HuggyU2

My sincere apologies. When I opened it, it showed the Fairchild crash. There was certainly no disrespect intended.

That's the 1994 Fairchild airshow crash.

20 years ago, PBD-720 announced the retirement of the U-2. I was interviewed in the press and said "the last U-2 pilot isn't out of elementary school yet". I should have said "the last U-2 pilot isn't out of kindergarten yet". https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2006/01/04/Pentagon-to-retire-U-2-spy-plane/88231136416087/

Who is going?

Navy has grounded four of their five demo teams. Only the Blues are not affected. The Navy treats demo teams very differently than the USAF. Will they adopt more of a "USAF model" in the future?

As more info leaks out from the test world on the T-7, it's going to be embarrassing. The T-50 would have been a nice alternative. And the T-50 is a nice Airshow aircraft.

Oh, stop it. We turned it all around with the resoundingly successful T-7 acquisition.

Having personally seen pilots being unfairly hung out to dry by over-zealous leadership, I would sure like to know more details about this event.

Happy birthday to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale AFB 113 years old today. In 1916, the 1st invaded Mexico to try to capture or kill Pancho Villa. Probably didn't get much per diem.

Nice looking Piper. "Someone tell me what to do."... I would sure like to know more about his flight training. Wow.

Japanese, I believe. I'm sure very few care, but the Vietnamese jets never had the air refueling probes on their jets, as far as I know. FYI: that's the South Vietnamese roundel on the fuselage of both of our jets We are hoping to have a cool A-37 surprise for the warbird world later in 2026. We shall see.

I was in New Zealand recently and on a whim, I managed to go out and fly a Pacific Aerospace CT/4 trainer. Fairly unknown in the US... I don't believe any are airworthy here. This one was the first of two prototypes, before it went into production in NZ. It was built in 1972. The pilot I flew with was one of the handful of former NZAF A-4K pilots (only 168 total), and is a pretty accomplished warbird pilot. We did some sightseeing, AHC, and light aerobatics. It was "different". Really enjoyed getting to fly a piece of NZ aviation history.

CBM folks, I caught wind of a recent incident where Ex-Lax was put into the donuts/cookies at the Ops Desk by some pilot... with expected results. YGBSM. What's the rest of the story? Pretty shitty situation!!