Everything posted by SuperWSO
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Raptors grounded over OBOGS issue
Every airframe seems to have their own way to say the same thing. MSOGS on the B-1 is the Molecular Sieve Oxygen Generation System. It sucks bleed air through a zeolyte bed which soaks up much of the Nitrogen. The gas that comes out is around 80-90% O2. OBOGS is just Onboard Oxygen Generation System. Don't know if the chemistry behind the system in other jets is different.
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Raptors grounded over OBOGS issue
Twenty years ago, the buzz word was "Look down/shoot down". Could these guys just put on a set of Dave Clarks and cruise around below 10k doing Look up/shoot up? New defense against the F-22: initiate a rapid climb up to Class A airspace.
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Bin Laden dead!
If it was on Google Maps, why did it take so long to find him? My wife said that jokingly and I almost spit my coffee out.
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Bin Laden dead!
Marco .... Marco .... Marco .. Polo BLAM!
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Bin Laden dead!
I haven't been a big fan, but that was the Presidents best speech ever - no competition. They should have played the Team America song as he departed.
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Bin Laden dead!
ADIOS MF! To the guys responsible, this bud is for you. Its gotta be a party at the Died tonight! :drinking: :drinking:
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Web Sites For Selling A House Near Military Installations
I'm in the middle of my third FSBO. We've had good luck with a combination of AHRN, and Military by Owner. In addition, get on www.zillow.com and update the info on your home. If you don't get much traffic starting out, get on the MLS listings.
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WTF? (**NSFW**)
The THIRD time the cops were called? I'm with those who would have needed protective custody on the first attempt if it had been me. I believe pepper spray in this instance was what the Commander in Chief refers to as a "teachable moment". I bet he won't do that again for at least the rest of the semester.
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USAA
Covered in the USAA thread, but we quit using them too. They pissed us off on a claim for a move. Next move, they were nowhere close to a good deal on home insurance. Dropped them for car insurance too because we got a package deal from another company. I don't see us ever going back to USAA.
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Afghanistan...how would you fix it?
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Throw a nickle on the grass and save a fighter pilots ass
We still tell enough stories like this one, and Pardo's push that I hope guys still understand that you always bring a brother home and then deal with the fallout.
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WTF? (**NSFW**)
Aw come on Ol Patch, that quote was funny all by itself. Is there a group in the Air Force more known for feeling like "I'm tired of pretending like I'm not special,". Maybe F-22s have taken that role. Maybe the Thunderbirds. Having now been deemed lame, I will sulk back to my desk and continue fighting the war, one powerpoint slide at a time.
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Power Players Flip For 'Challenge Coins'
My favorite was "banned" by leadership. The organization did Operational Test. The back said "Goat ropes: Its not who we are, its what we do."
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Tops in Blue (TIB) - WTF?
Sadly, you know the response. A thousand reflective belts are cheaper than the life of a service member run over by a vehicle at the salad bar in the chow hall at noon.
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New Pentagon Spokedrone
This is along the same lines, and although it almost fits in the VSP discussion, this seems like the right spot. Row well.
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All-Seeing Blimp Could Be Afghanistan’s Biggest Brain
We had aerostats over most of the FOBs in Iraq. We joked at the time about trying to make it more of a public relations move by replacing the balloons with ones from the Macy's parade. We thought that a pig balloon would be a great way to let the locals know we care.
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I Hate Reflective Belts
You'll never get to be Captain of the USS Enterprise if you keep this up.
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Mexican aerial drone crashes in backyard of El Paso home
Just think of the poor Mexican AF pilot, stuck in a container watching you from your ceiling as you eat popcorn surf Baseops. Its liable to cause an international incident unless you remove the 2 D cell batteries.
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For once I'm glad we don't have ADS-B
After consulting a review board of 3 retired middle school English teachers, I am prepared to award CHS17 the prize for breaking the Grammar Nazi Irony curse. It appears everything is correctly spelled, punctuated as well as meeting the clear, concise and correct DLO. Congratulations.
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For once I'm glad we don't have ADS-B
Does that mean people will be able to identify the jets responsible for chem trails? What if the developers disappear, mysteriously like Amelia Erhart?
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Forum errors
Here is what I've been seeing... Fatal error: Out of memory (allocated 1048576) (tried to allocate 30923 bytes) in /home/flyingsq/public_html/forums/ips_kernel/classDbMysqliClient.php on line 465 Hope this helps with troubleshooting.