Originally Posted by
sailingfun
You would have to take the wings off to flatbed them. I suspect that’s not easy. We could not even flaked a A4 with a 24 foot wingspan. The Raptor has a 44 foot span.
I'm sure none of it would be easy. But at $135M a pop, when we're already hundreds short of the quantity (I think) we need, I wish they had found a way.
I wasn't there and I don't know the details, but I've been in the military long enough not to trust that all the right decisions were made in advance of this historic storm.