F-16s to Ukraine?

F-16s to Ukraine?

Allowing F-16s to be transferred to the Ukrainian Air Force, standing up training for their pilots and eventually converting them to fly the F-16 will solve an emotional appeal.  It just won’t change the course of the war.

Tall Poppies

Tall Poppies

We all love the rock star performers who can solve the unsolvable, succeed against insane odds and triumph when people think that there is no hope.  HR departments hate the people who are not like the rest of the gang and diminish or ostracize the ‘one offs’ who don’t behave like everyone else.

Capability Paradox

F-35 pilots today are an order of magnitude more lethal and capable than any previous generation of fighter pilots and yet that might not be enough to win a war against China. The jet does so much for the pilot in terms of global situation awareness, connectivity, and...

The CRITICAL FLAW in $100 Million Fighter Jets

Hasard Lee produced an excellent YouTube video to explain to experts and lay-persons alike the issue related to managing the simplest of tasks in a fighter cockpit, peeing.  I have written extensively on Optimizing Human Performance in fighter jets.  The two...

Optimizing Human Performance in Fighter Jets

We need to think of fighter pilots as high-end athletes; ‘Tactical Athletes’. 

Empower them to fly the most expensive and lethal aircraft in history and educate them not only how to be stone cold killers but how to train and maintain their minds and bodies to be at the peak conditions in the harshest of environments…combat. 

A Good Day for the RCAF

A Good Day for the RCAF

Lots of drama in this saga but ultimately the right jet for the right price, in the correct numbers with the jet at the right point in its development and maturity.