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That was friggin' awesome. My gosh what a farce ISO qualification has become. We had declared an ISO compliance need. Lo and behold the only "qualified" auditors were europeans. I cried foul. We can't find local auditors that we don't have to pay international airfare and benefits? You gotta be shittin' me!!!!?!?!?!
Scam, Scam, Scam.....The Euros are pullin' all sorts of crap like this. It is the center of the world for beauricratic BS. The US is headed that way too.
Case in point, I have a father in law in Italy with a VW Beetle 2002, that was built in the US he brought with him when he moved back. Some odd Euro law says it is no longer fit to drive on Italian roads and he has to get rid of it and get a new Euro type car.
ISO-9000 went through my industry some years back. Then it drifted away. Wasn't worth the bang for the buck so it went the way of Six Sigma.
And since I now know that a low cost new plane is utterly impossible, I must reverse my field and say "just put the A-10 back into production."
Most of its parts are still produced as spares to keep existing planes in the air, so start up a new line at Fairchild and start putting together new ones to pound the ground.
The only thing that needs to change is the cannon ammunition. Switch from AP and develop a pure HE round for better anti-personnel effect.
Actually Fairchild doesn't exist either as a functioning aircraft manufacturer.
As stated, Fairchild has no facilities, no hangars and probably doesn't even own the tooling needed to start re-producing A-10s. It's a lot more complicated than you think.
For the USAF. I don't think we're the exporter of the future. I think the USA will drive our allies to buying foreign merchandise.Are we talking new A-10s for the USAF? Or for sales abroad? The A-10C is currently being done for the former and likely engine upgrade will follow (A-10D?). If I recall correctly the A-10C is being rewinged (new wing box) and will include various avionics/mission system upgrades (comm, target designators, etc.).
And since I now know that a low cost new plane is utterly impossible, I must reverse my field and say "just put the A-10 back into production."
Most of its parts are still produced as spares to keep existing planes in the air, so start up a new line at Fairchild and start putting together new ones to pound the ground.
The only thing that needs to change is the cannon ammunition. Switch from AP and develop a pure HE round for better anti-personnel effect.
I believe at Moody AFBAre we talking new A-10s for the USAF? Or for sales abroad? The A-10C is currently being done for the former and likely engine upgrade will follow (A-10D?). If I recall correctly the A-10C is being rewinged (new wing box) and will include various avionics/mission system upgrades (comm, target designators, etc.).