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On 10/3/2022 at 5:49 PM, Clark Griswold said:
Just a bit of engineering to get this done but pods where the outboard engines used to be (simultaneous receivers might not have enough clearance though) but just to stir the pot
Boeing has entered the chat:
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5 hours ago, arg said:
“One of the strictest things we have in the military is weapons accountability. So these weapons are missing somewhere from a U.S. armory, and somebody doesn’t know it. That’s the scary thing about that for the U.S. military right now,” he continued. "
Not to be confused with the times when it's done on purpose...
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(left behind in Afghanistan)
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6 minutes ago, SurelySerious said:
Dillon Vakoff -a former 1C for the 96th BS at Barksdale- was something that was right in the AF, and a good person that the Red Devils enjoyed on their team.
https://kdvr.com/news/local/officer-vakoff-heart-of-gold-always-smiling/🍺 to Officer Vakoff.
But I think skibum, and other inquiring minds, wanted someone to out the General Officer that was chiefing people for their patches.
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There are also UPT, white jet, Green Door, etc assignments available that can get you into a different jet.
Don't suck and you can apply to the 89th. Win a lottery ticket (and also don't suck) and you can fly the C-37's out of Ramstein or Hickam or the C-40 out of Scott (if they don't close).
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5 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
KC-Y was not the KC-135 replacement, it was the bridge tanker meant to address the shortage of booms in the INDOPACOM CONOP. If you watched the news the last year USAF made a lot of noise until Kendall decided to skip KC-Y and jump right to KC-Z which now defined by USAF as a family of systems. As many other programs are going "family" one can assume a host of requirements that can't be met by a single platform. I would think having several platform will reduce your efficiency but increase your capability. I also believe the KC-Z family will field our first LO tanker.
I was always told that Y was a second buy of the X tanker to replace the -135 and Z was a larger format tanker for the -10 replacement. Not saying they didn't change the definition sometime in the last 20 years or maybe my info was wrong. AMC also thought leasing 767s from Boeing was a good idea the first time round too.
QuoteThat is because you are stuck in legacy thinking. The very nature of agile tankers means they don't have to park at Fortress Guam. I give huge props to General Miniham and a few others that are trying to break dogmatic thinking and flip the calculus back on the Chinese. We all know Guam is going to eat 1,000+ missiles on day one so what big thing had been done to protect the tankers? Aside from some Patriots that will tag a few of the inbound shots the only major move has been to lengthen and improve the runway at Tinian, great job you diluted the inbound missiles to 500. The Hudson Institute with no mandate from industry recently completed a Resilient Aerial Refueling Study which outlined the problem and examined the Agile tanker concept. A quick look at the AOR shows 254 airfields available for traditional tankers, lower runway requirement to 5000' and your options more than double, allow for dirt and you have completely diluted the Chinese missile advantage, widened the number of approaches by a factor of three, and allowed for FAR more gas on station.
Has anyone looked at how we are going to get, maintain, and resupply millions of pounds of jet fuel out of an austere location? Yes, dispersing our assets is a great idea for survivability...but each sortie for a KC-135/KC-390 is going to be 200K+ in gas. You're talking millions of pounds of fuel somehow being refilled in a dirt strip...and I don't think an oil pipeline is going to be easily hidden nor is an oiler ship offload facility. This isn't going to be a FARP for a couple helicopters that we can push off the back of a C-130 and keep the Army happy for a week. This COA is talking serious amounts of fuel. I'd just be curious what the plan for that would be or is this a disposable FOB that we will fly 2-3 sorties out of and then bug out back to a hardened facility (that probably would be a smoking hole).
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Interesting.
Also, originally the KC-Z was supposed to be the KC-10 (large) replacement while the KC-X & Y were supposed to be the KC-135 replacement. So I wonder if Big Blue gave up on an actual -10 replacement and is just going to settle on 3x -46's for every 1x -10 on a coronet from now on.
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4 hours ago, ClearedHot said:
Wiki is not accurate and that was BEFORE the engineering effort to increase fuel capacity. Your numbers are WAY low.
So how much fuel can it carry?
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Granted it's been a hot minute since I've been a tanker toad...but I'd imagine a low observable tanker is a much more survivable way to get gas closer to the fight than going the route of a jet powered H/M/KC-130.
