We tell the new guys that they make a highly classified AC-17 variant.

What do you suppose would happen if you were sitting in a field or a park a mile or so away from an airport, sort of near the approach but not directly under, and launched a model rocket as AF1 was passing by to land?

If the War College is essential to teach our combatant commanders the strategies they need to win in battle, then Pentagon Procurement History College is needed so that we don’t keep reliving the costly mistakes of our past.

And yet we keep re-electing our senators and representatives who are supposed to be the ones protecting us from this. In a way, they are worse than the defense industry, because at least the defense industry is relatively honest about it. Yeah, we’re here to make money. Now we can make more money if we have great PR…

I’d be amazed if those Sea Kings had less than 10K hours. It is my understanding that airframe hours are less critical in a helicopter than a fixed wing aircraft. However the dynamic components are more critical in a helo.

I know US land based aircraft have the hook, but do the SAABs?

These seats in modern aircraft are 0-0 rated. That is 0 altitude and 0 airspeed. That means if the pilot is sitting still on the ground and something goes catastrophically wrong, he should in theory be able to eject safely.

There are two types of lease that I am aware of. One is a straight up lease like you would get with a car. You pay X amount for Y time and during that time you get the aircraft, you are required to keep the aircraft up and you return it at the end of the lease at which point it gets sold to a third world country. You…

It turns out so in this case. If it was headed straight down the runway, sure, stick with it. But if it looked like it was heading for the grass before he punched out, then it’s a tough call. If it had flipped somehow it could have been worse.

I’m not sure in this case that it “saved” him. Looks to me like he would have been fine riding it out. Not that I blame him, he probably only punched out when he realized that it wasn’t going to stay on the runway.

Some of the items in that post are like saying I could have bought 100,000 oranges instead of an F-150.

If you will recall, at this stage of the F-22 program everyone was just as down on it. There would have been absolutely no support in congress (except for Georgia and Texas) for such a thing. It wasn’t until after the government decided to shut down the assembly line that the general public seemed to think the plane…

I think you misunderstand my point. I’m saying that all-white is no better or worse than all-chinese.

Who are you to question other people’s racial identity? So what if she was born to Caucasian parents. Her parents are not who she is. She identifies as a black woman. You should respect that. She isn’t doing this to mock anyone. This is no different than Caitlyn Jenner.

I don’t get the Kung Fu part. The character was half Caucasian and half Chinese. How would Bruce Lee (all Chinese) have been better? Would you have called it “yellow washing” if Bruce had gotten the role? Would the only acceptable way to cast the role been with someone of the correct mixed ethnicity?

Ten feet would probably be a new record when it comes to hostile intercepts

Sure, and you shouldn’t exceed the speed limit, and you should make full, complete stops at stop signs even when there are no other vehicles in the vicinity, and by the way, you shouldn’t yell at people behind the wheel because that is more distracting than anything else mentioned in this thread.

Or you look up and just see the light, not the car in front of you and slam in the back of them.

Yeah, the theory is that if an F-35 gets into a real maneuvering dogfight, a bunch of stuff has already gone wrong. Dogfighting is plan B (or maybe C) in the F-35.

Note that my point was that I’m NOT in AU. I’m in the US and I get that compensation package in the US. So you can dismount your high horse. The whole point was that people in the US can and do get those types of packages. So I don’t know what “labor culture” you are talking about. Sure, it isn’t mandated, but I…