JeepGuyC17

Apparently the city of Berkeley has decided that it no longer needs the services which we, the armed forces of the United States, provide. Perhaps we should allow terrorists to operate freely within the city. Let them defend themselves with smiles and flowers. Or maybe they DO want the benefits of having their country defended by the greatest military in the world, as long as its ranks are not drawn from THEIR sons and daughters.

Because when you run, your forward motion is caused by interaction between your legs and the ground, while for an airplane (or airboat or hovercraft or rocket car or any other such vehicle) this is not the case. Their forward motion is caused by creating a force of air which propels them, not by pushing against the surface they are sitting on like a runner, car, boat, etc.

The real point of the myth is that the "no relative wind over the wing" scenario would not happen. Of course the plane would not fly in such a case, nobody disagrees with that. The point is that unless the plane WAS tied down, it would still move forward through the air and gain lift regardless of the treadmill. The whole point with wheel friction is that there is no other force exerted by the treadmill on the airplane to counteract forward thrust through the air.

Awesome! a plane vs treadmill thread! I had never heard of this myth before watching the episode last night. I think a lot of people get wrapped up arguing that if the plane remains stationary relative to the observer (assuming no wind) then it won't take off, which is indeed true, but miss the point that the plane will NOT remain stationary. It's a problem of Newton's laws. Assuming frictionless wheels, if the airplane is at rest with the engine off and the treadmill begins to move, there is no outside force acting on the plane and it will remain at rest, regardless of the treadmill's speed. When thrust is then introduced by the engine, this outside force will accelerate the plane no matter how fast the treadmill moves (disregarding things like wheel speed limitations). Even when you introduce friction in the wheels, the only time the plane would remain stationary would be when just enough thrust was applied to match the relatively small friction of the wheels. (and the treadmill would have to be moving pretty damn fast to produce enough friction to match takeoff thrust). There are some pretty heated discussion of this stuff out there. I even saw a guy on one board talking about "producing 'x' MPH of thrust", whatever the hell kind of unit of measurement a "mile per hour of thrust" is...

Maybe this is one of those "Desert Defender" photos. You think those finance clerks get to pose with a tiara and a sash too? By the way, nothing against this girl. Props to her for being a combat medic. That's badass.

Maybe she means they're not f#%king retarded like certain other beauty queens to come out of South Carolina recently "Some people don't have maps... the Iraq and the Africa and what not..."

I lost interest once the actual audition started, I just tuned in to see the jet on TV. Anybody catch the C-17 airdrop on the Amazing Race last year? It was pretty cool, except while they were talking about the C-17 they showed some stock footage of a BUFF taking off. Retard TV editors...

I'm sure a service dress with a belt will look great on some of the fatasses who can barely squeeze into the uniform as it is. Here's my nomination for a Space and Missiles specific service dress (plus Spwings, of course):

IMO, buying it during ROTC would be a waste of money, but on AD, just suck it up and buy the thing. I got mine during ASBC when I had more per diem and BAH than I knew what to do with. I've worn it twice, and once was at a wedding, so the first time I was required to wear it was at UPT graduation as a 1LT. Hold off on buying the rank until you need to wear it, because those suckers are like $40, and you might never wear it as a 2Lt.

I got issued a Camillus switchblade in UPT. It's the one with the orange handle and the parachute cord cutter. As far as weapons, I'm pretty sure C-17 crews are required to be armed when carrying passengers as an anti-hijacking measure.

HOTel cORAL esSEX- reference revenge of the nerds

I think it's mostly about having something to do on off days to get your mind off UPT/work and unwind. For one guy that might mean getting wasted, but for someone else it might be playing xbox or reading books or whatever. Not drinking shouldn't cause you any problems. The important thing, in UPT especially, is to give yourself a break once in a while.

Agreed. The physical "stick and rudder" motor skills of flying the aircraft are the easy part of UPT.

It was inspired by an early design for the new ABU

during the test, take really slow, shallow breaths. If you can hear yourself breathing it can mask some of the fainter tones.

Sock check. est thing I've ever heard of. I can't wait to get deployed! Is there any part of being deployed that DOESN'T suck? Actually, don't tell me, because then the AF will find out about it and try to fix it.

