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https://www.globenewswire.com/news.html?d=162962 The 50th anniversary of the first flight of the T-38 occurred earlier this month. Before any of you non-fighter dudes jump on this little statistic from the article, I'll go ugly early on it: Obviously this factoid neglects training under SUPT and everyone who has tracked to a TONE, UH-1, or T-44 since 1993.

Yes, that's correct to the best of my understanding. I've used the "K" word off a no-lock gun track as a Smurf bandit plenty o' times and never had to pay $5 because the shot couldn't be validated. I just wasn't sure if there had been some change to shot/kill that I wasn't aware of and that you were referencing.

Since when was MIL sizing not a valid way to validate a gun track? When you don't have any method of active ranging, that's the ONLY way you CAN do it.

Pretty asinine statement, actually. Bravo to you.

Sounds like that guy's standard.

You've got to love the kind of ideology that, on their "2 years of the Islamic State" celebration page, one of the featured images is blindfolded guys on their knees getting shot in the back of the head. Something to be proud if, isn't it?

The root is in a Korean-war era USAF song, "Save a fighter pilot's Ass". That song is an adaptation of some American traditional song that goes "place a nickel in the drum, save another drunken bum", referring to putting money in a Salvation Army donation can. So, the "grass" word was just changed to rhyme with "ass" in the fighter pilots' adaptation. Other than that, there's no special significance. At some pilot, pilots started taking the song lyrics literally.

Actually, no.

I first heard it at Mountain Home in '93 from some EF-111 turds. I was a ROTC cadet on a base visit and found it pretty funny. They also did elbow pointing and "deceased insect", all of which was a pretty foreign concept to a ROTC punk.

Of course it's always the chick's fault. That siren obviously couldn't hack it on her own, and needed to go for the offer of the knobber to get the EPQ questions, right?

Unless you have a really significant amount of civilian time, such as being a former Part 121 pilot, then most airlines will only want to see your AFORMS printout.

You guys don't let the facts get in the way of these good stories, alright?

There's a hilarious thread on the GWOT name change over at AirWarriors. More specifically, they're addressing the fact that DHS no longer sanctions use of the word "terrorism" because, according to the Obama administration, it is too related to the former administration's "politics of fear". So, the thread offers alternatives to to the new administration term, "man made disaster." My favorite is "man-made negative outcome event," although there are many which are actually more hilarious than that.

It just sounds better than "resurrect".

Great thread necromancy there, just to make that kind of "yeah, me too" comment!

I see one of the members of this class all the time here at Lakenheath...but I don't ask him about it.

And here I thought the "A" in FAST stood for "And". Apparently it stands for "Or".

And here I thought that the "F" in "FAST" stood for "fuel". So was the F-117's two whole bombs.

Bizarre idea. Seems like putting a band-aid on a sucking chest wound. They don't seem to have addressed what really makes the F-15E a "high observable" platform. Hint: it's not the straight-up vertical stabs or the AMRAAMs hanging on pylons under the wing. Plus...those "internal" 120s probably eat away at that CFT fuel capacity... EDIT: Linky to a high-res photo: https://www.sflorg.com/aviation_gallery/mil...itary_38?full=1

No, there were about 6 engines that came with the original deal in 1999. Collings decided not to take the engines out of AMARC when they took delivery of the airplane. 2 or 3 years ago, they FODded out one engine, and went to AMARC to pick up one of their spares. They met with the same deal: current CC at AMARG said, "the guy who made that deal with you wasn't authorized to do it" and did not let the engines go. Since it was a Congressional bill that donated the airplane and engines to them, you can imagine how that decision went over. CF has been trying for that long to get their Congressional supporters to straighten the USAF/AMARG out.

This is yet another example of empire-building in the USAF. They're doing the same thing with the Collings Foundation. Of course...the USAF loves "heritage", right?

It is this simple: There is a reason the airplanes are in storage up at Tonopah, in a secure location but still able to potentially be revived someday rather than having been chopped up or baking in the sun at AMARG. There are a whole lot of people (apparently on BaseOps, in addition to the press) who seem to think that the people who owned/managed/operated the F-117 program are a bunch of total idiots. The USAF didn't decide on that fate randomly. The USAF isn't just in need of a "good idea" to pop up so they can figure out what to do with them.

Recommend you hire Bud Day (yes, that Bud Day) as your attorney to represent you at your FEB. No joke.

Nice!

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