It's an STLS (Stinger Launch Simulator). I, as a PFC commo puke in Germany (HHB 4/1 ADA 32nd AADCOM), was on a STLS range detail. All the Stinger crewmen had already qualified and they had quite a few STLS left, so they invited us POG's out to have a go. It was pretty cool; all you're firing is the ejection motor,…

Let's assume a carrier is sailing due North—-and that the wind is coming out of the North, making any final landing approach logically from the SOUTH, so that the plane has the slowest practical landing speed (headwind plus carrier speed, minus minimum approach speed of carrier plane means your effective approach…

Ah go back to Jezebel and stop bitching.

First thought;

Yours truly, circa 1989 (as if you couldn't tell from the shorts). Sorry, couldn't resist posting — It was a handful moments like this that explain why I'm reading FA in the first place.

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The complete term is "overhead break" to help you google. In a nutshell, Maverick never left his wingman and they can only land one at a time, so they break the formation in a completely testosterone worthy fashion. Maverick goes 90° out from the tower (highspeed at extreme angles of bank of course), Iceman continues…

On a side note about "shit hot" breaks... Aircrew love them but as a Prowler mech I hated them, I'm sure airframes hated them more.

Before aircraft land on the carrier they have to go into the "break". Typically they fly along the starboard side, turn around ahead of the ship and fly back along the port side, then turn around behind the ship for their final approach. They're all in a specific pattern. A shit hot break would be a pilot pushing the…

Well, obviously it's 5 better than the T-33. Why else is it an improvement?

That's all training. The USAF loss rate was quite a bit lower, and the Spanish air force didn't even lose one F-104. The Canadians, on the other hand, lost almost half of theirs... which is about how well those hosers did with their F-86 fleet.

The often-quoted Blackstone's formulation says, "It is better that 10 guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer." Benjamin Franklin later tweaked the quote, changing the 10 to a whopping 100. Hernandez later shot Benjamin Franklin, after an altercation at a nightclub.

It barely works as it is, and could only stop a few relatively simple missiles at most. Russian ballistic missiles, complete with decoys, MIRVs, and other counter-measures in swarms numbering in the thousands would easily prove too much for the system.

You are so edgy and cool.

Confusing list. I expected him to use bullets.

"Murder multiple people" was on the list, but checked off, as it had been completed.