Do Something Amazing

[Guest]

On www.airforce.com there's a series of recruitment video's entitled "Do Something Amazing." Turn up the volume on your speakers and click this link: Eagle pilot curses out boom operator. It's a video clip of an F-15C getting some gas and if you listen closely you'll hear the pilot on hot mic saying "How about you make contact DIPSH*T!!!" Another funny link is this one: Propeller engines?. Apparently the TF-34's on the Warthog sound just like the P-51. Maybe the Air Force should "do something amazing" and have someone QC their website. Enjoy,

HOSS

[Guest Hydro]

F'ing classic! More top-notch work by the never-fails-to-impress PA machine...

[Guest Dwight Schrute]

That is pretty good. What is even more impressive is that they finally got the KC-135 moniker right. If you read at the bottom of vid player you will see what I am talking about. Go Mother Ship!

[Guest Dwight Schrute]

If you play that refueling game you may notice that those bastards at the DoD already have new recruits thinking about fuel conservation. Best range for all my friends!

[Guest Boom]

Impossible. Eagle drivers only get pissy when you disconnect cause they're about to bust a limit then want an explanation why.

[ACCBoomer]

Wow that is classic. I thought at first it was a "fake" page with the wildcard added after the website until I went to the office and typed the normal link into my computer. Sure enough, it is the same one... I love it!!!

P.S. "Boom" was actually making the contact on that video (he told me) :-)

[egochecks]

Sounds more like "Not while I'm making contact dipsh*t." to me. (Edit: Oh yeah, and it sounds like Norm McDonald.) Either way that's funny.

The A-10 video is re-gosh-dang-diculous though.

Edited September 10, 2007 by egochecks

[GSXR6Racer]

Yeah the first one sounds like he said "not while I am making contact dipshit" Are these PA guys serious? If I did my job as well as they do I would have been fired along time ago.

[HerkDerka]

Whether the F-15 vid was a mistake or someone pulled a fast one on PA, I love it!

HD

Edited September 9, 2007 by HerkDerka

[BADFNZ]

On www.airforce.com there's a series of recruitment video's entitled "Do Something Amazing." Turn up the volume on your speakers and click this link: Eagle pilot curses out boom operator. It's a video clip of an F-15C getting some gas and if you listen closely you'll hear the pilot on hot mic saying "How about you make contact DIPSH*T!!!" Another funny link is this one: Propeller engines?. Apparently the TF-34's on the Warthog sound just like the P-51. Maybe the Air Force should "do something amazing" and have someone QC their website. Enjoy,

HOSS

Best first post ever. I can't stop laughing at the hot mic.

[JarheadBoom]

Nice.

Any other booms watch the F-35 video on that page?

[Guest A.M.F.]

Any other booms watch the F-35 video on that page?

Yeah, not very impressive. Hopefully the UARRSI is designed better than the F-22s.

That game sucks! I knocked off a TACAN antenna, AND had to call a breakaway with the B-2 for excessive closure.

Does the 135's boom really feel that shitty? Speaking with no experience here

[Guest Boom]

Yeah, not very impressive. Hopefully the UARRSI is designed better than the F-22s.

That game sucks! I knocked off a TACAN antenna, AND had to call a breakaway with the B-2 for excessive closure.

Does the 135's boom really feel that shitty? Speaking with no experience here

I can't believe the F-22 doesn't have Boom Interphone capability. Lame.

Depends on the jet, some booms fly great, others not so much. However coming from the A-10 guys from Bagram the "Whistlers" there were denting their noses more than the Shells.

[JarheadBoom]

I can't believe the F-22 doesn't have Boom Interphone capability. Lame.

ZE-8 of the -56B says they do, but our checklist doesn't. From what I've heard from other booms that have contacts on the F-22... some do, some don't. I would imagine it's the early production blocks that don't - probably the same tails that have to get the AR lighting TCTO's installed.

Hopefully the UARRSI is designed better than the F-22s.

I'm still trying to figure out why they used those stupid labia-doors, and not a rollover receptacle like the black jets. Boggles my mind to think that some engineer decided that using folding doors, that form the skin of a low-observable aircraft, was the best way to deal with covering the receptacle...

[Guest Sparky]

ZE-8 of the -56B says they do, but our checklist doesn't. From what I've heard from other booms that have contacts on the F-22... some do, some don't. I would imagine it's the early production blocks that don't - probably the same tails that have to get the AR lighting TCTO's installed.

I'm still trying to figure out why they used those stupid labia-doors, and not a rollover receptacle like the black jets. Boggles my mind to think that some engineer decided that using folding doors, that form the skin of a low-observable aircraft, was the best way to deal with covering the receptacle...

Looks like the AF figured it out...the video of the F-15 refueling is no longer there.

[Chuck17]

Which proves how many people of various backgrounds visit this site...

The walls have ears.

Chuck

[KickChick21]

While checking out all the "Do Something Amazing" spoofs on youtube, I ran across this little video. Possibly one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[Rocker]

Awesome. Especially funny since my wife is stationed with an Army unit working the border mission. I wonder if they've all seen it...they soon will.

[Guest ShineR]

I think the AF found out about because I cant seem to find it on their site anymore. Luckily its on youtube for anyone who missed it:

F-15 Refuel

Edited September 19, 2007 by ShineR

[Gas Man]

Now this is funny!

[Rocker]

I guess they don't have fuel conservation SIIs in computer land, flying around with the board out like that.

[Guest IncompletePete]

Cheers for the youtube link!