Quote of the Day: Between the Seat Cushions of a Joint Strike Fighter

"We joke that the money we spend on rotorcraft is coins between the seat cushions in the JSF program."

-- Eric Braganca, a recently retired lieutenant colonel who spent most of his career flying MH-53 helicopters for the Air Force Special Operations Command, on the relative costs of developing fixed-wing planes like the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and rotorcraft (a category that includes helicopters and the V-22 Osprey, the tiltrotor helicopter-airplane hybrid).

Bryan Rahija edits POGO's blog.