Clayton Bigsby

The shuttle adds a shitload of drag to the 747, along with all its weight too. I wonder though how much additional lift gets generated thought - it's a massive lifting body attached to the back...

I'd put my money on China moving on Taiwan if the Norks were to lash out. What better time?!?

Yeah no shit. Usually I'd just sell and then buy what I could once I get there (I have to front all moving expenses myself, it's not reimbursed), but I don't think I'd be able to get what I've got now back again.

What was up with all the ancient Hueys? Guess they must be plentiful for film work, because who uses the UH-1H anymore? Really liked the movie though, and '2' on the as good as T-1 call. I liked T-3 also, but this was better...

Alright, here's a new one... So it looks like I'm moving to Hawaii, and not Oahu (Big Island). Have several firearms that I'd like to take with. From what I can see on this, an AK or AR are not specifically banned, nor are any of the features of the gun, just can't have mags with more than 10rd capacity...right? Finding AK mags with less than 20 rd capacity blows goat balls, btw. Neigh fucking impossible. Real restrictive laws on when you can have ammo in your gun - only in the home or at the range/actively hunting - so definitely no day to day carry, even for hiking or whatever. Good news is, while the laws are definitely gun-unfriendly, they're not as bad as, say, New Jersey...so you don't have to flee your residence before you can try deadly force... Also looks like the local smokies have to pick over all my stuff w/in 72 hrs of arrival, to register my crap. Not a total tinfoil-hat guy, but I don't like registering individual firearms, just the user...wondering how legal is it for me to leave some of the higher-end stuff, like the AK, in storage stateside while I live in HI? When I visit on vacation can I buy ammo for them? Can I place online orders for stuff (like ammo or accessories), and legally have the stuff shipped to the storage location and not HI? Really wish I could keep my existant residency, but it's a gov't job and I have to be a normal civvie - so, job's in Hawaii, guess what, Hawaiian resident and all their gay rules.

Count me in for a sub, if possible It'd be nice to see the mag include everything...and not just disintegrate into fighter porn, like Air Forces Monthly and Combat Aircraft have become...

Brick - it's possible he got the gay later on than when he joined @ 22. People do change their mind...

Won't things not be quite as harsh as they were pre-2 EAS, in the small fact that there's a lot more bases with -17s up and running now? Back then, it was CHS and TCM taking up the whole load, with a couple McGuire crews mixed in - Travis and Dover weren't really in the picture quite yet. Also you don't have a bunch of KC-135 squadrons on orders not to refuel, but to fly the pain-train Rotater...

the thing I've never understood about body building, besides the obvious posing thong/singlet and tanning creme... ...is not the hours put in the gym, but the serious timing of meals. A buddy of mine was into this stuff, and it was impossible to go anywhere with him - literally he set a watch alarm to go off every couple hours, to alert him it was time to eat something specific. Going to baseball/football games and movies were impossible, unless he could figure out a way to smuggle the food in. He couldn't go to a restaurant/bar. Etc. I know lots of people go into the AOR and have a surplus of off time, and fill it with being in the gym. But this nonsense definitely stretches that, as it represents MANY hours invested beyond even the gym. And all so some other same-sex person can comment on your body. Pretty if you ask me.

Seriously, is this a difficult concept?!?

Had the exact thought myself...

Fan-fvcking-tastic. Just saw it, wonderful movie. Tear jerker too, very moving.

And I think that's exactly what we're looking at here - at which point can you declare an authorized uniform to actually be unauthorized - eventually it contradicts the chow my hog guidance. They did it with PT clothing and disco shit, and now they're doing it with blues. So are we now going to be like the other services and mandate when BDU sleeves can be rolled or not too? I mean we're too dumb to figure it out for ourselves, apparently.

This is the same tack taken with the tucking in, or not, of PT shirts - which was explicitly authorized by 36-2903 chow my hog - where CENTCOM people decided they didn't like certain aspects of uniform rules and decided they were icky, and made THEIR OWN rules which then became the de facto standard across the service. At which point are they subverting the regulatory process? And CCs putting up with this is every bit as complicit and hypocritical as the COSAF big T-Mike signing off on a new 36-2903 that banned morale patches and rolling of flight suit sleeves...and then him keeping on with his F-15 morale tab and rolled sleeves. But we can bitch and piss and moan about it, and anybody who's in a position to do something about it WON'T because it's their time in the spotlight, and they want to further their career, and instead become a repeater for this drivel. Service before Self indeed!

A friend of mine was a JSTARS nav, and didn't like it - basically, you'll be either in southern Georgia, or at Al-Udeid. He did 4 120's there in the space of 2-3 years? I think. Were it my choice I'd go to Pete, just because you'll have way more living and flying choices in the long term, and the 'Springs is awesome in general.

I've heard something to the effect of a certain amount of money being exchanged for each person processed through immigration - which would make sense in how each crew (2-30 people per shot) are having to process twice a day. I say let them provide their own defense. BRAC OTBH.

"The crew bus is on it's way", told by base command post.

No, but it can get 'em in Microsoft Flight Sim now! It's a simulation of a simulation...weird...like a copy of a copy...a clone of a clone... :rainbow: :rainbow:

EAUC = Enlisted Aircrew Undergraduate College, I think. It's that basic aircrew training at Lackland, they teach you basics of how aircraft function, systems, weights arms and moments, stuff like that. Some will be easy as a wrench-turner, but it's also an introduction into the math you'll be doing in BBOC/BLM, among other things. I can't speak too much about it since I didn't have to go. Booms deal a little less with pax since refueling is their primary mission, but there are plenty of -135s and -10s running around with pax and cargo onboard. For the -135s there were entire Guard units on orders for a long time flying the airborne cattlecars, the "135 rotator" moving crews from one end of the system to the other, seemed they didn't do any A/R at all. KC-10s, being at such obvious hubs in the AMC system, seems they'll always have ORF space-A's tagging along whenever they go somewhere (except Al Dhafra), plus they can carry a bunch of pallets so they tend to do that too...so yeah, booms deal with pax and cargo too. I can't speak too much about boom stuff since I'm *not* a boom, but there's plenty of booms around here to answer that stuff.

"Kiss, kiss, kiss, kiss me love...just one kiss, one kiss will do..."

Umm, there's a difference in the fabric, besides just the color?

It was years back, but some goons hijacked a French airliner and landed in Saudi Arabia...whose commandos stormed the plane and killed every one of them. Commandos were Saudi, not French. Granted that was their soil, but my thought is threatening their cash/oil flow could get them to aggressively react.

Isn't this a prime mission for Predators/Reapers/Global Hawk? Loitering, watching from way above, following, and dropping bombs/shooting hellfires when needed/possible? I mean I remember when that Ukrainian ship full of tanks got hijacked, and went to harbor...boats constantly coming and going...how hard would it be to follow those people, see where they go, and kill the snakes in their lair? My guess is this stuff just hasn't been important enough yet.

Exactly, which is why I'm considering selling mine...wondering what I could get for it. Buy low, sell high...