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Military jet fly-overs cost basically nothing at the margin. Pilots need X hours of air-time a month to stay trained, so it costs very little to do it over pub
by bpodgursky 9y ago
Military jet fly-overs cost basically nothing at the margin. Pilots need X hours of air-time a month to stay trained, so it costs very little to do it over public events. It's money that will be spent either way.
- gumby 9y agoSo it doesn't matter where they are flying? The comment to which you are replying isn't talking about the cost, but the propaganda value. Plus if they have to fly, let them fly over a military base, not a populated area.
- bpodgursky 9y agoI'm not sure what point you're trying to make. If they're going to fly anyway, and it doesn't cost extra, why not get free advertising out of it and entertain some people? I don't get what the downsides of the flyby are.
- gumby 9y agoThe point is not to make exposure to military hardware, and especially the sanitized and sexy parts of the military, a routine element of civilian entertainment. There's another comment of mine down thread where I distinguish recruitment advertising from propaganda. That explains my point. And the cost is not the issue. In fact due to how missions are structured I doubt flying over a football stadium is in any way net cost free.