Everything posted by TreeA10
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F-15C Sniper pods?
I was enjoying a Sam Adams Whitewater IPA until you mentioned the Sierra Nevada. Suddenly, my beer isn't as cold or as tasty as I would like. Damn.
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F-15C Sniper pods?
I worked for a little while tasking units for Operation Noble Eagle, there were, and still are, scenarios that a VID at night or extended range would have been a nice capability to have.
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How many generations of flying in your family?
Dad is a retired CMSgt, mom was a WAF. I'm the first to fly. Wanted to be a piano player in a whorehouse.
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Hurricane Sandy
If some idiotic weather/news reporter does not ACTUALLY stand outside, will we believe that the hurricane is not really windy and rainy and they are just making this $hit up?
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Publications, Checklists, Flashcards, Etc...
Did the T38 IP thing a long time ago and had many former Army helo drivers. Never had a complaint, they had their feces co-located and kept the big picture while having a good time. Or at least as good a time as can be had given the situation. Read and heed the advice from previous posters and good luck.
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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A 10A 79 0145 R3801 23Mar05 MattEllis
From the album: Aircraft photos
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Aircraft photos
- DTS -> Next Generation Travel System - Ideas?
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Good military/aviation books
Just finished To America: Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose. It contains his personal stories and opinions about the people he met or studied as he wrote their histories. Some were chance meetings. He was leading a tour of the Normandy beaches and happened to come across an elderly British gentleman. Turns out, this guy was the lead glider pilot flying the troops assigned to take the bridge at Caen. Most of the book is about people he was involved with very heavily. So, lots of stuff about Eisenhower, T. Roosevelt, E Company, Nixon, the Vietnam War, the decision to drop the bomb on Hiroshima, and the WWII Museum in New Orleans.
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American Airlines
Unofficial spokesperson explaining the seat debacle.
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JSTARS sabotage?
Fat girl defensive maneuver....jink, chaff, twinkies
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- Quad City Airshow Crash
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Alabama Deer Hunting Help
The problem when I was there was a T-38 hitting a deer doing a touch and goes at night. Little blood and fur on the nose gear but, otherwise, no damage. A venison roast was served up by the maintainers and they gave the IP a plaque with a little deer hoof mounted on it. The great deer massacre occurred a short time later.
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Alabama Deer Hunting Help
Columbus had a great deer hunt years ago. After a couple deer were killed by T-38's on night touch and goes, the base game warden organized a deer hunt using every means usually deemed illegal. I think a couple dozen were killed in one night.
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Badass of the Week
And then headed out to sea. The dreaded horizontal flat spin.
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F-22 Raptor info
I've tasked the Langley guys more than once for ONE so I know they have done it on occasion.
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Whats the funniest thing you've heard over the radio?
From the center controller after everyone gets parked in holding trying to get into the New York area, "The NY controllers are off their medications and things are getting weird so watch your gas and TCAS."
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Good military/aviation books
House to House. Army Sergeant in Iraq on house to house fighting in Iraq. Pretty graphic description of the nastiness of the fight and the conditions of those that fought it. Saddam's Secrets. Iraqi Air Vice Marshall Georges Sada. This guy was a Christian from northern Iraq and never joined the Baath part. Probably why he wasn't killed by Saddam like so many of his AF compatriots. Not sure if a lack of understanding of something lost in translation caused some interesting comments on U.S. hardware. Like calling the Stealth the "B-117" (this is actually accurate and erroneous at the same time) and cruise missiles launched from carriers. He also claimed that 50+ cargo flights carried WMD materials, documentation, and equipment to Syria prior to the start of the Iraqi Freedom. Escape from Camp 14. Truly horrendous situation. A boy born to two political prisoners inside a North Korean prison camp. Basically a non-person with no future other than working to death. Starvation, beatings, executions are a day to day occurrence. Finally meets someone who describes what food is like outside the camp and he decides to escape.
- F-35 Lightning info
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F-35 Lightning info
I never understood Eglin as the choice for the F-35 RTU. I was down there a couple years ago with the Reserves looking at a TFI set up with the test wing. This also involved some F-35 issues and the topic came up. Eglin just is not big enough for all the US and Coalition training. The runway configuration, the airspace, and the ranges just pale in comparison with Luke for the amount of training required.
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Flying VFR
Had an angry controller in SC. I am over the field at 11K on RTB and approach control wants to give me vectors from hell to get to initial. I say cancel IFR. Controller says unable and gives me a vector. I tell him I'm cancelling and send 2 to Tower freq. ATC guy explodes saying we can't do that as we switch freq's. I take it out over the edge of the Class B, drop to 500 feet, contact tower, and enter the pattern VFR. I'm not sure if that controller could have spelled VFR so him understanding the rules was certainly too much.
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F-22 Raptor info
How do you get your own LGPOS? .....Buy an acre of land near Luke and wait.