SurelySerious

Oh, good. So you click the AP on after gear up, thanks for the engineering analysis.

Are you involved with the program, or is that your incorrect assessment? I’m not involved with the program and don’t care for your pedanticism. You described an aircraft that lacks sufficient performance to interact with the boom. What would you call that?

Excellent. Articulating requirements has not been a strong point recently.

Sounds like the AF didn’t pay enough money to unlock the WB software.

And the ability of one aircraft to perform enough to be compatible? Seems like it’s still a performance envelope problem. Also that boom isn’t stiff it’s on a ing ratchet.

More to do with the low speed aircraft/boom performance envelope there.

Anything where you’re working (no pun intended) towards a goal by tackling a challenge and can make it a positive story is not going to negatively impact getting an interview. Lots of people get laid off, so having an interim job while you try getting to another is not a death knell.

Peak SF for tourism was probably 15 years ago; now they’ve “progressed” so much they’re regressing.

We have millions of barrels of SPR to refill. Probably not a lot of bottleneck there.

Just in case: Turns out he’s free to withdraw from the Ukraine anytime.

FIFY

Also dealing with Venezuela to ease sanctions so they’ll produce more oil. If only we could produce our own.

Standard.

Valid.

I know this belongs in the C-130 thread, but as an aside what form factor fits more than 8% of the Army’s stuff that isn’t a C-17?

Best the 60s had to offer. Hey, when you’re moving from a 1950s plane to a 1960s one, it looks like an improvement.

Found the salty nerd!

That’s because you are a web bot that only copies and pastes spam about “economics” and can’t think critically about geopolitics and the narrative gain Russia potentially gets and the US potentially loses from this.

He’s likely not thinking in the same manner you would be. Things Putin would look for: justification for intensifying hostilities, painting NATO as an existential threat, and rallying his country against a common enemy to gain support. Look through that lens, and the russian line being attacked make way more sense as something beneficial to him.

Yeah, and if this is true, there’s only a singular two star at Barksdale right now so the inquiring minds are probably smart enough to figure it out. I mean, it honestly wouldn’t surprise me if he did.

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/

Actually scheduled them on that tail then waited until they were at the gate so they could see it, then rescheduled them to another aircraft/city pair and extended them into an off day.

It depends, timing is everything, keep your cranium on a swivel for opportunities, let your commander know what you want. The end.

The Russians using their grey forces to do this sounds like a bad exercise road to war script. Can we loan them some screen writers? If we’re going to end up doing this, I at least want a better plot from the Russians.