"John Cook" wrote in message
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 00:13:36 GMT, walt moffett
wrote:

SNIP

SNIPS

Sharp sticks don't cost $150M, I agree that some testing can wait
till after production starts, but you now have a situation where
you have 20 F-22 all of which are at different builds...

Its going to be an absolute nightmare to keep the fleet at any one
build standard.

Cheers

Late last year, Lockheed installed a new guy in charge at its GA plant. One
of his first actions was to place a sort of "freeze" on the F/A-22, meaning
no more engineering tweaks, and proceeding with "serial" if slow-rate
production, from that point forward.