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I have recently gotten into digital aviation art, and I was completely floored when I went to this site. The detail was so amazing, like you're actually in the fight with these prints versus canvas and brush....check it out.... http://www.aviation-arthouse.com/gallery.php?gid=52 My favorites... watermark4.php

ROFL I can see it now a bunch of rich ass F*%@ks seeing Lt Napoleon as the poster boy for the proper recovery of a government jet....BOW TO YOUR SENSEI!!! On a side note, stand-ups were partially useless for EP training. It was a waste of time if you wanted to instill some Airmanship in somebody. What was a lot more effective was to get into the sim and get your ass thrown into some hairy shit... Rudder hardovers...SELOT...electric out @ night...structural damage.... We had 2 EP sims in 38's and thought it was marginal for some real skills to survive. So if you use some stand-up footage LJ, I would also caution and espouse that this is the PRIMARY means of training dudes to recover jets! More EP sims Big Blue!...they're fun too....

Just remember, if the CSAF expressed how he really felt about the -ness of everything, do you really think he would have made 4 stars? How do you eat this shit up top and not question your own stupidity? You gotta sell part of your soul to get above colonel with this shit. And it's not that we have to wear blues that pisses most of us off, it's that the FNG leadership feels the need to place 1st priority on prerogatives & issues that have nothing to do with meeting the threats of the fight. Good day sir

I do agree on a number of your points, for example the requirements to get that CFI rating - it should be the same as any other dude of the street. The FAA is considering extending CFI ratings to Mil IP's, but obviously they need to get their FAA equivalency just like when we go take our MEI/COM test post-UPT (most do), but...... I flew before the Air Force and I still fly GA. We don't get our ATP for free. My compelling thought is that we earned it. You earned your wings too, but this isn't the 30's and we aren't flying Pan American Clippers across the Atlantic and Pacific. The age of the Nav telling the pilot/pilot(s) where to go is at an end. We have GPS and are trained to do it on our own. As a consolation, pilots are also on the way out but you need to give it 30 years and we will start bitching also. So what? He should have evaluated his options...he knows what he got himself into, he knew the risks and sacrifices, and if he can't deal with it oh well. A lot of us were that dude at XYZ job and said "F* This!"...working your ass for crap pay as a right seater for a regional for years was not in their cards. Now I am not one of those dudes, but I know tons of them. Everybody has their way into aviation and I have heard some incredible stories and journeys, but I wanted to be a combat pilot and I made it happen. I knew the risks, I knew my chances, and I expected them. Dudes @ XYZ should be mature and realistic adults. Further, the dude working at XYZ needs to be better than the other dude, rich, or network with the big wigs and upgrade to a niche fly job, or start banging a starlet in the back of her Falcon while right seat beats off to the soundtrack, but I don't loose sleep over the kid @ XYZ. If I can help him I will, but I chose my path to the seat and he chose his/hers. Suck it up or quit...that or innovate your niche to get somehwhere other than XYZ. Sorry, but this is not the 30's and you are out of a job...GPS bud - and FYI we have to take tests too for equivalency. You're a PIC man, which means you are also the Nav. It's a good ol' boys community and Nav's were an integral part of it back when they were needed, like I said, the career field is on the way to major reductions even to non-existence. As a bomber dude, we once were integral to the national command/leadership structure...as you may have noted over the past few incidents, we have zero representation up top so we often get the shaft. It's extinction and leadership by exemption, so don't feel too bad. Sorry, but I really don't care about Johnny. I love aviation and the great people in it, but I am not giving handouts because I worked my ass off. He will work for it or grow or quit. FYI if a MIL dude is hopping in a twin and hasn't flown it in a while, what an idiot to instruct. It's never just a rating man, it's our wings (and yours). Safe...you bet your ass. Fair?.....sticking it to the corporate a-holes who hire regional dudes for slave-wages. I will thank sweet baby Jesus if I do private sector flying in the future for not having been a tool to those crooks. Many do not have that luxury. Semi-flamed. I feel ya bro, but I heard this pilot's Air Force crap before and it's not my fault some dick AC or Flight Lead or FUF was a shaft-polisher. I respect all crewdogs and GIB's!!!

Hell yes!

