We have a lot more time and more maturity in the airplane we have upgraded that list. The 80 number you heard at eglin, which was accurate, for the entire fleet today is about half that now. Thats not the best part of the story. Thats the whole fleet. The best part is the lot 6 and 7 airplanes were fielding today were improving today because of the things in the last two years, they are only seeing a handful of 1s and 2s everyday. And that 40 includes the 80 includes all the older airplanes that until they are upgraded, they are going to still have that issue but the newer airplanes, much better. The general has experience with the new airplanes at Hill Air Force base that they have been using. He might be able to tell you more. Those airplanes, maam, we have three of them up there. They have not lost a sortie since they delivered them. As we have delivered these newer airplanes, they are performing really well. Eglin still has older ones and struggle with the older systems the Program
Fraction of a second. As the seat comes out and hits the wind blast, it begins to decelerate. If you wait just a fraction of a second before you put that main chute out, the seat has decelerated enough so when the force of the parachute comes out isnt as severe. To get to that solution, we are putting a switch on the side of the ejection seat, so when the pilot climbs up into the cockpit, can set that at heavyweight or lightweight. There are a number of ways we could have solved that problem. We could have put an automatic sensing system into the seat, much like when you sit in your car on the passengers side and the seat knows youre there and the air bag gets energized. We also could have put a switch on the seat that would have had the maintainers put it in the heavier or lightweight position. We went back to the war fighters and said, what solution do you want . We can solve this problem in a number of ways. They said we want the pilot to be responsible for moving that switch. We wa
Are [ no audio ] [ crowd chatter ] keep moving, keep moving. Keep moving. Secretary madam secretary, how do you feel . How do you feel the hearing went . Still awake . If you want to pass through, you have to have a pass. If not go back to the area we had you before. Right, i know that. Charlie. All the republicans went in to a meeting. I can either get you cummings or congressman and 11 hours, minus breaks that the House Select Committee on benghazi has been meeting. And Hilary Clinton walking out the door we will bring you any lawmaker reactions after this. If lawmakers decide to come to what are known as our stakeout positions. Until then, we will take your phone calls, we want to hear what you think about what you heard about the day. Hilary clinton at the house Benghazi Committee. We are going get to it with frank being our caller, buffalo, new york, democrat. Caller hi, my maname is fra, i voted for george w. Bush, the first one, the senior. He got us out of iraq, before we took
No, it did not. I mean, were always were always assessing our posture and where we can put our assets. Not something we normally get into much detail on but we always want to make sure weve got our assets positioned properly. As we see where, you know, the focus of our strikes are based on the fluidity of our battlefield maybe we need to reposition our assets to make sure where were spending more time in the air weve got an asset closer to respond if needed. Hi, colonel. As a followup to this question, given the different tactical capabilities of the f16s and a10s is this deployment indicating tactical change in the mission as well or will they do exactly the same thing that f16 did . And the secondly, you mentioned about syrian iraq coalition. What is your understanding about the Syrian Forces . Patrick asked this question last weekend and he said he would look at it. What is your understanding about this new form and is this indicating the same thing or Different Group or can i get y
Change in taught for them today. Having said that, im prepared to tell you what the impact to the program would be if that were the case. Let me exchain that to you. So first, the Current Development program that ends in 2017, there would be no effect whatsoever if canada were no longer a partner. Because they had paid all the money into the Development Program and all the services have already paid and we intend on finishing the Development Program with the mop we have are so there would be no effect on the Current Development program. Not the case for production and the price of the airplane. Fae partner or any service moves airplanes did the right or takes airplanes out, the pry of the airplane for all the other partners and all the other fmf customers and all the other services goes up a little bit. In this instance, if there are 65 less amodel airplanes in that production profile, from any country, whether it be cab dan or someone else are we have estimated that the increase in pr