Ran across this little item:
https://medium.com/war-is-boring/damn-warplanes-are-expensive-645bf2f5928b
Goes into costs of flying the USAF fleet types.
Read the whole thing but here's the gliding related bit:
"Compare that to the Air Forces
cheapest-to-operate planesits training gliders.
The 35 TG-series gliders burned $3,987 per hour
for a combined 5,234 hours in the air in 2014.
Total ownership cost per glider was just
$597,756, equivalent to 11 times the income of the median American family. "
Sure hope the American taxpayer is getting value
for their future (borrowed) taxes.
Mike
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