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Met Huggy for the first time at Oshkosh today. Here he is enthusiastically holding court and patiently answering all questions from the audience in the dreadful heat. Came back an hour later and was still at it. Great rep for the retiring U-2 program.

The walls are closing in! You got him this time...

I couldn’t even get through half of that recording, cringe is an understatement.

Between the accounts of cops and competitive shooters having discharges in holsters, and the way Sig has handled it. Fuck that gun

Thread revival 20+ years later!! 😁😁 Seagull smashes cockpit of £73m Spanish fighter jet The moment a seagull collided with a Spanish fighter jet and smashed through the cockpit was captured in an extraordinary photograph. The £73m warplane was performing in the Eurofighter display at San Javier Air Base on June 15 when it had a stroke of bad luck. The pilot landed and was unharmed. Aviation photographer Javier Alonso de Medina Salguero unwittingly captured the spectacle, only realizing when he checked his camera later on. Bird collisions with aircraft are a regular occurrence, with 13,000 reported annually in the US alone. But for a bird to shatter a pilot’s glass window, and for a photographer to capture the scene, is exceedingly rare.

If you do international, layovers are long enough to still comply with your double bottle-to-throttle standard. I've stuck with 12 hours and the only problem I've had was when I was reassigned domestically after hitting an Irish Pub in NY and I told the scheduler I wouldn't accept the trip because it is inside my 12 hour rule. Scheduler goes nuts screaming its legal so a Chief pilot calls. He asks if my 12 hour apples to sign in or push. I tell him I'll accept push time and the flight gets slipped. You are right, money is too good to be stupid.

My personal bottle-to-throttle is about double the FOM standard. Just too much money in the pot to call that hand. That said, if I ever do get into widebody international again, I will go full Quaker from CONUS coast-out to clearing US customs. Happy to go hit Oktoberfest or a bottle of wine with dinner up the Italian coast...but only on vacation.

Gay

He had to do one EVM and almost shit his pants. Diarrhea of the mouth ensued.

He's got a pretty bad conspiracy detector, based on the past five years or so

Can you imagine being married to someone for years only to find out via some online viral video that your spouse went to a Cold Play concert? The shame is unimaginable....

Billions of cargo ton-miles flown by 767s every year. OTS systems and parts just lying all around. AF: yeah we want to redesign the tracks and rails. Just cannot get out of their own way.

RJ Capt doing a stream of consciousness debrief to the entire cabin 😬