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Thanks for bringing back my Tinnitus's PTSD. My ears just started ringing....more...

Remember, that person gets to vote.

You could give it a catchy name like "Running Man"

Back in the days of the Dyess Dance Machines and the Baghdad Air Races to point Romeo.

It's Arkansas, so I'd guess it started with the police running a red light, hitting this guys car, then blaming it on him.

Maybe he's making room for more diversity on the staff. Doing so obviously made the US military better. His current team seems rather monochromatic.

Mother of pearl, thank you for that throwback memory!

So what do you do if you're flying through Detroit?

with doors that will absolutely, definitely, not spontaneously detach...

pssst, @Biff_T , wake up.

I've been waiting for that for a while now. Been lots of legit concepts, but it's never caught on. The bulk capacity in that design is staggering. Combine that with some limited stealth, and a whole new level of airlift is just waiting to occur.

1: Won't happen. As it is, the C-17 already needs what amounts to fully graded airfield that's missing an actual hard surface (concrete or assault). In the past, the literature didn't even call it 'unprepared'. It was SPRO Semi-Prepared Runway Ops. 2: A center truck and dirt are mutually exclusive. A center truck invariably scrubs (moves laterally) during every turn, not to mention the tight handling required on small LZs. A center truck will destroy any unprepared or semi-prepared surface. There's no way around that geometry. The C-17 was the best we had at the time. We should have built way more, especially with the ER mod. What we need now is more of them or more bigger lifters. C-17s rarely bring mass to small LZs. That's invariably what C-130's or their successor is for. Putting C-17's in the dirt or small LZs is a party trick (think one time JFE), not an actually strategic sustainable capability (such as long term resupply to small bases with dirt fields in the Pacific. Either find a new plane, or build a runway that can take a C-17. IF they make a B-model, it either needs to be significantly smaller (which they'll honestly never do), or larger and more efficient...which my layman's understanding of aerodynamic modification of airplanes tells me is a limited returns proposal. Could they put a plug into a C-17? Seems doubtful.

He's an O-6 WSO. Being in a US propaganda is pretty much the pinnacle of his career, right? Most jokes aside, a WSO O-6 shot down in combat surviving a chute malfunction and serious injuries behind enemy lines....yeah, that's Bat-21 territory right there. He should be able to live off the book deal, interviews and royalties for at least a decade...rightly so. Dude earned it!

...then, as a Liberal, can you please for the love of god stop making us choose between communists and morons like Trump?

By "Had a model of the B-58 as a kid" he means when he was an aircraft commander in the B-58 as a young captain and they put his name on the side. Hence the active memories of losing an outboard engine.