Mr burbage is also confident that once production at the firm 's mile-long factory in fort worth ramps up to 17 aircraft a month , as planned , the more pessimistic unit-cost projections will start to fall .
Tom burbage , the executive who helped run the f-22 programme and who has also been in charge of the f-35 's development from the start , is still in charge-evidence that the company thinks he is doing a decent job .
Burbage told jane 's that the eight international partner nations - australia , canada , denmark , italy , the netherlands , norway , turkey and the uk - were " still soft on production schedules " .
Even so , mr burbage points out that the fixed-price contract agreed with the pentagon for 32 aircraft in the fourth production lot ( including a 13 % margin for lockheed martin ) is half the price of the first lot of aircraft .
Perhaps richard was right.and if anyone understood will , it was richard burbage .
或许理查说得对,要说世上还有谁了解威尔,也就是理查白贝芝了。
Some winners ' are like , ' oh please , please , don 't let me be chosen , I have a big project I 'm working on . ' But we have no exceptions , ' burbage says .