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Naw, more like this!

More that there were so many assignments available even the bottom of the class was getting them.

I lied, can't believe I forgot about the AC-130A. Only two flights, one as as a gunner helping out the Duke bubbas and the other, years later, as an evaluator FE during an ASET. The ASET flight was on 129, the First Lady. 129 was the first C-130 the AF bought, it's a ''53 model.. It sits at the museum on Eglin.

concur...like "leadership" that spreads unfounded rumors around aviation incidents? you have less than 0 credibility.

We should save our money for more important things. Like buying quarterly vaccines and giving pallets of cash to bad guys. We are where we are because our leadership is incompetent.

Not that I'm a professional at False-Flag operations, but it has been a joy to watch Russia screw it up so bad. If you haven't seen the videos of "Attempted chemical plant sabotage by Ukrainians"... Where the attackers are speaking polish, the meta-data shows the film created 2 days before the attack was said to happen, and in that metadata you can see the audio tracks used, that include sound effects from a live fire exercise 10 years ago... The level of production these guys have is well below Logjammin', and there are many more examples like this out there.

Worst MPRS jet of all time is Triple Cripple, 333.

Worked on KC-135R 57-1440 MPRS last night doing an oxygen purge, it just got out of the paint barn at PDM. MPRS birds are road hard and put up wet. Of course, this one will go back to McConnell to be flown hard with no TLC ever given. Lucifers Chariot is an old Looking Glass EC-135 that was converted into a sniffer. Those engines are TF33P102A's, they were already used up because all the 102's came off high time retired airliner B707's along with the nacelles. The only 135's that came off the assembly lines with TF-33's were the C-135B's and some of them became Rivet Joints. The two recently retired OC-135B's were the last of the TF33P5's powered C-135B's, the rest now have the CFM-56.

Well this is the same administration with a different president. Seriously, there are no "Biden" people. Never have been. Everyone in this administration is from the Obama camp. No surprise we're seeing the same weak foreign policy. When your political ideology is founded on the idea that the evil in the world is caused by American interventionalism, the obvious strategy is to stop intervening. And when that doesn't work, you stand at a podium and make excuses or outright deny reality. Seem familiar?

Not yet. I’ll have to look for it, but I did watch this one:

I’m just gonna say it…. If we get involved in this war it’s going to cost a lot more marriages than the last two…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

No news is good news! Sent from my iPhone using Baseops Network mobile app

was the post WW2 pax americana really all that great? korea, vietnam, iran, panama, GW1, bosnia, GWOT etc... seems to me we kept putting our pecker where it didn't belong. not too many great things to show from any of those places. maybe we need to sit some out

The pilot flying the first flight of the X-59 is a friend and former U-2 pilot. I plan to go down there for that first flight. "First flights" are pretty rare these days, compared to 70 years ago. From what he can tell me about the aircraft and the research leading up to it, it's very interesting. NASA also used a YO-3A and TG-14 for a lot of the data gathering. It's neat stuff.