re: #4 Charles Johnson

What an embarrassment. And it’s a huge problem for other countries as well that committed to this aircraft.

Hangar queens. That’s what these planes are likely to become.

All while planes that can get ugly and aren’t as glamorous trudge on.

I’m talking about the B-52, A-10, and even the F-18s. They aren’t as glamorous as their successors (and the A-10 doesn’t have one), but they’re reliable, cost effective - and in the case of the B-52, outlasted several successors (the B-1, F-117, and likely the B-2).