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Several major problems they have been trying to resolve for years, two with the engine, one with the rotor blades. 1. There is an issue with cracking around the engine exhaust, for years Boeing blamed Rolls Royce and of course Rolls Royce blamed Boeing. 2. Dust ingestion degraded engine performance faster than originally anticipated. Part of the problem is the type of dust encountered in the middle East and Africa. I believe they have tried twice to redesign the inertial separator. They reduced the engine wash interval and implemented a FDAC temperature increase in an attempt to reduce build up. The CV-22 has TOLD like any other airplane but obviously they don't have V speeds, instead they rely on performance measurements that tell how much power and performance you have at current temp, weight and power production. One of those is OGE which simplified defines your climb performance on one engine. 3. Rotor blade wear and tear. Again the type of dust encountered is far more abrasive than the designers thought it would be, at once point blade replacement interval was down to 100 hours. On the subject of the rotor bladed important to note the rotor width is not optimized aerodynamically. The Marines controlled the airframe design and a driving requirement was the ability to fold it up and fit it on a boat. As a result the rotor diameter is smaller than it should be to get the most out of the engines. I only have a little over 200 hours flying the CV so I am far from an expert but I enjoyed it and when it works it is a game changer. One of the funnest things we did in Africa was set 60 nacelle and fly low along some of the smugglers routes in Ethiopia. At 60 nacelle you can comfortably fly 50' at 100-150 knots and it was rock solid, like driving an old caddy down the highway. The smugglers would see us, bail out of their trucks and jump in the ditch as we blazed overheard.

Yet another misfire. No one has a problem with billionaires per se. We have a problem with certain billionaire's objectives. See the following: Bill Gates' climate / clean meat / no meat / spray vaccine efforts, etc George Soros' bank-rolling all manner of "grass roots" campaigns to modify society, wage lawfare, BLM riots, et al Peter Thiel and Elon Musk aren't trying to dismantle our sovereignty or take away any of our rights. See the difference? These conversations would be more productive if you'd come to terms with your oppositions' actual POV.

Happy January 6th. Cheers!

I’m a military brat and started with USAA. They were great back in the 80s and early 90s. We had multiple houses and auto through them. First strike was in 2006 when they would not insure a new house for the price we bought it, they wanted to insure it for about 30% over. They fought us on reimbursement when our military moving truck rolled over during a PCS. We dropped them for home but kept auto until our next move when they were about 30% higher than Progressive. We dropped USAA and haven’t looked back. They were high priced and provided shitty service. Another story, USAA almost tanked my buddy’s home sale. Buyers insurer insisted on a new roof. Sellers company insisted roof was fine. As buyer and seller were about to part ways, they asked, “who do you have your insurance with.” Both were with USAA.

Four nights ago, Beale did the Monday Night Football flyover at Levi Stadium. Challenging airspace, to say the least, and led by a young ex T-6 FAIP who is a brand new flight lead. This is how it is done. Perfection IMG_1720.mov Edit: forgot to mention... 58 and 60 year old A-models, with an iPad and a stopwatch

Bye bye Trudeau! He was gone anyway, but this way he can blame Trump! https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/trudeau-to-resign-as-voters-sour-on-his-vision-for-canada/ar-AA1x2NfD

Thanks for the advice! Honestly any piece of information regarding the pilot career field I value as I am still trying to get into the pipeline (college senior FWIW). I was fortunate to see 2 USMC Ospreys conduct a flyover for a local event. Saw them practice right over my house as we are in the flight path for the flyover, then got to see them startup and takeoff, then recover and shutdown at our local airport, where they were staging. It was pretty epic and definitely sparked the interest in the aircraft, seeing them do their run up within 200-300 feet from me and the sound of the rotors basically going through me. So not necessarily the most interested in that specific mission set, but there is definitely an interest there.

It’s called “Big Mike’s” now. And for those that hadn’t heard yet…. The cinder block shame cell formerly known as Teasers burned down today. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It was indirectly the Marines that drove the design because it had to fit on the assault ships. "The Dream Machine" written by Richard Whittle covers the whole history of the V-22 and the limitations thereof. Lots of compromise to get the weight and size down to make it fit on the boat.

Of course that’s possible, but you’re being a bit obtuse to think a sub 6 yr congressman (hell even a 10 year) could ever be anywhere near the level of Pelosi, Schumer, McConnell, etc, even if they wanted to. And on that note, I still think many start with good intentions, it’s only after several to many years that most finally cave to the selfish desires fueled by money and power, at least to any meaningful amount. There are positive and negative outliers of course, but I think the majority wouldn’t have the time to become bought/make the kinds of plays necessary to become “the next Pelosi” if they were limited on time. Imagine a douchebag CC for 2 years (it sucks, but everyone gets through it and the next guy is awesome). Now imagine a douchebag CC who runs the show for the next 20 years without any possibility of being fired, no matter what they do. How’s that organization’s long term culture and productivity now? 100%. Love all your related points. These and term limits are not mutually exclusive. All of it matters and are ways to increase Congress’ effectiveness and decrease its shadiness.

Windshield on my wife's car, took ten minutes to file the claim and schedule the replacement through them. Which reminds me, I had a broken windshield on my Range Rover while I was still with USAA. Filed the claim and they sent a dude out to replace it. The guy immediately tells me USAA went cheap and sent an aftermarket window that was a lot cheaper and some of my options probably wouldn't work. He also said in Florida I had the right to OEM and all I had to do was decline which I did on the spot. He was back a week later with the OEM windshield. USAA sucks!

