Prosuper

Just maintaining the low obsevable covering will eat their budget.

Over heard as a fly on the wall listening to some AFMC types talking about the B-1going bye bye just because of cost per flight hour and mx reqd per flight hour, it is becoming the F-14 of the USAF. Plus it doesn't have a nuclear mission anymore. Alot cheaper to keep fixing Buffs and KC-135's.

Have gone in to many IL-76 and AN-124 cockpits to debrief the crews, the cabin smelled of a mix of body order and vodka so this comes as no surprise.

You did get a little carried away with the acronyms for us not in 30MM trigger pulling sect. But I did work on a B-52D with a quad .50 cal that was credited with a Mig kill during its Linebacker II days.

As you are saying that I can't help but think the size of the balls or the lack of brains Marine UH-1N Crews have when they go into a hot LZ. The Huey has nothing but hillbilly armor around the pilots and the Crew Chief's are totally exposed except for their M-2's or M-240's in front of them. The sheet metal thickness around the whole acft rivals duct tape, no wonder we lost them by the hundreds or maybe thousands in SEA.

I was a Pro Super on your Flightline for the nightshift spending the next few months generating acft for Noble Eagle and everything else we were doing at the time. As time passed and before NATO got there we had a hard time supporting the 966th school house. Just to give sorties to Noble Eagle and keep planes in ONW and OSW then OEF. Scheduling meetings with ops with the school house was a blood letting session, plus at the time we had 4 different mission configurations of E-3's at the time,(20/25, 30/35, Coral Icon, RSIP) when we put a bird on alert/spare and on the schedule I had to have crew that was qualified to fly it and that became a juggling act.Some missions were up for over 24 hours due to the fact their relief acft was still broke or we did have not have a qualified crew to fly a available acft.

Here is a good link for all the flying demo's from this year. https://www.twaseniorsclub.org/Oshkosh.html

I did my RJ time in EGUN 84 to 86. Used to curse Offutt of what they used to send me.

I am more proud of my SAC Master and Journeyman Crew Chief Award/Patch RC-135V/W than any other medal or other award I earned.Even more than my time with the 89th at ADW. If I remember right the mx badge was the only occupational around besides the cops before the USAF played everybody gets a trophy.

There seems to be allot of cross flow between this thread and one the AF times forum https://www.militarytimes.com/forum/showthread.php?1590814-Any-Truth-In-This plus it is now very interesting reading the back and forth between the diamond and star wearers and the regular SNCO's. Maybe it is time in the Senior NCO Corp which I was a member of to have a meeting in the club get drunk and get some stuff off our chests or a little blood letting between the mission first guys and the perfumed princes.

Spent way too much time in AETC, absolutely zero SA and mission awareness. No real world experiance.

If you see this guy walk the other way. https://www.386aew.afcent.af.mil/library/biographies/bio.asp?id=14701 Oh wow! He went to the Gettysburg Leadership conference, he's a combat leader.

Hate to say it but it looks like it is going to take something tragic to happen and a bunch of guys in the community talking to the press by embarrassing our leadership to act, resign, or be sacked. As long as your mx dudes are performing miracles to keep you flying its not going to happen soon. Why did the MH-53's get shit canned, I know they are mx pigs but would they have been more suited to the high elevations the Pedros work in? Maybe they can take money from the reflective belt NAF band funds.

I thought there was a plan to go around the normal procurement process underway and buy UH-60M's from the Army so we could get them quick without going through the RFP's and contractor delays,markups and customer changes.

I wonder if it matters to PA that all the troops who died on that CH-47 crash were all men. I wonder also if PA will do if we ever lose a jet and crew with a all female manifest. I think some of our Naval brothers can chime in on that effect underway.

I've shared a few steins of malt beverage with some Luftwaffe MIG 29 mx troops and they never had anything nice to say either in German or English about Russian engine technology. Very fast, lots of power but very short life span. I hope the Indians have good luck with customer service with the Russians, its like buying a printer, great price until you have to buy toner cartridges. I wonder with the Russian design philosophy if it is even economically viable for them to develop a complex vectored exhaust nozzle for increased maneuverability, I bet it has a LOX system.

It has allot of similarities to the F-22 except for the difference is that theirs fly's.

I wonder if each one will have to be custom built, the weight, height and body build must effect flight handling and weight and balance issues. Plus you have to be strong enough to be able to strap this machine on you at a full fuel weight. The pilot in the video looks to be a little over 6ft tall. Plus using a helicopter to get you airborne would sky rocket the costs to price me out of it.

Do you need a pilots certificate to do this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgdIE2t8QkM?

Plus the C-17 that is tasked to fly it overseas.

If the Nazi's ever got a working nuclear device I am sure they would have used it against England or Moscow on the tip of a V-2. After the 2nd Bockscar bomb Gen Lemay after no response from Japan was asking to drop a 3rd one. Berlin was to be the first target but the 3rd Reich surrended before it was ready.

Already been done, at KTIK we have the 507ARW AFRC and 137ARW OKANG sharing offices and KC-135's.

Dammit, kicked ass, stupid typing fingers, stupid brain

AZANG at Tuscon has the F-16 school house, F-15's Schoolhouse at Klamath Falls ORANG, and the C-5's at Kelly/Lackland AFRC. AETC is all civilian mx, the Altus 97th AMW kissed ass in the last rodeo. Won't be surprised when the rest of the MDS's will be under ANG/AFRC school houses with civilian mx .

From a MX POV. If the AT-6 is selected for anybody in the forum in the know, would it have to be built up i.e. F-15C compared to F-15E. Uprated engines, stronger wing,landing gear? Would all AT-6's be 2 seaters, eliminate instructor seat gives more room for gas,comm,ammo, targeting. Would be a wing mounted gun like a 20MM or .50cal or underwing pod. Will they replace the canopy with a up and down version or keep the side opening? Will the prop be up armored? Wing mounted or EA-6b probe for air refueling? A-10 armored cockpit? Boy it sounds like a cost overun waiting to happen, don't it. Maybe it might be a good idea to pull T-37B's out of AMARC and reengine them with J-85's like the AT-37B, T-38 and F-5.