How many nights of darkness are we up to at the White House?
The amazing local remedy here in Philippines is simply ginger tea. Boiled ginger water, flavor with lemon or coffee, etc. Burns like hell going down. But holy shit, it will knock a sore throat or a cough right out.
You have F-35's too if i'm not mistaken. One of its conceived roles was to replace the Harrier and operate off the same ships.
I'll disagree about it being mediocre. The original idea of one plane that did everything was of course a pipe dream. Any engineer knows a product that can do everything isn't good at any of them. But Lockheed Martin knew that early on, which is why the A,B, and C variants are quite a bit different from each other. They share the basic airframe, which is where it counts most for their cost / performance targets.
When reviewing the F-35, which I encourage everyone to do, keep in mind that most of the negative reports have to do with budget and developmental problems, and were written by industry sharks. For a balanced view, read what pilots have to say. Watch the youtube vid about the kill chain, and exactly what makes the 35 so deadly. While many articles will reference the 'failed' Red Flag exercise, few will mention the 'improved' Red Flag exercise where it smoked everything in the sky.
The 35 is, to my knowledge, the first aircraft to derive much of its performance characteristics from the software itself. It is the same concept as Tesla uploading new code to your car, and all of a sudden you have increased range. The 35's performance limits and characteristics were programmed by engineers, and the early models did suffer from soft 'limits'. It wasn't like old airplanes where the pilot could make it do exactly what he wanted, hence the early criticism. But those changes and improvements were only a software upgrade away.
The combination of maneuverability, stealth, and weapons system integration makes the F-35 perhaps the deadliest plane in any sky. I say perhaps because the F-22 is getting some of the same upgrades, and has higher performance limits. For all of the complaining about it being late and over budget (aren't all planes?) there is never much mention about how many are in service, and the successful service they have had so far. This is a next gen plane for next gen pilots. Yes pilot oxygen seems to be a weird issue with both this plane and the '22 that has taken some time to sort out. Being on the cutting edge inevitably creates new problems to solve.
The 35 will have a long and illustrious history, as well as end up in use by numerous other nations. In the future we will regard it like the F-16.
Source: me a Plane Fag.
>1700 Q posts were comp'd, and Q told us this
Q never said any such thing. Here is 1835:
We are under HEAVY attack.
AB[C] took control.
Tripcode compromised.
No. 131 Last.
TRIP UPDATE COMING.
Q
Q posted that after a very brief period of fuckery, we all watched it happen. Who knows what 131 refers to, but when has Q ever referred to a post number? In no way does this imply everything between post 131 and 1835 was comp'd. Cmon man.