You can tell it's a lot more advanced plane because 47 is a lot higher than 35. If it was F-37 it would only be a slight upgrade and it wouldn't be worth doing.
I guarantee an old school P47 engine was way more likely to keep running long enough for a return to base after eating a heavy machine gun projectile...
How else are you supposed to make generals in the Air Farce? You gotta have aces to make generals. Sure, they're glamorous, but the fact of the matter is that fighter aircraft are about a useless as tits on a boar hog in spite of all the money we sink into them. And the only utility of bombers is to bomb some poor under developed country that can't defend itself into submission.
Bear in mind, none of our fancy aircraft have won a war since WWII and then only because we could build airplanes faster than our enemies could shoot them down.
Ha!! I think most people go to "airshows" hoping for a fiery disaster! Like those boring as hell NASCAR round-and-round the track car races. Things only perk up when the collisions start! Fan those flames, baby! Amerika's real National Pastime, and of course that crowd and Trump have a mutual love affair going on. Let's tear down the Kennedy Center for the Arts building and install a NASCAR race track! [Sorry for all these exclamation marks, I must be "feeling my Cheerios"!]
You'll never drag outta me that fiery-crashes are my peak-enjoyment!...Stock-car racing was started by hillbilly 'shine-runners. I wanna see something similar happen with these flyin' toys and their queer pilots!
Actually, I think they are kinda ho hum. I would much rather watch a good pilot in a Pitts S-2C series acrobatic plane do stunt maneuvers. My favorite is still the hammerhead stall. Let's see an F-35 do that trick.
I am no pilot, but the notion of a pilot of any plane, let alone one such as this, trying to control it and escort drones seems like some moron's idea of "efficiency." It's a great way to up the development and production costs, no doubt.
I'm sure Boeing will do a super duper job on the new boondoggle. The funny thing is that jets are only useful against poor countries with poor air defense, so as usual, the US makes the most expensive jet possible to bomb poor people who can't shoot back. The US only goes to war against peer adversaries through proxies, so the new jets will never see any action other than something along the lines of killing children in Gaza or bombing empty hillsides in Yemen. I still can't figure out why the public isn't outraged. So much for Trump cutting government spending. He is just reallocating it to specific big businesses like Boeing. I predict he will not only go ahead with the nuclear upgrade, but will double the funding for it.
A love affair? F-47 and Pres-47? Purely coincidental, of course. But all these schemes are just another layer of hand-outs to the biggest ever corporate-welfare-bums.
Fanned by ideological extremes and political polarizations and stoked by alternative facts, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience, humanity has well and truly entered an unprecedented era of ruthless aggression, in which the truculent (re)action of attacking even without provocation and the escalating normalization of disinformation, immorality, iniquity and corruption have driven the “blame game” to be more rampant than ever in Homo sapiens, firmly ushering in an apocalyptic age of deplorable politics, outright complicity, devious duplicity, shameless mendacity, excruciating inhumanity, extraordinary brutality and unrelenting cruelty.
Aggression has defiantly raised its ugly head when even tariffs can be mobilized and weaponized as tools of manipulation, intimidation, retaliation, extortion and oppression.
On a larger scale, the aggressive intrusion of Viral Falsity has become both the recipe and the accelerant for instability, conflict, crisis and degeneracy on a global scale in pandemic proportions, burdening a large number of peoples, institutions and societies with awkward, difficult, complex, dangerous or hazardous situations occasioning gross injustice, perturbation, violence, lawlessness or dehumanization, and resulting in social, legal, political and bureaucratic quagmires, whilst (con)straining both intellectual discourse and civic life.
As a consequence, many regions and countries are not merely undergoing significant disturbances or seismic shifts in their sociocultural, political and media landscapes and information ecosystems, but also engaging in a series of aggrieved contests and existential tussles between (the autonomy of) self-governance and (the autocracy of) an authoritarian alternative.
