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Don't you remember Red Dawn? Wolverines!!!

Turns out doing a demo without the most basic of formation flying skills is not ideal.

I have a new theory but no data. Was there a Coldplay song playing on the airshow PA?

Dibs!

Sample size of one school (unrelated to AF training) - vast majority of young CFIs suck (and we’ve ran through a lot in the last year, hired from all over the country). Their work ethic and maturity are significantly lacking is the best way to sum it up. Now add in their complete lack of experience and unwillingness to acknowledge that - it’s a recipe for bad decisions and poor instruction. I can only imagine this is plaguing these AF-contract flight schools. UPT is, for all the valid BGCs, vastly superior to a standard flight school, especially when trying to produce military pilots at scale.

Stealth is indeed just like Moose...on the spectrum.

Oh so it’s kinda like gender identity? Damn is everything a spectrum nowadays?! 😉

No, it wasn't the point...ever. Getting shot at was by-product of the intended role: Suppress and/or destroy enemy air defense. If you can do that without the IADS getting shot off, even better. Perhaps you misunderstand what "stealth" actually means. It doesn't mean invisible.

Stealth aircraft aren’t actually stealthy so we still need to suppress and distract from the enemies ability to spot them? And all medals have been getting watered down for years. Standard ops there. We already went down that road with the Medal of Honor Venezuela raid guy. Oops would you look at that, I’m way out of my lane… back in I go.

Another retard cosplaying a cop. "Hand to god...other hand."

Dibs though. I’d definitely still vote for her

Maybe someone called Winchester on our munition levels. - - - - Like @busdriver is saying, take all their money. Every fuckin dime or whatever they use as dimes. And any rich asshole from Iran. Seize their money, take their shit.

Time for Linebacker 3.

Pretty well…until we took a break.

Sydney Sweeney in a one piece or bikini is still hot as hell

The only airplane with a side opening canopy I want to see at an airshow is an OV-10 or an F-104.

How's bombing them into submission going? Asking for our nation.

The only way I could explain the lack of Air Force supervision over the schools is the same reason the whole concept sucks: every school has a different management composition and style, every school has a different pool of cfi's and every school has different aircraft. How could the AF possibly expect any kind of standardized result.

Oh weird, the IRGC, effectively a terrorist organization, can’t be dealt with via diplomacy or ignoring them. Shocking.

Well played...

Thanks all.

I think this sounds like a solution in search of a problem.

Pretty impressive landing roll. Actually a no roll. T/O is incredible as well. I’m not sure the tires even rotated fully.

Hopefully someone kicked some rudder because lead got lucky with having enough space to eject. Since everyone made it and are OK: Rejoin to the piggyback position? Is that a new Ace and Gary maneuver?

Howdy! If you have access, the PSDM has been published! https://myfss.us.af.mil/USAFCommunity/s/knowledge-detail?pid=kA0Rw0000000tAzKAI

Today I flew out to visit one of these ift flight academies. I sat down with about 15 of the students off premises. Included in the group were a number of second lieutenant Academy grads and some X enlisted fighter maintenance second lieutenants . So I asked about Duty days and one of the girls said she had been on scheduled duty for 14 straight days. Alll of the students said this was not unusual even though they knew contractually the Flight Academy was supposed to schedule a day off after 7 Days Of scheduled duty. Rarely would any of them go to the scheduling office and demand a day off, either for fear of appearing weak, unmotivated, or because they're just trying to get through the program as quickly as possible. I wonder if any of them realize what the consequences would be if they knowingly flew on the 8th day and had an accident. I personally do not know. Would the Air Force get involved? Would the FAA get involved? I cannot find any FARs that put limits on consecutive days of training for students. All of them agree that the Management areas of this Flight Academy are completely stove piped and never talk to each other, mostly because they don't care. One CFI actually knew that because of the winds , nothing would be accomplished on a particular instrument training fight, but he literally said, "I don't care. I'm 2 hours away from my 1500 for my ATP so we're going." The management and the cfi's literally have no vested interest in the well-being of the Air Force students, it's all about the hours and the money.