For GA, I have an out with every single runway at home plate. When I get to an outfield, I pick them out. Every flight, I climb out at Vx to get the most altitude in the least horizontal distance from the runway end. Vy conversely gives you the best rate (FPM), but at a higher speed and that drives me farther away horizontally from the runway...you have more smash but if you have no wind SA this farther opition can make a normal landing impossible. IE. a Vy of 75Kts drives 1.25 NM in a min vs say a Vx of 65Kts drives you 1.08 NM in a min - delta of about 800'/min horizontal distance). @ Vx 800-ish VVI I get to my target safe altitude of 1000' in 1 min 15 secs using Vx, but if I drove out at Vy I would be at max power for less time (about 1000 VVI & better for that crit engine bolt that's about to break-off) but farther away with more smash, again, and on a bad day, more wind to deal with. choices...

I have half ownership in a Piper Cherokee 140...great little low wing that cuts your travel time in half for about 30-50% more than what it would cost to drive. I pay 130$ for my half, 400/yr for insurance, 600$ every year for my half of the annual, and we have an 87 Octane STC so we can use pump gas for the long hauls out of home plate so we don't get ripped 1.50 extra a gallon using 100LL at outfields. I go flying with the bro's and split it, and if I get my CFI, help them get an affordable license and breakeven with it. An airplane for me as an O-2 would be unfordable alone...I recommend that anybody's first airplane be split first with SOMEONE YOU CAN TRUST! Make it affordable. Also, NEVER EVER buy a jet without an A&P mechanic inspection - you will get screwed in a way not easily undone. See below....I hit up the grass strips on the weekend, fly to Dallas and grab a bite, fly to national parks with runways in their area (most are in), go camping at remote locations/specific communities for it....a blast! Getting it repainted soon, sell it in a year, next....a Long EZ 200 MPH @ 8 GPH. Make it work.

Isn't it nice to know that your future is somebody's OPR bullet? Hilarious....ants in a ant farm

Mechanical like the rudder hard-overs that happened a while back?

74 Camaro?

Here they are....had them buried in between my BangBus and German porn egg.bmp I made the shirts a while back but their all but gone now

Wow this guy was an ass! I heard mumblings but never this stuff....good thread!

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They definitely can get a masters and SOS done in there...what a bunch of F(*CK$

I remember drinking with BW at Noble Savage after KBAD passed the NSI. I can't begin to tell those who don't know the nuclear business that he was one of the few who single-handedly averted having 1/3 of the Triad go down - not on his watch as acting commander. He had so much pride for his squadron and job. The rest of the memories are mine.

...flying today @ KBAD

Blue skies and tailwinds Fireball... KUAM News Wednesday, May 02, 2007 Andersen Air Force Base is comprised of many rotational forces, one of which has just recently arrived on island. USAF Major Chris Cooper is a pilot in the 96th Expeditionary Bomber Squadron from Barksdale AFB in Lousiana. They're on Guam on a rotational basis as part of Andersen's continuous bomber presence, with the type of bomber Cooper flies being the classic, indispensable B-52. This historic piece of U.S. military history is an old model that Cooper says is extremely well designed. It has to be - the plane itself weighs about 200,000 pounds when it's empty and 488,000 thousand pounds at full capacity. "This is a combat aircraft obviously and we use it in combat as a heavy bomber it's been to Iraq, it's been to Afganistan, it's been everywhere," Cooper explained. To get this heavy bomber off the ground it relies on its 185-foot wingspan that is capable of flexing up to 16 feet at the wingtip. "It's a wetwing," Cooper explained, saying that such devices store a lot of fuel in the wing. These wings have fuel bladders that enable the bomber to carry up to 100,000 pounds of fuel. The plane needs this fuel to power these gas guzzling engines. Said Cooper, "We have...a grand total of 134,000 pounds of thrust, so this plane can really move." The bomber of course is equipped with bombs one of the more common of these bombs is the joint directed attack munition (JDAM). It's a 2,000-pound, GPS-guided bomb. But don't let the naming of the aircraft fool you - it's also capable of carrying missiles. "Right now, we're the only airplane that can carry the conventional air launch cruise missile," he continued. Cooper says firepower aside, the B-52s make for a safe, stable airplane that is well designed to deal with emergency procedures. In fact, with eight engines Cooper says this plane is capable of flying if one goes down. Aside from being able to fly such an important and powerful hunk of metal, Cooper says he's thrilled to be on Guam and happy about all the support he's received from the community. WNYF News Tuesday, July 22, 2008 The Massena community is mourning one of its own - a decorated Afghanistan and Iraq veteran killed when the B-52 bomber he was piloting crashed into the Pacific Ocean near Guam on Monday. Air Force Major Christopher Cooper graduated from Massena Central School in 1992. Cooper’s body and that of another crew member were recovered Monday while the search goes on for four other members of the crew. The unarmed bomber had been headed for a flyover in a parade celebrating the liberation of Guam from Japan. Cooper was the son of longtime Alcoa spokesman Mike Cooper, who spent 16 years at Alcoa’s Massena operations. “He was doing what he wanted to do in life and he was proud of it and we were proud of him,” said Mike Cooper. Cooper, an 11 year veteran of the Air Force, would have celebrated his 34th birthday on August 10. Retired Massena High School English teacher Lee Baines remembers Christopher Cooper not only as a family-oriented student, but also as playing an active role in the school’s drama club and musical theater programs. “When I think about Chris, I think about family, his late mother, his brother Tim and his father Mike. Chris had many talents. He always knew he was going to be a pilot and he always knew he was going to go into the military,” said Baines. A memorial service for Major Cooper and other members of the bomber crew is being planned at Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana but arrangements are incomplete. Meanwhile, Cooper’s brother, Tim, is encouraging people to send memories, pictures and stories involving Chris to this email address: rememberingchris@gmail.com “I would simply ask folks to be respectful as it is for our family to view. Eventually we will try to setup a website with pics and stories and such for everyone to view,” Chris wrote in an email.

