On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 19:49:56 -0000,
(Robert Bonomi) wrote:

Military aircraft design considers only as an 'afterthought' how
easy or 'delightful' the plane is to fly.

Pretty much everything else pales into insignificance, vs the ability
to 'get the mission accomplished'.

I didn't think I was going to have to explain this. "Delight to fly"
in the military sense means being able to go into the fight with the
fastest, quickest (not the same thing), best armed ship in the fight.
The P-51 was always that (in WWII) and didn't require the pilot to
have to manhandle it out and back. Thus, "delight to fly" has/had more
than one implication.


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