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That guy farts, it'll make one of Axe's backdraft setups look like blowing on a birthday candle. 100% that guy's an engine chauffeur and is not making it 2 rungs up that ladder. @Danger41, yessir. Putting the OLD in FDNYOldGuy. I vigorously studied the "historical records" of Backdraft for entry into the FD. Just like I had to watch Iron Eagle/TG to get hired as a mil pilot. All on VHS, too. Haha.

I know of two guys that were in the same class so their bonus would arrive the same day (in theory). One got it the Friday prior (USAA) and the other guys arrived the following Wednesday. FWIW.

So...gate months essentially mean nothing? Or at least in the context of "Career-enhancing assignments?" 🤷‍♂️ Copy that gates protect you in a long-term DNIF situation and etc.

I don’t know that specific answer, but I will tell you be prepared for orders to get cut a day or two before leaving for OTS. Be prepared for orders being delayed to the 11th hour your entire career, regardless of gov shutdowns.

First of all, Blair worked with the Canadian Snowbirds and they were very happy with his work. Second, I personally don't believe the AF needs a section of Combat Camera to do air-to-air photography. Paying salary, TDY, retirement, disability... is unnecessary. There are plenty of people in the AF that can do great work. We have a pilot in our squadron that has a college degree in photography and does incredible work. Simply keep a database of these folks and use them. Or hire known civilians, like Paul Bowen, who is considered one of the best in the world. https://www.warbirdheritagefoundation.org/paul_bowen.html I believe that any photographer would like for people to see their final product, and know it came from them just by looking at it. In that area, Blair has succeeded. His style is unique. Finally, I see a few of y'all do not like the final product from Blair's shoot. Outside of BO.net, I've yet to hear someone say anything but very good things about the shots. I plan to get some printed up for the squadron.

T-6 demo at Andrews Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Lots of talk about demo teams in some other threads. Figure I’d revive this one. 11 years later the F-16 and A-10 are back! Looks like there was a T-6 demo at one point in the early/mid 00s, coinciding with the T-6 coming online. Anybody have experience with that one? What are your thoughts on a revived T-6 demo team? Seems like high-school football flyovers followed by a “and come see them fly at podunk airshow tomorrow” could be a low-cost way to get young minds thinking about military aviation.

I'm amazed that in this day and age, someone would think this is ok to do outside of a Demo Team. I'd be equally surprised if other airshow performers there didn't question it after they saw it. Any word what happened to the pilot?

Yup. Big difference between doing it out on the range or MOA versus doing it within 1/4 mile of a couple thousand people watching on the flightline.

Okay, yes, this person is clearly not working 911 part time to pay for their mensa membership. But. If you're the pilot that just ejected out of a fighter aircraft and you're sitting in some guy's house calling 911, don't you think you would maybe take a little bit more control over the conversation rather than answer stupid questions that only make the person on the other end more confused? This guy is 47 years old and in the military, so ostensibly has some sort of leadership experience under his belt. If you can't lead one moron into sending an ambulance without a 15 minute discussion about how ejections work, it might not be the 911 operator that's the problem.

This is exactly how an F35 sounds.

According to the photographer, he used zero filters for the airborne shots. 🤔 The others look like those AI-generated "real-life" pics of cartoon characters.

Good thing Biden is 8 decades old. God will take him back soon. He's so fucking old. There are videos of him plagiarizing others' speeches. There are videos of him telling 100% lies during speeches. Theses are from the 1980s not from now. He's the zenith of political corruption and he's the leader of the US. Ask your liberal friends if they're better off today than 4 years ago. Shit ask anyone if they're better off now than 20 years ago. If you answer honestly, the answer (for most) will be no. Thats the litmus test. Where did the middle class go? How much is gas? My house should cost 200,000k but I can sell it for 1.2 million. I live in what used to be a working class neighborhood in Cypress CA (North OC), but now only rich people can afford these houses. My used VW surfwagon is worth more today then it was when I bought it 5 years ago. The dollar is getting weaker and weaker, kinda like Hunter Biden after a few days without crack. Groceries cost more, shit even the price of dieing is going up. We need real change in this country. Real change, the hard way.

If housing is (or going to soon be) so unaffordable that the vast majority of people won’t be able to afford one…or won’t be able to afford one without working until they’re near death/old age, then there has to be very large bad visible 2nd and 3rd order affects to the economy. If you’re spending so much for housing, rent or mortgage, then you have less money to buy clothes, eat out, fix your car, buy a new cell phone, etc. That means that these businesses will earn less, hire fewer people, and on and on. All that most definitely affects the economy—and yes, it will then most definitely affect the stock market. So again, my question is when? I’m not buying this “stealth crash”. I think we’ll eventually see the signs I mentioned above…but again, when?

61.199 addresses your specific situation. Having said all this, save yourself time and effort and draft up a MFR with appropriate docs and send it to your congressman for help with a federal agency. That’s what I did and got it fixed in a week after trying with 3 FSDO’s and getting nowhere. On this note, I started this battle in 2015 and followed all the processes for petitioning for a reg change and worked for years to finally get it pushed through. It finally happened and then the FAA wouldn’t honor it. Broke my spirit.