Air Force to Recruits: Design Your Own Darn Planes

The Air Force Recruiting Service has developed a new iPhone app called "Make It Fly," which allows users to design their own next-generation aircraft.

How does this help recruiting? Brig. Gen. Balan Ayyar, commander of the recruiting service said in a Air Force News Service article that "This is the first app intended to inspire an association of science, technology, engineering and math disciplines with the Air Force."

"Part of our recruiting strategy is viewing the social media realm as a recruiting space and developing applications, such as Make It Fly, that will play an increasingly important role in our efforts to connect with future Airmen."

Who knows, maybe some Make It Fly user can come up with a design for a new stealth bomber priced less than the old B-2, which cost just under a billion dollars per aircraft in the 20-plane fleet.