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If your using Russians you need to have them flying a dime a dozen AN-12, everything in the cockpit is in cyrillic not english. SOP is use internal APU that power 28 VDC starters, don't forget to pull in the crew ladder and run over it( it happens) also if your looking for realism describe the smell of vodka and feet inside the plane. For taxiing they start one engine release brakes taxi and have the other 3 start on the way to the hammer head. AN-12 the older ones still have a tail gun compartment, the windows are painted over and guns removed. Or use a AN-32 or AN-26 which are very common all over Asia, both are more or less the same plane except for different engines. Russians are cash and carry type guys, along as you pay them they will deliver, but sometimes you wonder if they own a watch or calendar, plus they all most always fly with a bottle of vodka somewhere in the jet so being sober is always a question.

Same story when we (AWACS) were at Elf One at Rihayd in the early 80's during the Iran/Iraq war. It said it was a enlisted AGE chick who got caught when a officer found out that enlisted paid a lower price than the officers and blew the whistle. We got good per diem then and were paid in cash.

Just hope it does not turn into another C-130X disaster, all them different blocks seam to have different engines , GE 110's Pratt 220's and newest blocks having the Pratt 229's.

F-16 being upgraded to insure against more F-35 snafu's. https://defensetech.o...-f-16-upgrades/ 3 women were sitting around drinking coffee and talking about their love live. Woman #1 says, 'Girls, my husband is a weight lifter. And, when we make love he is so powerful that it drives me crazy!" Woman #2 says, "My husband is a marathon runner. When we make love, he has such stamina that it is terrific." They both look over to woman #3 for a comment. "Well," she says. "My husband is lead engineer for the F-35 fighter program. We haven't actually made love yet. But, when we finally do - he says it's going to be incredible!"

He needed the money.

"You rogues, do you want to live forever" Fredrick the Great

Hindsight being 20/20 I wish I would have brought a 4X4 beater pickup with me when I did my remote in Iceland, could have made a indecent profit selling it to a local who would have tricked it out or use it for parts. Icelandics do some serious 4X4ing when they go into the interior of their country . I wonder if that same thought process would work in Germany, the ones I work with now always ask me questions about my F-350 Diesel GOV I drive everyday. Are there a DRMO in Germany so locals can buy old GOV''s?

Danish Air Force not even using a runway.

5 years at Andrews in the 89th. I always did a Sunday morning bike ride from Reagan National to Mount Vernon then back again, beutiful ride going along the Potomac and going through old town Alexandria. Union Station is a good place to find something to eat, Sunday brunch in Alexandria at Murphys Pub on King Street, great steak and eggs. The Viet Nam memorial at night. Alot of nice bars and reastuarants on SE Penn street just off the Capitol. Don't go more SE than that unless you know your way around.

Which job is that? Send me that application. I do good but not that good.

Old thread but came across this and thought it interesting that Gen McChrystal thought that it would be a good idea to bring back the draft. He says what we all thought that the rest of the USA gets a free ride while the less 1% keep getting the call. https://www.stripes.com/news/army/mcchrystal-says-it-s-time-to-bring-back-the-draft-1.182321

I remember when I got to Tinker in 1981 and we had guys retiring at Buck Sgt, spending most of their career in SEA. Though back then if you busted a UA you just got a LOR and mandatory prevention class.

You think they the Syrians might have thought it was one of their own trying to defect to Turkey?

You do know Lawton is outside the gate of Fort Sill, you can make a fortune just repairing drywall in Lawton from the artillary range booms.

Yes if you were born and raised in some urban sprawl but if you come from a small town and like that lifestyle its not bad and can withstand hot than hell temperatures. Hey at least its not Lawton, OKC is just up the road.

Thats my site manager, been in mx since 1980.

Just trying to be logical but would you want your load or any crew position to be up to snuff before he got to the AOR than find out you have a problem down range? Lately been getting a deer in the headlights response when we tell them we have a upload of Blackhawks.

Got a Sierra hotel ATOC here that have everything ready to go before any grey tail shows up, of course everything goes to crap when a SRA load questions everything the MSgt loadplanner hands him. It is getting preferable just to tender stuff out and let Ivan the crazy IL-76 pilot have it with no questions asked and a whole lot cheaper.

Yes Dover is all M models but there is a B out in the system that has the Dover tail flash on it, it was the last B to leave Dover. Nothing sadder to see a M empty flying somewhere just for crew rest. Why are Loadmasters getting check rides in the AOR, taking 6 hours which only should take a hour Mogging out a ramp putting others in a holding pattern, I'm getting to the point I hate the sight of that damn plane.

There was the the E-10 a 767-400 that at least the airframe was built to replace the E-3 and E-8 into one airframe. Of course the money dried up, at least the R&D has already been done if the USAF wants to put a AWACS in a 737 with Australia and Turkey already taking delievery of 737 AEW&C platforms. There is not huge supply of 707 parts out there, most structure parts have to be made from scratch at OC/ALC in one of those water jet milling machines.

What happened to the JT8D conversion? Those JT3D's make a E-3 TF-33-P-100 almost look modern and up to date.

Got a bud in NATO AWACS who told me just ten are slated for it for now, it more or less still has the same flight director and instrutments from when the first one was delivered in 1977. The engineers panel has never been upgraded except for the generator oil temp gauges. I am curious on how they are going to incorporate the the old engine technology TF-33's were everything runs of pitot air or hyromechanically and with nothing electronic on that engine into the glass cockpit. They have done this with the E-6 TACOMO's but they have modern CFM -56 engines

At least the F-16 had its canopy closed.

Just a bit of helpful advice from a guy who used to fix and fly on E-3's for 13 years. At crew show at the jet bring your own cream and sugar for coffee and handiwipes/hand sanitzer to clean your O2 mask. Dont ask the crew chief for any of this because he will be busy fixing one of your guys chairs that they just broke. Mx does maintenance not catering. Have some common courtesy for your fellow female crew dawgs and not unleash a out of control fire hose in the lavatory. Also learn early that the flight deck will never like you and if you whine more that means more transitions(practice takeoffs and landings) at the end of a 8 hour sortie back a Tinker, their evil like that.

You think he would have done something before leaving Op's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OSsf0n4eBk