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Plus, the CRU on your harness is super uncomfortable.
Wait, isn't the CRU the same, OBOGS or LOX?
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Pakistan Criticizes US Raid on bin Laden
Then maybe you should stop harboring terrorists, or step up your military readiness, which was clearly lacking if we invaded within 60 nm of your capital.
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I hear they're looking for a new OG exec. A brand new SOS grad seems like the perfect choice.
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no change of getting SOS in res in RPA squadron either..so not really a loss
Our sq has been sending people here and there, but you're right overall, not too many. We just sent a fully mission qaulified dude to (worthless) ASBC, so manning can't be that bad, right?
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It was a specially modified tanker...apparently carries JP-Starbucks...
Technology demonstrator follow on to the KC-135Q/T
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~10 Lts voluntarily recat'd. A little surprised at that.
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According to AP, 3nm=danger close.
They need to state what their assumptions were to arrive at those danger close numbers.
massive C-17If a C-17 is massive, what adjectives are these guys using for 777s, 747s, A380s, and C-5s? Go ugly early, I guess.
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Iran: Dog ownership to be outlawed under plan
And you thought our national legislature was off target?
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What do we really gain from the academies...
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.
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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.
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.
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The paper is essentially talking about how additional duties have pretty much become our primary duty and flying has become the additional duty.
I'd be interested in seeing that paper.
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Boeings that rip open in flight?
Opposed to an Airbus that loses its tail or disintegrates midflight? Any day.
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And the other half of the statement you highlighted, I was saying I don't think the Air Force has been a top 8 caliber team anytime recently.
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.
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Kind of fits the topic:
Let's Be Careful What We Wish For: What March-style Madness Would Do to College Football
March Madness lived up to its name like never before this season, as unthinkable upsets dominated the NCAA men's basketball tournament. But now that it's April, let's look at what all of the upsets have left us with.
Saturday's Final Four—which doesn't have any No. 1 or No. 2 seeds, and therefore none of the teams that dominated the rankings and the standings this season—has the worst combined regular-season conference winning percentage (62.9%) in the history of the tournament.
To illustrate how crazy the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament has been, The Wall Street Journal created a similarly upset-laden college-football playoff. We filled out the bracket by matching each basketball team with their equivalent football team—based on the final computer rankings from the 2010 college-football season. (We left out play-in games for simplicity's sake.) We then played out the tournament in the exact same manner that the basketball tournament has gone.
Undeniably, the journey to this point has been thrilling. Eleventh-seeded Virginia Commonwealth, whom many experts believed didn't belong in the tournament, beat five teams from five major conferences to get here. Butler made it back for a second straight year, surviving three nail-biter finishes and the loss of last season's star, Gordon Hayward, to the NBA. Kentucky and Connecticut continued late-season surges to get to Houston.It's practically sacrilege to criticize the fundamental design of the NCAA tournament, whose brackets, filled with small schools from scrappy conferences, are universally lauded. But now that the upsets have gone on ad infinitum, be honest: Are you clearing your schedule to watch Butler battle VCU?
When it comes to college football, there's no end to the constant hollering for a playoff system to replace the BCS. But it might be that college football's postseason—though flawed, detested and possibly corrupt—offers something of value that the NCAA basketball tournament often doesn't: a final slate of games that features the best overall teams playing one another (in bowl games) for all the marbles.
To illustrate how zany this year's NCAA tournament has been, and to show what such a tournament would look like if it happened in college football, the Journal has created the world's first 64-team basketball to football "conversion bracket."
To do this, we took the list of overall seeds for this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament and laid it next to the final regular-season BCS college-football standings (the ones that help determine which teams go to which bowls).
We then went through this year's NCAA tournament bracket and replaced every basketball team, by rank, with its corresponding football team. (In other words, Ohio State's basketball team, the No. 1 overall seed this year, was replaced by Auburn, whose football team ranked No. 1 in the BCS standings after the regular season. Kansas, the No. 2 basketball team, was replaced by No. 2 Oregon, and so on.)
Once the bracket was full, we "played" the games just as they've happened so far in the NCAA tournament to create our own "football final four."
The results don't exactly look like must-see TV. In one football final-four game, Northern Illinois (Butler's equivalent) would meet Air Force (our VCU doppelganger). In the other game, Kentucky's stand-in, Oklahoma State, would take on Connecticut's correlate, Virginia Tech.
Beyond producing matchups that only the most hard-core fan would want to watch, the exercise exposed another downside of tournaments: that the most-deserving teams, the ones that had the best seasons, often don't get anywhere near the championship— and this can affect the quality of the final games.
Before this year, the two Final Fours that had the worst combined seed totals in the modern era came in 2000 and 2006. The 2000 version featured Michigan State, Florida, Wisconsin and North Carolina and didn't have a single game decided by fewer than 12 points. Its contribution to basketball history was a first half between the Spartans and Badgers in which the teams scored a combined 36 points.
In the 2006 Final Four, George Mason—that year's underdog sensation—was blown out by Florida while UCLA thumped LSU.
Let's be honest: this year's Final Four could be one for the ages if Butler or VCU wins it all. But at the risk of ruining your Final Four appetite, is the basketball equivalent of Northern Illinois vs. Oklahoma State what the people want to see?
Go Falcons
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Do you have evidence or any data to back up this claim?
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
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The subsidies included money for research and development from the Nasa space agency, a panel of international trade judges has ruled.
I guess I don't understand how NASA contracting you for research is illegal.
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How Your Schedule Can Hurt (or Help) Your Health
Disruptions to our circadian rhythm, the 24-hour clock that drives sleeping and wakefulness, affect our bodies in more ways than previously believed. New research shows that each of our organs contains cells with their own circadian-clock genes that help bodily processes, such as digestion, operate with maximum efficiency at certain times of day. When a person's circadian clock is thrown off—by jet lag or shift work or eating at the wrong time—it can, over time, contribute to weight gain and depression. It may even increase the likelihood of heart and liver problems.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.
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THEY ARE F*CKING WITH THE NEW GUY. Is it really that hard to understand?
What does "freeze" mean?"Freeze" means the water had dropped below 0 C and was no longer in its liquid form.Freezing was just explained, so all bets are off.
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I'm not saying I don't believe everything uncle sam tells me, but what are the chances of a dual engine failure at 22k in a strike eagle?
Greater than dual flameout over hostile territory, ejecting, and being rescued relatively unscathed.
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Over the years the media has proven that they don't know the difference between a pilot and a WSO.
Most of the Air Force probably doesn't know the difference, so I wouldn't expect much from the media.
The F-15E Strike Eagle fighter was flying just before midnight Tuesday at22,000 feet over northeastern Libya when its engines pitched out.In the frantic seconds that followed, the plane's pilot and weapon systems
officer decided they had no choice but to eject.
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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.
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You can flame the T-6 out by a rapid reduction to idle?
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.
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Apparently Spanish ATC is the way to go:
Sky Wars: Europe Battles to Erase Borders in Air