JohnB wrote:
An early/test ship, or a high time/damaged airframe?
One of the prototypes was flown onto the runway, gear up, due to a software glitch. It wasn't that badly damsged, it it survives, I would think it could be made into a static display.
This is a Block 20 airframe that had already been relegated to a maintenance training airframe at Tyndall.
All of the Block 20s have previously been assigned to training-only duty, and the decision was made to retire them based on the expense of upgrading them to combat-capable.
It was part of a wider cost-cutting effort to better fund the 6th Gen/NGAD fighter.
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ellice_island_kid wrote:
I am only in my 20s but someday I will fly it at airshows. I am getting rich really fast writing software and so I can afford to do really stupid things like put all my money into warbirds.