First Tacoma. First Helicopter Chase | Plus B.S.

Nope, just honest about the quality of the product Boeing produces.

 

I was gunna say you might know my uncle then. He was Salt Lake City for a long time. He’s NTSB now, he said he was investigating a downed aircraft in a field and then 75 yards away another aircraft crashed in front of him.

 

Well at least you are honest

 

Ntsb would be an insane job...
I have binge watched air crash investigation many many times...

Insane and interesting

 

It's much less fun when you have to fill out all the paperwork for said investigation.

 

One fucking strap pack nut and the whole world goes haywire.

 

I asked to be his apprentice. He said I’m short on hours by the tens of thousands

 

Or an incorrectly replaced windshield and out goes the pilot at cruise altitude...
Oopsies

 

I was actually surprised to learn that the aircraft is essentially gutted and rebuilt when a new iteration comes out. I thought they just built an entirely new aircraft.

 

I was also surprised that the triangulating helmet that goes with the cannon costs $16,000 when you can get a DJI drone with goggles that do the same thing for under $1,600

 

Depends on what updates are made. But yeah cost cutting comes before passenger saftey it seems

 

well, it's a little different...

The F-35 helmet cost will blow your mind. It's packed full of wicked tech though.

 

My favorite part of spending the day with the 22 different apaches was playing with the type 6 night vision. Like a kid in a candy shop. My uncle was like, “my nephews are in from Texas and they’ve never seen night vision before so we’re turning the lights off.” All the grunts were like “seriously, we’ve got things to do.”

Uncle - “I said...”

Grunts - “Yes sir, lights off.”

Then we ran around like idiots with $10,000 strapped to our faces.

Im not sure what I enjoyed more. The night vision or the fact that because my uncle was such a high rank no one could say no to him.

 

Holy shit! Is that factored in to the aircraft and mission systems price or is that a separate cost on its own?

 

Helmet cost. It's all because of the sensor integration and cueing systems embedded in it. Plus having the helmet made of carbon fiber doesn't help.

 

Epic

 

Way more than one, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

 

I cant believe how much an opsrey costs the us tax payers a pop...

I heard 200mil each! Wtf

 

The difference being the helmet does a lot more and if it doesn't work it can kill you. A set of DJI goggles going bad isn't much of a big deal.

 

Nah, it's like 1/3 that in FY2014 costs. $73 mil is what I last heard was the published DoD contract rate.