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- From: gary@ke4zv.uucp (Gary Coffman)
- Subject: Re: fast-track failures
- Message-ID: <1992Dec14.145351.14521@ke4zv.uucp>
- Reply-To: gary@ke4zv.UUCP (Gary Coffman)
- Organization: Gannett Technologies Group
- References: <Bz0890.AxF.1@cs.cmu.edu> <Bz0GD5.IHG@zoo.toronto.edu> <1992Dec10.192026.16340@ke4zv.uucp> <ewright.724096589@convex.convex.com> <1992Dec13.182843.9876@ke4zv.uucp> <Bz7wLM.6s8@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 14:53:51 GMT
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- In article <Bz7wLM.6s8@zoo.toronto.edu> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >
- >Just which aircraft were you thinking of, Gary? I can think of one
- >aircraft that had a bad performance shortfall but was redesigned and
- >continued into a successful program (the F-102). I can't think of
- >*any* F-series "gap" in the last 40 years that fits your description.
-
- Yeah, bad line of argument, most of the systems that made it as far
- as being assigned a number weren't technical failures even if they
- were market failures. Actually I was thinking of the P-39 when I
- wrote that. That aircraft made it into production, but was a dismal
- failure at meeting it's procurement goals. It started out as a 5,000
- pound turbosupercharged high performance all altitude fighter and
- was sold to the Air Corps as such. But by the time it was delivered,
- it was 50% overweight, had the turbosupercharger deleted, had poor
- rate of climb, and a low service ceiling. This was an example of
- fast tracking from a prototype to production without working out
- all the bugs required to make it a practical fighter.
-
- Gary
-