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Huge screw up by the armed forces of Kuwait but if you have spent anytime there they still remember we came to help in 1991. Crazy footage of a local helping one of the downed aircrew. AQPptBFZfFsqf2ZHbYpb9V7qHpW1-JsI53iyUMhoQSXUDo5xmSeP6u2yxdp4efHy-SQSIOmF-O6ICHrQSIkbkUbtEtWaKNapNJQnuF7TutDcyA.mp4

I would only ever want to fly with the Aussies and Brits in my lane.

What took you so long.

Does this mean that Kuwait has to buy us three new builds coming off the line in St Louis

I'm hearing it was a Kuwaiti F-18 that committed the frats.

Kuwait will be buying 6 of these, And 3 of these

Really glad they all got out, almost unbelievable result from a (assumed) Patriot engagement.

AFE never buying a beer again.

A group of MIG-29's met their end against F-35s.

I copied something I wrote on another site and occurred in the 92-93 timeframe. As a Flt CC,I took 6 A-10s from Shaw to Little Rock to support the Army doing Army things at Ft. Chaffee near Ft. Smith. Runner brings a jet back with a broken windscreen. No worries, that front panel would occasionally Crack from the window heat. Well, that wasn't it. He had hit the grounding wire on some high tension power lines. No call. No controllability/ damage check. He argues he did nothing wrong. The front windscreen on the Hawg is 7 layers of laminate that will stop a 23mm cannon round. That windscreen is supported by a very stout I- beam looking frame. The grounding wire hit on top of the AAR door, slid over the windscreen cracking the glass and shearing off windscreen attachment bolts before scratching the top of the canopy. The wire completely missed the engine nacelles and rudders. Any other jet and he would have been sliced in two and he thinks he did nothing wrong. Arkansas Power and Light was replacing that wire and sent us the piece with gray paint on it and said it was 292 feet off the ground which was below his cleared altitude. His excuse was rising terrain despite that handy, dandy radar altimeter warning which was not used. He also almost put a Vark in the dirt during Desert Shield after screwing up a LGB toss. You might have seen the video updating your altitude chamber.

Story time!

Japanese, I believe. I'm sure very few care, but the Vietnamese jets never had the air refueling probes on their jets, as far as I know. FYI: that's the South Vietnamese roundel on the fuselage of both of our jets We are hoping to have a cool A-37 surprise for the warbird world later in 2026. We shall see.

I was in New Zealand recently and on a whim, I managed to go out and fly a Pacific Aerospace CT/4 trainer. Fairly unknown in the US... I don't believe any are airworthy here. This one was the first of two prototypes, before it went into production in NZ. It was built in 1972. The pilot I flew with was one of the handful of former NZAF A-4K pilots (only 168 total), and is a pretty accomplished warbird pilot. We did some sightseeing, AHC, and light aerobatics. It was "different". Really enjoyed getting to fly a piece of NZ aviation history.