ACCBoomer

Not me, but here is a link with some beautiful shots from it (the C-17 pic is awsome!) http://www.fencecheck.com/forums/index.php/topic,9741.0.html

Not a good EPR bullet, thats for sure!

Wow, look at this Story is that this CRJ took a weather balloon a month ago.

The most common question we in the -135 world hear is "are those depth charges?" (Speaking of the O2 rack infront of the boom pod)

Being an "E" I can say that I always have a spoon & fork in my pencil pocket while flying. Beyond that I carry my wallet, coin, linebadge. Thats about it...

Defensive Egg going for position?

Boom Operator

Old topic but as Paul Harvey would say... "Here is the rest of the story" The crew of the jet did a super job landing with no dash and a part of the wing missing. http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/TB/200...00025/-1/REGION

They found her safe (minus a shaven head)!!! Woo-Hoo!! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14736318/

You almost forgot Block 40.2 & MPRS & ROBE all on one tail (now thats a ton of books) :)

From what I am reading you must be in initial boom school and for what it is worth go ahead and try to learn and love all the info that seems useless from the Flight Safety Dudes. We are flying a 50 year old jet that does some weird things at times and if every quirk and goofy malfunction you may have back in the pod were put in the -1 you would have a book over a 100000 pages! Those guys are only there to help and I have have seen more than one of those weird things happen at a crappy time. All that being said, we are going paperless very, very soon in the -135 world. I just got my memory stick the other day.

Chuck wins the prize.

Not so much AF related (unless you have been to one of many base open houses), but Sean Tucker Crashed his Oracle Biplane yesterday. The good news is that he got out ok! Sounds like the stick broke off. Oracle Crash A nationally known aerobatics pilot had to ditch his plane in Red River Parish this morning after the aircraft's control stick broke. Sean Tucker parachuted safely -- despite getting tangled briefly on part of the plane after getting out of the cockpit. The single-engine stunt plane crashed in a field near the Red River-Natchitoches Parish line. Red River Sheriff Johnny Ray Norman said Tucker was in town to visit friends while on his way to a weekend air show in Florida. He was making one last run in a practice area when the main steering control began to break. Tucker switched to a backup control to buy him time and radioed in his situation. The sheriff's office helped him find a place away from any houses before he bailed out. "When he was just about out of gas, they got a good field picked out -- no people around -- and he jumped out," Tucker spokesman Karl Koeppen said. Tucker, who was not injured, was not available for comment after the crash. The single-passenger propeller plane crashed about a mile from the airport and was destroyed. In 2003, Tucker was named one of the 25 living legends of flight by the Smithsonian Institute.

Wow, I would say he is ticked off!

Sorry El Duderino, I did not mean to hijack your thread. Did not figure my reply would take off like it did.

Darn, I thought this was going a discussion on why the price at the AAFES pump is the same as the 7-11 outside the gate, yet we do not pay tax on it! Now what gives with that crap!

Now thats funny! Nothing like a good "howdy" to wake the crew up! [ 11. March 2006, 16:46: Message edited by: 509thBoom ]

We here at KSKA have a crap load of them (40 and 40.2). The pilots seem to love it. The only downfall is that the stupid printer is forever jamming up and the "TACC" ding-dong bell will drive you crazy if you do not answer them on cue. [ 24. February 2006, 18:25: Message edited by: 509thBoom ]

During OIF I was partial to Diego, but PSAB was not to bad either.

Let me look. I bought one for dual use with my Bose NR headset (KC-135 & Cessena 172). I just do not have time to fly GA right now and it is somewhere in a dresser drawer collecting dust along with my logbook. If I can find it I will let it go for half of what I paid which would equate to about $50.

Nah. You can fly a fighter with the boom. If he/she goes aft you just retract them in. j/k

And its only $399,000 plus tax, title and licence (OAC). I wonder if they will throw in a DVD player and 20" rims for the tow tug :D

"I hope they come out with a KC-135OVT" Sure would make WIC training fun!

I'm screwed...

Some from the desert Red Flag 05-01