And at least four of them were pilot error. Some of them were shortcomings on the maintenance side.

All losses are tragic - don’t get me wrong for a moment. The job is inherently dangerous, a concept us military pilots are very familiar with. What I meant by “growing pains” is whenever any new aircraft type is…

You don’t have to be smart, to be fast.

This is the bike I want.
And after this election, it will be the bike I need.

Embrace the dystopian and post-apocalyptic future! Now with two fewer wheels! WOOOOOO!

COTD.

It runs.

It is quite easy to disappear even over flat land with most aircraft.

Former Freightliner dude here (no sexy Volvo for me):
- It’s usually the hazards we hit twice, if they are tied to the brake lights (Usually are).
- Alternatively I have seen the marker lights used. There’s a ratio of roughly 1/20 truckers use the markers.
- We also often flash headlights to signal that the (leading)…

This.

My “simulated single engine failure” at a hover landings... were actually better than my landings with power. —- Probably because we did so so so many in training.

Up until the switch to LUH72s, Army Aviators would do probably close to about 300 autos before leaving flight school (depending on which IPs you got).

Most appropriate (inappropriate) song for the event.

Army LOVES the A10. Hell, we love Aviation. It’s just that those with clipboards that say things like “Savings” and “Budgetary woes” don’t like them.

Hahaha!

Gonna miiiiiiissss yoouuu... *sniffles*

Noooooooooooo!

What a twunt...

Spaceballs: Winter Olympics Edition?

I have a doctorate in Internet Memeology. Hehe.

When you’re blue and don’t know where to go to, you go down to where fashion sits.

That is just... Majestic right there. Haha! I can’t believe I hadn’t seen that one yet.