EvilEagle

I've bought several models from squadron toys, highly recommended.

I don't think I have posted this yet, but here's my non-race ride.... oh, and my BMW.

"2"! I've had my Mille R for about 10k miles now (about 3 years) and I love it! I've had absolutley zero problems with it. It's been a true joy to own. I had two Duc's before that and countless japanese bikes. The Mille is the heat! Also "2" about www.apriliaforum.com!

Wow. Here we go... Clearly a wealth of knowledge and experience.

I race motorcycles (Aprilia Mille now...). It's a hobby, but you can't get too attached. I spent all winter getting my bike ready and signing up for all the races I could. Now I'm 3 weeks into a 2 1/2 month TDY (short notice) during which I'll miss about 6 race weekends. Oh well, them's just the breaks...

A few more standards: MONKEY..... VULVA!!! Wedge (simplest tool known to man) Shithead (pronounced Sha' THe-edd)

In addition, the person that says deceased insect must produce an actual deceased insect or he/she buys the round, not the last person on the floor. This part of it has been left out quite a bit in recent years, it is a very important part of the game.

A friend of my step father's has 2 kills as a B-24 waist gunner (and apparently has the only waist-gun kill that was filmed). His is usually listed as kills or "downed aircraft".

I grew up about an hour from there, been riding it since I was a kid. Great road, but it was much better back in the mid-90's, not as many people knew about it and the cops left us alone. I currently race a 00 Mille R, but I cant upload pics for some reason. Anyone else race at MMP?

From talking to the Viper dudes here, Hal isn't supposed to give them more than 9 g's, sometimes it happens though. And, sometimes they are expecting 9 and Hal only gives them 7.5. When they get more than 9, they have to go through the tapes frame by frame, they count the total number of frames that were above 9, then refer to some table with fuel weight, PA, etc to determine if it's an over-G.

Quick on the uptake there matmacwc! Yes, I am an Eagle Driver. The actual name for the F-16 is the Fighting Falcon... we like to remind them of that often!

We normally stay in our squadron bars unless there is "mandatory fun" at the O-club. It really depends though, we hit the club occationally.

I'm at Mtn Home now. It's not too bad, PM me and I'll give you the low down. What squadron are you going to be casual in?

A buddy and I took 2 Eagles to an airshow in Norway a few years ago. Great party, but loads of the same questions. Lots on the ramp (as expected) but some in the hospitality tent: Brit Jag mx guy: Hey are you the Eagle guys? Us: Yup BJMG: What's your real name? (Had my Evil nametag on) Me: Capt so & so... BJMG: Oh Capt so&so, you are the pilot for 86-160, and you fly with the "Hitman" callsign don't you? US: Uh... geez... TY airshow a few years ago... Old dude: When did we used to fly these birds? Me: (standing next to one of 75 Eagles on the ramp) Uh, yesterday I think... Old dude: Really? I didn't think we flew anything that wasn't brand new. Me: What country are you from? Do they need pilots there?

What is this "parking brake" that you speak of?

Yes we say "blivit" -- if you are in the vault or referring to a b-word in a tactical environment, then we use the actual terminology ("JDAM", "GBU-15", etc..) The C-model community is crazy with all the other words we can't say. Not everybody buys into it fully and it even varies squadron-to-squadron. Rainman: No shit, broken record... we don't like not having a job to do either. ONE isn't exactly "tactical" you know... If anyone thinks that it's the Eagle drivers that are too proud to change missions, you are kidding yourself! We want to go to the fight. My squadron was all set up to start straffing, but ACC dropped the hammer on us. As far as b-words go, it's not like we can just strap those things on (STS). We don't have the appropriate software to support any new weapons.

We fly cadets on ops air force, and they are all FAM rides. I've never seen a cadet get an ncentive ride.

I'm a big Boyd fan, so I second whitman on "The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War" Also: "First Light" by Geoffrey Wellum RAF Spit pilot in WW2 -- awsome read "Fighter Boys" by Patrick Bishop Good overall coverage about the effect that the RAF (and Eagle squadrons) had on the Battle of Britain

I would recomend it. If we have cadets that are in town for Ops Air Force or something we can sometimes give them a fam ride. Fam rides are the same as when we fly the flight doc -- we do a normal sortie. If you don't have the card, we can't do anything but an incentive ride and you'd be at the bottom of a very long list for those. BFM for us starts at 20k' so you couldn't even do that.