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Gone from leadership to fortune 500 management, Airman screws up once and it shows up on a Wing PPT slide she gets the big blue weenie even though she is one of your top performers. Glad I'm retired, in the 80's the CC took care of you if made him money on the flightline, the working troops were the ones you wanted to be and they were the ones to get promoted to Senior and Chief, today those guys don't make it past Tech. CC's Might as well take their uniform off and wear a polo and slacks and tell you lies just like their civilian counter parts in the airlines.

Does any body know if that was a QF-16A if it was out of Tyndall, they have stocking up on them after the QF-4E's were depleted? As to retired guys flying military acft you might have a point but who has the experience to pass down to young Capt's. If you ever go to a depot and pick up your jet the guy launching you out in the postdock area has probably been working your MDS probably before you were born.

Space is an unforgiving business. Even with the most stringent safety measures its still a 50/50 role of the dice.

I only got two things to say. "Damn" and "you lucky bastard".

Still driving a 92 F-150 4X4 with a 5.8l with 219K and everything still works except me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWgF3yBYW7U

Your correct, we just make sure it happens.

Tell a MSgt Production Superintendent how to fix your jet, we love that, we appreciate the advice, really we do.

Well Gen Eisenhower did not have a overwhelming resume before he came Supreme Allied CC, as compared to a Patton or Bradley but he did have the tools as a staff officer of what it took to cross the channel. If your always at the tip of the spear and looking forward to the enemy you have no idea whats behind you to keep and get you there. During my time we had 2 fighter pilots in positions that still are fucking up the USAF, McPeak and Foglesong, I never want to see those two in charge of anything again. LR does not have much of a operational resume but she does know how to be a commander at different levels more than the current AFMCCC. If she is unsure of aerial combat she has a husband who can easily inform her.

I am a 30 year plus A&P, what I tried to instill into my young troops before I crossed into the blue id world was try not to be a glorified gas station attendant, you can train a monkey to refuel and lox airplanes. I had the pleasure to work with some old school F.E's who started on recips who knew their shit and made your job easier when it came to actually debriefing troubleshooting and repairing. I think its a generational thing, my childhood was working on cars, building go carts from a lawn mower engine and actually taking shop classes in high school. I have a 17 year old son who is scared to death to learn how to drive.

The one in front is a total write off. They could probably salvage pieces of them as plugs for others.

She looks great in a skirt and heals, her husband was an eagle driver.

Like the way they painted even the AIM 9's euro1.

Tried to become a FE four times from the Crew Chief world but always got denied for some reason or another. For those who are successful please try the mx world first, in the early 90's we had a group on E-3 FE's who came from non mx backgrounds and did not have the common sense on how things on acft worked. They became very defensive when trying to do a MX debrief. If your working in services or MPF and can't tell the difference between a T-6 and a C-5 please stay where you are at.

707/135 aircraft have only so much room on the inboard pylon before they are scraping the tarmac, found many scrape on the inbd engines after a not so smooth landing.

Found this interesting read. https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/the-f-16-gun-pod-that-tried-to-shoot-down-the-a-10-wart-1597577525

I say we come to a compromise and sit down both the A-10 and B-1 and pull out some old F-4 D's,

The last Crow War Chief, saw this featured in Ken Burns "The War". https://www.mtpioneer.com/2013-June-The-Last-Crow-War-Chief.html

Wasn't this a problem inside the wire in the AOR, we had a so called friendly start shooting up our guys more than once then leadership told everyone to start packing even Airmen and those occurrences slowed or stopped. Being deployed and stateside are 2 different things like you can tell the guy you share a tent/bhut with , you can tell if things are not right with your bud and try to get him help, stateside you only see him on duty hours. We have this false allusion stateside everything is fine and we are safe, read off of drudge that Marines are losing more guys to car accidents than combat. Also read that we lose 22 G.I's a day to suicides. Hell as a commander I would think I would like to keep my guys in the shit, their safer, can shoot back, and staying off the interstates and bars and also they are not alone to handle problems. We have guys who doing this crap since 2001 and have been at war their entire career and doing multiple combat tours, now we are going to make these guys( caged tigers) garrison soldiers. I surprised that this doesn't happen more often. Anecdotal story here, one day we had a active shooter at KTIK when a divorce went bad and a Airmen killed himself along with his kids in base housing, my SP bud was ready with his team to go in but Base CC gave it to the county sheriff which took time and maybe the lives of those kids. The reason for this story is that Base CC would rather let it go down the way it did than risk losing a SP and losing his career. I saw the prick bastard smile when he was told the Airman was a 552nd troop ( tenant unit) and not a 72nd troop(Base Group). Now I ask the question with the current guys who are base CC's, non rated, finance, personnel , very very very risk adverse, tater tot serving type guys that they would trust us to defend ourselves?

