"Fox 2. Cock 1 kill bandit" (Cock 1 fired a simulated AIM-9 Sidewinder. It was not defended and called a kill by Cock 1.)

You were coming... Heh, heh, heh.

Amen, my brutha.

We trained in a pressure chamber to learn to recognize the symptoms of hypoxia. They took us quickly up to a simulated altitude of 25,000 feet within a couple of minutes, and within a couple minutes more, all of us were severely incapacitated to the point of almost being unable to put on our O2 masks.

I'll liken the experience to cockpit vertigo. Your brain may be telling you that the light is nothing and is not another airplane that is going to hit you in about ten seconds, but when your eyes are looking right at it and saying (as I once did to my pilot who was NOT seeing an imminent collision: descend, descend,…

I've had several occasions when either I or my pilot were unable to ascertain the closure of another aircraft and we maneuvered to either avoid it or to further judge its relative motion.

You're exactly right. Being stacked up like that is, literally, eye-watering. It's even worse on the boat; the jets are lined up just a few feet from each other. Even though we were on 100% O2, the fumes entering the cockpit through the ECS were bad enough to almost blind us. I remember sitting there, waiting up…

If the offending aircraft was receiving radio warnings, it would have already followed instructions to turn away. The fact it is being intercepted indicates it is not receiving the radio warnings.

A. You can't shoot trespassers. Legally or morally, anyway.

I'm warning you; do not look this up.

Even in California, eight rounds is perfectly legal, assuming one is not hunting (in which case, three is the maximum allowed and the gun must be plugged beyond that capacity).

"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding." ~Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis

If you absolutely must do this, hang a long, obvious red ribbon from the shower cap, such that, after cooking is finished, you will not be able to miss the pennant dangling in space, reminding you to remove the cap.

We play "Credit Card Roulette," whereby we all throw a card into a hat and let the waitress draw the "winner."

The next and every time you want to post, why don't you turn off your computer for two minutes. Why? Because I said so, that's why. I may not have any logical justification, but just pretend I am some sort of authority and inconvenience yourself a bit at my whim.

Si vis pacem, para bellum.

iElvis is correct in everything he posted.

Well, let's see. Electricity costs about a dime per kilowatt-hour. If your charger uses one Watt for one hour, the amount of electricity you are using is about $0.00001 (1/100 of a cent). If the outlet costs $10.00, amortized over, say, 10,000 uses, the per-use cost of the outlet is $0.001 - (one tenth of a cent).

I've personally done 40' at 540 knots down a highway in Nevada, but we had a saying: "You can only tie the low altitude record."

The nuances and body language of the aircraft directors and pilots are far to complex for this to work anytime soon.