Everything posted by SurelySerious
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C.S. wildfire: USAFA given pre-evacuation warning
Leaving your kids with potential cadets? What could go wrong?
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Palace Chase info
You can get a flying assignment, you just have to recat to UAVs first. Isn't that a WTF?
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RPA Crossflow Results
There's some kind of world of Warcraft lightning bolt in there, too. Can't forget that.
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Latest Movies
Concur. Having seen it, I'd wait for Netflix or something.
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Bucket List
There's also a DB station in Kaiserslautern that makes getting places pretty easy.
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Cold War 2.0
That worked well in 1914 and 1939.
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
The full article: Ten Thousand Feet and Ten Thousand Miles Hadn't seen it posted yet.
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New Blade (Wing?) Design
This thread has to do with wind turbines... close enough: Large Wind Farms Increase Temperatures Near Ground The irony.
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Saddle up for Syria? Or Op Deny Christmas '13
Former Air Force General: Stop Terrorists With More Airpower (and stop nation-building) Army Col. and Marine Lt. Col.: That will never work
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Drone Pilots: We Don’t Get No Respect
Premature, there are still navs.
- RPA School at Holloman
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
- WTF? (**NSFW**)
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Cracks in the code
Spoken like a true geek. I bet the squadron came to a halt because this guy was at practice, or missed a circle-jerk briefing from some motivational speaker. YGTBSM.
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Troops Pose with Body Parts of Insurgents (here we go again...)
This sounds almost too sensible.
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Info on Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS/UAV/RPA)
Having a consolation would require the AF to recognize UAVs as a bad assignment.
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1st female Air Force combat vet in run for congress
I suppose this would be an official source, if there were any results present. Maybe in a bit. Pima County Elections
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The Mother of all CGOCs
Cannon... who's going to step up?
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The Mother of all CGOCs
There are some who call me... 'Tim'...?
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Info on Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS/UAV/RPA)
Some have started TDYs for training; expect PCS for them to occur summer/fall.
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A new bomber. Anyone think the AF procurment people can get this right?
This will be Type 4 control... bring the rain.
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F-22 Raptor info
Yep, it took them two years to get the A-12 flying Mach 3+ at 69,000 ft, but in 26 years they haven't been able to get the environmental system in the F-22 to work.
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Who's Really Flying The Plane?
Whether it's pilots in the airplane or not, you still have the airplane, maintenance, and fuel roughly the same... which are orders of magnitude bigger cost than the pilots. What you will probably add in, and which maybe you haven't considered, is some amount of satellite bandwith, which isn't cheap.
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Who's Really Flying The Plane?
Eh.
- NATO apologises for Afghan Koran 'burning'