As a grey beard who has maintained 707's and -135's I was saddened to read the report about the lack of training. These occurrence's have been with this type of aircraft since the B-47 was fitted with a yaw damper system. Better technology has been stuffed inside the aircraft since 1955 but for the outside the aerodynamics remain the same except for the engines. It's tragic that some of these lessons written in blood have not been taught to a newer generation. Excerpt from Tex Johnston The 707 wings are swept back at 35 degrees and, like all swept-wing aircraft, displayed an undesirable "Dutch roll" flying characteristic that manifested itself as an alternating yawing and rolling motion. Boeing already had considerable experience with this on the B-47 and B-52, and had developed the yaw damper system on the B-47 that would be applied to later swept wing configurations like the 707. However, many new 707 pilots had no experience with this phenomenon, as they were transitioning from straight-wing propeller-driven aircraft such as the Douglas DC-7 and Lockheed Constellation. On one customer acceptance flight, where the yaw damper was turned off to familiarize the new pilots with flying techniques, a trainee pilot's actions violently exacerbated the Dutch roll motion and caused three of the four engines to be torn from the wings. The plane, a brand new 707-227, N7071, destined for Braniff, crash-landed on a river bed north of Seattle at Arlington, Washington, killing four of the eight occupants.[17] In his autobiography, test pilot Tex Johnston described a Dutch roll incident he experienced as a passenger on an early commercial 707 flight. As the aircraft's movements did not cease and most of the passengers became ill, he suspected a misrigging of the directional autopilot (yaw damper). He went to the cockpit and found the crew unable to understand and resolve the situation. He introduced himself and relieved the ashen-faced captain who immediately left the cockpit feeling ill. Johnston disconnected the faulty autopilot and manually stabilized the plane "with two slight control movements".[18]

Is this the Congressman that everyone is referring to? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-the-air-forces-f-22-fighter-jet-making-pilots-sick/

Well at least your not in the Army as a company commander, this poor guy thought the same way I did when I was a flight chief with a bunch of knuckleheads who did not get it. https://www.duffelblog.com/2013/11/outgoing-company-commander-hate/

Safety CBT's have don't add anything or turn off the audience, I think we should change it up a little bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=5xPV27MxkF8

A blue water navy with one aircraft carrier that may or may not be able to do flight ops does not project power. A large sub force does not guarantee success either , just look at the Kriegsmarine in both world wars.

Probably why the 89th got a bunch of new C-32's. Boeing got the heavy mx contract for the 707's (C-137's) and when the first two go through they are found to have discrepancies beyond economical repair and are scrapped. What a coincidence. Boeing is known to go to customers flying older types they support and offer them a deal on newer airframes if they park their older frames. Kalitta has been asked a few times to park their 747's classics for newer -400's. Also it saves Boeing money by not keeping engineering and spares. If you look around the world at operators flying DC-10's and MD-11's the list is getting smaller everyday, FedEX , UPS, and World are the only U.S. operators that I know of still operating them in any numbers and they are buying new 777's, and 767's freighters. AAR Corp supplies parts for the KC-10's and the KDC-10 RNAF aircraft and the last time I got a part for the 2 CNS/ATM birds it wasn't cheap. On the flip side you have hundreds of parked C-135's at AMARC for parts so the USAF is better able to control costs. Plus it one huge pain in the ass to do any off station mx on that #2 tail engine.