Those are over life average hourly operating costs. The Skyhawk was a lot cheaper to operate than the F-16 but it gives you an idea of what a jet costs to run.
martin11,
Oct 5, 7:37pm
By 2013, the cost per flight hour was $68,362, over three times as much as the F-16. In 2014, the F-22 fleet required 43 maintenance man-hours per flight hour. Each aircraft requires a month-long packaged maintenance plan (PMP) every 300 flight hours. $68,362 usd in nzd is $95,023 at todays exchange rate ! Probable well over $100,000 per flying hour now ., fot the F-22
Your figures are well out of date .
hkjoe,
Oct 5, 10:05pm
Singapore is only a little larger than Lake Taupo, so you're probably right about airspace. When I've been in Singapore I've regularly seen fighter jets doing flyovers, quite low. I don't know whether that's training, or a show of strength to their neighbours, or to keep the populous in line.
Speaking of afterburners, I was living in Sydney during Australia's bicentennial in 1988. They had loads of celebrations, but I remember one evening on the harbour shores under the harbour bridge, watching fireworks, then there was a low pass by a couple of F/A18As, flying very low up the harbour over the bridge (not under, fortunately), with the afterburners on, and you could feel the heat off them. I can't remember, but might have been at only a few 100 metres.
martin11,
Oct 5, 10:14pm
The Avalon airshow in Aus this year had the Raptor do a t/o with afterburner lit and it made our ears ring for ages after it . Fabulous !
m16d,
Oct 5, 10:19pm
The "Big Mc". yes I can believe that. and yes to the 2nd question.
hkjoe,
Oct 5, 10:19pm
I know what a Vampire is and a 1952 Humber Super Snipe, but not sure about the meaning of Zip Zip Zip. Would you care to enlighten me? Your family must have been wealthy to own such a car in those days.
lookoutas,
Oct 6, 5:05am
Jeez - how the hell are ya, ya prick?
You woulda said BS had I said it was Ive. But it's the sort of thing Butch would do - or you. So I was pretty well covered had I wanted to make up a story.
Big Mc eh - that sure describes him. well, that's the story he told me one day.
Not too much bother wasting $500 of that crap. Would have done the soil a favour.
lookoutas,
Oct 6, 5:10am
A Zip is the thing in most hall kitchens for boiling water, and they whistle just like a Vampire when the water gets hot! You never seen on of those?
lookoutas,
Oct 6, 5:31am
That was meant to be 'one of those'
Don't know about being rich, but it was a pretty flash car when we got it at about 4 years old. Always remember sitting there saying "Can I start it dad? "OK - turn the key on and push that button." "Hey ya dopey little bugga, it was going the first time!"
hkjoe,
Oct 6, 8:19am
Got ya. I wouldn't have made the connection, but I remember the whistle well; they used to be everwhere. I haven't heard a Vampire. Thanks for enlightening me.
lookoutas,
Jan 2, 4:08am
A Vampire sounds just like a zip boiling. We were lucky enough to have a topdressing pilot living up the valley from us in the 50's and every so often we would see him fly off south in his Piper Cub about 11 on a Sunday morning. We knew that a couple of hours later he would come screaming back over in a Vampire. The whole valley would be treated to a private air display as he beat-up every farm house in the community.
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