Red Devils and Bucs a toast...a great dude to those who know him... Him Him

I'm shocked...my bros are all out there, and 2 of 6 isn't good enough...

In the last assignment cycle, we had 2 -38's and 1 -6 from bombers...it happens, but most bomber guys get ALO'd for an ALFA because we are a smaller community (sometimes...)

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Stayed at Houston Hobby for about 5 hours the other day...all leather seating, 4 computers with wireless all-around, 3 X-box's on flat-screens, 1 big screen plasma, free non-alco drinks, reading area. Nicest one I have seen so far, class act. Located below the southwest terminal area, 1st floor.

The French got it because they have capped-off their leaders and openly overthrown their political systems for centuries. They also rolled over to the Nazi's politically in WWII as a matter of convenience in individual self-survival rather than in the nation-state survival. American's will never accept a Russian tank rolling down Flat Bush Avenue but the French will if they can keep their Bistro's open. Therefore, I don't think French have a backbone - I don't think they get the integrity your allotting them on the basis of what they are doing is going to be productive. They are looking out for Pepe` Le`Pu. And the US is not like France ATT ALL. Our per capita camel-jockey to all other demographics in the US does not compare to the French. I also don't see Muslims going apeshit in the streets burning cars and looting because they can't get a job or are racially profiled...and BTW they attacked us not France so you would figure we would have interned everybody in camps by now and be dealing with that kind of violence here. Covert screening of US citizens with nothing to hide - do it all day man, hell, we have done it for decades. The open policy of it though is reprehensible and the founding fathers know it! I hold military opinions no closer than I can shake stick because they often are MILITARY solutions to a complex social problem. There will be another 9/11. There always will be one around the corner - history has GUARANTEED us that. I will take that and the relighting of Ol Liberty's torch so we can skull-F%*K the bad guys (TY CH) over burning her skirt up with street protests [as the Ghostbusters said, she is French underneath :) ] I have rolled over more than a few times thinking about what your suggesting M2, and it is awfully easy to come to that because it makes sense to defend our country, but when I do accept that as a feasibility, a part of me says it goes against the principles of our constitution so I accept your solution as inappropriate. Talk amongst yourselves....I'll pick a subject

That's what the good mayor said...Green Zone or Clovis...real nice guy. I wonder if Iraqi's are offended by his comments (not that we should listen of course). "What, a ticket to Clovis?...F*#K it, they have Applebees, I will stay here with my people" PS TX Tech...damn hottest porn team,..... I mean swim team I have ever seen...

Well, at least you can go to Chili's and not Applebee's (cheescake factory of the south)...yeah that place doesn't look so hot. Volunteer to go to Iraq lazy arses! What an asshole...