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Top rated comment on YouTube: "This must be the next aircraft of the Hellenic Air Force!With this aircraft we will ###### the turks!Greetings to our orthodox brothers in Russia!!!!!!!" No wonder the Greeks are out of money. Much too worried about new and expensive ways to ###### Turks.

More Global Hawk propaganda from the functional manager: “The president of the United States said, ‘I need information now,’ ” Thomas said. “This was the only asset to provide that broad view.” Global Hawk served new role in Japan aftermath

At least now they'll all have plenty of time to get bullshit bullets so the Sq/Gp/Wg execs don't get all of the good follow-on assignments! [ducks]

Hey man I totally agree. There are lots of heavy dudes out there doing great things. I was just noting that there are quite a few heavy guys out there who can't (or choose not to) see much outside their world.

What you guys call Admin is our entire world. Lots of mobility pilots don't realize that or won't admit it. I love my squadron, I love my jet, and I think I'm pretty good at flying it, but I'm not delusional. The guys in my UPT class who went to fighters are light-years beyond me now. I'm comfortable enough with my life to admit that. Some will get very pissy about this.

“No one person or service is better than the other. We mustn’t forget that.” “I would say every job, no matter how big or how small, is important,” Waite said. “It doesn’t matter if you’re rucking gear up a mountain, or if you’re pumping s--- out of an aircraft.” Not true. I wish people would quit spouting this bullshit. Some jobs are absolutely more difficult than others, thus the people that do them are more important. Virtually anyone in the military could learn this guy's job in about a week. "Without me, the bathrooms don’t get serviced, cargo doesn’t get shipped on time, and bullets run out ... and the enemy wins.” Well ok, he's right about this, our shit trucks were broken for three months in the desert and so we just cancelled all the sorties and played xbox the whole time. The enemy definitely won a little bit there.

I'm probably in the minority here but I think the A380 is a pretty amazing airplane. I don't care who built it, 1.3 million pounds at .85M is a pretty significant achievement. Currently, Airbus is the company that's pushing the envelope in regards to jumbo aircraft. It will cause other manufacturers to build bigger and better things, which is good for everyone. As far as it's wingspan, airports should adjust to it IMO. It's not like the early car manufacturers waited around for nice roads to be built. Technology drives its infrastructure, not the other way around. Also, though the A380 has had some high profile taxiing incidents, it probably still has a better record than AMC!

Travis will stay that way as long as AMC keeps rewarding it with money and recognition.

True, there will always be plenty of people that want to be military pilots, but we would rather not have the ones that would otherwise be working at BK. Better pay helps bring in better people, period. That's a pretty low-SA, douchebag thing to say, dude. I don't care who you may or may not be. Yes, he deserves it and so do the rest of us. We joined the military knowing the retirement pay was an option and some of us figure it as possibly part of our retirement planning.

According to the link, the turbine that drives the fuel and oxygen pumps is 55,000 horsepower! The entire engine produce 1.5 million pounds of thrust. And they did all of this 50 years ago. Unbelievable.

The seemingly slight increase from 21% to 33% oxygen content that nitrous gives is enough to produce a shit-ton of extra horsepower on a given motor, assuming the fuel system can keep up. If it can't, the engine will run seriously lean and burn holes in the pistons. Twice the flame, half the candle. Top Fuel dragsters use nitromethane as a fuel which provides even more oxygen content. They produce over 6000 horsepower from a 500 cubic inch engine. They also need rebuilt after six seconds of use. All that said, if the Air Force decides to shit-can a whole bunch of OBOGSes, I'd be pretty curious to see what would happen if somebody slapped one on their POV!

Already thought of and relatively cheap to install - Nitrous Oxide. It's 33% oxygen as opposed to the normal 21% of the atmosphere. So when nitrous is injected, more fuel can be burnt than normal. Like a chemical turbo.

Molecular sieve. Apparently not as badass as it sounds.

From the same link: U.S. officials say that Pakistani fighter jets were scrambled to intercept the choppers, but didn't reach them. The U.S. team was back inside Afghanistan before 6 p.m Washington time. Uh, what? Not only did the Pakistanis (allegedly) turn a blind eye to the fortified compound down the street from their military academy, they attempted to intercept the mission? With Vipers that we sold (gave) them no doubt! While they still have another dozen or so on order! The President could win even more political capital by cutting ties with these douchers cold-turkey.

Cheerleaders outside the White House already

TV news is saying NW Pakistan. Just where he was supposed to be all along... News also automatically assumes it was the work of Preds. Whether they did it or not, that community has gotten a well-deserved reputation as a surgical-killing machine.

Reading about guys like this is why I feel undeserving and slightly embarrassed when people thank me for my service.

It's so painful listening to media-types talking about aviation incidents. On another note, I think I'm going to start talking with my head tilted all the way back and to the right.

I don't understand some of you guys. Not all of us need a nanny to hold our credit cards so we don't spend too much. Find a rewards card that pays you the most straight-up cash, stay on the same budget, and make a few extra bucks a month. "Burn your credit cards" is a good mantra for the Lowest Common Denominator, which we're not. If you can be trusted to fly a damn airplane you should be able to manage your own personal finances. Edited for grammarz.

Ouch, my feelings, they hurt! But seriously, what opportunities are there in other services to fly some of their planes, fighter or not? I know of pilots from the Navy that have permanently transferred to the Air Force to fly our jets, sometimes even with a reduction in rank. The grass is always greener...

My household uses Chase Freedom Rewards Cards also. We put everything we can on there and always pay it off, netting a no-kidding $60-90 straight up refund per month. That's not chump change to me. I'd put my mortgage on there if I could.

Over the years the media has proven that they don't know the difference between a pilot and a WSO. All of the news I seen about this crash refers to the "two pilots". Now I ran across this article with the following excerpt: "A U.S. official said in Washington said the other crew member, a weapon systems officer who is also a pilot, was recovered by rebel forces and is now in American hands." Is there such a thing as a WSO who is also a pilot? Or is this article just twice as wrong?

I think one of the best ways to get rid of the vast swaths of unnecessary SNCO shoeclerks would be to get rid of combat pay for the Gulf bases, unless you're flying into country, of course. Why a deployed flying squadron needs a Shirt (with his own office, no less) I'll never know. In a perfect world, CZTE and combat pay would be prorated for only the amount of days you were actually in danger. Unfortunately it would be a huge admin headache, which I'm sure is why they don't do it that way. A couple days ago I went into finance at home station to take care of a lot of issues, one of which was to stop CZTE. I was told I need to present a copy of my orders and travel voucher to do so, even though I was standing right there, obviously no longer in a combat zone. (Yes, I was wrong & showed up unprepared.) It's pretty damn obvious that finance is task-saturated as it is.

Here's a harsh observation my crew came up with after a long day of watching the CAOC waste all of our gas. Those 19 guys with box cutters could not have imagined a better outcome. Not only did they succeed in bringing down the World Trade Center and part of the Pentagon, they sparked two wars that have cost the US a half-trillion dollars and thousands of lives. And no, I don't have any answers, except that we need to stay in AFG and stop wasting so much damned money. Also, I like the lasers idea. I can't ever remember people complaining that there were too many lasers around. My jet doesn't have any lasers on it, not a damned one, so maybe a change would do some good.