Gas Man

Loony, loony, loony. I used to get calls all the time from a guy named Randy Budell. We almost had to shoot him at the front gate to the base as he was getting so out of control. https://www.livinghistory.co.uk/1600-1700/a...les/xw_127.html Read about halfway down and you will see some crazy stuff. I was the first one to answer the phone when this nut job called. I thought it was one of my buddies messing with me so I told him to go Fuk himself and hung up. He called right back and boy was he mad. He told me we were spraying mind control agent and that it was effecting me right then and that's why I wouldn't admit the truth. When he came up to te Guard finally after about a month of phone calls he was screaming and cussing, then in the next breath was talking about being a christian. Our old wing king asked him if he was a christian, why was he swearing? He paused a second and then started slapping himself in the face screaming "The mind control agent is making me crazy". I think the mind control agent was the lead tubing in his still. Loony, loony loony.

Great job. Watch their speed, I'm guessing their max glide is somewhere around 130. It stays close to that the whole time. Good show.

Talk to the Langley boys, a soon to be associate unit. [ 20. July 2005, 11:47: Message edited by: KIPP ]

nice shot

I'm sorry, I was still all vaklempt from watching the tribute.

Great pics in this https://www.glennbeck.com/tribute.htm [ 20. July 2005, 09:23: Message edited by: KIPP ]

PM me your e-mail and I'll send it to you.

Great pics 509th and all. By the way 4fans here's one for ya. Notice the orange wingtip. Hidden lake in Glacier Park. You can almost make out Logan's pass in the distance.

OK now that I have figured out how to get Pics on this thing here are a few of my better ones

Before running into the basket while trying to refuel. What happens after you run into the basket with your airplane while trying to refuel???????

The AP and UPI reported that the French Government announced yesterday that it has raised its terror alert level from Run to Hide. The only two higher levels in France are Surrender and Collaborate. The rise was precipitated by a recent fire which destroyed France's white flag factory, effectively disabling their military.

I think the first one was from Vance like 03-02. Not positive, but I'm sure someone will call this one....

Our Flight Commander told us "unofficially" to go drive around and have your buddy quiz you while you are driving in traffic. Now I gotta say this works pretty well, but practice this at your own risk as accidents may happen. Also I have to agree with those above in saying you have to look at them over and over and over...........

Most (not all) airlines allow you to add .2 or .3 to your military time. Since we only start the clock from the TO to the Land. VS-civilians from the time the hobbs meter starts turning, or the time the door shuts.

Not sure about the AF ROTC, but my sister-in-law was Army ROTC and she was put in the Reserves right after graduation. She has to do 8 years in the Reserves instead of the normal 4 though. She just graduated a couple of weeks ago.

As an AF aircraft you are required to report the gear down. It doesn't matter if it's LAX or not. They don't give a damn, but you still are required to do it.

Kickchick, If having the tower ask if your wheels are down becomes a safety problem, you are having a bad day. The tower at this point is the least of your problems. In this case the problem becomes the stick actuator.

Bravo Two Zero. Andy McNab (sp?). One of the best books I have ever read. British SAS in GW1 get spotted then run several hundred miles to Syria. Just before crossing all but one gets caught. Then they are POWs and it goes through what they had to deal with. Crazy book.

I went into an outdoor store and the guy hooked me up with some poly socks to go under my wool socks. They are paper thin and it is like having mole skin over your whole foot. I was the only one in my squad without blisters. Also I bought one of those little LED lights that attach to a key chain or ziper. They work great, unless you lose them like I did on the second night. Jolly Ranchers are good, so are sunflower seeds. Don't bring them though unless your instructor says it's OK. You wouldn't want to have to come back and start all over because of something stupid like bringing food you wern't authorized. The most important thing to bring in my opinion is baby wipes. Let me tell you, you don't want a major case of chaffage walking around all week. Other than that, have fun. I didn't, but you might be able to.

