The answer in my case is women.... 10 pairs of shoes, 12 dresses, hair dryer, and god knows what else for a 5 day trip ...ugh.

Yep, I do that too, we went to jamaica and had like 53lbs in one bag 40 something in the other...easy solution move some to the other bag...problem solved in the end the weight is exactly the same and its stupid... I could understand if it was like 75 because of the people moving it but 3 lbs give me a break.

The lost luggage is definitely part of the driver for it. When I travelled a lot for work I always carried 3 days of work clothes because about every 5th trip my bag would disappear for a couple days. A coworker was on a plane where they literally forgot to load anyone’s bag out of portugal and actually added weight…

in planes front to back weight balance and course left to right is generally more important

Being from Morgantown (home of wvu) it would be just as likely the weight sensor for cargo would be detecting a keg of beer or a couch to be burned after a football game...lol

Think you just described ecoBoost to a T as well, from everyone I know who has one.

id say generally speaking transports take longer, since they have multiple of each system and the crews usually aren’t in the same kind of hurry.

Remember people also wanted to stop the F-16 during its initial stages and problems. People also forget the early F-16s were also considered not combat ready, and needed quite a few modifications after many of the first blocks were built and have been updated almost continually since then.

Avionics maintenance, both active duty and national guard.

There is only 7 on the ramp in this picture, but usually several were on the road at any time...in fact as you can see there is only room for 8 on the ramp.

My old squadron had 11 C-5’s but now we have just 8 C-17s its pretty much up to the leadership. When I worked C-130s we had 12, and F-16s we had 21 but some squadrons had 24 or more....

Radios break on all airplanes even ones that have been around 50 years...they have more than one usually on larger planes so its no biggie, usually smaller aircraft only have one UHF and one VHF.

And as a maintainer I can tell you switching planes always causes MC rates to go down. Pilots and Maintainers have to gain knowledge on the systems that often you just cant cover in conversion training. Sure you go over main systems but then you have to get down to the nitty gritty of where minor parts are how to…

To be fair its engines will probably be upgraded in different block models etc, just like the F-16’s or other planes have... The Block 50 F-16 makes quite a bit more power than the block 15-30 series. But I keep hearing this underpowered argument and then I have also read pilot reports that say it is powered just…

We had names for F-16 parts we were asked not to use....such as TWAT Travelling wave amplification tube (Radar part)... they then shortend it to TWT. Stupid PC rules.

Yep I did the 458 there my cousins boyfriend did the LP-570, was a great time... I felt just like her though I did 7 laps but by the time I felt like I was really getting the hang of the car it was over....might be safer that way...lol

We used to say the same thing about air planes in the air force the more you flew them the less they broke.... C-5s broke all the time, F-16s run the crap out of them...they will break too but it seems a lot less.

JEEP (Just Empty Every Pocket)....it was true of any Jeep owner I ever knew. I loved my TJ I miss it a lot, 33’s 4 inch lift, front and rear bumpers a winch.... it was fantastic. But then as many northern vehicles do rust over took it faster than I could keep it going *RIP*

ugg burn that truck with fire.

Its not just the engine, brakes, cooling capacity, transmission, axle ratios, climbing a grade all come into play for ratings. You see Dodge 1500/2500 both with 5.7 L but there is more to it than just the engine.