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Truth. I gave an I-ride to a crew chief, briefed him exactly what we were going to do and he was gung ho and normal as shit for the whole experience........ Riiiiiiiiiight up to about 5 seconds after brake release. Full AB and off the ground shortly after that, 5-bills at the end of the runway and into the vertical. He's hyperventilating for the acceleration which didn't seem that abnormal. At the start of the pull up he starts "ohhhhhhhhh" and then as we're vertical he says, "Sir, I want to go back." I level off at 10K and offered to just be an airliner and we could do some sight seeing and take it easy. He just kept repeating that he wanted to go back in a scary, panicked way. I started to get pretty concerned he was going to do something crazy, so I told him to put his hands under his thighs, don't touch anything and I'll have us back on the ground in 5 minutes. Should have done a straight-in but I wanted to get down fast. He almost lost it when it put some G on the aircraft in the pitch out. I figured out he no likey the Gs. Not an experience I'd care to repeat. Absolutely no fun having a panicked human trapped in your back seat with access to some fairly "reactive" handles and actuators. 0.1 KPAM-KPAM 🙃

Blue Angels epically trolled the nitwit in Cali who is suing them.

I didn't think it was humanly possible to type with a lisp.

This is how beer goggles work.

I went over to Warbirds Registration, and signed up our Deuce for warbird judging. We did pretty well! JUDGES CHOICE ACTIVE MILITARY RECONNAISSANCE Hahaha!! Hail Dragons!

Years ago, ended up at Shaw to build an A/OA-10 squadron with 17-ish Lt.s converting from the OV-10. These guys are fired up, fangs out, and ready to learn. Friday night at the club and Lt. Gen Horner, 9AF/CC, shows up with his entourage of flunkies and hangers-on and they sit at a giant round table in the corner of the bar. I noticed Horner had his hat hanging dangerously halfway out of his leg pocket. I grabbed one of the young lieutenants by the collar, pointed at Horners hat, and told him his mission was to put that hat on the bar. He throws himself on the floor and commences to low crawl towards the 3 star and remains unobserved as he picks the hat from the pocket. He successfully egresses with the hat then heads to bar depositing the hat and ringing the bell. An announcement is made asking "Is there any 3 star missing their hat? Please see the bartender.". Horner sends a minion thus scoring negative points with those in attendance. I'll add the Gen. Fogleman had his hat polyurethaned in the A-10 squadron bar at Osan and would show up on Friday night to buy a round.

Absolutely bad ass, look at Putin flinch! Can you imagine Kamala attempting this? Power move.

Democratic whistleblower told FBI that Adam Schiff approved classified leaks to target Trump That boys and girls is a violation of the Espionage Act.

I was at KPAE today and saw the newest KC-46 doing touch and goes, plane comes around high and fast, absolutely plants the mains, bounces the nose and goes around. Young kid around 10 or so runs over to his dad and says "Dad, that was a military grade touch and go". This has to be the best term I've heard for a terrible approach and crappy landing.

1 Aug 1955... 70 years ago today... A team of folks was on a secret lakebed with a new, unflown airplane. The pilot, Tony Levier, was going to do the first round of taxi tests. After a 2+ mile taxi run with speeds up to 55 mph, Tony turned around and headed back south for another run. Accelerating to 80 mph in about 1/4 mile, he pulled the power to idle... only to realize he was airborne! Because of the featureless lakebed, he wasn't sure of his height, and came down hard from about 35 feet, left wing low, then bounced back again. Finally getting back in control, he got the plane stopped, with the main wheels on fire. And that, ladies and gentlemen, marked the first flight for the U-2... on Groom Lake, later named Area 51. By 18 October, they were flying the aircraft in excess of 70,000 feet. Ironically, 22 years later to the day... 1 Aug 1977... Francis Gary Powers died in a helicopter mishap. Hail Dragons.

the same flag officers who lost two wars in the last 20 years? the same flag officers who claimed victory in afghanistan is "right around the corner!"? good riddance. show me any strategic success these generals have championed...GTFO

I can only infer that you're making reference to his irresponsible use of unsecure messaging apps to communicate secret information. Of course that should be punished / not tolerated. And here is me, a guy on the right, plainly saying so. Whether or not that deserves prison is a whole different discussion though. Probably boils down to intent. The difference between what he did (irresponsible) and what Schiff attempted to do is a universe of difference though. If you can't see objectively see that, you're beyond redemption. Now, if you can look at what Schiff has done and say, yeah, that amounts to attempting to illegitimately undermine the president of the US and that is wrong and should be severely punished, then there's probably hope for you. If all you can do though is point at Pete Hegseth, and go "what about this guy?" then I got nothing for you.

By this point you have to be a clown to believe that the news is accurate, especially when it deals with something as nuanced as Air Force separations. If they applied for Tera and were approved, then after the fact had their approval denied because of their transgenderism, that's bullshit. If they applied for Tera and were denied, and there is not currently a blanket approval process in place for Tera, then they are just what, angry they aren't getting the money? If they waited to apply for Tera until after they found out they were going to be separated due to their transgenderism, then I'm not sure what the issue here is. Tera is a voluntary program meant to incentivize people to leave of their own accord, correct? Waiting until the military decides you will no longer be serving not the intent of the program. Does anybody really believe that the news is going to get that right, or that the transgender people getting kicked out are going to fairly represent that in the media? Seems unlikely.