All in all, considering the countless wretched situations and dire outcomes that humans have repeatedly created for themselves and nonhumans through war crimes, holocausts, slaveries, genocides, environmental destructions and ecological disasters plus a litany of brazen inequities, unconscionable exploitations and staggering corruptions, any reasonable person may insist or conclude that there is emphatically no longer the need, excuse or justification to blame the old serpent, Devil or Satan, who can permanently retire from being the stigmatized scapegoat, catch-all villain and evil incarnate. You have to follow the link to see the appropriate image.
The Blame Game started in the 6000 year old Biblical Genesis record of the Garden on Earth when Adam blamed God and the Woman and the Woman blamed the old serpent, Devil or Satan for falling from Grace and Eternal Unity with God and Each Other.
For those having the eyes to see the Signs of the Times, Humanity may have arrived at the end of it all.
You keep saying 'humans' but really you should say something like "Western 'civilisation' entities". It's mostly them to blame (for the last 500 years and currently).
The ‘plane so numbered to un-invisibly reflect the President’s vanity, then.
Use of the term “the Enemy” in a generic form is bugging me, it should be suppressed. Peace has enemies, as one of your readers wrote recently, and this is one of them. There would not have to be an enemy, if lobbyists, Congress, and the re-issued US (no-more-a-wannabe) dictator did not serve the interests of the military-industrial complex. Also, there would not have to be a pilot in the new ‘plane. Reflecting not having a pilot in the plan. Were it not for top-gun bragging rights to allow them to say that they were allowed out of the Portacabins with the drone consoles to actually see the people who had been pre-selected for extermination.
Given all the failed Boeing efforts recently on behalf of the Air and Space Forces, this has all the markings and makings of another 2008-esque "Too Big To Fail" Bailout.
It would be interesting to see how much Boeing contributed to TRUMP 2.0's election and inauguration funds.
And it's not just "[r]ecent Air Force projects have not been entirely successful, to put it gently," Bill.
The last 80 years performance of US national "defense and security" projects haven't been successful at all, except in keeping the cash flowing to the MICIMATTT.
Bearing in mind what Management Guru Peter Drucker once said about the difference between "Efficiency" and "Effectiveness," what this Nation needs is a Department of Government EFFECTIVENESS, not of Government Efficiency...:
"Efficiency is doing Things Right; Effectiveness is doing the Right Things." ~ PFD
When is the last time this Nation's defense and security complex accomplished either?
Yeah. F-22 - cancelled as too expensive with poor readiness, F-35 - poor readiness & performance - still hundreds of faults, Osprey - crashes like there’s no tomorrow, Zumwalt - cancelled after 3 - guns don’t work, Littoral Combat ships - literally falling apart as they sail, new carriers - lifts and catapults don't work, cost twice as much as earlier ones with little improvements, etc. Really, US 'Defense' is an aid program for 'defense' companies.
You can tell it's a lot more advanced plane because 47 is a lot higher than 35. If it was F-37 it would only be a slight upgrade and it wouldn't be worth doing.
47 isn't worth doing either.
:-)
If another airplane was needed why not go back to the P-47 versus F-47. Reliable, heavily armed, and all analog.
I guarantee an old school P47 engine was way more likely to keep running long enough for a return to base after eating a heavy machine gun projectile...
"You may have stellar bullet trains, China, but do you have invisible 6th generation air supremacy jets?"
We'll be able to blow those Chinese spy balloons out of the air while flying at 2000 mph!
The F-47 will be a great plane but occasionally the doors will fall off.
LMAO!! Remember that one? "Laughing My Arse [UK version!] Off!!"
The money has been laundered. Mission accomplished.
How else are you supposed to make generals in the Air Farce? You gotta have aces to make generals. Sure, they're glamorous, but the fact of the matter is that fighter aircraft are about a useless as tits on a boar hog in spite of all the money we sink into them. And the only utility of bombers is to bomb some poor under developed country that can't defend itself into submission.
