Formation flying in a warplane, be it bomber, fighter or cargo, isn't all that impressive as it's seen fairly often. Now, if they had a 6-ship of all of their commercial aircraft (737, 747, 757, 767, 777, 787)...

Dear Boeing,

You know what you have to do.

At least it wasn't Comic Sans.

No. Grew up near Selfridge and had a really cool school program that sent me to work with the backshops there when they had F-16s. I was at Davis-Monthan when I was crewing.

BigGator does bring up a good point. Trying to generate 32 aircraft, at 4-5 different bases is a monumental task. You're talking a few hundred maintainers (of all different specialties), logistics, weapons, ammo... hell, you didn't even factor in the tankers to your 32 ship package.

BigGator does bring up a good point. Trying to generate 32 aircraft, at 4-5 different bases is a monumental task. You're talking a few hundred maintainers (of all different specialties), logistics, weapons, ammo... hell, you didn't even factor in the tankers to your 32 ship package.

Eh sort of, Tyler. Here's how it goes (as I remember it):

Yeah, but all of the maintainers and pilots call it Viper. Just like with the A-10, it's name is Thunderbolt II, but everyone calls it Warthog.

I've personally seen pilots as short as about 5'4" (his callsign was Chickenhawk, great guy) to as tall as 6'5". The ACES II is up/down adjustable, even in the F-16, however the recline is not (I forget the exact degree but it's to help with G's and visibility). As far as your legs in the footwells, the rudder pedals…

You're thinking of Chad Hennings, 6'6" 287 lb DE who played for the Cowboys and flew with the 92nd TFS.

FUCK THE EA-6B! Seriously, it scared the ever living fuck out of me in Afghanistan.

Story time kids! Gather round, I got pictures too!!

This story happened a few days after a rocket/mortar attack on Bagram AB, but that's a story for another time. Anyway, the Navy had some EA-6B's at the base and one had taken off…

That's a Harley. Or a Jaguar. Or a Volkswagen.

Think of it as a car company's test mule. They can't sell them as roadworthy vehicles, and Boeing most likely couldn't sell this as an airworthy passenger airframe.

Done plenty of engine leak checks on A-10s up on a ladder with the cowlings open.

Uhm, that looks more like an Airbus A400M and an Il-76 had a lovechild.

You know, I only drove once in NYC (immediately after the Thanksgiving Day Parade, yes I'm dumb) and have a couple endeavors to the Newark, Jersey City areas. None of his driving looks any different that the normal driving I saw during those trips, except that there's less traffic in Afroduck's video.

That's a great song to start the lap with though.

I know the ACES II ejection seats have a emergency beacon that automatically activates if the seat is used, and it also has a manual switch. I'm willing to guess that the SS2 has something similar (maybe even a black box type beacon) and the news chopper's audio feed also pipes in the aircraft radio.

I assume it's a locator beacon from SS2.

Damn.