HuggyU2

Civilian fields is what I'm looking for. North Island only has 1 start cart, despite what IFR supp says.

You must not be from The Holy Land (aka The Great State of Texas), son: anyone that finds it odd to be wearing cowboy hats should move back north. Gig 'em,... whatever that means.

When I was at UT, we beat the fish drill team. But, yes, they generally do pretty well. We would not have beat the team shown on your link, though. Back then, North Georgia College was impressive.

Do any of you T-38 pilots have any recent experience landing at civilian fields in SoCal, as far as getting an airstart? How about Palm Springs? I know SBD, Chino, Van Nuys, and Long Beach are good to go.

I considered a pre-emptive strike in my post to mitigate a post like this. Little did I figure it would be that quick. Nicely done. For those of you in the UK, get up to Edinburgh in Sept for the Edinburgh Tattoo: https://www.edintattoo.co.uk/ You should not miss this. My wife even loved it.

https://sorisomail.com/email/16993/exibicao-de-banda-militar--um-espectaculo-imperdivel.html Enjoy. The suicide toss at 2:45 is great. If I did the translation right, these are Norwegians.

Possibly. Or maybe using your aircraft to push a flamed-out aircraft into friendlier territory, knowing that it will mean you will have to eject too due to fuel starvation.

Being an airport bum, I stopped at Torrence-Zamperini Airport back in 2002 while driving thru LA. I'd never heard of Mr Zamperini before. They have a good museum/display dedicated to him. An amazing individual, who has qualities that we should all have. Great airport, too. Spent about 10 hours there... and ended up flying in a 1920-ish TravelAir for about an hour.

Doesn't March ARB have an "official" Demo Team? As I understand it, they are the ones that developed the routine.

I remember just a few months ago when a bunch of Base Op'ers were duped into pm'ing a bunch of confidential info to someone that should not have been getting it. I'm sure there are plenty of suckers out there that will bite on this. When you do, tell the "congressman" hello for me.

If we're looking at the same video, the pitch is pretty level. What are you talking about?

Ironic... We won't let the Mexican gov't officials into the country to get it,... they have to wait at the bridge, but we allow every other Mexican national to cross the border, stay, and go to college with US grants/funds.

I think I'm going to have a heart attack... or a stroke.... or both. Maybe I should just retire (again), and go away. I know... I'll start my SNJ training next month. That will cheer me up.

I never expected that. And while the A-model is basic, I'm pretty good with a Garmin 396/496/696.

I 3-day opted a 365 last year. I was notified at 1400 on a Friday, and had to formally turn my paperwork in by Monday afternoon. Saying "no" drove a retirement date of the first day of the 7th calendar month after getting the assignment. Example: you get notified on 8 Oct, you must retire on 1 May.

Must be nice to have that much free time on your hand. Once I decided to accept DTS, I've found it saves me time overall. And I'm not very computer savvy, nor am I a fan of change.... ask Spoo or Kuma.

Based on my limited experience in the C-model, I'd say "fortunately". I find it to be a poor execution on the glass cockpit concept. But, I'm probably in the minority.

Update: Due to pm's, emails, and phone calls I've received, it seems the word has not gotten out that the U-2 is good until 2015. I have heard (not confirmed) that it is in the 2016 FYDP. As we've seen since 2005, expect these dates to move to the right.

Ha! He'd have appreciated it had he known. Not a big deal at night. I don't know how much longer it stretched the sortie out.

I remember it. One of the U-2 pilots, Greg Dotter (who is a contract IFS pilot at Pueblo now), was driving the chase car. We had just got a new style radio. The old style were like what you'd find in a T-38A: a wafer switch to immediately go to Guard. He sees #3 of the three ship roll out on final... and no gear. Being that we operate on a U-2 discrete freq, he tries to rechannelize the radio to Guard... which is not a quick step... to send the guy around. No luck. Before he can get it switched over, the Hog bellies in. Had we had the "old style" radio, this would not have occured. What happened to the pilot?

Using two invisible, $50K/hr training aids when you need to train up two more pilots aircraft starts to add up. And lets not forget that these aircraft have an airframe life: each hour you use up zorching around Tyndall is an hour you will not have in 2017 when an adversary needs to be challenged. We need to accept that we have 184 aircraft, and that's all we get. Use the hours carefully and smartly. Folks, the USAF is broke. The next 3 years are going to be lean.

Absolutely brilliant.

Correct, but I believe they have less than 10 ACC aircraft.

Are they getting A-models from Korea or Taiwan?

It was a blast! Thanks for posting this... I hadn't seen it. We spent about 25 minutes in formation with Bruce and Jim, and just holding position while level was fairly physical. I found myself tense on the controls, which after all the hours of formation I've flown, was kind of humorous. Overall, it was very different and a magnitude more difficult than flying formation in a T-38. They also shot some video, which I have. BTW, the pilot in the backseat is Kuma, another regular on this site.