bucky60k

I don't understand. How come everybody is trashing a sixteen year old for doing a volunteer job? This is not some 400lb CAP senior member pretending to a pilot which won a DFC. I think getting your Spaatz in HS is a lot more admirable then going to lame parties, getting wasted and/or pregnant which is what her female classmates are doing. Just b/c the CSAF decides to do some CAP-USAF PR shouldn't open the floodgates and allow her to be ridiculed. Just my .02...

It was a USN crew with some Lockheed tech reps and they only used reverse to stop right by the conning tower.

Hercules on the Forrestal. They also did carrier landing tests with the U-2.

How many JASDF students do we usually take on for our UPT? It seems that they would have the capacity to take care of their own primary instruction with the T-3/T-7 and advanced instruction with the T-4 before they go on to the Phantom, Eagle, F-2, etc.

True, but there are other pictures which are not fake which show the Flanker during low passes with the IFR probe extended. I still think its too good to be true though. Too bad those guys never did fly through that cave in China...

LJ, is it a Dragon Rapide?

Raptor, that is a KC-97

T-50 Golden Eagle

The Spruce Goose (Hughes H-4 Hercules)

Just curious, but since when has the Air Force stopped allowing art or designs to be put on helmets?

One of the alumni from my det flew in the Stratotanker to MAKS 2005. I guess the Russkies have never seen an American female pilot so they treated her like a celebrity for the whole event!

Sounds Yugoslavian to me

Are the Eagles only going to simulate the big aircraft like the Mig-31 or SU-27 or will they be able replicate all threats?

Here is a picture of the bomber: Definately challenges the racial/ethnic profiling approach to security if the terrorists have more of these sympathizer goons out there waiting to explode.

Aviation Week said they were supplementing the F-16s with F-15Cs. How does one become an aggressor pilot anyways?

I highly recommend Vlamgat by Dick Lord. It highlights the South African Air Force flying against Angolan Mig-21 and 23s and is really indepth about flying older types of fighters like the F1.

So your saying that its on the same level as suicide bombings and indiscriminate Katusha rocket fire against civilians?

The most ridiculous item of the day: BBC: Medics condemn Gaza sonic booms

The USAF T-3 AEIO-540 engines were very prone to vapor lock so it probably wouldn't be a great idea to keep flying them around. However, I would pay for a Scottish Aviation Bulldog. A lot of these ex-RAF machines are hitting the civilian market.

Religion might have a role in the military but it definately should not be forced down people's throats. The Acadamy fiasco with the Passion of the Christ is a perfect example of how non-Christians are being targeted. Hopefully this measure will do something to alleviate this but we'll see...