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I had an instructor at the Zoo who worked on the A-X program as a developmental engineer assigned to the A-10. During the course of the year he would indulge us with stories of the flyoff and how the A-10 ended up winning the competition. For example, the slats inboard of the landing gear and the strakes along the wing root were a direct result of hot gas ingestion resulting in flameouts of the engines. They first started modifying the airframe with the strakes, when that didn't work the engineers put the slats on and other modifications as well until the problem went away. The one story that he repeatedly told that I doubt would ever fly in today regarded tests to determine the amount of FOD that the engines would ingest on an unimproved airfield. Since the A-9 had intakes at the wing roots, the engineers thought that the hazard for FOD was pretty high. To determine the susceptibility of each airframe, they parked each aircraft over a smattering of corn flakes on the tarmac. Each aircraft was run up and lo-and-behold, the A-9 sucked up the cornflakes off the ground like a 3 year old. The A-10's cereal remained in its place, unmoved by the mighty power of the TF-34's. He claims that that test helped cement A-10's place as the A-X competition winner.

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But none of them were POW's, they were picked up and returned within hours of ejecting

Found a furnished place for less that $39 a day here. Opinions on location? Is it good, bad, or am i going to get carjacked before i even set the parking brake?

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One can hope can't he?

He gave a lecture at the USAFM, it's really quite incredible to hear his side of the story.

Vega 31 and Hammer 34 during OAF. Both successfully rescued by the AF Hawk bubbas

How trained are the TRAP teams in CSAR?

Are there even any -60 assets anywhere close to Libya? The closest I can think of is the 56th in Lakenheath but i doubt they are deployed to Aviano like the -15E bubbas.

So does the #1 engine salute off #2 prior to the break?

Ft Rucker 11-05 HH-60 Moody HH-60 AK Guard UH-1 Malmstrom UH-1 FE Warren CV-22 Kirtland Congrats guys!

Can you mix and match subdued/normal patches on the flight suit? The squadron patch that i was given on drop night is subdued but i can't find a subdued (or any for that manner) GSC patch to go with it. I wouldn't give a shit but it's AETC

Yeah, that's what i figured. I just wanted to get everything settled before I got there. Since they don't have any pet friendly TLF's the living situation would be hectic

I'm going TDY enroute to Malmstrom here in a couple months and my wife and I were planning on living in base housing. Our plan was to have her move to MT a couple weeks before i finished at Kirtland and get the house all set up and whatnot. When we called up the housing office there today they said that I would physically have to sign into the base in order for her to be given a house, even though she has power of attorney. Is the housing guy wrong or can she get a house before i get to the base.

Him Him

Ft Rucker 11-04 Drop HH-60 DM (Reserve) HH-60 Moody HH-60 RAF Lakenheath UH-1 Malmstrom (ME!) UH-1 Fairchild UH-1 Andrews CV-22 Kirtland Congrats to us... I guess.

And fix-to-fix. Can't stress enough the importance of that skill set.

It was originally posted in the SOS thread

Really?

Not to mention a bronze star and what looks like a purple heart without the National Defense Medal. Hell you get more ribbons for being commissioned than the "major" has on.

Like this I presume?

Nice reply by the Governor though.

Multi-cam, seems like all the operators made that decision few years ago.

They had a thing like that at the zoo. During lightning warnings they would pick people up who were crossing the T-zo and give them Form 10's. So much for the "real AF"