Re: The proposed two Royal Navy 'super carriers'

In message <Z_mdne1ewsm1cGXenZ2dnUVZ_sGdnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Kevin Brooks <brooksvmi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes

"Ian Birchenough" <ian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"This phase of work on the JSF is estimated to be worth £1.7bn to BAE
Systems and it is hoped the project will provide long-term job security
for
staff at Warton. The advanced machine centre, based in east Lancashire,
has
started to design and make frames that form part of the aft fuselage while
workers at Samlesbury also work on the latest technology for the F-35 JSF.
Tom Fillingham, BAE Systems' vice president and F-35 SF deputy programme
manager said: "The start of production on the STOVL variant is a major
step
forward for the F-35 JSF programme and represents a great start to a
significant year."

http://www.blackpoolonline.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=63&ArticleI
D=1341065

Make sure you square away all of those poor uninformed fools. While you
are
at it, make sure you fix the wedding announcement on this side of the pond
for the couple whose groom was employed at Warton by BAE "in partnership
with Lockheed Martin" (gee, wonder what he was working on, huh?).

http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2006/02/17/life/weddings/weddin
gs01.txt

Brooks


--
Ian Birchenough



The key words are "it is hoped the project will provide long-term job
security for staff at Warton. " not as you seem to imagine
"the project will provide long-term job security for staff at Warton. "
As I said there is no production work on JSF at Warton.

I guess you figure that work is only "work" if it involves actual
large-scale physical creation--those danged engineers and whatnot, like the
folks BAE has "working" at Warton, are not "working" after all, huh?

If they develop
a facility for assembly outside the USA then Warton is probably the place
to put it, but at the moment there's nothing.

One has to wonder what that BAE engineer was doing working in conjunction
with LMCO at Warton--somebody has to inform the poor fellow that he was not
*really* working there at all, right?

As for the unfortunate groom I suggest that if you ask him what he was
doing - it might be planning or design at Warton


Which last I knew counted as "work". If you have ever tried to negotiate an
engineering services contract, you might realize that such work (that
apparently is not "work" by your definition) usually comes at a rather good
cost.

or he might have been
at Salmsbury on the empenage team. It certainly wasn't production at
Warton.

Nobody said it was; that would be your failure to comprehend what "work" can
define.

Brooks

--
Ian Birchenough


Since the discussion was about production and doing more than 'metal bending' (my words) for the finished product your attempt to change the ground to include the development work is noted, but irrelevant.
--
Ian Birchenough
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