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From https://www.centennialofflight.gov/essay/Ex...tinger/EX31.htm The next year, Kittinger set two more records, which he still holds. On August 16, 1960, Kittinger surpassed the altitude record set by Major David Simons, who had climbed to 101,516 feet (30,942 meters) in 1957 in his Man-High II balloon. Kittinger floated to 102,800 feet (31,333 meters) in Excelsior III, an open gondola adorned with a paper license plate that his five-year-old son had cut out of a cereal box. Protected against the subzero temperatures by layers of clothes and a pressure suit--he experienced air temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 70 degrees Celsius)--and loaded down with gear that almost doubled his weight, he climbed to his maximum altitude in one hour and 31 minutes even though at 43,000 feet (13,106 meters) he began experiencing severe pain in his right hand caused by a failure in his pressure glove and could have scrubbed the mission. He remained at peak altitude for about 12 minutes; then he stepped out of his gondola into the darkness of space. After falling for 13 seconds, his six-foot (1.8-meter) canopy parachute opened and stabilized his fall, preventing the flat spin that could have killed him. Only four minutes and 36 seconds more were needed to bring him down to about 17,500 feet (5,334 meters) where his regular 28-foot (8.5-meter) parachute opened, allowing him to float the rest of the way to Earth. His descent set another record for the longest parachute freefall.

I can’t believe I have to post this, but let this serve as a reminder, do not even think about posting anything close to the line on this site. 1. Declaring your operational background, then using sites like FAS.ORG as a reference for classification is outright dumb and won’t be tolerated. 2. Sending me (someone you don’t know, who could be sitting in Beijing or Pyongyang for all you know), a PM declaring that you fly XXX and that you have a Top Secret Clearance is perhaps the most egregious lack of SA I have ever seen. YGBFSM!!! Bottomline, this is great site and none of us is perfect, but when it comes to no-shit OPSEC, don’t even think about posting on this site.

???? Initial cadre for the Raptor was exclusively Target Arms... FWIW, my old man was initial cadre in the Eagle and he had over 4,000 hrs in the F-4 before he moved over. I think your old IP is FOS.

I've used the AFI to my benefit and they serve to provide some basic level of support when folks are on the road. However, my opinion changed after an exchange tour and spending time down range. The other services, right or wrong, view us as pu$$ies because we actually take the time to argue about billeting. They will just grab thier sleeping bag and go find a place to stretch out. There is a huge cultural gap that I saw manifest itself downrange on many occasions. If it were up to the Army, we would work their details for 10 hours, sleep 50 to a tent for two hours, then provide 12 hours of continuous CAS. On our side, I actually had an EWO try to declare crew rest for a combat mission because the power kept going off and the AC was out in his tent. In his defense it was 100+ degrees outside and we were trying to sleep during the day. My answer, this is COMBAT and the Bros down range don't have AC and they are COUNTING on us period dot. Is there a difference when it is a support mission dropping off a 50th load of shit paper, of course, but a no shit CAS, Armed Recce, Interdiction mission...YGBSM. If you are objective, it is easy to see both points of view. My uninformed opinion, be wise and use the AFI to your benefit only when it really counts.

I recommend thisairplane for starters. Please avoid this one....ouch.. Maybe someday you can move up to this I actually have this plane and it flies very well.

Now I don't have to feel guilty about the Rum and coke I've had while BBQing and posting on the forum. Sidebar....how cool is it that technology allows us the freedom to sit on our back porch, drink rum, BBQ, AND surf the net. Before you young losers jump on my old ass (STS) for being home on a Friday night, I have a six week old kid who requires I be home on Friday night.

I guess I am biased because my old man flew the Rhino, but the F-4 is one of my all time favorite aircraft.

I have the Kenwood KNA-DV4100 GPS Receiver; Combined with the Kenwood Excelon DDX-8017 in-dash double din car dvd. This setup saved me a multiple times when I was trying to figure out the mess that is Washington DC. I also added the Parrot CK3100 bluetooth hands free cellphone link;

I get the "you are just a C-130 pilot"...or "you fly trash haulers"...I could truly give a rat's a$$ what people say or think. Keep lining up bad guys for me to schwack and you can call my 155,000lb Gunpig whatever the hell you want.

There is actually a joint pub Multi-Service Brevity Codes

The Redhead on the far left looks mad...

We do. We do. I guess I am one of the last dinosaurs, but I think all WUGs should have the opportunity to hand-crank (sts), the numbers. Perhaps that is why the Gunships and Hogs will still be shooting when the EMP bomb goes off.

I resembled that remark...NOT, I only asked the crew if we were on time and if they had called command post.

Jimmy, I am truly sorry no one is willing to answer your question. In reality, they are all wrong…clearly nothing can out turn the AC-130, particularly in a left turning fight.

Your SA is so low you missed the oldest gag in the book....First A. and #2...are you dumb? Your SA is also low because I know Rainman in person...we were instructors at the WIC together, I shook his hand on the ramp at Bagram at rockets were screaming back and forth in the hills, and I fought the bad guys with Bros from his squadron on my wing...you really have zero clue. How about you go eat a bowl of dick and return to reading posts rather than making them.

Nothing like a 12 post SNAP pitching into a fight with low SA. Seriously, a small bit of advice... A. STFU. 2. Egress 270 to the regen point and re-enter nose cold until you know WTF is going on. Semper Fi

Unfortunately, CNN was wrong. Him...Him.

Fox News reporting one of the jets hit a house which is now on fire. CNN reporting that it did NOT hit a house and that the pilot may be a live...lets hope for the best.

Trying to launch out of a forward location on an E-CAS Mission. The ground controller treis to tell me to hold position so he can recover and park a C-17 on a 20 mile final. I respond "Negative, we are on a real world mission", the C-17 never even lets the controller respond when they answer, "We are real world too"....YGBFSM!

I recall one WS callsign night when I determined walking in the front door of the club that one of the WUGs would leave with the callsign "Gherkin". At my old age it was a bit of a feat to drink a shot with each nomination, but I did manage to nominate every single WUG with the callsign Gherkin...and it finally stuck to one. He reminded me how much he hates me for that at dinner this past Saturday night.

Actually, Elroy, it would be orbital mechanics vice "astro".

Please see diagram above your post…Sirius does not use geosynchronous satellites. The Sirius satellite orbits are radically tilted and they travel at the same 17,500 miles per hour that the XM satellites do, but their paths take them as close as 15,700 miles over the backside of the earth to as much as 28,000 miles high when the satellites are over the USA. This type of orbit is a 24-hour orbit that keeps two satellites over the U.S. at all times. It's the same type of orbit once used by Russian satellites to spy on the U.S. The reason Sirius decided to use this type of orbit was to increase signal strength at odd angles (optimized for cars) and to limit the number of expensive repeaters. Not true…The final deal has yet to be approved and Mel Karmazin testified that there will be multiple price options, but if you want all the channels from both, you would likely pay more. I’ve had both…still do now that I think about it…my wife’s Acura has it built in and she likes XM. I have Sirius for Howard Stern which I record and transfer to my IPOD. I can and do stream both and hook them into the whole home sound system. The only draw back is I can’t stream at work as the Hurlburt Comm Nazis are the worst in the Air Force. I actually had a webpage blocked the other day because it was an “educational reference”…UFB!

CH's new favorite phrase..."Galactic Game".

It is VITAL for you guys to understand the while for educational data (Masters) is still masked, it is only....repeat only masked to the promotion board. Your senior rater still has access to that data and may well use it to determine who gets a P or DP. It's been said 69,000 times on here, get your Masters.

Now this is my kind of thread...