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    First an AT-6...

    in General Discussion

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    So they want to cut down on fighter numbers because their mission in today's war can be fought better by other aircraft (UAVs), but then Schwartz says our current inventory can adequate handle the CAS role in COIN ops. Even though we "dont like" UAVs, we can all agree that a predator cannot fill a CAS/COIN role like a supposed LAAR platform, or our current inventory. What the CSAF says doesn't quite make sense.

    because the trade-off would be less $$$...fighters or not, this will be an AF-funded line item (my guess). Shwartz is owned by others.

    Private Pilot License (PPL) questions

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    Yeah the school that has the Decathlon does checkrides (or has done checkrides) in the tailwheel. Before I left the owner was showing me the wall with all the cut t-shirts and pointed out the ones who did so. They got special recognition because they're special. I want to be special.

    You are so very special my son...

    Private Pilot License (PPL) questions

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    I'm gonna go out on a limb here, seeing that everyone else is being responsible and stuff...

    You want the Super-D man...screw it, if you can die tomorrow in a freak electrocution accident, or have that really nice stripper slit your throat and wipe herself clean with the 1's you just threw at her, by golly you can face plant that Super-D into Terra-Firma after 14 barrel rolls and an uncontrollable, shit-inducing inverted flat spin.

    Time waits for no man my friend. Seize the moment. :rock:

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    Squadron Bars

    in Squadron Bar

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    Well, as far as the Bomber community goes, I can say that we raise some serious hell at the Barkatraz every friday, at least the red tag fellas. Deployments get out of control...fist fights, wrestling matches in the street, stealing base vehicles, loosing base vehicles for a week or so.

    At home, we also add stories to the book, piss people off, fist fight, and sing songs that would make a shoeclerk go mad. The new catholic father on base had the great idea of visiting each squadron at their roll calls (our Friday SQ bar push, others may call it different) to get to know people, and of course, we were extra double-tity vulgar and that did the trick. Apparently he had not heard of our roll calls.

    ...The S&M man, the S&M man, the S&M man makes the hurt feel good makes the hurt feel good...

    Tradition is alive at KBAD, shoeclerks can suck it

    :beer:

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    New Bomber

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    According to BUFF guys I know, the wings on the BUFF move almost 18 feet vertically from full droop to the opposite extreme. I'm not an Aero engineer, but that much flexing in a metal structure over the course of sixty years just can't be good. One day, the wing tips are going to meet in the middle and the AF will have to start revising their long term plans.

    To quote the Commander in Chief "It just isn't sustainable."

    Not likely...

    The Buff is currently at 50% airframe life right now...2040 is the projected retirement solely on the airframe. None of the aircraft have had/needed major airframe upgrades/replqacements inclduing spars and wing structure-there is a reason why they call it the Superfortress, it's built like a freaking tank.

    The wing carries 4 fuel tanks per side and about 50% of our fuel...the rest resides in the midde fueselage. As we use fuel form the wings, we encounter airspeed limitations associated with wing flutter due to the low fuel state. This occurs because Boeing designed the plane as a wet-wing jet, meaning that the wing gains it's strength from the fuel it caries.

    Instead of loading our wings with extra crap, they simplifed the fuel tank system and intregrated it into the aircraft structure. Therefore, the load we apply to the wings under stress is far less than if we had said extra crap in it. Goes back to the whole Force=mass*accel....the less mass, the less force, the less strain.

    New Bomber

    in General Discussion

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    I'll believe it when it actually happens. Right now the fighter mafia is hell bent on making sure their hobbies (flying Mach 2 upside down with their hair on fire) stay intact over what is better for the Air Force and its future. With that kind of resistance, I find it hard to see how it will advance until that mentality is overcome in the upper echelons of leadership.

    Same is true for cyberwarfare

    The best thing that could have happenned to the B-1 (what's left of them of course), the B-2, and the BUFF is the Global Strike. From what I have heard lately, it looks like Barksdale was selcted...good food and hot semi-cajun women work for me.

