Gas Man

Now this is funny!

I bought a new Tundra last week and I've had no trouble performing the same stunts in my driveway. 5.7 liters of thunder.

Was anybody on the ground for the fly-bys tonight? I was wondering how it looked from a spectator's point of view.

I got a -135 through squadron toys and the paint was way too dark. The detail is great other than that. Tail flash, tail #, PDI lights, everything. Just wish it wasn't such a dark gray.

Man these stories crack me up. What a bunch of tools!

http://greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll...EWS01/705210302 Saturday's paper showed pictures of the airplane just before it hit the ground and just after it hit the ground. The pictures were taken by some high school kid that was watching the practice. I was disipointed the the local paper ran the picture. Made me sick to my stomach.

Oh yeah I almost forgot Him, Him........

I think I'm Jinxed. I was down in SC a couple of weeks ago for the Blue Angel crash. Now I'm home in Montana and was up at the airport this afternoon meeting my Brother and watching the Snow Birds taking off for practice for this weekend's airshow. I was driving down the hill into town and saw smoke. The first thing I thought was I hope they didn't crash. Unfortunately I was right the #2 jet went in at Malmstrom AFB. I'll give more details as I get them. Man, I hate to see anybody lose their life in an airplane. From what I'm hearing on the local news the pilot didn't make it out.

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Never done a fighter PP either. Man you E guys must be getting the pick of the litter. I know it's not my unit's jets asking for PPs. We quit working with the SJ people. After the 10th time of driving an hour and then orbiting for an hour with no one showing up to get gas, then calling CP or your SOF and being told "they decided not to hit the tanker today." We called BS, and told them to find another unit.

Urinal puck salesman works great....So I hear...

Other than C-21 Pilot, I feel bad for you guys. Turkey being listed in the top places you've been!?! Yea, you can get some good deals in the alley, but other than that, it sucks. The Netherlands rocks! Operation Clean Hunter is Europe's version of Red Flag, sort of, but there aren't bases big enough to hold all the airplanes, so they all just meet in the middle. The damn reserves stole the trip this year, but in 22 days I flew 4 times (that's the only time I went in to work also) $110 a day per diem, little euro rental cars that we rallied the crap out of, and our hotel in Eindhoven was awesome! Great bar in the lobby and 2 blocks from what we called "the alley" only the stuff for sale was all BOOZE! 5 blocks of bars that were hopping until 6-10 am. Good times.

I can't believe this thread went all this way without my nametag: Peter Dunkin

My brother was a Force Recon Marine, and I was all set to do the same thing. My brother called me from the desert during the whole Mogadishu (sp?) thing and I told him I was going to join the Marines and be like him instead of going to college. My brother always wanted to be a pilot and due to a DUI was kicked out of ROTC and lost his guaranteed aviation slot, and had to do some enlisted time in the Marines as payback. Due to him attending some radio schools during his summers and a lack of radio operators in Force Recon he was in. Well there was more to it than that, but you get the point. Anyway, my brother told me he would kill me if I joined the Marines, literally. He has always regretted not being a pilot. I try to tell him it's still a pain in the ass, but there is no job I would rather do. He is getting his private pilot's license right now as a matter of fact. There are draw backs to both, but there is nothing like flying an airplane. Even my worst days are better than most other people's best days. Best of luck on what ever you decide.

.9 in a 1958 model -135. Started to get MACH tuck and bouncing around a bit. Amazing how .84 is smooth as silk and .85 we start to feel the mice on the wings. At .9 we were only at 87% N1. There are plenty of stories out there of tankers going supersonic in level flight, we did it in the sim, but the shock wave is hell on the tail. Most likely if the stories are true, the airplane never flew again.

Same at Vance

I'm just happy to be able to wear a flight suit. I love my job, and I worked my a$$ of to get here. I do see where guys are coming from about waiting to "crush" your cuntcap until after your are flying operationally. But they are at least PILOTS "crushing" their caps and not some ROTC ###### or the backender from a whacker doing it. Now that is a bunch of crap. Even if it was, it's nothing to get your panties in a bunch over. They are the ones that look like idiots and in the words of Adam Sandler "Their all gunna laugh at you"

Scoot-dawgs. Many a beer drank there on any coin beer night. Chicaro's has some damn good prime rib. The best part about Enid is all of the people are so friendly....yea right. Also the cops love the military...to pay their salaries with the tickets they write them. I guess years of A-hole pilot trainees can jade you after a while. Have fun.