What everyone else said. Controversial take: their infil/exfil mission is cool but with a MX reliability rate forcing 3 to make 1, they lose a lot of great missions to the 160th and there aren’t any fixes to that situation. If you want to periodically fly a unique airframe and you’re good being an O-4 with 800 hours, a few deployments sitting alert, maybe one or two real world under your belt and tons of sim time… go CV22. If you want to fly a LOT in actual airplanes, do a LOT of awesome real world shit and be an O4 with 3500 hours… go any other AFSOC aircraft.

Ringing in 2025 like...

@Negatory I’m fairly positive Lawman is not trying to argue there’s tons of great billionaires on “his side” (whatever that means), and is simply highlighting the stupidity of this whole charade/medal, regardless of political affiliation (he just said Trump giving it to Elon would help cement the whole thing as a sham). Why is it you read something, engage turbo douche mode, and go on an unhinged rant that wildly misrepresents the person you’re replying to. For your own mental health, recommend some introspection and find a way to turn the blind, illogical, and generally unprovoked rage down a few notches. You’ll feel better and your communication skills probably would improve.

Or maybe - just maybe - Americans should pause this fake party war and realize that billionaires shouldn’t be elevated to some level above the common man in political influence or government service. Conservatives have the exact same kinds of people, the Peter Thiels, the Koch brothers, the Uihliens, Ken Griffin, Jeff Yasses, Charles Schwab, Elon Musk. Maybe we should reject it all instead of saying our shitty billionaire is shittier than ours. But that’s confusing to the folks that literally elected the billionaire class to run themselves 😂 It’s a race to the bottom with some of you guys, eh?

It’s official: Biden is the worst POTUS in our nations history.

Civil Rights Lawyer is good as well. I should have included Audit the Audit - https://www.youtube.com/@AuditTheAudit They include all the relevant case law.

Lackluster is also great. Everything is backed up by law/case law in all his videos. https://www.youtube.com/@LackLusterMedia Same with this guy. Great content https://www.youtube.com/@thecivilrightslawyer

I wanted to believe the numbers were small but man there are a LOT of videos out there. The First Amendment Auditing Community shined a big spotlight on how many cops don't understand our basic rights. As a dude who swore an oath to the Constitution I'm appalled at some of the stuff that is out there. For the record, my brother in law is a chief of police for a large department and we talk about it a lot. He graduated from the FBI academy and as a side gig has been doing all sorts of contract training at departments around the country. He has watched many of the videos with me and is just as appalled. His comments always fall back to two things: 1. A lack of training and 2. Contempt of Cop. It is even worse when you mix the two together. For those that want to know more I highly recommend a youtube channel run by Jeff Gray. He is one of the OG auditors and does not have the caustic insulting approach many of the others have. He rarely insults the officers...on occasion when they clearly push him over the line. Jeff's standard procedure is to stand on public property, usually the steps of city hall, with a sign that says God Bless the Homeless Vets. I've lost track of how many times he has been arrested for holding that sign. He works with a couple of non-profits and tries to hold these department/cities accountable. He donates most of the settlements to charities including homeless shelters. His channel is below. https://www.youtube.com/@HONORYOUROATH/videos

I find it interesting how few people recognize the Chinese situation from the Chinese perspective. All too many folks think the Chinese are acting like expansionist trying to conquer the world starting with Taiwan. While they do want to be a great power and their actions in Africa, South and Central America are more expansionist, when it comes to Taiwan they a completely different motivation and one you might actually agree with if we put it in U.S. terms. Imagine if there was a big civil war in the united states and you kicked the other side's ass and chased them all the way to California. With the help of another peer nation the surviving army got on boats and airplanes and took over Hawaii. Would we view Hawaii as anything other than U.S. territory? Would we be upset if the peer nation signed a defense of Hawaii pact with the invaders? In simple terms that is what happened and why they want Taiwan back.

I am just an internet troll but if I were POTUS I would keep the pressure on for a bit longer. If we go all stop and Russia gets to keep all the land gains Putin can declare victory. Access tot he Black Sea is one of the keys to a prosperous and self-sustaining Ukraine. Losing the Crimea was a big hit, Putin has pushed hard at Kherson and everything around the Tendrivs'ka Gulf because it lets him hold all sea-born Ukraine trade at risk...he effectively controls the black sea. If Ukraine gives up other land but gets some of the coast back then we have good grounds to end it. Putin is feeling the pain, I would keep the pressure on until he is willing to give up more.

Ha! One of my favorites. In my EWO days was on a TDY up to Bodo, Norway. Was Blue Air for a big LFE they had that week. We manage to get in and hit our airdrop without getting shot (lots of fjords and rocks to hide in, and our screen was able to keep Red off us for the first 15-20 minutes). As we're egressing, one of the Red Air guys regens, and proceeds to just blast straight after us. My aft jammer was tits up but like I said, lots of terrain to hide in, the front jammer was working, and there was solid overcast layer above so I felt like we had a chance. There were two Blue guys fairly close to me, I'm yelling that I'm spiked (Bitch give me some help!) but they were busy with another regen. Anywho start to notch the guy, GCI is giving me good callouts, I figure he's just gonna fly overhead cause of the overcast layer/mountains all around and then get shot by Blue. All of the sudden my LM calls "Hey I think I see....Holy Shit!!!" followed quickly by Pilot saying "Jesus Christ" and then "Fox 2 on Talon". Guy came right through the overcast, shot us, flew underneath us, then lights the burner and rockets right back up through the cloud deck. My pilot looks back at me and asks WTF was that. All I had was "Aaahh, yeah, they got us". In the debrief I asked the guy how he was able to get below the WX like that and he says he's been flying in the same patch of terrain for 20 years so he knew where all the high stuff was based on where the peaks were sticking up above the cloud deck. Can't notch that.