You mean we wear these bags because they are fire retardant? I thought we just had them around so all of the ROTC guys could go around looking cool with their scarves and their Ray Ban sunglasses having the same old argument "I thought it was my turn to be Mavric today, and your Goose". There is a reservist IP down at Corpus that looks just like Bill Murry. He was in an airplane crash over in Southeast Asia someplace. I think he was jump seating at the time and lots of the passangers died. Anyway where ever he was wearing cotton it had pretty much turned to ash and he was hardly burnt at all. Where he wasn't wearing cotton, like his poly company pants he had on, it stuck to him and he said it wasn't pretty. He was also wearing a ring, and the ring melted into his finger. I can't remember the details very well as it's been a while. One of you Corpus Studs help me out with this story. Anyway, with all of that being said, I also wear "UA" as it is so soft and silky and just feels better than cotton. I do make sure to keep it away from my organal area though and only wear cotton down there. After all, I only have one of those and without it you might as well kill me anyway.

I also think the French suck. They always try to vector us toward Switzerland, as we are not allowed to fly over it. Also their engrish is way bad. Even when you ask them to spell it, you can hardly understand them. I didn't think the German controllers were too bad, just the fact that they keep changing the DPs. They are changing often enough that we can't keep them in our pubs. Not a big deal, but just sort of an ass pain. Now if we could just teach people in Europe about this new invention. It's called deoderant! WTF. Do they not smell themselves. About enough to make you puke someimes.

Just got back from Frankfurt yesterday. We were taking C-17 crews from Tacoma over in the mighty -135. Great bunch of guys. Anyway they told me they are doing a 2 week rotation based out of Germany, then they said they are usually only home for a few days, then back out again. Sometimes they only get one day home, then back out again. They are working their asses off. I've got mad respect for the work those guys are doing. When we pulled into the Mil Ramp at Frankfurt we pulled into our spot right behind a C-17 being loaded with flag draped coffins. It was a sobering experience. I'm not sure about the KC-10 guys, and I could be wrong, but I would find it hard to believe they are on the road half as much as the C-17 crews. Hey all you C-17 guys out there, keep up the good work, you guys kick ass. Oh yea one more thing, if any of you are planning on flying into Frankfurt make sure you copy all of the SIDS they have at the AMCC desk in their FOUO folder. We thought we did, but the one page we were missing was the one we were assigned. We had to have our 3rd pilot run in and copy it for us as it is not in the approach plates either, along with several others that they regularly assign. Also they expect you to fly these crazy DPs to GPS exactness. We are not allowed to use our GPS as the primary means of navigation in the terminal area. The C-17 guys were telling us they get violated all of the time due to how strict the tollerences are on the DPs. Damn Germans. One more thing, the prostitutes down in the red light district don't like it when you take their picture. In fact they get very angry. One of our crew chiefs almost found out the hard way. So if you are over there or planning on going anytime soon, don't do that.

I'm going to have to go with snake on this one. The airlines have long ago surpassed pre 9/11 levels of passengers carried. SW was keeping their fares low due to the fact that they were the only major that had hedged the entire next years fuel while the prices were still low. Now they are going to be forced to start buying it at the same price as everyone else. Now we are going to see airline ticket prices continue to rise, and people are still going to travel. The other majors will be able to raise their prices as well as they won't have to compete with SW. We have had guys in my unit getting picked up like crazy. We have had 5 or 6 guys picked up in the last 2 months by UPS alone. There are others that are going back to other airlines as well in my unit. Pretty soon the min requirements are going to start to drop again for getting hired with a major. In 97 most of the majors were at 1000 total time, and 100 multi. I would bet we will be seeing those numbers in the next 2-3 years again.

135 is 7000' with out a waiver. We would have to be fairly light to do it under that. I think the E models are quite a bit lower due to the thrust reversers. I have never flow an E and don't know if they are allowed to take TRs into account for planning purposes.