ORIGINAL: Tall Paul
One of our U-2 test pilots made a complaint about the program management.. every time Lockheed came up with a performance improvement, the management upped the payload, and the improvement went away.
That pilot didn't understand what was important.
Payload was important. The pilots' enjoyment wasn't.
And typical of pilots, the improvement hadn't gone away. It'd been utilized to improve mission capability and mission performance. If the U-2 was carrying more cameras, it was still carrying more cameras, for example.