Whitman

Here's a toast RIP Brothers

T-34C is still going strong after 35 years. Great trainer!

2000 Celica GTS, 6 speed And the Beater truck for hunting and pulling the ski boat The one-two combo works out quite well. After killing a 6pt last year with my bow and having no where to put it except the trunk, I vowed to never do that to my car again (although it was in a sealed body bag, don't ask). Now if I could just get those turkeys to gobble!!!

No kidding. Why the F-35 only has 1 engine, I don't understand. The F-16 has double the Class A rate of any other fighter. I wonder why? At $122M per copy, cost obviously isn't the reason and it should have two engines.

You asked for it...... Some "informal" formation with a buddy from college a while back. C-182 vs 35-Bonanza.

In local news, Baseops.net users are down 69%!

It's the WIC, what do you expect?

Really? Tell that to the Gunship guys.

I heard Cannon used to be a remote but they moved the gate a mile further out to get the base within X amount of miles of the nearest big city to avoid the remote title. Any truth to that? Who's the dirty politician behind all of this?

Glad to hear the pilots made it out and are safe At $1.2B a piece, I wouldn't imagine we can afford to lose too many B-2's. Anyone know how many have gone down over its lifespan?

Or, if your pistol doesn't have a rail, you can just use a tactical flashlight, place the flashlight in your left hand, gun in your right, and cross right over left and have a pretty good night setup for self defense. Works especially well for clearing rooms when you come home and your apartment is the only one with the power out in the whole building and you think somebody is waiting for you on the inside. Not that its happened before! I hear tritium night sights work quite well in the dark. When I buy my Sig or XD .40 cal with my tax return or rebate, they'll have these sights on them.

I think that about sums it up.

Anyone have any quick math equations they use in the cockpit like the ones below? 1) Degrees off nose + 20 = crosswing percentage Example: 40kt wind 30deg off nose = 20kt crosswind component 2) Ground Speed / 2, add a zero = 3 degree descent rate Example: 120kt / 2 = 600 fpm vsi 3) 50% of wind gust = Addition to final approach speed Example: Winds gusting 20 = add 10kts to final speed 4) Add 2 subtract 2 rule for reciprocal headings and runways Example: 327 recip = 147. If add 2 to first number, subtract 2 to second number. 1st number is always opposite 2nd number. Third number is unchanged.

What about Eli? I've never seen him move like that in the pocket on that play. He made a very athletic move and set himself up for a great pass. Everyone counted him out this year and especially for the playoffs. He played mistake-free football in the last few weeks and that's why they're champs. FWIW, this all coming from a die-hard Cowboys fan.

HAHA! No kidding M2. Looks like we need to open up a travel sub forum now!

Another thing to consider is, on first assignment, only married personnel are authorized DLA. That's relatively new. So if you get married before EAD, that's an extra 1800 bucks.

"2". Used it last year and it worked great. You can even add investments which I think TT free version doesn't allow. https://www.taxslayer.com/military/default.aspx

https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22651166/ Pilot error cited in 2007 Blue Angel crash 'Real aggressive turn' appeared to cause disorientation Jan. 14, 2008 PENSACOLA, Fla. - A Navy Blue Angels pilot killed in a crash in a residential area last year apparently had become disoriented after failing to properly tense his abdominal muscles to counter the gravitational forces of a high-speed turn, The Associated Press has learned. A report obtained by The Associated Press blamed the April crash on an error by Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Davis, who died when his F/A 18 Hornet went down near a Marine Corps station in Beaufort, S.C. Davis was in his first season flying in formation with the Navy's elite aerial demonstration team. "In his final turn to attempt to rendezvous with the other Blues, he put a very fast, high-G turn on the aircraft. A real aggressive turn," Capt. Jack Hanzlik, a Navy spokesman and former aviator, told the AP on Monday. Davis' parents were watching the team perform. An investigator reviewing flight data found that as the turn subjected Davis to six times the force of gravity, a temporary decrease in blood flow to his brain likely caused him to experience tunnel vision and become disoriented, the report found. However, Davis worked to regain control of the plane, "and in the last few seconds he may have been aware of his low altitude and was attempting to save the aircraft," said the report by Marine Lt. Col. Javier J. Ball. The AP obtained the report as the result of Freedom of Information Act request. "Kevin had performed these maneuvers in training and in the fleet. He had done them in similar situations and he had a history of performing them well without any problems," Hanzlik said The Pensacola-based Blue Angels fly without the G-suits that most fighter pilots wear to avoid blacking out during such maneuvers. The suits inflate and deflate air bladders around the lower body to force blood to the brain and heart. However, the air bladders can cause a pilot to bump the control stick, so the Blue Angels instead learn to manage the forces by tensing their abdominal muscles. The crash at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort was the Blue Angels' first since 1999 and the 26th fatality in the team's 60-year history. Because of the crash, the Navy has increased its exercise requirements for Blue Angels pilots with an additional focus on abdominal muscles. The team has also stepped up its requirements for centrifuge training tailored for Blue Angels pilots. Eight people on the ground were injured and some homes were damaged when the plane crashed in a residential area about 35 miles northwest of Hilton Head Island, S.C. The pilot's family said through the Navy that they did not want to comment on the report.

Reminds me of Jerry Seinfeld's standup. "Short heavy set woman up front with skin tight uniform, that's your first line of defense. You want the pants so tight the flap in front of the zipper has pulled itself open, you can see those metal tangs hanging on for dear life!" "Then you got this genius sitting at X-ray security, this einstein has chosen to sit in front of an x-rays for 14hrs a day. I've looked in that thing and I can't make out one object. He's standing there........what is that a hair dryer with a scope on it? Ya, I'm good with that. Some sort of bowling ball with a candle on it, keep it coming, don't wanna hold up the line." https://youtube.com/watch?v=qY5AVBSjTAQ Seinfeld sums up airport security and life pretty well, as usual.

Just make sure you don't let the enlisted flyers give you too much crap for wearing a flight suit on casual. It was funny at first but the "you don't have wings and shouldn't wear a flight suit" argument got old. I was always too disinterested to look up the reg and decided that if they wanted to push the issue they could talk to my boss about it. BTW, Whiting guys wear BDU's on casual.

Yet another reason NOT to train with the Navy for phase I and II.

That's some good stuff!