Bear in mind, none of our fancy aircraft have won a war since WWII and then only because we could build airplanes faster than our enemies could shoot them down.
They're cool to watch at air-shows once a year.
Ha!! I think most people go to "airshows" hoping for a fiery disaster! Like those boring as hell NASCAR round-and-round the track car races. Things only perk up when the collisions start! Fan those flames, baby! Amerika's real National Pastime, and of course that crowd and Trump have a mutual love affair going on. Let's tear down the Kennedy Center for the Arts building and install a NASCAR race track! [Sorry for all these exclamation marks, I must be "feeling my Cheerios"!]
You'll never drag outta me that fiery-crashes are my peak-enjoyment!...Stock-car racing was started by hillbilly 'shine-runners. I wanna see something similar happen with these flyin' toys and their queer pilots!
Actually, I think they are kinda ho hum. I would much rather watch a good pilot in a Pitts S-2C series acrobatic plane do stunt maneuvers. My favorite is still the hammerhead stall. Let's see an F-35 do that trick.
I like watching those auld moving-pictures of the guys crashing their funky contraptions when flight was in the birthing-process.
Jet's are so fast they just kind of whiz by. As opposed to WWI and WWII planes which stick around awhile.
@Alex
Plus, they make really cool noises instead of just going SSSSSWWISSSHHH-VOOOOOOMMM
C'mon, they sound like my 2-banger, or was my 4-banger, lawnmower.
@Johnny Canuck
Y'all got a very noisy lawnmower.
https://youtube.com/shorts/4zDril7QATk?si=ARbU7b8MeI7D04U9
..."or was IT my 4-banger"._..Maybe my imaginary 3-banger.
I am no pilot, but the notion of a pilot of any plane, let alone one such as this, trying to control it and escort drones seems like some moron's idea of "efficiency." It's a great way to up the development and production costs, no doubt.
Pilots are scamming us - they just eat weiners & guzzle beer in the cockseat once in the air and no1 is watching.
Trump is just another MIC salesman. And the Public, despite their moans and silence, always buy what's for sale. Consumerism, thy art American.
I'm sure Boeing will do a super duper job on the new boondoggle. The funny thing is that jets are only useful against poor countries with poor air defense, so as usual, the US makes the most expensive jet possible to bomb poor people who can't shoot back. The US only goes to war against peer adversaries through proxies, so the new jets will never see any action other than something along the lines of killing children in Gaza or bombing empty hillsides in Yemen. I still can't figure out why the public isn't outraged. So much for Trump cutting government spending. He is just reallocating it to specific big businesses like Boeing. I predict he will not only go ahead with the nuclear upgrade, but will double the funding for it.
You could win a war in South Africa by dropping coca-cola bottles.
I could not stifle my laugh at the closing "USA! USA!"
A love affair? F-47 and Pres-47? Purely coincidental, of course. But all these schemes are just another layer of hand-outs to the biggest ever corporate-welfare-bums.
Maybe not coincidental. Maybe when you're the CIC you get to name the plane. For now anyway.
In honor of Douglas Adams, I am legislating for the F-42.
Because nobody quite knows what the question really was. And at the end of a huge project, it's the wrong answer anyhow?
The Aggressive State of Affairs
Fanned by ideological extremes and political polarizations and stoked by alternative facts, conspiracy theories and pseudoscience, humanity has well and truly entered an unprecedented era of ruthless aggression, in which the truculent (re)action of attacking even without provocation and the escalating normalization of disinformation, immorality, iniquity and corruption have driven the “blame game” to be more rampant than ever in Homo sapiens, firmly ushering in an apocalyptic age of deplorable politics, outright complicity, devious duplicity, shameless mendacity, excruciating inhumanity, extraordinary brutality and unrelenting cruelty.
