Gas Man

Rainman's vacation video. I know all you Minnesotan's have sleds. https://www.zapiks.fr....swf?file=50284

Runs in the family I guess. Obama's father was killed in a drunk driving accident.

Ops is not allowed to test Ops, Maint is not allowed to test Maint....Ect. PITA

They need to find that Marine's arm and beat those idiots to death with it.

Radio ad for gun training bars Muslims and Obama Voters

Ummmmm, I think we found him.

Yea, they have spent over $7 billion so they can have a jet aloft just to provide a comm node. I guess you do know all there is to know about the program... ;)

Obviously you don't know what the E-11 does. I could tell you, but..................

Define rewarding.

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Rainman and Noonin, Very true. I have had at least 20 calls to go fly the Global as a contract pilot. First thing I ask is "Are you gunna pay for my re-current?" After they say no, I say "have a nice day". (CAE Dallas has let me come down and get T/O and Landing currency if I agreed to be seat meat for a solo initial qual guy) If you want to live the life of a contract pilot it can be very lucrative. Contract Global pilots make around $1200 a day plus expenses. With that being said, almost all of my offers were to fly for either oil execs out of Nigeria/Algeria or to fly for the Kadafi family out of Tripoli (No shit got that call about 2 years ago). Fuck that noise.

Pics described above

Thought I'd pass this email along. Ok... here's the skinny on the accident.... A P51 normally has two trim tabs.. one on each elevator... this one had one and other one was fixed in place.. He was warned about the forces being put on that one tab. It failed.. He had at least a 10G load when the plane pitched up from the loss of the trim tab and he went "nighty night" and probably never woke up. Here's the “theory” of the crash from experienced racers. In 1989 this type of thing happened to another pilot but he lived to tell the story. When flying a P-51 at 450+mph you need to have full nose down trim to keep the plane level. The elevator trim tab broke off and the aircraft imediately went in to a 10G climb, confirmed by the G-meter. The pilot came to, from the sudden blackout and realized he had slipped through the shoulder harness and was looking at the floor of the airplane. He was able to reach the throttle and pull it back to slow down and was able to recover and land. Photo one is the airplane taxiing, note the pilots head in the canopy. Fast forward to 2011 Photo two is typical oil canning as a result of the tremendous torque these engines put out at high power. Photo four is a view of the left side (this may be photoshopped) nose down with the tail wheel extended and no view of the pilot. The tail wheel is held up by hydraulics only with no mechanical uplock, thus indicating a high G-force causing it to extend. Photos five and six are from the left side prior to impact, note no view of the pilot and the tail wheel extended. Photo seven is the debris just after the crash. To the right of center above the crowd it appears to be the wing with the leading edge down. Photo three is a photo of GG upside down with a missing elevator trim tab. Note all you see is the back of the pilots head indicating he is being forced down in the cockpit. A friend of mine was suppose to be there but didn't go and he has several friends in the hospital right now. The people were mostly hit by chunks of concrete, asphalt and aircraft debris. They were also hurt by the trampling of people getting out of the way. Thanks. A couple of things to share. 1) Yes, GG had a single trim tab and unlike Strega (and Voodoo to a lesser extent) she did not have the wing/stab incidence mod to account for the nose up forces imparted at high-speed. I will share pix at a later date that show the amount of trim needed for GG v. Voodoo as well as one showing Strega running with zero trim. 2) I was able to view a small amount of the telemetry and here's what I saw. a) he was pulling over 105" manifold at the time of the incident so he was honking right along, this tracks with our timing in the pits of lap speeds in the mid/high 480s b) when the tab failed and began to separate (but before it had completely departed) the plane snapped up and the telemetry showed a jump from 3/3.5 normal to greater than 10.5+ (meter pegged) in less than 1.5s c) when she reached the top of the arc, the engine faltered momentarily from fuel starvation (the 'burble' that lots of folks are talking about) then the prop unloaded and the engine went right back to full power. It was back to nearly 100" and increasing at the time of impact. 3) The tail-wheel did extend and the stress load needed to do this is greater than 8.5g 4) The pic of the a/c coming down, with no pilot and tail-wheel extended, is NOT p-shop. I know the photog who took it. 5) The incident with the prior a/c was in 1995, with Voodoo and the pilot was Bob "Hurricane" Hannah. When the tab departed (out around Pylon 3) the plane snapped up and climbed to over 9500ft. Bob did come to during the climb and was able to recover safely. He was pinned down in the cockpit, and in fact he had to unwind the seat to get his helmet free before he could begin flying the a/c. The difference this time was that GG had a lot higher-g snap and decelerated dramatically instead of continuing to climb and then rolled right, quite possibly because Jimmy was still holding/leaning on the stick.. I've attached a pic of the plane with the missing tab. I've got video of the incident at home also.

Obviously a single dude. If he was married, he would have rode it in with a smile on his face. "Sweet death, take me away from that bitch!!!"

It is a $60k type rating. If your desire is to fly corporate, the Global Express is one of the top paid in the industry. Pro_Pilot_Salary_Survey_2010-1.pdf

That is the FLIR eyeball for the EVS. It is a bad-ass airplane and a very good type rating to have.

PM me. I'll tell you about life flying the global in the land of the Poo Pond.

I loved the comments. Made me laugh.

Very good movie. I thought from the trailer it was going to be cheesy, but it was a really good movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54vrgCP5nlc

Looks like Lindsay Lohan just moved from the on deck circle to the plate.

In the blimp world, the guys that actually fold the blimps get all the chicks.

That's my point. I would like it to remain that way. I have played the Kandahar game, and the Deid, and Manas. This is a WAY better deal. I just don't want some dumb asses messing it up for everyone.

I am currently deployed at base X. There is drinking available here. The night before I got here some dumbass drunk airman noticed a car with the keys in it and took it for a joyride around base ending up in the middle of a roundabout under a static display. The next night some dumbass drunk airman threw up in the hallway of the dorms and the maids wern't very happy when they had to clean it up so they reported it to the cops. The next night I was walking out of the chow hall and some dumbass drunk airman was leaning over the railing of the club puking his guts out in full view of everyone going into or out of the chow hall 20 feet away. Last night there were a group of dumbass drunk airman outside the dorms at 3am screaming at the top of their lungs some unintelligible babble for about 20 minutes and when they were asked to STFU they tried to start a fight with the poor bastard trying to get some sleep. Tonight there were about 5-6 dumbass drunk airman in the lobby of the dorms yelling and carrying on. They almost got into a fight in the lobby with some other drunk idiot when the N word came out. Everyone of these incidents highlighted the fact that "Drinking is bad and causing problems". Any day they are gunna decide to shut off the booze for everyone. Even us professional drinkers. Never mind the fact that every one of the incidents were young airman. Little bastards can't hold their booze. If you can't drink like a man you shouldn't be able to drink at all. As to 18 year olds drinking....... Hell no.

And they are called "Breast Control". Giggity...