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Hahahahahaha! Oh Jesus these people are brain damaged.

DC got lucky. NJ didn't.

Fact. All I know is, It's raining like hell outside my hotel right now. It may or may not be the storm of the century, but it sure as hell is the storm of NOW.

Yes. Almost as prestigious as the "Most landings at the wrong airfield" trophy.

Lucky me. I'm dead center of the bullseye in Wilmington, DE. I'm ready for wind, rain, snow, whatever. But dammit, if I miss one second of my Giants in the World Series because the power goes out, so help me I'm going to....probably do nothing, but I will be very very agitated.

Haaaaaave you met the video posted yesterday?

Not only that, but unless your pilot has an engineer onboard with him to make sure he puts the gear down, he must always attempt to land gear up. Otherwise you might as well tell everyone your C-130 runs on unicorn farts.

Gravedigger- You're right, but it's a distinction that's lost on most (fat ass) people (Americans). Still funny, though.

I swear I've tried that before, but I could just be that dumb that I overlooked the easiest solution to my problem. In any case, DTS actually does NOT default to the closest airport to my residence and instead defaults to the one closest to my duty station. That's sort of the source of my consternation since I only fly commercial out of Sac when I'm on orders. As always, your help around here is much appreciated.

For the most part, I agree. However here's one anomaly that pisses me off: I live outside of Sacramento but my unit is 2 hours away in Reno. When I book airline travel starting at my residence, it forces me to fly out of Reno rather than Sac even though the Reno airport is about an hour and a half further away. The only way to make it work is to trick fuck the system by inserting Sacramento as my first destination and booking airline travel on the subsequent leg. WTF?

No worries. It just cracks me up how guys get so bent out of shape over pointless shit, this 707/135 crap being the latest example.

Throttle back, dude. I'd love to trade in my 40+ year old airplane for one of yours. Just pointing how how ridiculous this urinary battle is.

Kind of like J-model guys saying they fly a Herk.

What a tremendous loss. I knew Rich down in Corpus Christi and have been impressed with him ever since. He had a great idea, through hard work he made it a reality, and we are all better off for it. Godseed, friend.

Call me crazy, but this just seems like a bad idea.

You sonofabitch.

Transit Driver Plows into Cars on Dallas Tollway. Dashcam! Looks like he was paying a little too much attention to the Maserati passing him on the left. Oops. Yep, you said it, buddy.

Wow. Incredible in so many ways.

They do, it's just not that apparent in the video. Performance isn't exactly stellar at the weights/speeds they're flying, so you're not going to see them swooping in from high above or climb out at 5000'/min, especially if they didn't get the drop off. Sometimes, the lead plane will take a MAFFS tanker around for a "show me" pass at a higher altitude to show the crew the line he wants them to drop on as well as the escape path he has in mind. They then drop down low for the second pass & drop.

Apparently the Wildland Firefighter Foundation is also chipping in to help the families. Nice to know there are so many organizations out there eager to step up and help out. Sure seems like it. :beer:

That's roughly the goal, depending on terrain. Any higher or lower and the retardant is ineffective. Target airspeed on the run-in is about 120kts with 100 flaps, IIRC. Edit to add: Godspeed to these brave aviators.

I know, I was sort of taking the current trend line to the extreme in jest. Sort of. Part of me is afraid I'll be right.

Wrong. The Chiefs will already be there when you land.

That's a tough lie: We've got a looker, fellas! I love that they put the Burger King cup on the trunk before they snapped the pic of the car. Priceless. From Jalopnik