Aggression has defiantly raised its ugly head when even tariffs can be mobilized and weaponized as tools of manipulation, intimidation, retaliation, extortion and oppression.
On a larger scale, the aggressive intrusion of Viral Falsity has become both the recipe and the accelerant for instability, conflict, crisis and degeneracy on a global scale in pandemic proportions, burdening a large number of peoples, institutions and societies with awkward, difficult, complex, dangerous or hazardous situations occasioning gross injustice, perturbation, violence, lawlessness or dehumanization, and resulting in social, legal, political and bureaucratic quagmires, whilst (con)straining both intellectual discourse and civic life.
As a consequence, many regions and countries are not merely undergoing significant disturbances or seismic shifts in their sociocultural, political and media landscapes and information ecosystems, but also engaging in a series of aggrieved contests and existential tussles between (the autonomy of) self-governance and (the autocracy of) an authoritarian alternative.
All in all, considering the countless wretched situations and dire outcomes that humans have repeatedly created for themselves and nonhumans through war crimes, holocausts, slaveries, genocides, environmental destructions and ecological disasters plus a litany of brazen inequities, unconscionable exploitations and staggering corruptions, any reasonable person may insist or conclude that there is emphatically no longer the need, excuse or justification to blame the old serpent, Devil or Satan, who can permanently retire from being the stigmatized scapegoat, catch-all villain and evil incarnate. You have to follow the link to see the appropriate image.
https://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2025/03/22/a-tale-of-two-soldiers-pacifism-activism-or-armed-resistance-in-the-face-of-aggression
The Blame Game started in the 6000 year old Biblical Genesis record of the Garden on Earth when Adam blamed God and the Woman and the Woman blamed the old serpent, Devil or Satan for falling from Grace and Eternal Unity with God and Each Other.
For those having the eyes to see the Signs of the Times, Humanity may have arrived at the end of it all.
You keep saying 'humans' but really you should say something like "Western 'civilisation' entities". It's mostly them to blame (for the last 500 years and currently).
The ‘plane so numbered to un-invisibly reflect the President’s vanity, then.
Use of the term “the Enemy” in a generic form is bugging me, it should be suppressed. Peace has enemies, as one of your readers wrote recently, and this is one of them. There would not have to be an enemy, if lobbyists, Congress, and the re-issued US (no-more-a-wannabe) dictator did not serve the interests of the military-industrial complex. Also, there would not have to be a pilot in the new ‘plane. Reflecting not having a pilot in the plan. Were it not for top-gun bragging rights to allow them to say that they were allowed out of the Portacabins with the drone consoles to actually see the people who had been pre-selected for extermination.
Given all the failed Boeing efforts recently on behalf of the Air and Space Forces, this has all the markings and makings of another 2008-esque "Too Big To Fail" Bailout.
It would be interesting to see how much Boeing contributed to TRUMP 2.0's election and inauguration funds.
And it's not just "[r]ecent Air Force projects have not been entirely successful, to put it gently," Bill.
The last 80 years performance of US national "defense and security" projects haven't been successful at all, except in keeping the cash flowing to the MICIMATTT.
Bearing in mind what Management Guru Peter Drucker once said about the difference between "Efficiency" and "Effectiveness," what this Nation needs is a Department of Government EFFECTIVENESS, not of Government Efficiency...:
"Efficiency is doing Things Right; Effectiveness is doing the Right Things." ~ PFD
When is the last time this Nation's defense and security complex accomplished either?
Yeah. F-22 - cancelled as too expensive with poor readiness, F-35 - poor readiness & performance - still hundreds of faults, Osprey - crashes like there’s no tomorrow, Zumwalt - cancelled after 3 - guns don’t work, Littoral Combat ships - literally falling apart as they sail, new carriers - lifts and catapults don't work, cost twice as much as earlier ones with little improvements, etc. Really, US 'Defense' is an aid program for 'defense' companies.
I hear the sound of tax dollars being flushed down the drain.