.
Make sure to read the whole thing.
Graff
"Thompson, who wrote it and, as usual, discloses that LM is one of the contributors to his think tank, nonetheless lays out a pretty persuasive case"
ReplyDeleteThe logic escapes me, as to how it was somehow courageous for Thompson to write an LM puff-piece even though he was paid by LM to do it.