The Eurofighter Typhoon, armed for sales combat, will take onBoeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet. (Craig Pelleymounter)
From Air & Space Smithsonian:
If you want a customer to spend $10 billion on your jet fighters, you gotta bust some Mach.
Ricardo Traven, Boeing’s chief corporate test pilot for the Super Hornet, was physically in a briefing room at Naval Air Station Cecil Field near Jacksonville, Florida, one sweaty day last June. But mentally, as he prepared to fly a practice routine in the F/A-18E/F, he was eight months ahead and 10,000 miles away at Aero India, a corporate airshow at Air Force Station Yelahanka, near Bangalore. As he moved the imaginary control stick between his knees, he was flying at 550 mph 200 feet off the ground, competing for one of the biggest fighter contracts in history: 126 aircraft valued at $10 billion.
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