Clayton Bigsby

Exactly. USN models of the P-8 won't even have a MAD; India's P-8I's do though.

Oh well. The Taliban would have been flying these in two years anyway.

What a faggot. "YOUR MOUSTACHES IS IN VIOLATIONS! Y'ALL LOOK LIKE A BUNCH OF ELVISES!"

Rafael is an Israeli defense contractor; Rafale is the name of the aircraft in question. Does it have the thrust to do the ski-jump, non-catapult takeoff? Eurofighter was claiming their aircraft did, so a naval version of the EF-2000 wouldn't need a catapult launch bar and strengthened nose gear. And French AF Rafales are taking the aerial nuke mission from the AdA's Mirage 2000Ns.

Thank the Italians for funding the major development issues; hopefully it's a fairly straighforward build.

Fags!

Football is a game played over 4 quarters, not one, and that's something Timmeh hasn't done yet - play at a good performance level over the entire course of a game. Yes he's been amazing under pressure, but he's the one putting himself there - it's not like he's a Closer going in to finish the game after the starter gets injured. The deficits he's having to overcome are solely from his inability to play at a high level at other points throughout the game. That said, he's throwing decent very frequently now instead of ugly wobbly hucks when he DID throw; and he's using the rest of his team (his fucking receivers!) instead of only relying on the Option play. And the team appears to be rallying around him, they're all playing well and are actively being used efficiently (instead of receivers only acting as decoys for coverage). Denver's kicker was a stud yesterday...that 59-yarder to put it into OT was RIGHT DOWN THE MIDDLE and had at least another ten yards in it. It's not like it just barely cleared the bottom bar, it sailed right through the uprights.

Does this really matter? Are the gubberment gestapo going to swoop out and bust you since you photocopied your gov ID so you could authenticate for Oakley's government employee program? No... I'd be interested in seeing what other ways they decide to use to verify employment - an LES maybe?

There's that, and there's a lot of people who sell out for the next grade, that OPR/EPR bullet, the active-duty retirement, etc. And there's a lot of others that puss out and let it happen.

Okay, so are there "50-year-old OV-10 Broncos" actually available to be used like the article says? Ones that haven't been bought up by the CDF, the anti-narcotics spraying program, or the Phillippines/Colombia/Venezuela?

From the bump on the nose, isn't that an A-37?

Report the charge to your credit card company as fraudulent.

When I went they didn't give a shit what you used out in the field, it didn't have to be an up-to-date uniform. I think one of my BDU sets didn't even have nametapes or patches. But anything on-campus, different story.

It's a nice story, who knows how accurate it is or not.

Yeah, nope. This shutdown only affects the NexGen implementation stuff, facility renovations and construction projects, etc. Only 4,000 employees are affected, like architects, people like that. The operational pay comes from a different budget. The age old 'different pot of money.'

First F-35A to Eglin

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Quite a few airline 707s there. Parts source for the E-3s and E-8s?

Schneider Weise. 8/10 Still not as good as Lohrer Urtyp 1878, but close. And I found it at my corner liquor store here in CA.

Well the aicraft looks to be N787BA and is in the expensive house colors (not the simplified cheaper white colors the other test articles are), so I think that's ZA001 - first one built. I'm guessing the trailing static cone will stay through the flt test program.

Amon Amarth = rad viking heavy metal. Swedish tho. Just sayin.

Conjecture

French C-135FR. I think they wear helmets.

LiveATC.net is likely how they found out; sending around Executive One Foxtrot is a big deal (although I wonder if there'd been the same reaction/news if it'd been a vehicle incursion onto the runway or some other cautionary go-around). LiveATC can be a nice tool for practice, reviewing phraseology, etc but it's also a constantly running archive of stuff you say on the radio - it's all being archived, and people get busted for doing stupid shit on the radio by that (Controller kid @ JFK comes to mind). Also, it's the media...they're in search of a story, and the sleepy/screwed up controller is such an easy one to pick at these days (it really doesn't help when people keep fucking up). In a month it'll be something else, remember when it was "drunk" airline pilots? I think it could be FAA management grandstanding to make it look like they're doing something to these rogue controllers? There's a big gulf between FAA labor and management, the current labor contract with bargaining units expires in 2012 and I'm sure there are those who would like ammunition to have the next one be more restrictive. Word on the street is the Miami Center sleeper was dimed out by a fellow controller over a personal beef. I hope that's not the case.

Cuz controllers be fucking up! Big Ray won't let us sleep! ZOMG PLANES HAD TO LAND UNCONTROLLED OH THE HUMANITY!!!