sky_king

This makes no sense. There is only one way to measure cost. The amount of money required to be spent because you own and operate a specific thing. You can either include gas, insurance, depreciation, mx, etc., or you can lie and not include it all. Also, the AF is different than owning a car. If you don't own a car, your taxes for road construction and DMV workers are not going to go down. If the AF BRACs a base, guess what, they don't have to pay for workers at the MPF, they don't have to buy towels, they don't have to pay for more pea gravel at the CDC playground. The AF's support bubble goes out a little farther and is a lot more direct than you buying a car. I think everything should be included in the price per flying hour. If it takes 500 man-hrs on mx per flight-hr, why should that not be included if a similar plane does the same job on 50 man-hrs. Likewise, having 300 people in the squadron requires more money for everything from salaries to flu mist vaccinations for dependents to PFT waist measurement tapes. Otherwise, what do you attribute that cost to? Tops in Blue? I hope so, because I'd pay anything to see them again....

Seriously? You're comparing a woman that is suggesting a community should care about the development of its children to Hitler? I'm conservative and consider myself fairly Libertarian, but this is a bit of a stretch.

A malfunction caused the plane to nose dive and the canopy flew open – and neither man was wearing a seat belt, WRCB reported. I'm no accident investigator, but I've done my share of dumb, dangerous and different things back in the day. This sounds like somebody wanted to do the homemade vomit comet 'zero-g' ride and went a little overboard. There aren't many malfunctions that I can think of that would cause an airplane to instantly 'nose dive' and later be recoverable. Also, the canopy didn't just open in flight, I'm guessing a 200 pound man hitting it in a -1 dive while kicking the latch probably had something to do with it. Also, you should read the NTSB reports on crashes related to doors opening on takeoff. There is a ridiculous amount of deaths caused by people trying to close doors at low altitudes.. Guess what, a GA airplane will fly with the door open. I've even landed a C-172 using the doors to steer and the elevator trim for pitch, never touching the yoke. This was under the supervision of a CFI, but still probably in the Triple-D realm. Bottom line, if the door unlatches, leave it until you level off and trim up the airplane. You've got a better chance of dying trying to close it.

It wasn't being kept weird enough? I don't know.

All part of the 'honor' of being selected.

SOS in res + No AAD = 82.5% chance of promotion. Good enough odds for me. How would you like to be the ONE guy that got a DP but didn't get promoted. I wonder what his story was.

Part of me wants to suggest ridiculous ways to save money just to see what happens. Suggestion #1: Have a tug tow the airplane to the approach end of the runway before starting engines to save jet fuel costs and airframe hours. A tug can be pre-positioned for landing as well. Suggestion #2: Require everything being printed to be set to 4 pages per sheet, double sided. 87.% paper usage reduction! Suggestion #3: Allow up to 25% of RAP requirements to be accomplished via CBT.

So, if TA is back, what gets cut to make up the difference?

I'm working on my AF Doctrine Double Dare game right now. Hopefully it's done by the time I get there. Anyone have Air Force blue slime?

I had one of those big ass mosquitoes sneak up on my in a dark alley, knock me down and steal my wallet.

Android works fine too.

If you're an IP in a single engine airplane, you can get CFI. Otherwise, it's just a multi-engine instructor rating.

Are you saying that anything else NK does makes sense?

Fairchild has a whole town like that. Totally awesomeness.

A journey of a million miles starts with a single step.

Please God, cut TA for master's degrees. Maybe they'll get masked, people can stop working on masters at work, and they can focus on little things... like their job.

Day 93, Santa Claus

I watched that video thinking they were using a few of the thousands of MRAPs we have sitting over in the desert. I didn't realize they bought new ones. I cannot believe government inefficiency.

Is there a big collection of Nose Art online somewhere? My grandpa was a tailgunner on a B-17 named "Skinny" but I've never seen any pictures of the plane. I'd love to get the nose art reproduced and in my house regardless of what it looked like.

No JSTARS love in the survey. I answered as my former self instead.

I second that. Live in Bonaire, unless you don't like to maintain your house or yard. Otherwise, you're just bringing down my property value.

I bet it corners great. 7 axels, 6 tires on each axel.

I don't see what is wrong with this landing. Other than being 30 feet right of centerline. Maybe it was a wing landing.

I've heard decontaminating an airplane is as easy as flipping a piece of paper over on the glare shield.

What's weirder to me is that people were jumping on 'combat' sorties in the desert so they could knock out RAP requirements. My grandpa made it through 28 combat sorties in the tail of a B-17 and was lucky to have made it through every one of them. I appreciate the extra pay that a combat sortie provides, but when I think of what he went through, it makes me embarrassed to qualify for an Air Medal.