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How many of your family-model Hornets have a set of controls in the back seat?
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This might help you determine who it is that determines the budget, who determines the National Security Strategy, who declares war, etc. Hint: it isn't all the same office or branch of government. Ultimately, who is in the Oval Office isn't as important as the branch that actually passes laws and spends tax money.
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I love hearing single seat guys talk about what it is like to fly with a WSO.
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The entire desert outside of Vegas, NLV, and Henderson is your range. Depending on where you live, there are various spots for great BLM land shooting. I live on the south side of Henderson, and shoot out in Sloan Canyon down at the gravel pit.
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For a time in the early '00s, bombers did come from the T-1 track. There even used to be a short T-38 postgraduate top-off program called "Introduction to Bomber Fundamentals".
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He's going to become the most emergency-experienced pilot in the program, unfortunately....
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The biplane collision on landing roll-out happened right in front of me, but based on the low sun angle, I couldn't tell you what actually happened.
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It would help reserve babies out.
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For historical perspective, a similar discussion to this, re: capabilities, took place back in the mid-90s when the F-4Gs were retired and replaced with HTS pod-equipped F-16s. The "wild weasel" Viper even today still isn't as capable as the F-4G was, but that hasn't stopped the HTS Viper from being the operational SAM hunter for the last two decades.
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Nice vapes!
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This won't end well for these guys: https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/local/article98900847.html
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Assistant Vice Chief of Staff fired over inappropriate emails
Hacker replied to Booj's topic in General Discussion
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Never thought I'd have my position classified as "betting on RPAs"....but I suppose that is correct. Can't teach a Mission Planner anything, I suppose. Gobble Cock.....ptooey!
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Let's remember that the last time there was a fighter crossflow ('97-'99), the CAF was quite dissatisfied with the performance of a large number of guys who crossflowed. So much so that, at the time, they said "never again". Yay! What's old is new again! I was in IFF, F-15E FTU, and my first fighter squadron with a handful of crossflow guys circa '99, and the results were, unfortunately, mixed. Everyone made it through IFF and FTU okay, but when it came time to tactically employ jets and become flight leads out in the operational fighter world that's where the cracks really showed. A few guys did great, and unfortunately more guys didn't, even so far as never getting back to a fighter assignment after that initial one due to that initial assignment performance. As I've posted about on baseops before, these were all great dudes and officers, but their "hands" and (to use a Navy term) "headwork" weren't quite as strong.
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commensurate
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That's precisely my point; there are many folks that -- quite ignorantly -- see the mere remote piloting capability as single-handedly being the one attribute that makes one air vehicle more awesomer than another. It is inevitable that at some point there will be an unmanned vehicle that is quite capable of substantially better HAISR than the Deuce...but that won't be exclusively because the vehicle is not manned.
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....but.....but......but.....its UNMANNED! UNMANNED is BETTER! I sincerely wish I could rep your post more than just once, HF. Thank you.
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...deleted.... Screw it, not worth the effort on an internet forum. Enjoy the Gobble Cock kool aid, iowa.
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PSA has aways been a crapshoot, but I've been lucky 99 times out of 100 with stuff I've ordered from them over the last 5 years or so. Never had anything out of spec, but this year I bought one of the Freedom stainless barrel uppers and the flash hider wasn't installed all the way (at least it was indexed properly...just not all the way down on the crush washer!).
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Isn't this the kind of opinion we scoff when we hear it from non-flyer fanboy "journalists" like Tyler Rogoway? Thinking one aircraft is awesome or crappy based on....pictures of it? No direct experience with it?
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FEB waivers for IFF and fighter FTU washouts only lead to ACC multi pilot aircraft; generally RC-135s, E-3s , EC-135s, or (less often) B-1s or B-52s.
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I ran the FEB program for IFF washouts at Moody back 10 years ago, so I have handled a few waivers in my time. @ViperStud has it correct -- the "waiver" is something that the WG/CC (technically, the Convening Authority for the FEB) offers the pilot. The pilot is offered to waive his right to have a board hear his FEB in exchange for having his fate decided by the local WG/CC. That outcome -- at least in AETC world for guys who are all ready winged and fragged to fly fighters -- usually involves reassignment to an ACC heavy of some sort. In other situations, as @xaarman pointed out, guys with ratings previous to their current training (e.g. Navs going to SUPT) can be offered the FEB waiver, and the waiver will result in them returning to their previous rating.
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I think it depends on who you are speaking to. Back 10+ years ago, CSAF Johnny Jumper was crapping on all of the space geeks who were fapping about space-based-radar, saying "we are an effects-based service, not a platform-based service."
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I got mine about 2 weeks before my actual date of retirement, while on terminal leave.
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Just for the record, they were aileron rolls.
