I was working in the panhandle and had to do some testing at Tyndall AFB. I just happened that while I was there, they were doing some showing off of the new Raptors. Man those things are cool. They just disappear after take-off. Straight up into the sky, climbing at what has to be an inhuman rate.
I started thinking about test pilots. They used to run out in the deserts and out of secret bases. Now that everyone has cameras and the internet, where do they do the super-secret testing of new aircraft? They really can’t do it on land anywhere anymore. And an aircraft carrier wouldn’t give them true-life launch/take-offs. If they did, and an experimental plane crashed at sea, they wouldn’t be able to recover the craft to troubleshoot the cause. Would they attempt to recover the body? What would they tell the family? Where were they told he was?
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