Wow, it beat it in a gunfight.

(Weird, reply went to the wrong spot)

I don’t blame ya. The static line guys are always like “Man... going this slow [compared to the C130s], it looks like we are going to jump on each other’s chutes!”

I have yet to fall out of a perfectly good airplane, because there weren’t any slots for training earlier in my career. Now I have a left knee that is an…

I’m just another dude trying to navigate through life. Becoming a pilot in the Army was a lot of effort, but it was equally dumb luck. I was at the right place, and the right time when they started a new unit.

That all being said, I look at the ground guys with a shit ton of respect. Those are the guys that were…

^Army Blackhawk Pilot that does helocast. That “we.” Haha!

Army and Marine Corps use the term. Not sure about Navy and Air Force. I’d assume Navy uses the same terminology as Marines on this one.

Damn... everything about this bike is redicu-awesome. Hat’s off to the wondrous madmen that made this thing a possibility!!!

Meh. The only semi-quiet helicopters out there are... *cough* ... that is to say if those quieter helicopters are out there, they are for very special missions. They still make... *cough* I assume they would still make a distinctive enough swoosh/womp of their own. Chinooks have a distinct womp-womp-womp to them, but…

Sweet baby jeebs, that was pretty much what I was imagining (sans the Karhu, but it was assumed there was alcohol)

I too look forward to a row boat taking out 100 Russian subs.

FINNISH HIM!!!

Ninja, please.

True.

In this case, surprisingly it’s not.

The aircraft do build up a great deal of static though... much to the surprise of a new crew chief or junior medic that grabs the hoist without letting it hit the ground first.

*Bzzzzzzzt.*

Yep, rotary-wing chemtrails! (I look forward to hearing about someone seriously thinking this is a “thing” in the future)

“Helocast” is the term we use. Generally they are for SF insertions (via water apparently). That’s it. No real fancy explanation. Some semi-covert ninja’ing. They don’t ninja anything that don’t need ninja’ing though.

Oh, it’s definitely true. It’s why I compare it to a botched face lift. Because it was a botched facelift, haha.

I will say, when I bought a brand-spanking-new 2002 Focus ZX5, it was for two reasons:
Hatchback.
Handling.

I honestly thought everything but the SVT looked “blegh” but one test drive and my commuter-arse was sold.

The next year, the bettter-looking and slightly-better-equipped Mazda3 came out (which shared the platform).…

I kept getting the Foci equivelants... and they weren’t equivelants. The Mazda3’s have been awesome for each generation.

(Only the RS Focus makes me wrong, but that is essentially an entirely different car).

Seriously, it’s like... get the Pilot Super Sports for a DD... because the next choice up are slicks.

(Thus the salvage-NEW-Beatle goal here. I love a classic car, but I would also love to survive a crash)