Thread: F-35's Costs Climb Along With Concerns
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Old May 6th 06, 07:05 AM posted to sci.military.naval,rec.aviation.military,rec.aviation.military.naval
Fred J. McCall
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Default F-35's Costs Climb Along With Concerns
(Harry Andreas) wrote:

:In article ,
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: (Harry Andreas) wrote:
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: :In article , "Keith W"
: wrote:
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: : "Harry Andreas" wrote in message
: : ...
: : In article ,
: : wrote:
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: : Note that this is sort of the same approach that lost Germany the war.
: : Everything was hand-finished to very high standards, while us sloppy
: : folks cranked out ten times as many tanks as they could because we let
: : the tolerances be looser and eliminated a lot of the skilled
: : 'touch-labor' in the finishing stages.
: :
: : Hmmm. I wouldn't ride that horse too far.
: :
: : Ever see a 1944 built Walther P-38, or Waffenfabrik Mauser?
: : They didn't spend nearly any time finishing them as compared to
: : the early war versions.
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: : The German record was very mixed
: :
: :Keith, I hear ya, and the other posters who have said similar things,
: :but I still object to Mr McCall's statement that, in Germany,
: :"Everything was hand-finished to very high standards".
: :That's just not true. As you point out, it was very selective,
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: Yes. The big ticket items (which was what I meant by "everything",
: since that is what wars are actually fought and won with) got all the
: hand finishing. Small stuff and aircraft designed specifically to be
: cheap and 'throw away' generally weren't.
:
: So object and be damned to you.
:
ude, you can't say "Everything" and then get mad when someone
:disagrees with you. Everything means everything, not some things...

Dude, I don't "get mad". It's only Usenet. Try and rent a clue...

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