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When a judge struck down the justification for masks on airplanes, no ensuing additional wave of illness ravaged the country as was predicted by “experts.” This anecdote alone is proof that we must terminate all COVID-19 related health mandates. It’s time for them all to go. I can’t believe we are still wearing masks in the clinic on base, utter foolishness.

Hell yea! Tilt rotor Raptor's would be tits. 🤣

Masks have become the progressives' MAGA hat.

Ain't got time for the border though.

I think that’s the one positive thing that’s come out of this disaster. Talking to friends from all over the work spectrum, it seems like this old line of thinking is changing. I don’t give a shit if someone chooses to wear a mask, but I honestly will still think you’re a complete idiot when I see your mask around your chin talking to a stranger 2 ft from your face, or when I see you rip your mask off as you leave the plane, only to see you standing nuts to butt in the Jamba Juice line without it. Those people are just virtue signaling douchebags who can’t let go, and I don’t feel bad about thinking that.

Well, it's time for a new round of Uncle Joe in public... You know what he's saying, right? - If you have to ask, then you don't know.

TBH I think wearing mask in a clinic actually makes since and probably should stick. Not just COVID, but really healthcare facilities are places sick people conjugate. Mask are effective with some types of illness. I would like to see our culture change a bit where people do start wearing mask when they have the sniffles and work centers become more tolerant of sick leave. I'm tired of this societal nonsense that you should tough it out when you're sick and go to work spewing snot everywhere. Not talking military here but mainstream society. Everywhere else though.... Yeah get rid of it.

Wow. There’s common sense left in this country. That a pandemic of the vaccinated might no longer be forced upon the fighting men and women is a huge win.

Not an Osprey guy so all my info is second hand/comes from a very experienced-22 guy I worked with at Kirtland. His opinion was only rotating the prop and not the entire engine nacelle would be very beneficial. I believe there’s an ongoing mod program to fix the IR center body issues but could be wrong about that. I always viewed the Osprey the in the same vein as the early helicopters or maybe some of the century series fighters, first of their kind, pushing the technical/engineering envelope, still figuring things out. My buddy referenced above said there were a lot of issues with the aircraft that only manifested themselves after the aircraft was in production/already in the fleet and the number of available spares for the parts that ended up commonly failing were low. Honestly hope that the industry takes all the lessons learned from the -22 program and incorporates them into the -280.

“Twitter using its power to silence misinformation is ok…. They are a private company entitled to treat the discourse on their platform to what they decide is truthful and fair…” *person with non liberal slant purchases twitter and even hints at changing the status quo* Facism! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Badass.

Everyone: "Nothing is new in Hollywood anymore. All they do is reboots and comic book movies." Elizabeth Banks: "Hold my beer...."

Lol, always looking for a good reason to get fired!

We’ve always maintained that capability through crypto. We did the same with partner nations during the GWOT exercised use of GPS guided munitions. Yeah we gave them to the nation for their inventory, but we held back the SKL with the codes that make it useful for a level of control. Doing so puts our say so directly into their targeting cycle. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

You guys are missing the most important win for the Army with this procurement…. In picking an aircraft like the V-22 we game the system on how it’s hours count to getting an airline job, substantially solving the man power problem we are facing with the current loss of personnel to RTP. Winning…. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

CC Call from Dec Drill: “if any of you pussies go through dry or go around, I will have your ass (sts)!” - SocialD

Just fairly smooth level acceleration, it's no aircraft carrier catapult but it's respectable.

I find Juan Brown is usually at least respectful. Dan Gryder is condescending and exceedingly full of himself.

I don't see how that would be anything other than a handout for sikorsky/Boeing honestly. Have there been any other procurement programs that ended in a split buy? I can't think of any examples. The defiant concept quite possibly doesn't work at all like it's advertised to. It's very likely plagued with unsolvable vibration and fuel consumption issues, plus it can't actually achieve the agility they keep touting due to the risk of blades intermeshing. It's literally worse in every performance metric and probably would have led to several years of delays and problems like every other Boeing program lately.