But with how much AMC is jerking itself off on the "ACE" acronym I guess it's hard to discount any idea, no matter how devoid of common sense, it appears.
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18 hours ago, Danger41 said:
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/fedex-earnings-profit-slashes-outlook-as-demand-slumps/
Brutal forecast for FedEx. Anyone seen anything/heard anything on the flying side of the business?
UPS had a normal forecast so it is curious why the disparity.
It could always be a negotiating tactic by management against their work groups.
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2 minutes ago, pawnman said:
Damn...I want to know what your next big bets are so I can short them.
I'd recommend avoiding small time financial managers in Wichita...but if you want to short that advice then you need to invest with them! 🤣
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31 minutes ago, AC&W said:
I have VGT, VUG, and VWUSX.
I had VAW, VBR, VIG, VIS, VTI, VXF, but I sold those to buy VWUSX.
Also, I'm no financial wizard and probably couldn't articulate sound advice if I even knew what sound advice was.
I'm also pretty bad at investing. So bad that even the institution I let manage my funds has been an overall negative return since 2017...thus me publicly sourcing information (and firing their ass and going to Vanguard).
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What's everyone's favorite low cost Vanguard Index Fund, ETF, etc?
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10 hours ago, cragspider said:
Does the hud in the airliners adjust?
737 HUD doesn't adjust. But the seat and pedals have enough travel that it's never been an issue for my short (5ft7in) self. Good news is I'm one of the few people that doesn't bitch about the 737 cockpit being cramped. 🤣
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25 minutes ago, Biff_T said:
I found a video on reddit
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3 hours ago, Blue said:
Ultimately, Boeing, Lockheed, Northrop, et al, all have highly paid lobbyists on Capitol Hill, looking out for those companies, working to keep the money flowing. There is something like 325k people on active duty in the Air Force. Who is their lobbyist? Who is looking out for them on Capitol Hill, to ensure they get a fair piece of the budgetary pie? The answer is no one. Absolutely no one of consequence is going to stand up on Capitol Hill and argue for less funding to F-35s and more to personnel. Folks complaining about cuts to things like Special Duty Assignment Pay need to recognize these facts, and act accordingly.
Service Secretaries and Chiefs should be advocating for their personnel. Buuuuuut, those people also want a high paying job from one of them fancy defense contractors when their stint is over...
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6 hours ago, AC&W said:
Why does Iran have beef with Albania?
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Well, some good has come from this because I just realized I don't have a copy of my FCC license in my non-rev wallet. So thanks for that everybody!
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20 hours ago, McJay Pilot said:
That’s why you use cash! 🤫
It’s hard to order Cuban cigars from iHavana.com using cash though…
Or so I’ve heard. That cedar lined wooden box I have is for fung shei decorating purposes only.
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53 minutes ago, Prozac said:
I’ve had less than a handful of bad experiences offline jumpseating. All of them were on Delta. Not shitting on them. The vast majority there are good dudes. It does seem like there is a contingent of captains there who are really enamored by their own authority though.
It’s the hat.
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5 hours ago, Sua Sponte said:
Weird...
QuoteFrom the group of 30,000 e-mails returned to the State Department, 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received. Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information, which is the lowest level of classification. Separate from those, about 2,000 additional e-mails were “up-classified” to make them Confidential; the information in those had not been classified at the time the e-mails were sent.
Source: https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/press-releases/statement-by-fbi-director-james-b-comey-on-the-investigation-of-secretary-hillary-clinton2019s-use-of-a-personal-e-mail-system -
6 hours ago, nsplayr said:
UTFSF:
Crap! Not sure why when I searched "Iran" nothing came up.
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1 hour ago, FourFans130 said:
This is all I can see:
(for those not familiar with Top Gear. This is from BBC Top Gear)
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Didn't see a similar thread for Iranian Tomfoolery.
Besides them being in the news recently for trying to steal US Navy Saildrone Explorer USV's (new acronym to me: unmanned surface vessels)...looks like they just put in an order for 24 Su-35's that were originally tagged for Egypt.
Nordstream pipeline sabotage?
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A rumored excerpt from Ramius's FITREP report on Mancuso as told by some CIA analyst who wrote a book with terrible conclusions: "Ah, the Captain seems to think you're some kind of... cowboy."