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Yuri Gagarin was the first human being in space. There is an hour and forty minute video on youtube that took archival recordings and combined it with footage from the ISS. I haven't watched the video yet, but the description given by Fox News makes it sound intriguing. Fox News Article https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJuIO6kp5jY
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https://www.theveteranssite.com/clickToGive/vet/article/Most-Heavily-Decorated-Soldier817&origin=VET_FACE_BLOG_VEtVid_DecoratedHeavy_CTG Wow, worth the watch. a highly decorated United States Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient of the Vietnam War. He was wounded 14 times over 54 months of combat, was awarded 8 Purple Hearts, 4 Bronze Stars, and was nominated for the Medal of Honor three separate times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_L._Howard AMERICAN BAD ASS
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WestJet today introduced a new state-of-the-art money-saving feature on board all flights aimed at countering the rising price of jet fuel. Effective today, WestJet will be using air mixed with helium in the ventilation system to lighten the weight of the aircraft. Helium is approximately 85 per cent lighter than nitrogen, which accounts for 80 per cent of the air we breathe. With a maximum takeoff weight of more than 150,000 pounds, adding helium to the air mix will provide fuel savings of approximately three to four per cent on board WestJet's Boeing Next-Generation 737s. This will, in turn, allow WestJet to pass the savings on to its guests. https://www.westjet.c…
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I didn't see this posted anywhere. Is this still news everytime we do this in a new airframe? https://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/04/05/flying-combat-landing-history/?test=faces
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Man Kicked Off Plane for Being too Tall
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All, Was wondering if there were any intel Os here that I could ask some questions. Would prefer to PM. I have a general question, though. Does anyone know what/where the AF version of the Navy JP 2-0 CLICK ME is? I would like to read it before my interview to brush up on some AF lingo etc. Thanks.
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World's Dumbest Pilots ...In 2008, pilot Jeffrey Paul Bradford tried to spice up his time in Harrisburg, PA, with stewardess Adrianna Connor. After dinner and drinks, the Pinnacle Airlines employees dashed into the nearby woods for a romp. When they got separated, she got lost and he hid in a barn.
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So on the AF.MIL website they have a story celebrating the 50th anniversary of the T-38. For some reason our USAF PA folks decided to use a copyrighted picture from Jo Hunter (below), does that mean that after operating the jet for 50 years we could not find a suitable picture of our own? Time to close Combat Camera in the name of efficiency.
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From a Bollywood production called Endhiran... The leading lady is pretty smokin' hot as well! Cheers! M2
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Hey guys, this is my first post. I just transferred to the Air Force Academy after doing some civilian flying. I have about 240 hours (part 61 and 141) and it is all on paper logs. I have been thinking of changing over to an electronic logbook program (I would still maintain the paper logbook for checkrides and a backup. I was just wondering if anyone has had any experience with a program that is good at tracking military and civilian hours. I just got on the flying team here and will be flying a bit in T-41s and T-51s and hopefully will get a pilot slot and I want a program that will be flexible enough to handle all my flights. Here are some things that I would like: …
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Citizen Soldiers Denied Family Visits
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Go Mustangs And my kid was going to Parkway South. Just my luck.
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There is a lot of interesting discussion being brought up about how to fix Afghanistan so I thought I'd start it's own thread. So I ask you this...you're in charge either as POTUS, SECSTATE, ISAF/CC....basically somebody who can set the strategy for Afghanistan. What do you do to fix it? Do you keep the counter-insurgency strategy? Do you go for another military surge? Reconcile with the Taliban but finance them rather than having AQ finance them? Pull out?
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What would be the outcome if a situation similar to this occurred in the modern Air Force? Wayne Hague always wondered whatever happened to the pilot whose crippled plane he refueled and escorted to safety over North Vietnam in 1967. Ron Catton always wondered about that pilot who kept him from having to bail out of his F-4C Phantom fighter and into a suite at the "Hanoi Hilton," the nickname for an infamous North Vietnamese prison. Due to copyright restrictions, to read the story, go to here
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A little humor to start the week...an oldie but a goodie! Cheers! M2
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A couple of days ago we lost Hervey Stockman. Sixty-eight missions flying Mustangs during WWII, one of the first handful of U-2 pilots including the very first flight over the Soviet Union, and later six years as a POW after his Phantom was lost over Vietnam. Salute, Colonel! From the POW Network website (who I'd guess won't mind being quoted...)
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As many as 10,000 airmen could be using smart phones on the job in the next year if the Air Force gets the money to buy them, according to a contractor on the project. Now everyone can have an iPhone to go with their personal 50" LCD. What an enormous waste of tax payer dollars.
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Soldier impersonators target women in web scams Happened to a very close friend two years ago as he was finishing up command downrange. His name was in the papers which led to a scammer stealing and using his identity to solicit money from women around the country. More egregious than the stolen valor issues just don't know if it is receiving any extra attention from law enforcement/legislators.
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Current and former EPs: Have you ever administered a checkride (Q-1), subsequently told the examinee there could be a couple of downgrades, you would have to look something up to determine it. Upon further review you downgrade the examinee on said area. Does this pass the smell test?
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Military's prized "challenge coins" become copycat fad among agencies, politicians, companies
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Found this over on Airwarriors. So I though I'd share. Source: https://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php/155343-Where-have-all-the-Fliers-(or-is-that-Flowers)-gone...long-time-ago Some interesting thoughts on current events. Sent by a retired Air Force F-111 pilot. Where have the Fighter Pilots gone? The Fighter Pilots are sulking in the Ready Room and waiting for the Skipper to return from the Psychiatric Ward and his girly man "Shrink" because he would not take the new "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Jack Wagon" for his wingman or much less in his Squadron! To think that a "Fighter Pilot" could sit in an air conditioned trailer at Nellis AFB during the d…
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