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These are sad days, my friend.

14 year old kid arrested for refusing to remove his NRA t-shirt. This'll be a good one to follow.

Japanese "eye ball licking" trend raises concerns about causing blindness.

Miniature helicopter controlled by human thoughts. The helos will become self aware any day now, and then we're all doomed.

I agree with that; I'm just saying the point of the entire newscast was to try to spread fear about how dangerous it is to fly into Reagan. Who knows what was actually happening inside the cockpit of the Huey? Just more sensationalism by the media. Glad there wasn't an accident.

So they maintained visual separation and didn't collide? What's the issue? The only reason this made the news is because the media outlets got bent out of shape over the fact that there wasn't a tragic loss of life; what a bunch of leaches.

Islamic cleric, who personally instructed one of the attackers, praises them for their "courage."

The latest trailer for PLANES. Looks like it should be pretty entertaining for those of you with kids and for those of us that are easily distracted by shiny objects:

A China Air 747 dropped chunks of its airframe across Georgia; the debris landed in a lady's house and a Walmart parking lot. Maybe this was actually a flight test to confirm the effectiveness of the J-20's secret weapon: the ability to arbitrarily jettison random parts of itself across enemy territory. Time will tell.

If you have the time to do the research, Beach Dr in downtown St Pete has a bunch of nice condos on the water that you might be able to get a short term lease on. The commute to MacDill wouldn't be too bad from there. You'd be next to Albert Whitted Airfield, one of USF's campuses, some museums, and a decent little downtown with some pretty good concert venues if you want to relive your 80's punk glory days.

The AF will have to follow this through to its logical conclusion in all sectors of our communities...Landed gear up? Had a midair collision due to negligence? Q1E's all around, because we can't discriminate against the bad pilots; it's not fair to them per the AFI...NMR for beans, vaccinations, and going over due on your physical by 24 months? No big deal! We can't hold that against you just because you're irresponsible! We would never show any discrimination between our sharp officers and our weak swimmers! While we're at it, we better give the Air Force Cross and the Medal of Honor to everyone too, just so no one gets left out; it's only fair.

Not sure if Gen Mattis did anything for the crew behind the scenes, but according to the Tampa Bay Times, he had this to say: The rest of the article is pretty weak.

You're going make up for the 3 hours of 7 horsepower, single engine recip time you'd get at IFS once you get to the FTU...in like half of a sortie.

It definitely is; the proliferation of technology is ridiculous. Things seem to be antiquated before they even get produced. "Oh you have the newest Kindle? Neat-o because here's a piece of electronic paper that's 500,000 times better, but it's not quite as cool as this USB cable you jab into your ear that uploads all the world's knowledge directly to your brain."

Looks like pen and ink will be going away sooner than expected. Creepy stuff. https://www.stuff.tv/...flexible-friend -----break-----

Requesting to go to IFS is like requesting to go to MEPS again; you know, just to make sure they didn't miss anything the first time around.

I can't imagine it does, especially on a small aircraft; I'm thinking this is going to be a big waste.

Gulfstream files patents for supersonic jet: https://www.flightglobal.com/news/articles/gulfstream-reveals-new-supersonic-aircraft-inlet-designs-in-patent-filings-380364/

They obviously haven't been respecting the groomin standard. Good thing they've got a solid sergeant major in charge to set things straight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MngiPtthMJc

It already is as of 29 August 1997; right now it's just waiting.

Whaaaat? It was always my understanding that under your own roof, you're the AC, IP, FLT/CC, Chief Pilot, DO, SQ/CC, OG/CC, WG/CC, NAF/CC, MAJCOM/CC, CSAF, CJCS, POTUS, and Potentate of the World Bank. The Hobbit was pretty good if you've got a free three hours, and you liked the book as a kid. Some liberties were taken with the story, but it was entertaining.

This would probably come in handy...if it didn't keep blowing out the circuit breaker panel of every home and small business in Germany. https://www.theverge....kw-laser-weapon

Yale has OpenCourseWare as well. https://oyc.yale.edu/ If you're en route to ROTC, USAFA, or you're trying to figure out if you want to enlist before going to school, browsing through some of these lectures could save you a bit of heartache by finding out where your interests lie. Cheers.

Two Argentinian A-4s a short distance from HMS Broadsword during the Falklands War

It's in the "WTF" thread because every reasonable person who reads that article says, "WTF? Why wasn't this information released 50 years ago?" But you're right; this gem might need to be pinned.