[Rant...] WHY WE WRITE
Don't worry. This is a one-parter. It comes around on a seemingly regular basis. Either here, in the Facebook group, or some other media; someone will spout off that golden nugget that attempts to put a nail through everything I and others like me have tried to do over the last few years. That nugget reads like the following: Those close to the F-35 program sing its praises. Its critics are those who have never flown on it or worked on it. It raises an interesting point. Why trust a random blogger over test pilot who flies the aircraft? Why trust a scathing aviation reporter when official press releases are saying everything is tickety-boo? What does it matter to us, anyway? It isn't as if we will ever fly this airplane. While it is true that us aviation enthusiasts, bloggers, critics, and other layman are not as "connected" with the program as the pilots, executives, and politicians anchoring their careers to the JSF, there i...