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HuggyU2

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    11 minutes ago, DirkDiggler said:

    Great job by the pilot walking away from that, especially on a tail dragger.

    There's a reason you don't see near as many aircraft with the tail wheel mounted on the front end, doing back country flying.

     

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    On 11/10/2024 at 8:30 PM, Lawman said:


    If we can teach helicopters to land in the dust unmanned (and we have) teaching it to get on the boom or into the basket is easy.

    Haha, yeah, right.  Total pipe dream.

    You're probably one of those guys that thinks a spaceship can fly itself back to the launchpad and land in a pair of "chopsticks".  

    Ridiculous.  

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    On 11/2/2024 at 9:15 PM, raimius said:

    Who said that?  It doesn't check with anything I've heard or the AF has done lately.

    I'll see if I can contact the Lieutenant and get the details (and will post if I do), but around March we sent a casual LT to one of these flight schools to get some ratings, Enroute to UPT. 

    Definitely bring it back.

    I was a FAIP during Project Warrior's years, and at Laughlin, we used that to go pick up guest speakers in the T-38 to bring them out to talk to the Wing... usually done so they could go to the monthly Daedalians meeting that night. 
     

    I flew to Oklahoma Cuty and picked up Bob Anderson, MiG killer and early Thunderbird. "Here's a helmet... unpin the ejection seat when I tell you. Questions?"

    Also got to fly back from Phoenix with X-15 pilot Pete Knight on my wing. 
     

    Another FAIP got to pick up Victor Belenko.  That was cool. After the Daedalian meeting, he wanted to hang out but most everyone left. So myself and 2 other FAIPs sat in the OClub bar and drank with him. Surreal. 
     

    Project Warrior was a huge positive. But I seriously doubt our risk-averse culture would allow it to happen again like it did. 

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    13 hours ago, McJay Pilot said:

    ... and decent relations with your border buddies...

    I contemplate what would be different, had we spent $2 trillion on Mexico (and other Central American nations) instead of Afghanistan. That money certainly didn't win us the war. 
     

    I think back to 2004 and deployments  from then.  That was a long time ago.  
     

    If we spent $300,000,000 every DAY since 2004, that sum today would be...

    ... $2 trillion.  That may have done something significant to preserve the dying Monroe Doctrine.  

     

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