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Solveret stercore et occidere populus cum MCMXLVII Breaking shit and killing people since 1947 (This is from using the Google translator so it might contain some errors.)

"Closed for Training"

This off Rotten Tomatoes: It's undeniably reverent of the real-life heroes in its cast, but Act of Valor lets them down with a clichéd script, stilted acting, and a jingoistic attitude that ignores the complexities of war. First, not much of a script. No problem because there are lots of scenes with cool shit and of bad guys deccelerating high speed metal. Second, stilted acting. See my first point. Third, jingoistic attitude and ignoring the complexities of war. Obviously the raters have no idea how complex it is to pull that shit off and make it look easy. And how in the hell can putting bullets in drug runners and wannabe jihadists be a bad idea. I'd give a solid 85 hits out of 100.

Before she launches on her campaign tour, I hope she remembers to check that the tank is topped off. It would be embarrassing to check your fuel state just after leaving and realize the tank was empty.

IIRC, the checklist called for a climb to 35K and involved a 1G stall/cabin pressurization check. Easily accomplished by slowly pulling the throttles to idle. Throttle or stick techique, i.e. ham fisting, the jet might have resulted in the problem. The jet has cables for both fuel control and flight controls and, if it wasn't rigged correctly, that may have caused the problem. However, prior to the 35K check, he would have shut down each engine (not at the same time) and done a restart via cross-bleed and APU at 15K. So, I'd say there is more to the story that we don't have via that link.

I think he failed to clear for rocks at 12 while target fixated on a blonde.

First step in the G-warmup is to put down your coke.

Great book called Spitfires, Thunderbolts, and Warm Beer covered the process of the UK recruiting in the US, getting the pilots into Canada for training, and then to the UK. The pilot in this book flew for the RAF before the Eagle Squadrons, then in the Eagle Squadrons, and then in the 8th AF. I wonder if the Australia would hired a retired guy?

I have no idea how they calculated savings with the iPads, they just said $1.2 million in fuel. Not sure how much could be saved with no longer purchasing Jepps. I think Jepps charges for information, not paper. Not printing paper ops manuals will save a ton. One direction I haven't heard mentioned at the airline is moving away from printing flight plans which includes route, notams, takeoff data, and weather. If that information could be linked into the iPad, the savings on paper, printers, and ink would be huge.

American Airlines put out an estimate that removing the 35lb kit bags and replacing them with 1.5lb iPads would save in the neighborhood of $1.2 million dollars per year in fuel costs.

I've seen it work with Sectionals but not approach plates. The only problem I noted with the Sectionals was the trying to reference points on the ground from FL350 but it was still very, very cool.

There is a precedent for a combined burial. Unidentified remains of the Challenger crew was buried in Arlington in a joint grave. Why this or something similar was not done is unacceptable and the idiots in charge should be handed a shovel and fix this oversight immediately.

I remember hearing the estimated WW III life span of a Hawg driver was 19 tanks. Do targeting/defensive enhancements offset the threat enhancements?

Looks like a weapons effects testing arena. Detonate the bomb in the middle and look for fragmentation distribution, velocity, etc. Eglin uses something similar.

Mr. Lim..."My suit make man took rike million dallah....you...mehbe thousand."

If the Navy has problems filling the decks of its carriers with aircraft and or crews, I think you might see them asking the Marines to buy the F-35C.

Not sure how ANA does it but we have a Flight Attendant on the flight deck with us and we let them open the door. I've never used the unlock switch to open the door. Placement-wise, each airline designs it a little different. Our door unlock switch is located to the right and behind the rudder trim. Still not sure how you could mistake the little knob which is locked unless you lift it then rotate the knob with the larger trim control with no lock. Stranger stuff has happened, I guess. Lucky they didn't seriously hurt someone or tear up the jet.

Masters of the Air by Donald Miller, about the bombing campaign against Germany in WWII. Topical highlights: loss rates vs replacements for Germans and US and launching costly bomber raids with the sole intent of bringing up German fighters to kill them, the debate in the leadership between precision and area bombing, target selection arguments between cities, oil, sub pens, V-1/V-2 launch sites, rail transportation, D-Day landing preparation targets and the effectiveness of those raids.

"The Dream Machine" by Richard Whittle. Covers the development, marketing, and integration of the V-22.

33 yr old in my UPT class way back when. He was an Army then AF helo guy.

It has been a long damn time but I do remember dragging a four ship through the gap with standard crappy Korean weather.

I was at Shaw in 94 when Iraq did the double pump fake that began the never ending Southern Watch. We were coming up on a Phase I ORI when this thing started and the wing generated 2 F-16 and 1 A-10 squadron plus an additional 6 or 12 (can't remember the exact number) A-10s that came from McChord and were in flyable storage prior to going to Moody. The two F-16 Squadrons launched, the A-10's did not but 6 Hawgs were transferred to Pope to cover a shortage and those guys launched. We asked Langley to come down and watch but they said it wouldn't work for an eval. WTF??

Not sure about CCIP but, when I was at the plant in Fort Worth, the guy did mention "autostrafe." It only carries about 180 rounds so I guess the computer can shoot them.

I think those are AF-8 and AF-9 which were supposed to go the school house.

SOS is pretty much useless but I do remember this one nugget of wisdom from a three star: "How often do you read information in newspapers or see news reports on television about topics that you are experts and you see the errors in their information? So, why is it that you give any credibility to those same sources when they report on topics that you are unfamiliar with?"