Days when it's cold and a good PA, an MTO takeoff carrying just a local fuel load, 1500 feet. Did a MCL takeoff the day after this snow and was off in about 2500

No, we just taxi real slow

My jet too! C5m pilot

We also have windshield wipers. And I flew the day after this and we had a guy with a really long squeegee clean the windshields from the cockpit windows

MTO takeoffs at local weights, just with 90k of fuel, we get off the ground in about 1500 ft

It takes us forever to de-ice, and most of the time not worth the effort because by the time you finish the second half, the first half is frozen over again

We don't have ejection seats in the C-5

It's probably the same pallet footprint, but you can't stack them as high, they'll have to be shaped, the KC-10 can carry a similar amount of pallets through it's side door but only certain shapes

If you have Google Hangouts and a google voice number, you can call through the Hangouts VOIP dialer which goes through the data connection or wifi, works on my Nexus 4 and 7

It's the concrete object on the far right, not the actual pad itself

The whole place is awesome, and a membership is a great deal just to get away to go somewhere and walk (or ingress, lots of portals there). And yeah, the bathrooms are on point

Ingress makes the hidden obvious. Walking on the street you have no idea what a building or statue is, or what may have happened on that spot, but you open Ingress and see the portal names and bam you get a general idea of what's going on. It's made walking around cities way more fun

Pretty much any US Air Force plane and controller is listening to V/UHF guard all the time

The negative Gs never get any better. I pulled just under 7gs at the controls and that was fun, but going back to the bathroom in a business jet when the pilot pulls Gs, that was a terrible time

Everything is graded, tests, flights, how your classmates like you, how the instructors like you, and then that all goes into a math formula. A list of some 20 jets gets published as what's available to each class, in a this-jet-at-specific-base format, and each student ranks those choices 1-20, and based upon their…

The former base in Lubbock looks strange from the air, it had the same runway layout as all the other pilot training bases of several parallel runways, and you can still mostly see the runways and taxiways, but now there are buildings and windmills on it, which is just a little eerie to those of us at a pilot training…

The name is actually CL-10, meaning Commercial Launch 10, they just made it CLIO to make it more interesting

It never got better over the several years and times I had to have it

We had the same thing happen. We were babysitting two females and a male, the two females had babies, the next day there were no babies, the next day there was no male, the day after that there was only a two legged female hamster left.