Do X-plane demonstrators really help deliver combat aircraft programmes deliver ‘at pace’? @michaeljpryce looks at lessons from #EAP for #Tempest and #GCAP #avgeek aerosociety.com/news/the-quick…

"Such a [tech demonstrator] may be particularly important with stealth... Stealth is conceptually straightforward but it makes everything else bloody difficult." How the UK's new Flying Combat Air Demonstrator will de-risk #GCAP #avgeek #Tempest ow.ly/ZbjY50Wt6ww

ICYMI "Such a [tech demonstrator] may be particularly important with stealth... Stealth is conceptually straightforward but it makes everything else bloody difficult." How the UK's new Flying Combat Air Demonstrator will de-risk #GCAP #Tempest #IDEF ow.ly/ZbjY50Wt6ww

Jason Harinstein The over reliance on maintenance revenue is a very specific malady in the hardware business. Jet engines and power turbines are the worst offenders: all the money is in the maintenance so no one wants to build better products… there’s a financial disincentive

Rapidly reaching the point where one wonders whether exquisite weapons systems are worth much at all when we cannot scale production. Boutique, artisan interceptors.

Worth comparing with the A350 evac in Japan last year.

The Dirty Unvarnished True Story of the Mercy Killing of the TSR2 Bomber Hush-Kit meets Mike Pryce and he doesn't hold back. Full story here: hushkit.substack.com/p/the-dirty-un…

Romance and rage!

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"70 maintenance man hours per flight hour – twice the F-111. Maintenance typically cost the RAF around half its budget.. so the TSR2 would have eaten the RAF alive – it was born to die, not live in peace. A Motörhead jet." The TSR2 story here: hushkit.substack.com/p/the-dirty-un…

The Bitter Lesson is that using AI to help run organizations may recapitulate what happened with AIs playing chess and go. Human-taught AIs were trounced at chess and go by AIs that taught themselves—without the hindrance of human instruction.

Mollick's point is that humans have deeply wrong ideas about how their organizations ACTUALLY work. This is well documented. Thus: AIs trained on how people think they work--trained on wrong PROCESS--will be trounced by organizational AIs guided solely by desired OUTCOMES.

Read the discussion following Mollick's post. Replies like: "this hits hard spent 6 months mapping our finance workflows before deploying erika. turns out nobody actually knew how expense approvals worked - just "sarah handles it" and sarah had built 47 different exception

This Thursday morning (Pacific time), I'll upload for public comment the next section of my book-in-progress: MAINTENANCE: Of Everything. Its title is "Least Village Has Its Blacksmith." (That's from Emily Dickinson.)

There are possibly lessons to be learned for all of NATO in this way of operating modern fighter jets in times of war, as opposed to cozy base infra.

The Dirty Unvarnished True Story of the Mercy Killing of the TSR2 Bomber Hush-Kit meets Michael Pryce and he doesn't hold back here: hushkit.substack.com/p/the-dirty-un… with Mike Pryce

Mike Pryce Ashwin Varma, MD Hush-Kit Aviation News, History & Satire …and in addition, the trim and manoeuvrability requirements across the speed range implied value in a separate, all-moving tailplane. EE’s contribution was to stick to their guns about the low position for this. Multhopp would had had it on the fin top, hence SB.5 experiment.

Good stuff about production and maintenance as well as all the spiffing stuff in the air.

With a few vehicles & some smart thinking, can you turn F-16 base doctrine into Gripen-style dispersed ops? Yours truly quoted in Business Insider on how the Ukraine conflict holds lessons for #NATO air power #avgeek businessinsider.com/ukraine-new-wa…

Wait until Rooster reads this..