    Global Strike aka SAC v2.0 will get us the MAJCOM representation bombers need. We aren't fighters and ACC can't understand that or the big-picture strategic use of a single aircraft vs the tactical use of a a shit-ton of pointy-nosers. They mean well, there is just no culture for it in ACC, hence global strike. Flying in Red Flag this week, it's blaringly obvious.

    (Un)cyclopedia definition of "fighter pilot"

    in Squadron Bar

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    So a viper driver following pre-programed steerpoints to drop GPS guided bombs from 30k is not a fighter pilot?

    I say Luke flies an X-Wing, he's a flippin fighter pilot.

    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Wedge_XWingSaga.jpg

    Except for Porkins. He was not a fighter pilot.

    http://www.goingfaster.com/darkthoughts/kfcporkins.jpg

    Cheers!

    - Stuck

    Porkins had a waiver...he was also in finance before he went Undergraduate Space Pilot Training (USPT)

    Flight Scheduling

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Container STS

    As a scheduler and an IE in management, I can tell you that there is no process to anything in scheduling. It is human hand-phucked every 2 seconds by an ADO who thinks he knows scheduling, the OG who has no idea how line squadrons schedule, and a wing commander that wants some left-field procedure from TAC/SAC days implemented because he thinks it can help the line squadrons out. But since the OG doesn't know, we get ass-raped in scheduling.

    Then you have MX who doesn't want to buy the late takeoff/CNX because that affects his production numbers, likewise with the OG, since the wing commander is going to drop a ton of shit on whoever is the worst that week. Then MUNS does not want to CNX because they just uploaded a ton of shit.

    You can't evaluate a process with the amount of human finger-screwing that goes on in scheduling.

    Is she better off not knowing?

    in Squadron Bar

    Posted

    I didn't bother searching the forum before making this thread because I'm pretty positive it hasn't been discussed on here before. Here is a hypothetical for the forum. Lets say you were bored and happened to be browsing an adult website or two in your spare time and came across(sts) a picture that was of a friend of yours. And in this picture your friend is wearing her cheerleading outfit from college and the picture is clearly lifted from an Athletic Association archive or something similar. Sadly said picture does not link to any actual videos or images of the person in question but that is no surprise because, in theory, knowing this girl you would know that such videos probably aren't spread across the internet. And maybe this girl graduated a 2 years ago and you haven't really spoken to herl in about a year or more. Should she be informed or is she better off living life blissfully ignorant that her picture is right next to a topless black chick on a random website on the internet?

    Look, you really need a second opinion on this one...how bad could it be?

    Retiring Eagles, Vipers and Hogs

    in General Discussion

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    ha! what a bunch of bullcrap, unless they are going to up their order of 35's, this is more nonsense! Let's think where US military aviation is heading, buy more king airs, strap guns to our trainer aircraft, and fly a slow fragile predator. I am sure these will work very effectively in a war against Russia, N.K, China, exc. :bohica:

    No, but they will against more asymmetric threats. The question is balance. How much do you trade air superiority assets for force enabler/enhance assets like PC-12's/AT-6B's/UAV's/etc. At what point does one threat become more prevalent causing a transition to meet it?

    As a bomber dude, the best thing to happen to us in the nuclear business is all the crazy crap that went down in the last year. It showed that we were underfunded for YEARS and finally getting some TLC. Obviously, not good for A-A platforms. Fight's/priorities are changing...we were just hard-broke for it.

    FYI I will say that the safest place to be right now are the crit-manned aviation fields like bombers and SOC. With a new Stratofort Sq standing up you may see more B-52 slots than fighters in 38 drops in the near future "oh dread" UPT studs...FTU allocations went up by 2-3 crew slots (including pilots) each class, so that is about 15-20 more pilots per FY than usual.

    On the folks complaining about fighter slots...my 2 cents is that people outside of the American Electric Toy Company (AETC) having 'been there done that' as part of the CAF understand the big picture when everybody checks in with Darkstar. Every asset has a place in the fight shooter or not. AETC and your commissioning source don't give the big picture :M16:

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