Helicopter refuelling terrifies me. Air-to-air refuelling is scary enough, but if you add WHIRLING BLADES OF DEATH close to a hose full of fuel...

It's not that bad, unless you start getting fuels spray across you windshield...

A few of these, a decent shaker, a long bar spoon and a strainer. You're off and running. http://www.amazon.com/OXO-Grips-Angl…

No aviator calls this a "little buddy" no matter what copy-pasta tells you. It is known as the duck or the dog (this being the official brevity term for it).

Put out another decoy... My aircraft carries 8. Besides missiles are highly unlikely to actually hit the decoy... They will fly past it in most instances and then detonate at some point once the missile or system no longer thinks it on a target aircraft or it no longer receives valid signals. Decoy stays back here…

The inside secret in the USAF is that it is easier to get a "fighter" built than a tactical bomber.

The F-111's mission was a light, fast bomber able to penetrate under Soviet-style air defenses via LANTIRN (low altitude tactical infrared for night) and deliver very early generation laser guided bombs (short flight time, constant laser on tgt, etc) ... once the B-1 and F-15E came online in the late 80's either of…

Loudest flyby you will ever see is a b-1 flyby too...

KIR 97!

I remember the Superbowl at Jerry's World in Arlington TX. I was at a super bowl party at a neighbor's house and the 4 F-18 Hornets doing the flyover flew right over his house at less than 1,000 ft. Then turning around a seeing 30-45 seconds later there they were flying over the stadium 20 miles away. then another…

I wonder if I can get a flyover set up for one of my daughter's dance events.

Sir, I don't think you have a clue how these planes are really used. In Iraq, 7 B-1s struck more targets than all 3 carrier battle groups combined, and dropped 43% of her precision guided munitions while only flying 3% of the sorties. In Afghanistan, B-1s have been flying nonstop since 9/11... There's one over…

Here's a pic I took from the cockpit with the power off last Friday. Hopefully first operational flights with this will begin in a couple of weeks as we train up our instructors on the new systems.

"The use and support it deserves" - that's an interesting statement for a plane that no longer has a useful role in the global combat theater. As cool as it is, it's a relic of the Cold War that we only keep in service to justify the immense cost of the program that developed it (and to keep military contractors who…

Have always thought this was the coolest of the cool late cold war technojets. Supersonic flight? Check. Ground hugging and sea level supersonic flight? Check.

Well, Libya during Odyssey Dawn although, admittedly, that wasn't 2014. Bones present a long loiter capability during armed overwatch. They can remain in station for hours and then drop a JDAM when least expected. They remain on station hours after the A10s and helicopters have gone home and deliver precision…

Originally built as a supersonic strategic bomber for delivering nuclear strikes on Moscow, the B-1B Lancer has played a variety of roles for the Air Force in its nearly 30 years of service. And thanks to a newly upgraded cockpit—including four multi-function color displays and a modernized Fully Integrated Data Link…

The F10 is a far more subdued design than the E60, but it doesn't suffer for it. The tail is a definite improvement over the E60, which appeared too tall and narrow a lot of the time. My 535d also had the M-Sport package, which includes 19-inch wheels and a new aero kit. It's very M5-esque and aggressive, which is…