Besides.... It would be criminal to paint over that faded "SAC" logo.... Those bad boys on an aircraft are rare...

I'm with you MDP310..... It's called "patina"..... And you leave that shit alone... It's hard earned and bleeds history......

Flew the F-16 for 5 years. I was assigned to the 93rd fighter squadron "Mako's", 482nd Fighter Wing out of Homestead AFB...

Just as a mention of respect.... We lost 31 B-52's in Vietnam. 17 of those birds were shot down in combat the rest were lost to various causes. Most of those men who manned those 17 aircraft never came home. The North Vietnamese military would usually only send the higher ranking crew member to Hanoi. Pilots & 2nd…

Who?!!!!!!!! You say something.!!!!????

Thomas_The_Wank.......

Sports John...... This may come as a surprise to you, but most USAF pilots are not English majors.... And what's even MORE STRANGE.... You can't read our handwriting for shit....

Hungryjack..... I was trying to read the text but my eye's just kept drifting to those ridiculous hats.... I cracked up when In saw a group of men... on an aircraft... wearing floor length trench coats (ALL OF THEM.... INCLUDING DOUGH BOY)... with some wearing fur Commy Cap's (on the aircraft) and other having a…

The BUFF will be around for a long time. When Boeing designed that aircraft it was one of those moments in the aeronautical time line when everything came together and someone had the gut's and vision to build the damned thing.....

One of the reasons Star Trek struggled was Roddenberry's insistence on making the show a platform to preach his political agenda and beliefs from. Roddenberry was a hard core progressive socialist. He LOATHED capitalism (but like most Hollywood liberal enjoyed the capital that comes along with capitalism) If you even…

There is absolutely nothing wrong with the F-22 Raptor. In two years it will get it's "C" variant update which will really change the way that the jet would engage the enemy. The Raptors is a very good bird, it can fly circles around just about everything. But that isn't what makes it so damned lethal. The F-22 is a…

Tyler

Keith... If you have a smaller payload you multiply the number of payloads you deploy from a single launch. The record off one of the big Titan 4 heavy lift rockets is 4 different satellite systems on one rocket. You just get more creative with the deployment system.... not that difficult as long as you have the…

Nah.... I'm certain they would have auto-destruct or chutes as backup.... Every rocket shot off the pad at Kennedy can be exploded if it veers off course.... That was basic rocketry in a civilized area.

Yes, perhaps not as much right now while most of our attention is on Mars and the upcoming Pluto Flyby. But there will be a day at some point in our future that having hyper accurate maps of our solar system and someday maybe even the stars will be as important as having hyper accurate GPS coordinates is to today's…

Fine ships all... As were/are the men who sailed them... I will however speak to one issue brought up... The Arleigh Burke Class guided missile destroyer is no "vulnerable pushover"... and perhaps that is not what the author is driving at. I had an opportunity in a RIMPAC exercise some 8 to 10 years ago to climb out…

I don't mean to sound trite. However, the ongoing attacks on the development of the F-35 is why the DOD should NEVER, EVER allow a military jet to be developed in a transparent study. The development of the F-22 Raptor is a good place to compare the F-35 Lightning II. The Raptor began development in earnest in 1997.…

Lizzam..... He did that on purpose. Even when you get a complication tag on your private pilots license (retractable landing gear, multiple pitch prop, radar, Night operation, IFR...etc etc) you are taught how to deal with trouble with those complications. If a landing gear becomes hung up, you are taught that if it…

The phenomenon on Saturn's rings is undoubtedly because of CO2 being spread into the rings by billions of little Saturnites driving Space SUV's. They even have been told that all the ice rings will be melted by 2021 and the water from them will create a HUGE fresh water ocean on Titan. The Little Liberal Saternites…

I caught a few rides on tanker aircraft while going to and from unit and training locations. They taxi people all the time. Had the opportunity to get Yoke time in a DC-10-30CF. A Boeing DC-10 Triplejet known at Boeing as the KC-10 Extender Frame. The 2nd officer contracted food poisoning and I was rated and good on…