HuggyU2

30,000 hours... Better look at retiring the fleet soon, since we are getting close to the halfway point of our 75,000 hour airframe limit.

As many of y'all know, I'm involved in the airshow industry. This photo is the hangar of the Texas Flying Legends, which has a great collection of flying aircraft: Mustang, Spitfire, Warhawk, Mitchell, Zero, and more. The collection's owner, Bruce is a great American, and the pilots and mechanics are just top-shelf folks. Their customized hangar is also one of the coolest places on any flightline. If you've been cross-country to Ellington (KEFD), maybe you've seen it. It seems a lot of the NFL teams, staff, bigwigs, and others will be using KEFD for the Super Bowl, and Texas Flying Legends wanted to make sure those players, owners, and NFL employees knew where TFL "stands" on the issue of Kaepernick and others.

There is a lot of discussion on this mishap on the Cirrus owners forum. My sincerest condolences to his friends and colleagues Nickel on the grass...

This is true. It's pretty senior there.

Will his successor institute "Cross Dressing Day" for field grade and above, to better understand our military members that serve under a different gender?

Now Obama is just giving us the middle finger. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/us/politics/obama-commutes-bulk-of-chelsea-mannings-sentence.html

I hope the AC flew a good approach. Wouldn't want to have to invoke the "7-engine go-around". "Hey crew! Everyone grab a throttle... we need to go missed!" Scary shit.

Ah.. ye of little faith.

The pilot of that Luscombe was my good friend. I'd known him 19 years and had flown that Luscombe with him. We took a T-38 to Oshkosh a few years back. Aviation... all facets... was his passion. You always hear about guys that will do anything for you; guys that are always the bright spot in your day; guys with an eternally optimistic attitude. Spanky really was that guy. He was an amazing pilot. And an even better father and person. He always cared about his fellow man. After being a T-38 FAIP, a tour in the B-52, and a staff tour, Spanky applied for the SR-71 in 1997: they were hiring one... only one... pilot that year, from the hundreds of applicants. Spanky beat out everyone and was hired. He showed up at Edwards to start training, but four days later, Pres Clinton killed the SR program. Three days later, Spanky is at Beale to fly the U-2 interview flights. Five days later, he is hired to the U-2 Program and has to get a SecAF waiver for two PCS' in 2 weeks. He became my neighbor on base. When I first met him, I knew he was about 35, but he looked barely 21. I gave him his T-38 checkride on 23 Dec 1997. Friends ever since. He was the deployed U-2 squadron commander in Saudi before the war kicked off in 2003. I replaced him at the end of his tour. He elected not to go the professional pilot route after retirement, but was always super active in GA, EAA, and teaching his kids about aviation. The fact that Tim perished too is just crushing. So very tragic. He was loved by all that ever met him. God bless you, Spanky.

I just saw a segment on The Five about this, and googled it: https://dailycaller.com/2016/12/30/dc...s-racist-pigs/You have GOT to be shitting me. THIS is hanging in the US Capitol??Apparently, the congressman behind this is Lacy Clay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacy_Clay

Looks like a Rorschach Test to me.

You mean like Iran's deadly Qaher 313? That thing is amazing.

https://www.foxnews.com/auto/2016/12/15/taiwan-authorities-crush-illegal-lamborghini.html

The B-66/A-3 flew until just about 5 years ago with Raytheon. Was at VNY a few years ago on a T-38 cross country and got them to give us a tour. They had a hangar with about 5 airframes in them. Pretty cool.

Classy.

Well... if Kaepernick is ultimately responsible for the death of Castro because of this, then I'll give him some credit. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3973344/Curse-Kaepernick-Controversial-quarterback-defends-wearing-Fidel-Castro-t-shirt-HOURS-Cuban-leader-s-death-announced.html Maybe Colin can now teach us about Che Guevara's humanitarian brilliance. Moron.

Oddly enough, I just read two days ago that ForeFlight has a logbook. Based on how Tyson Weihs is masterfully reinventing everything related to electronic pilot aids, there is no doubt that if ForeFlight's logbook isn't the best, it will be very shortly.

Skip to 1:36 for the flyovers.

Sickening if true. However, I am skeptical of the accuracy of their observations.

I attended Mr Hoover's Memorial at Van Nuys airport yesterday. It was an epic event, attended by much of the aviation illuminati. Very well done. Many speakers, but they all limited their time on the mic to about 2-3 minutes. I was particularly impressed by the flyover: 1st pass was a Sabreliner with two Thunderbirds on each wing, and a Canadian Snowbird in the slot. They were tight. 2nd was F-22 with two F-86s on the wing. 3rd was a four-ship of WWII warbirds, including Ole Yeller. I was proud of the AF for making it happen. Sometimes, they get it right and this was one of those times. Brig Gen Jeannie Leavitt was there to represent. I was surprised I saw no Navy presence. It was a tremendous sendoff to a great man.

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Yes... that would be fun to watch. Like this...