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They need to state what their assumptions were to arrive at those danger close numbers. If a C-17 is massive, what adjectives are these guys using for 777s, 747s, A380s, and C-5s? Go ugly early, I guess.

Iran: Dog ownership to be outlawed under plan And you thought our national legislature was off target?

Unless you went to MIT, Stanford, or USC for an engineering degree (or maybe a Harvard for fuzzy type degrees), a much better academic program.

Dr. Yechout, great guy, and he loved telling those stories. I say we made a great choice... it could have been Close relative of And people think the A-10 is ugly.

I'd be interested in seeing that paper.

Opposed to an Airbus that loses its tail or disintegrates midflight? Any day.

Recent is relative. If you're Rainman and the 1985 season when they were 12-1, beat Texas in the bowl game and finished #5 is recent, then they are a high caliber team. Or if you are Oklahoma last year and AF nearly beat you, they're a good team.

Kind of fits the topic: Let's Be Careful What We Wish For: What March-style Madness Would Do to College Football Go Falcons

That's probably going to be tough to get unless someone specializes in sociology/behavioral science. One metric may be the FBI's Age-specific arrest rates in its Uniform Crime Report. There are no alcohol related categories, but the general trend for the different listed offenses is lower arrests for 21 versus 18. However, that could be due to many factors. Edit: Some more reading material, although there is probably plenty of contradictory evidence. Brain Changes Significantly After Age 18, Says Dartmouth Research. Actual Report. One slide summary

I guess I don't understand how NASA contracting you for research is illegal.

How Your Schedule Can Hurt (or Help) Your Health So UAV operators should be keeping track of their time like guys who use NVGs? What I want to see is the picture for when you change schedules monthly and are on mids.

Freezing was just explained, so all bets are off.

Greater than dual flameout over hostile territory, ejecting, and being rescued relatively unscathed.

Most of the Air Force probably doesn't know the difference, so I wouldn't expect much from the media. U.S. Elaborates on Jet Mishap

Air Force Accepts Delivery of Final MQ-1 Predator It is unfortunate that Congress saw a need for more than 187, but hopefully the procurement process for the next system includes some meaningful testing and evaluation... maybe even a competitive process.

Fired workers burn Indian executive to death

As said above, shouldn't happen. Aside from everyone, myself included, having Empirical data on the matter, all power requests go through the PMU, a digital engine control. Being a computer, it has no feeling of fear that may arise from excessive closure, and it moderates between the user input and prevailing conditions pretty well.

FAA Guidance Circular 91-21.1B

Yes, and everything I've read says that Boeing put the offer together with the PW 4062 on the wings... hence the joke.

True. What I'm waiting for is GE to demand a second engine option.

Boeing's website says it is a KC-10 style boom with ALAS and IDS. Looks like it is possibly a camera system, though, from what I can tell. The avionics look decent on the pilot side.

Haha, my german is rusty (i.e. nonexistent), but I take it the article says EADS won (EADS gewinnt... gewonnen) because the A330 is more modern and bigger (weil die A330 im Vergleich zum Konkurrenten Boeing 767 moderner und größer ist). NICE!

I would argue it is pervasive in U.S. society, not just the military. On that topic, can't wait to read "Everyone's a Winner: Life in Our Congratulatory Culture" As far as the shooter, that's not something that should be on his OPR, it should be part of an OSI (or CID in the Army's case) investigation. Why no one connected the dots would be my question. Not wanting to link him with being a radical Islamic goes back to what Steve Davies posted

I'm pretty sure no one at creech is drawing "combat pay."

Anyone from Cannon, throw spears if I'm painting the wrong picture for this dude. -ACC (Creech, Whiteman): 8 hr shifts (3 non-overlapping per day) which at Creech will end up being 10 hrs away from home when you count transit and showing early for the shift brief. 5 days on-3 off, or 6 on-2 off; depends on job manning (P/SO/MIC) and squadron [for instance, some sqs have pilots on 5-3, whereas the intel kids are 6-2 because the intel manning is short]. Change shift about every 4-5 weeks. -AFSOC (Cannon): 12 hr shifts (3 f'ed up overlapping per day... at least how it was explained to me). Probably have similar transit issues in the Clovis/Portales metropolis. In ACC most SQs deploy for LRE, and from what I've seen it is on a volunteer basis as often as you please, 4 months at a time. Some guys deploy and end up going right back because they wanted to. Less than it used to be. The AFSOC SQs are people hungry, and Whiteman has just opened. Many of the guys dropping UAVs lately have been tagged for Whiteman, but the SQs still at Creech are all still growing (except the reaper only sq, which is offset by the greater magnitude of growth of everyone else there). Supporting ground units, helping eliminate terrorists, defending freedom. Working with return to AD Lt Cols; some of them have some crazy life stories and they're all good dudes. You become pretty close with the people on your shift. Also: Supposed promise that all from UPT will get to go to a real cockpit. -Having to experience the "liked" activities from a UAV GCS (it is NOT the same as flying, but it's better than "working" in MPF [except that the MPF "work" schedule seems to be every third Tuesday, which is probably nice]) -95% of the time it isn't mentally engaging, and there are no windows -Having a community with no coherent way of operating. Every squadron has radically different standards, techniques, and operating principles. Our "tactics" are devoid of any useful information. When you put these together, it makes the collective operation inefficient because the people we support expect one thing from working with one unit and get another from the next, or they have inexplicable and unfulfillable expectations. -The Pred/Reaper and GA GCS combo... quite possibly the most poorly designed weapon system, ever. Given the lack of contract/bidding process, testing and evaluation, and buying a computer company's airplane, we have an abominable control interface paired with an equally abominable aircraft. The "upgrades" we keep getting are stiiiiiiillll total crap. In the last 15 years, and $690 million they haven't had the time or resources to employ anyone who has human factors or aircraft design experience. What the TEG does is also questionable. -Having the intel community talking to you for 8 hrs straight (i.e. back seat driving, sq dependent) -Switching shifts is awesome NOT -You really only have the chance to know 1/3 of your squadron, and due to 24/7 ops in most units, it is pretty much impossible for a whole sq event to take place -The commute -Vegas (Great place to vacation, weird place to live, but that is def a personal opinion)