Something like this: Half a wing (like the non pilot Brits) and a giant rocket.

One step closer to my longed-for perp walks... https://www.wral.com/story/attorney-general-bondi-orders-prosecutors-to-start-grand-jury-probe-into-obama-officials-over-russia-investigation/22107863/

@slc A visual depiction is easier sometimes…

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TDS truly is a mental illness

My current hat has 3 holes, dirt/sweat stains, most of the silver “braid” is gone - as God intended.

It's been a few years since I instructed in the T-38 but the guys with flying experience, including WSOs (usually #1 in their class) but not Navs, did better than those with no flying experience. More flying hours in anything is better than no hours. No matter whatever you end up doing, once you get to UPT, how you did things that one time in band camp is irrelevant and annoying. Listen more, talk less.

I guess we figured out where Rainman went.

Baro alt variations amongst the fleet in that airspace is very interesting. This accident was going to happen no matter who was piloting at some point if it was allowed to continue.

If only there was a program in South Texas that explicitly trained low level navigation, basic herbivore formation, drop zone and crew coordination, and instrument flying in a multi-engine turboprop. Man that'd be perfect.

It is an interesting juxtaposition between power and morality. Throughout history a great many men of power have drifted from the defined morale standard. We focus on Kennedy, Clinton and MLK and forget the ones we hold as heroes. Eisenhower had a long affair with Kay Summersby and no one says a word. Robin Olds, a hero on this forum was having an affair with his secretary while a sitting Wing/CC in Vietnam. You are correct, popularity seems to outweigh transgressions.

“Hey Vlad check out my Raptors… they don’t have drywall screws in their wings.” There was more 5th generation air power on that Ramp and in the Air over that exchange than in Putin’s entire Air Force and he knows it. This was a reminder that not every NATO entity is full of smoke, maybe rethink the way you looking at Latvia and Estonia. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Two WSO's in my class finished #1 & #2. #1, Roger Locher, had 3 Mig kills as a WSO. Couple classes after me DeBellevue, the WSO MIG Ace after washing out of UPT initially, came back to UPT and ended up flying fighters. After flying LL missions with any extra fuel I usually gave the stick to the WSO. On a 10 hr deployment from TX to Germany my WSO flew at least a quarter of the flight.

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Gents and Ladies Today was submission day. Good luck to everyone and looking forward to results!!

Completely unsat. The Signal crap should have been enough but this is WAY over the line. And before my fellow GOPers get your panties in a wad, we wanted Swalwell to resign after falling into the Fang Fang honey trap. And, recall the statements the right made when Obama associated with Reverend Wright and all of his nonsense. If we say everyone should be held to the same standard, lets do it. Hegseth should resign.

Write ups: "Rear ejection seat - Ops check good" "Canopy scratched and will not close properly."

I know incentive riders can do wacky things and I have no idea what happened in this case... but you're fucking up if you don't put the fear of god in them regarding the ejection handles and the seat in general. I don't care how much egress training they got, every incentive rider I ever flew with got another cockpit fam brief from me and I personally helped them strap in.

Does he get a watch and scarf?

Counting illegals is not really an error or mistake if you’re looking to get them on the voter rolls. Sounds like they did a bang up job.

He also fired the head of statistics at Labor...Not sure if that person was confirmed or not. Reading how the stats have been "revised" ...criminy there is nonsense at every level of the government. Watched special on the last census, the mistakes are unreal and shockingly gave the DNC more seats in 12 out of 14 cases.

These people are caught in the middle of a political fight. TERA was there and offered for ALL 15-18 years as a force shaping tool. DoD changed the policy on their service AND took TERA away, this punitive and we are better than this. I, like Biff I don't understand transgender and I tend to believe there is more disruption from their service than there is good. That being said, we don't have to rub salt in the wound as we push them out there door.

Now we know who’s been going to wnba games

We did it fine before without issues. And the C-130 is a tactical airlifter, it sucks st strat. We fly 2 tac locals a week to get good at it because we really exist for the front line resupply efforts to get as close as possible to the action within reason. if you are going to make us an airland only C-17, then why do we exist? Just get rid of us. Save some money. Landing a C-130 isn’t hard. Landing a C-130 with half the pilot training time, a nine month wait on the flight line at the school house, then a multi month wait at your first unit as a new Lt is hard. And now you’ll barely do it as a copilot, get upgraded to AC and then have to do it for real with limited reps and a copilot that’s never done it.

This forum needs a TDS button.

Attention all radios this net: Russia is gay.

As demonstrated yesterday we can fly plenty long on one tank of gas!

RegularJoe for the win. Wish I’d thought to get a pic w Huggy!

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You lost me, what's that in freedom units?