Steve Davies

...and the Su-47 "FIRKIN"

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Damn. The ban ran out.

Radar Absorbent Structure and shape would be the most likely reasons.

F-22 Stealh Coatings Lawsuit Link to actual lawsuit.

Interesting that you don't. Ps is referred to commonly by fighter jocks when making comparisons. But, no doubt as the WGFP flying the WGASF, I can understand why such nerd talk would be anathema to you!

Moostang I think that you are having a hard time here because you don't really understand your audience. In short, this is not the forum for that kind of discussion. Why? because it is an asinine topic. That's not meant as a slight against you, but to give some perspective on what people here make of such threads. As you say, there are plenty of others where you can go and debate F-16 vs. F-15 with aviation enthusiasts and flight simmers. Just don't expect current Eagle and Viper pilots to take it seriously. And if you are going to try and engage professional fighter pilots in such a discussion, use terms they'll actually respect you for trying to understand (specific excess power, min radius turn, corner velocity etc.). This is a cool forum for people like me (and presumably, you) to learn about the workings and politics of the Air Force; just don't be under any illusions about it being good for discussing stuff that is either nerdy or operationally-oriented. Cheers Steve

What a total twat. Where does she get off telling someone who really understands commitment and hard work how to address her? She is a bell end.

You also need to delete Blackstang's post, since it carries a copy of the other post that you deleted. Hopefully, you'll get to that before the Chinese see it and print it out!

That I did not realise. So, no, probably not a spam bot . M2, my apologies for insulting your knowledge of the interweb.

There's at least one F-22 pilot on here... perhaps he will chime in. In the meantime, based off of talking to the 90FS guys at Elmendorf late last year, the problem is money. There are lots of things that they want - even 'simple', low cost things like JHMCS - but there is not enough money for them all, and the list gets longer not shorter. Remember that the Raptor is still waiting to get AIM-9X (or at least it was late last year)! So, the likelihood of them getting the F-35's DAS and associated HMD is pretty remote. Perhaps the best opportunity for something as significant and complex as this to work its way into USAF airframes would be if the jet is sold to Japan or another FMS customer that specifies they want it and can therefore fund its integration. But even that still leaves considerable costs to pay for the hardware and depot level modifications that would be required... Plus, you have to ask the question as to whether the F-22 community actually need it. The guys I spoke to said that something like JHMCS would be great for letting them put a TD box over a BVR target, but it would be something of a luxury, for example. There might be an argument that, while no pilot is going to turn his nose up at something that gives additional SA, the Raptor pilot already has an excellent suite of sensors that would make something like DAS another 'luxury'.

'He'? It is a piece of computer software posting these messages; it is not a real person.

Damn! That's 200% more than me!

Thanks, Fuse. Cheers Steve

I asked Christina today for permission to share the PayPal address. Donations to the RRVA are also welcome, but bear in mind that they are actually buying parts of the Gen Robin Olds Memorabilia collection, so your donation to them is strictly speaking not a direct act of charity towards the Olds Estate. I don't think that Christina cares either way, but it is important that those making donations realise the difference.

M2 Thanks. Cheers Steve

Are the stories about him having his RWR volume too low, and then failing to threat react in a timely manner to the red 'launch' light on the RWR panel, false?

That post is incomplete without photos of the Monkey Sex chick.

I think that this thread should be recycled to become a 'bad tattoo' thread. Here's one:

Not sure what happened to this thread as I could not see it in the sticky box, but Christina Olds has now created a PayPal option for the "Rescue Robin" effort. If you are interested in donating via PayPal, please PM me. Christina has asked me not to broadcast the email address, but I can and will send it on to individuals who are interested. Once I have her permission, I will post the email address in this forum. Cheers Steve

I could listen to stories like that all day long. Thanks for sharing, HiFlyer.

A few people do. They just are not saying anything because it would be totally inappropriate, and perhaps even enough to warrant a litigious response.

Apparently not that uncommon in Vegas - another fellow who frequents these boards was unable to convince a chick that he was a fighter pilot. ISTR that she did believe he was a professional bowler, however.

to you, M2.