Big John wrote in
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Jay

After the two crashes they found the problem and fixed it but then
they didn't sell good to airlines due to crash history.

Navy bought a large number (with MAD gear) after fix, that are now
configured to the P-3C Orion (ASW) configuration and many P-3's were
sold around the world in ASW confguration. Navy is still using them
while waiting for a new bird. There is a request out to industry for a
new bird???


Hey, why get a new airplane when you can just sit in a lawn chair with your
Wii and hunt virtual subs?

The Orion name was another they re-used, of course.
Why they did this is beyond me, it's not like they were ever going to run
out of constellations. Pity they never made a Cygnus, always been my
favorite.



Bertie