StoleIt

Amazing talent those guys have. My best friend is in the 'Stan right now and his platoon sniper nailed a guy (center mass) at 800 meters using an M14 (M21) with iron sights. I thought I was remotely talented just qualifying expert with an M-16A2 when playing around with the Army...but damn. Those guys are magicians.

Awesome. Didn't Airbus kick Northrop to the curb too? And my prediction: 20 years before we get another tanker.

Since it hasn't been posted: CBM 10-08 KC-135 Hickam ANG C-5 Travis KC-135 Grissom AFRC Kc-10 McGuire (edit) KC-135 Fairchild ANG KC-135 Kadena RPA Creech C-130 Yokota RPA Creech T-1 CBM KC-135 Macdill C-5 Westover AFRC C-17 Elmendorf ANG C-17 Charleston KC-135 Grissom AFRC

DUI is definitly a career ender for a UPT stud. You lose your slot and right now the AF is in a big personel cutting spree they will force shape you out without hesitation (already happening to dudes who SIE out of UPT or IFS).

RIP.

01 Apr 2010

Yea all those former F-15C drivers that lost their jets have tons of CAS experience to pass around...

You sir...are a son of a bitch! I have mananged to avoid being Rick Rolled for the past year...now this!!!

Runway is just under 5,000 feet long. They must have been way over weight to not be able to clear a 100ft obstacle. 363' per NM to 500 for RWY 7. I haven't flown a Cessna 310 but I'd imagine it should be able to exceed that. OR they were single engine... Anywho, my condolences to the family.

If you can't duct it, fuck it.

Kinda hard to judge with a picture that small: But here ya go: And this looks close: With the cockpit poster link, it shows "USAFA" on it. I believe their DA-20's were slightly different. I recall because they had those old USAFA cockpit posters in the flight room for stand up and I got sat down because I referenced the wrong engine #'s on the poster instead of the IFS ones...so slight differences from the USAFA to the IFS DA-20's I guess.

James Camron wrote the script immediatly after he finished Titanic (1994/5). So rest easy, nothing in this movie had anything to do with the political climate of today...and since he isn't a fortune teller I doubt he knew about the oil crunch or OIF/OEF. I for one absolutely loved pretty much every aspect of the movie. Only wish there was an IMAX in a reasonable distance of here. I highly recommend seeing it in "REAL 3D" rather than the regular 3D though, the difference was rather noticable.

I wouldn't let the dude get away with the arm rest thingy. I paid for my 17 inches (STS) of lateral room (wikipeida confirmed this is how wide a standard airline seat is) and don't intend on sharing any of it. Call me cruel...call me racist/sexist/fat-ist?...but being cattle in the back of an airliner is typically bad enough with the crying children, sick people, and other annoyances I really would snap if I had to fight with 40lbs of excess blubber spilling into my seat as well.

What awesome business ethics... Why did we include them on the KC-X again?

They probably added the $2k ontop of their regular paycheck and thought of it as one giant bonus. Thats what I did. So technically, it was only 2k...but it feels better to say 3.

Oh wow, misread that.

Wow, way to go Mr. King!!! Anyone else think 13k for two buses is a bit steep though? 1,200 miles doesn't seem that bad either.

True...but that doesn't stop F-16's or F-15E's from doing strafing runs, and they "only" have a 20mm.

Just a warning to all the lurkers...make sure you don't just memorize the order. And be prepared for things to change. I have been through 3 different Ops Limit/Bold Faces for the T-6 since Sept. Live by the gouge...die by the gouge.

Is the 25mm GAU-12U/22A (note: Not a 20mm like the Viper, Eagle, or Raptor) in the F-35 any less effective against soft targets than the 30mm GAU-8A?

White House aides insisted F-22 be removed from Obama speech venue When President Obama spoke to troops at Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base last month, the unit there parked a shiny new F-22 fighter plane in the hanger. But according to multiple sources, White House aides demanded the plane be changed to an older F-15 fighter because they didn't want Obama speaking in front of the F-22, a controversial program he fought hard to end. "White House aides actually made them remove the F-22-said they would not allow POTUS to be pictured with the F-22 in any way, shape, or form," one source close to the unit relayed. Stephen Lee, a public affairs officer at Elmendorf, confirmed to The Cable that the F-22 was parked in the hanger and then was replaced by an F-15 at the White House's behest. The airmen there took offense to the Obama aides' demand, sources told The Cable, seeing it as a slight to the folks who are operating the F-22 proudly every day. They also expressed bewilderment that the White House staff would even care so much as to make an issue out of the fact that the F-22 was placed in the hanger with the president. A White House official, commenting on background basis, told The Cable that yes, there were discussions about which plane or planes would be in the hanger, but that they were not meant as an insult to the pilots and other personnel who work on the F-22. The official couldn't elaborate on why the White House aides felt it necessary to get involved in the matter in the first place. The official pointed to Obama's speech to the troops that day, where he praised both the 90th Fighter Squadron, known as the "Dicemen," and the 525th Fighter Squadron, the "Bulldogs," both of which operate the F-22. Even so, the Air Force personnel thought it odd the White House wanted to display the older plane rather than the more advanced plane that, in the eyes of its supporters, represents the latest and greatest in American aviation. The Obama administration fought hard and successfully to cut off production of the F-22 at 187 planes, a number Defense Secretary Robert Gates endorsed but that was hundreds less than originally planned and about half of the 381 planes Air Force leadership lobbied hard for in the years preceding Obama's inauguration. "It's one thing to be against further production; quite another to slight the folks who are flying them in the operational world," one source said, adding that "the F-15 pictured was put into service roughly around the same period when Obama graduated from college. It's vintage." https://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2009/12/02/exclusive_white_house_aides_insisted_f_22_be_removed_from_obama_speech_venue Weird...