Air Force buying Ipads
02-09-2012, 04:41 PM
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Air Force buying Ipads
02-10-2012, 01:43 AM
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No, what will happen is this:
1) The AF will award a contract for 18,000 iPads for AMC.
2) Acer, Asus, or Sony (or whoever) will file a complaint saying they're weren't given a fair shake.
3) The AF will cancel the iPad order
4) Capt _____ will still have to haul his 120 lb world-wide FLIP kit to the jet tomorrow.
1) The AF will award a contract for 18,000 iPads for AMC.
2) Acer, Asus, or Sony (or whoever) will file a complaint saying they're weren't given a fair shake.
3) The AF will cancel the iPad order
4) Capt _____ will still have to haul his 120 lb world-wide FLIP kit to the jet tomorrow.
02-10-2012, 10:05 AM
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Originally Posted by CAFB 04-12
No, what will happen is this:
1) The AF will award a contract for 18,000 iPads for AMC.
2) Acer, Asus, or Sony (or whoever) will file a complaint saying they're weren't given a fair shake.
3) The AF will cancel the iPad order
4) Capt _____ will still have to haul his 120 lb world-wide FLIP kit to the jet tomorrow.
1) The AF will award a contract for 18,000 iPads for AMC.
2) Acer, Asus, or Sony (or whoever) will file a complaint saying they're weren't given a fair shake.
3) The AF will cancel the iPad order
4) Capt _____ will still have to haul his 120 lb world-wide FLIP kit to the jet tomorrow.
02-10-2012, 01:23 PM
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Originally Posted by lolwut
Making a Chinese built electronic product a key part of military infrastructure sounds like a great idea to me.
02-10-2012, 04:54 PM
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Power-Point Briefs and Foamy Picture-Boards
They were briefing a Two-Star today in my squadron. Guy doing the brief is a bro; I like him, and he does good work. I asked what he thought. "Great! No more paper!"
I asked if he, or anyone else, had tried flying with it in a fighter-type cockpit. I asked if anyone had tried it in bright sunlight, or dark night. I asked if it had been flown under high-g-load.
Nope.
But that is how these decisions are made.
The Air Force made a decision to put a new ejection seat in the T-38, at a cost of 1 million per jet. Sounded good on paper....but no one tried it as a prototype. Turns out you can't see squat from the back seat.
I think the ipads will not be that handy in a fighter-type airplane.
I asked if he, or anyone else, had tried flying with it in a fighter-type cockpit. I asked if anyone had tried it in bright sunlight, or dark night. I asked if it had been flown under high-g-load.
Nope.
But that is how these decisions are made.
The Air Force made a decision to put a new ejection seat in the T-38, at a cost of 1 million per jet. Sounded good on paper....but no one tried it as a prototype. Turns out you can't see squat from the back seat.
I think the ipads will not be that handy in a fighter-type airplane.
02-10-2012, 06:23 PM
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Originally Posted by UAL T38 Phlyer
They were briefing a Two-Star today in my squadron. Guy doing the brief is a bro; I like him, and he does good work. I asked what he thought. "Great! No more paper!"
I asked if he, or anyone else, had tried flying with it in a fighter-type cockpit. I asked if anyone had tried it in bright sunlight, or dark night. I asked if it had been flown under high-g-load.
Nope.
But that is how these decisions are made.
The Air Force made a decision to put a new ejection seat in the T-38, at a cost of 1 million per jet. Sounded good on paper....but no one tried it as a prototype. Turns out you can't see squat from the back seat.
I think the ipads will not be that handy in a fighter-type airplane.
I asked if he, or anyone else, had tried flying with it in a fighter-type cockpit. I asked if anyone had tried it in bright sunlight, or dark night. I asked if it had been flown under high-g-load.
Nope.
But that is how these decisions are made.
The Air Force made a decision to put a new ejection seat in the T-38, at a cost of 1 million per jet. Sounded good on paper....but no one tried it as a prototype. Turns out you can't see squat from the back seat.
I think the ipads will not be that handy in a fighter-type airplane.
02-10-2012, 06:29 PM
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Originally Posted by UAL T38 Phlyer
I think the ipads will not be that handy in a fighter-type airplane.
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