• someguy3@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    If you’re the government, you want your military planes to work. It’s in their interests. (Now there’s lots of steps that are problems in realizing that.)

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      8 months ago

      No. If you’re the state you want shit to work. If you’re part of the government, you just want to get your bribes.

    • wanderingmagus@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I mean there may simply have been internal reports already, just highly classified to avoid “embarrassing” the nation and not accessible or known to the general public.

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        8 months ago

        “Look, it turns out if you flip this switch on the Fa-18 and forget to turn it off after 1 to 5 minutes tops, your chances of ‘uncontrollably inverting and ejecting at high speed straight into the freaking ground’ go up tenfold. We’ve provided the USAF with a 1 hour iPad training about being touchy with the defrost function.”

        –Boeing, probably

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        8 months ago

        I feel like “risk of door blowing off mid flight” or “25% of oxygen masks don’t work” is something the public is entitled to know about