I would imagine so. Depending on where you are though, you just might have to be prepared to take him outside if he starts crying (Radar control room or control tower, for obvious reasons)

They should make one of those AF commercials that shows a kid getting a C+ on a history report. "Public Affairs: We've been waiting for you"

Graduation is typically a two day thing. On Thursday (red carpet day) The families usually gather in the squadron for some snacks and a speech by the squadron commander. Then everyone is released to go do red carpet activities if they wish. The sim instructors allot a certain time period for the class to take their families on a sim ride- how this time is allotted and scheduled for each student will be up to the class. For mine, I think each student got about an hour and 15 minutes in the sim with their family. There will also be buses available to take families to RAPCON (the approach radar control facility) and the control tower for tours. There are also airplanes set up out on the flightline to get up close to and take pictures with etc. That about covers red carpet day. On friday, graduation is held in the morning and lasts about an hour. That night is the graduation dinner in the club. How many people each student is allowed to bring and how much it costs per person all depends on what kind of deal your husband's class works out with the club and how much money they raise in dues/fundraising. I think when my class did it, each student got their meal and their spouses meal paid for out of the class' funds and for each additional guest we paid a certain amount out of pocket. I wasn't too involved in the graduation dinner planning process, so I don't have a whole lot of details on how that worked, but hopefully this helps a little.

I took the IRC a couple weeks ago at Altus and don't see the need for gouge. I had the list of possible questions, but I didn't bother looking at it since it was a huge list and the test was open book with no time limit anyway. Don't waste your time trying to study for the IRC. All you need to know is how to look up answers in a book.

Back in Nam, I was an HC-130P pilot. We were the most badass bunch around. This one time, we strapped missiles to the wings of the plane and flew to Moscow to attack the commies. We could do this because we had the super-secret cloaking device and our engines ran on dark matter, so we didn't need to refuel. This one commie AAA gunner got luck and hit us, but we didn't give up. As the plane was going down in flames, we strapped parachutes to our Harleys and rode out the back. When we landed, I rode my hog, guns blazing, into Red Square and shoved a grenade up Brezhnev's ass myself. Those were the days.

I wear RX glasses, so I had some RX sunglass lenses put in the issue Randolph sunglasses. As others have mentioned, I don't wear them around town on account of the factor, but they are relatively comfortable with the headset on and they're cheap/free/durable so I don't have to worry about them getting all bent up like some expensive frames. All around, very practical, especially if you have a RX. Side note, I think it's funny that civilians pay about $50 to get these things at surplus stores so they can look like AF pilots, but most real AF pilots are ashamed to wear them outside the jet

"2" on the suggestion of a .40 size ARF trainer for your first plane. I started out on a .40 high wing ARF trainer from towerhobbies.com and it was a great and easy plane to learn on, plus you could still get it to do loops and aileron rolls and the like. From personal experience I would reccomend a couple things if you plan on continuing the hobby, namely investing a little more into your first engine and radio to get something that will serve you well on bigger/more advanced planes. My first engine and radio were the most basic type, a simple 4 channel radio and a decent .40 engine which were fine for my first plane but I ended up replacing them within 6 months of my first flight because I wanted to upgrade and build another plane. I ended up getting a 6 channel radio with extra channels for retractable gear and flaps, as well as programmable settings for several presets- that way you can use it for several different planes without having to adjust trim settings every time you fly. For my new engine I got a more powerful .46 engine with more than enough grunt to get a .40 off the ground in a short distance from an unprepared surface. You're probably looking at $300-$400 initial investment including the plane, but that's mostly on the engine, radio setup, and field equipment which you can use on subsequent planes, and the hobby is well worth the money in my opinion R/C flying is great fun, and really easy to learn if you have somebody to teach you.

Lots of people (especially civilians) beleive that our technology is invincible, but as mentioned before, there's always the golden BB and anyone can get lucky once in a while. We all remember the F-117 in the Kosovo war

Maybe they didn't think that rule applied to them since rocket engines have more of an on/off switch than a throttle...?