Clark Griswold

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Possibly Private money, crypto backed with a physical presence and assets held as redeemable collateral with a feasible redemption mechanism I still hold some minute hope that the powers that be realize destroying the dollar is not going to work, the piper must always be paid

The welfare/administrative state must be shrunk by at least 50-75% The GOP should run an ad campaign with two tax scenarios for the average tax payer, one funding the beast of bloated social services and one with very modest social programs where welfare returns to the churches and local civic societies thru individual donations Ask the voter what do you want, aloof bureaucrats wasting your money in utopian schemes to address aspects of free societies that are features not bugs that can’t be solved only treated or you deciding how much and where you want part of your income to go to benevolent efforts?

Gotcha thanks In another thread I suggested a heavy only UPT program for students bound for heavy ANG/Reserve units, maybe XPW could have been that with a contractor/aviation school basic/intermediate phases with the T-1 being the advanced and military introductory flying phase Water under the bridge but worthy of BO discussion XPW 2.0 proposal Heavy tracked ARC students commercial instrument rated pilots & volunteers track to a Parachute, PPL, AMEL and Aerobatics/2 ship formation training all contractor, mil supervised. Around 150-170 hours. Graduate and then multi turbine training with mil instructors. 2 phases there: 1 tactical air mobility training (ME experience, STOL, NVGs, Semi-prepared field ops); around 40-50 hours. Phase 2, 737 type training with 15 simulator rides, 10 flights 737. 1.0 hour flights, normal ops to a rendezvous to a fellow 737 to pre contact, recover using automation and full NAV capabilities, short pattern ops. CFI, Comm instrument rated pilots or higher certified pilots (ATP) with 300+ hours could be PA’d thru all Phase 1 training except Parachute (unless they are already free fall certified) Aerobatics & Form if passing an oral, academic and practical evaluation. Not a wham bam thank you ma’am widget program but an affordable and reliable way to produce strong graduates. This 737 fleet would be also used for E-7 training (assuming it is acquired), a surrogate for air refueling training for other platforms as the Navy does with its heavy aircraft crew and as an experience and currency trainer for rated staff returning to the Line. It would also act as a reserve fleet for AMC if training or operational demands required the use of them. Fleet of 20, all based near an airline domicile. #strongpilotculture

What is/was the syllabus for XPW UPT? About the same as traditional UPT syllabus?

Don’t train your enemies BreitbartSen. Jim Banks Warns About Chinese Pilots Getting U.S. Tr...Sen. Banks is sounding the alarm about Chinese training in the U.S. to become pilots, a fact first revealed in Peter Schweizer's book "The Invisible Coup."

Considering post kinetic outcomes, bad cases, decent short read War on the RocksA Worst-Case Scenario for the War with IranThe war with Iran has prompted many questions about what comes next. Will the Islamic Republic regime survive? What could replace it? Will Iran dissolve

https://www.darpa.mil/news/2026/darpa-new-x-76-speed-of-jet-freedom-of-helicopter Yes please

Probably What would / could we do if it was disclosed? Rhetorical and just putting myself into the shoes of US leadership right now, I’d probably suppress it. If any of the crew were killed, different story. I know one of the crew was injured on ejection (ejection itself has physical consequences too), I’d tell the Kuwaitis to be prepared to quietly and amply compensate them after hostilities are over. The primary objective is to win the war, military operation, collapse the regime, etc… I hate it, it is morally compromising and not a good but necessary thing for where we are now.

Probably another factor working against it I wonder if this had gotten flying before the A330 MRTT if it would have found a launch customer

Same as Boomer6, video gone, if it was intentional I doubt we will ever know that for sure, like Egyptian Air 990, we know what probably happened but never proven for sure

Is it dead as a potential acquisition?

Not sure if we’ve discussed this in this thread but I wonder if this idea would get more traction if it were unmanned, optionally manned or certified single pilot (automated boom)?

Was that 70k at launch or at X nm from launch?

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