GR hopeful, Sounds like you have the right idea, I'm sure you will pick up on the "gamesmanship" as Rocker stated above. The biggest problem is that your future depends on the IP as much as it does your performance. If an IP has a major problem with you he/she can hook you no matter how well you fly. It is all a game that you must learn to play. I am pretty sure that most of the IPs out there don't take pleasure in giving you the taco. Try not to force their hand to the best of your ability, and just do your best. You'll do fine.

The one and only.

Hold on, hold on, hold on, You don't get many stand ups during the week?!?!?! I prayed for that same thing when I was going through. Looks like god waited until after I had finished to answer my prayer. Are you complaining? As far as the mid-phase check our class had a 37% pass rate. The average was around the same for the rest of the squadron. Final contact was 75% pass, Inst was about 45%, and form was 95%. Don't sweat it too much. I will say however that the EP on the ground is really the part of the check that you have the most control over. Our Flight commander got the most mad at the guy in my class that hooked due to his EP. As OZ(If you are at Vance find OZ and ask for help, he is still there) used to tell us, the point of the EP is to punish the IP. You should take your time and read every note warning and caution and in between each one you should make sure you are maintaining aircraft control by ensuring you have the proper pitch and power setting and by asking the IP if you are able to maintain this. If you take less than 30 minutes on an EP you haven't punished the IP enough for having the audacity of asking you in the first place. Remember, don't sweat the petty stuff, just pet the sweaty stuff.

Ok you guys are all wrong. As a prior F-16 crewchief I can tell you, the reason they get darker in color is because they get dirty. If you us the proper cleaner they are a very light gray. Lighter than the paint color. We had one of our crew chiefs cleaning his radom and started doing flames as he went. It looked badass, but then he got his pee-pee slapped and he had to clean the whole thing. Light gray is the color they are when they are clean.

You said it. That is what the guard is here to do. My Dad lives out in the country and is on the Volunteer Fire Dept. They do a little training once a month, and they have a bright shiny fire engine that they take care of like nobody's business. If a fire pops up in their area, they go put it out. If they are in town for something doing training and while they are there, a fire pops up, they are going to go help out, with out even thinking twice about it as they feel it's their duty. However their fire engine was bought and paid for from the local county taxes and then they get some money from the state, and also some money from the federal Govt. If a statewide emergency occurs they are on the way to help out. Now let's say the fire engine in town breaks down because of over use, or what ever (improper maintenance and maintaining due to lack of experience and over use, -vs- the old guys in the volunteer fire dept's beautiful better than from the factory truck maintained by a part timer that has been working machinery his whole life and when it is used is taken care of instead of having the shit beat out of it. It may be a hand me down from the city fire dept, but it is in way better shape than when they got it and is even in better shape than the city's nearly new fire truck.) is it right to take the Volunteer fire dept's fire truck just because yours broke down and leave a whole county of individuals without fire protection? Sure, it actually belongs to the state, however, the money it took to keep it in the condition it's in, and for that matter, to buy it in the first place was allocated for the volunteer fire dept and the people of the county. What about the local fire fighters. If you want to keep being a fire fighter you have to now move with the truck. "BS" my Dad says, "I was trying to do my part in helping out the community. I went to every fire in the county over the last 15 years, and 3 natural disasters in the state, plus on the weekend when I wanted to be with my kids and wife I was busy training, so that if I was ever called out I would know what I was doing. I do get a little pay for training, however my original reason for joining was to help my community, as well as my state if they needed it, however don't call me "unpatriotic" because my home and family are out in the country and now I don't want to move to the city just to be treated like a lesser life form when an actual fire breaks out and I show up to help. Also now you want me to still not get the same benefits as the full time fire fighters, but have all of the same training requirements show up and work 10 times more often than I ever used to, and do the same dangerous job they are doing, all that with a crappy retirement? Blow me!" is what my Dad would say. As much as he liked doing the job and hanging with his fire pals, he isn't going to move, and for that matter, your not going to take his truck if he and the rest of the community has anything to say about it. Would you expect them not to even ***** if you said you were going to leave them high and dry. Especially after you are going to take the beautiful fire engine my dad and the other guys have sweated over and abuse the hell out of it, run it into the ground just like you did your last truck just until you get the new giant 40' truck with 12 water nozzles on it. You may need that new truck, but not at the expense of my dad and the rest of the county. No, they aren't talking about my Dad's fire truck being taken away in case you were worried (I'm sure you were sweating it there for a minute), but ya catch my point? No? Well I do tend to ramble on and on about nothing. That's why all of my friends like me so much, because I can talk all day and not say a thing. Hmmmm, maybe I should become a politician. [ 31. July 2005, 23:28: Message edited by: KIPP ]

It may have been a short and narrow runway, but at least it was hilly.