The US Army has something like 2,100 Blackhawks, so I assume V-280 Valor buy will eventually be somewhere in that neighborhood. And obviously more opportunities to replace Air Force and Navy Blackhawk variants down the road, USMC H-1s / V-22s, etc. I don't like the "Winner take all" approach of these competitions. Proponents talk about "economies of scale," and the like, but there is never a focus on the benefits of a split buy. Keeping competition in the industrial base, for one. Along with protecting yourself from any technical/reliability issue grounding your entire fleet. I would have liked to see the US Army do a split buy between the Valor and the Sikorsky-Boeing Defiant-X.

The only way you fix trust is more government intervention. Lol Break, Break The new cool thing to do is bash Twitter, quit said media platform and then rejoin it when you figure out that no one cares that you quit. I guess we'll have to censor it. Good job. I'm glad our government is on top of more censorship. Meanwhile, I just watched another homeless man shit where we're supposed to walk. Good job Mr. President! Support free speech! Unless I don't agree, then it's too dangerous.

Sounds like they took reasonable precautions to avoid injury or damage to persons or property.

That's not going to go well once the FAA gets involved.

I can't say for certain as I'm not directly involved with the program, but I'd have to assume they learned a lot from the 700,000 flight hours on the Osprey.

Maybe they'll declare war on Ukraine? I don't understand the thought process that Ukraine somehow should have their hands tied about what targets they can strike. I get that the rest of the world doesn't want to the war to bring other countries in, but Russia invaded and all of Russia's targets have been in Ukraine. Why should Ukraine be held back from striking Russia? With how much Russia is struggling against Ukraine, I don't imagine Putin wants the war to widen either. The interesting thing to think about if these are drone strikes; does Ukraine now have drones capable of reaching that long range of a target or are there Ukrainian SOF units inside Russia?

We were doing a lot of cargo only flights during the COVID debacle and the topic of cargo vs pax came up often. The general consensus was it doesn't suck. No pax and no flight attendants made for very peaceful and quiet flights.

I love the number of PA announcements my brown boxes require.

Communicate - navigate - aviate…duh.

Years ago flying the Stupid-80 into LGA and I was following some corporate type on the Expressway arrival. Tower asks, "American 69, you have a corporate doofus way long turning final so don't turn final until you seem him." We pick him up and turn final with LGA standard min spacing. On short final we hear "CORPORATE DOOFUS, WHAT ARE YOU DOING??..... YOU CAN'T STOP ON THE RUNWAY!!!"...."American 69, go around" CA immediately goes heads down MAKING A PA while I employ single man rules for the go around. About the time I'm abeam the runway after flying the Expressway arrival again, the CA rejoins the conversation in the cockpit and asks, "Where are we?" I do not miss domestic flying.

I'll answer this a different way. I hated everything about active duty. I loved every job. Its a bit psychotic but that's what it was. I loved being a student, and I hated formal release. Hated being a flight commander, and I found it rewarding to lead a few people. Loved the schools. ACSC was a dream - many of you haters have been mislead. School was out by 11 and on the golf course. Loved SAMS that came next. One of the best experiences I've had in the military. Hated DO. Worked for a shitty boss. Loved/hated squadron command. But one of the other best experiences I had in the military. Hated the system. Absolutely hated it. It drove me out. To me the system turned out to be not what I described what I loved above. It became all about PC, get the metrics green even if you have to blatantly lie, the mission isn't really what we're focused on right now, etc. Drove me the out.

What a collossal bucket of America's response to covid turned out to be. Stores emptied. Stores closed. Goya beans the only thing available on the grocery store shelf. Ammo shortage. Gun prices through the roof. Vaccine touted as "just get on board, it will make this all go away." "Wear your mask. Social distance." I realize a lot of you didn't see it because you can't, but a shitload of people didn't get the vaccine, and those that did well, that didn't really stop the spread. A shitload of people either didn't wear a mask or half assed it. And a shitload of people didn't social distance. If any of you went to the coast during memorial day or the 4th in 2020, 21 and 22 you can attest. So at the end of the day zero point zero of that shit had any effect. Good god there are a shitload of brainwashed idiots in America.

Like maybe steer clear of composite airframes? I hear they don't handle bullets very well. Just ask Rooster 73, 74, and 75.