I’d be fine with the Saudis not giving the MANPADS to anyone. If they want to escalate against Russia, they need to man(pad) up and send in the Saudi army in full uniform, under the Saudi flag and do it themselves. Be accountable.

Damnit man, get a camera and share!

If anyone went to an airshow at Andrews in 1982 and saw an A-10, that was me. I was the assistant crew chief on the jet and the crew chief was afraid to fly (yes, really) so I got to go out there with the jet and answer questions. The questions were usually “what kind of gun is that on the wing? (pitot tube) or on the…

Even though its days later and no one will see my comment, I want to add something.

I worked on a couple of those A-7's. Sadly, the jet I was crew chief of lost the engine over Indianapolis about a year after I left Nellis. You can Google it, I’m not going to post the details here.

Since the F-117 which could only be flown at night the pilots needed the A-7 to get training in daylight hours. Pilots also had to get in a certain number of cross country flights which usually involved flying home on the weekend to impress friends and family.

I wish I could say more about the 4450th, but one of the last things the Air Force said to me (while outprocessing from the squadron) was that the death penalty was authorized if you say anything. Even though the program’s been in the open for years, then cancelled and mothballed, no one from the DOD has ever called…

I was an A-7 crew chief with the 44550th and I think that “cloaking device” has been repainted. I seem to remember it had brighter colors and a radiation warning sticker on it. But yeah, fuel truck drivers probably got the brunt of our false indignation when they got in the area. “See that thing hanging under the…

I don’t think the drone has audio, so they edited it in.

20 years from now he’s going to take a long, sad look at his 401k and remember the money he spent on turbo pulleys and cold air vortex generators.

If you buy a German car it has to be made before noon. Because Germans drink beer on their lunch hour.

It really depends on where the round hits. A sabot round from a Abrams can zip through the thin armor of a Russian BMP leaving it able to fight back, (re: Battle of 73 Easting, 26 Feb. 1991) but if it hits the thick armor of a tank it can cause total destruction. I suspect its the same for a railgun shooting at ships.

Unexploded sensor fuzed submunition, aka skeet.

When I’m that age I’ll be sitting on the couch watching videos of other people crashing.

Why don’t cars have dimples like golf balls? I’d love to see that tested in a wind tunnel.

$1.81 for gas at Mapco?

$1.81 for gas at Mapco?

The red line is a giant parking lot for cars that can’t find their way out of the roundabout. There’s a pay phone so you can call your mum to come pick you up.

“Huffer cart”? I guess that’s a name for a dash 60 that I never heard before.

Back in 1983 the Army tried getting Air Force crew chiefs to transfer to the Army to be chopper pilots. It was a warrant officer grade, but nobody I knew took it.

Damn, apparently everybody in Slovenia drives a better car than I do.