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Best aviation news that I've heard in a long time. May be if not the first, one of the first times the USAF has been forced to "blink" during their current "UAV revolution". Airplanes without pilots on board are in vogue right now, they're "cool" to those in industry and the Pentagon, but "cool" doesn't mean better. Especially with higher costs and less capability - no matter how many buckets of money they've thrown at it. There may be a day when a UAV is ready to take over this role and the U-2 will fly off into the sunset, but it's not today. ...and tomorrow ain't looking good either.

The world's most critical mission planning resource is BACK! This may be old news, but I found out from another forum that FBO Hotties is back!

Link Looks like the Air Force Global Hawk is being canceled in favor of retaining the U-2. This is interesting that a manned airplane is actually beating out a UAV. I wonder what this means for all the people recently hit with a GH gig but haven't PCSd yet.

Found kind of a fun website, (Yeah I'm deployed and bored) where you can look up how internet pages used to look "all the way" back to the '90's. For example, here is the earliest version of Baseops I could find:https://web.archive.o...ww.baseops.net/ This appears to be from November of 2000. Here is Google from 11 Nov '98: https://web.archive.org/web/19990117032727/https://www.google.com/ Just goes to show you, nothing on the internet ever goes away! Here is the site so you can look up your own "Classic" webpages! https://www.archive.org/web/web.php

So, how long have you been in the sandpit for?

If anyone is curious, class 12-07D (Diesel Flight), 7 busts out of 26 on day one. Other flights sucked as well. A challenge to all future IFS students, if a whole class, that means all 3 flights, passes the BF and OPs Limits day one, I'll buy the class a round on First Friday. Safest bet I ever made....... Smokey