BolterKing

Cleared hot Ishmael

This chick would require 1.) more than just a "few" and 2.) a complete lack of other options

Listening to it now... only 1/4 of the way through and it's already the best $9.99 I've ever spent on iTunes. My face hurts from laughing at "My Wifes Vibrator."

Shack. Amazing how decieving a padded bra is too.

Shack.

Resilient is just a PC way of saying "suck it up." More deployments, less support, a war that has lost any meaning, and no end in sight. Is it really that hard to figure out?

“They owned the high ground,” Delaney told Air Force Times last year. “They had fire superiority. They had hundreds of people. And we killed almost all of them and didn’t lose a single American in seven hours of battle. It was seven hours of full-blown, slugfest, back-and-forth, rounds-smacking-right-over-your-head battle.” ######ing awesome.

Posts are getting too long, someone post a gratuitous picture of boobs.

They were fighting amongst themsevles... not defending the continent from the asian invaders. Not arguing the merits of ending genocide, but other wise, they can defend themselves. Look at defense spending as a percentage of GDP around the EU, know why it's so low? We foot the f'ing bill and provide all the man power. Why? They've been able to build their socialist EU utopia under the umbrella we've provided. They can defend it on their own.

1.) It takes two of you to fly a model airplane doing 90 knots, of course you get no respect. 2.) You're not in theater 3.) I've yet to hear of an RPA "pilot" killed when "X" went wrong.

F it, let Europe defend itself.

There was a pretty big write up on this dude and his wife a while back, he lost his command for her hijinks. She's a real piece of work. http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/06/ap_drinkwine_wife_bragg_bct_061110/

Agreed.

Holy shit, I just crapped myself. Find of the year.

Pretty f'ing cool. Replace "SJ" with "Korea" and 1000 targets around the "state" with "North Korea."

Hot damn, there is a Spartan Executive for sale on Moose's link. Hands down one of the best looking airplanes ever built. I would do unspeakable acts to own one of those. Unspeakable acts.

If you buy it, can I get a ride as a finders fee?

Huggy check this out!!! http://www.trade-a-plane.com/detail/1240285.html

Have to wait for the report to come out. I've heard contradictory reports in the media that they were circling over head dumping prior to the crash, and others that they crashed right after take off. While they could've been dumping, I'm not sure why. Heavy landing isn't that big of a deal, getting on deck is the higher priority when you're on fire, but that's all speculation based on inconsistent data. A catostrphic failure in the AMAD bay (gear box that drives fuel pump, gen, hyd pump, etc) could have let to fuel pouring out from there under pressure. Don't know though. Wrong-O dude. Hornet had an uncontained engine failure last year on the flight deck during CQ, injured 8 or 9 people. Another a few months before that in the Arabian Sea made an emergency landing with a dual engine fire. While not common, it does happen.

In light of the other discussion, this dude warrants his own thread. And possibly a statue cast in bronze. A warrior in every sense of the word. http://www.airforcetimes.com/news/2012/04/air-force-blinded-airman-awarded-bronze-star-040612w/

Jet flies fine on one engine, especially light (one centerline and pylons). Buddy of mine lost an engine on the cat shot in in a combat loaded jet (two drops, three 500 #ers) and didn't even realize he'd lost the motor until after he cleaned up. Never got any master caution/warning or aural tones. Have to wait until they pull the info from the DFIRS to see what actually happened.

Rumors that tower reported they were on fire on takeoff. Was an F-18D, you can tell from pictures of the ejection seats on them interwebs, older seats, not the new SJU-17. There are Deltas with the newer seat, but those are high lot jets most of which are in Marine fleet squadrons, but I digress. Yes seat/man seperation happens right after the chute opens (which is packed in the head box (heh). Winds of 20G25 in the Hornet are not that big of a deal, compressor stalls in the F404 are pretty rare unless you suck something down like a bird. They operate just fine at 70 knots and 45+ AOA. The Canadian jet that crashed was doing a slow speed/high AOA demo practice and lost a motor, usually about 25 AOA and 110 knots or so, 35 AOA is C/Lmax. On takeoff you'll rarely exceed single digit AOA. Agree that one nozzle open, the other closed indicates an engine problem (speculation) however the three loud bangs everyone heard was probably the ejection sequence. Canopy, back seat, front seat. Know the guy in the back, good/smart dude. Hoping everyone on the ground is ok. This is going to turn into a political shit storm given the vocal nature of local opponents to the base.

For all the wannabe's out there that think this gives them an air tight path to an F-22 cockpit: What this is really saying is there is a shortage of pilots for OTHER jobs that don't require actual flying. There is zero danger of cockpits sitting empty.

L-19? UC-78 (awesome)? http://www.trade-a-plane.com/for-sale/aircraft/special-use/warbird

Huggy, what is it you're looking for? Low, slow, cheap, tooling around with the doors open?