Once I get my wings, hopefully in June I'll hit you up. I don't want to jinx myself!

As a current student NFO and about half way through the jet training syllabus this is a huge goal in my career. After being down here at NASP for the past two years, and seeing the blues is the 2nd coolest thing on a random day. This whole writeup just makes me unbelievably excited. Excellent stuff Tyler.

Yep exactly and even flying at 60kts it becomes impossible.

Yes absolutely, in fact most SOPs state an aircraft shall not fly through an area of forecasted Sigmets (thunderstorms), but one of the ways to circumvent the rule legally, and be able to fly, is to see the cells and avoid. If it is a beautiful day and you see the individual cells this will work, but if the…

FLIR may have helped, it's really hard to say because we don't know what they were using.

I imagine the fog rolled in on them because in the evening it wasn't this bad. They reported it around 2030L last night. If they took off around 1800 the vis wasn't remotely as bad as what they returned too. If they were in the restricted area they would have only seen a cloud layer and not what was hanging below…

I shared this over at Gawker, and Oppo. Here is a pic of the fog that cancelled my sortie this morning taken at 0730. The water tower in the right corner is about 1/3 of a mile from where I was standing. The TAF has the ceilings lifting around 0930L and breaking up through the rest of the day. USAToday said the…

Doug, have you seen the videos of H1's driving straight up walls? Are you going to try this? Also, put the SRT-10 engine in. More TQ and HP!

I don't know if that FJ can climb up a PT cruiser or a vertical wall.

On the growler videos it's the new electronic displays. This might be more of the same.

Oh puffalumps. He is a writer here.

I didn't read your other comments just the one you replied to me with, and I didn't see you mention the budget just the 10 vs 100mm. This training is extremely valuable. Large force exercises LEF, prepare us to work with other branches in stressful situations while maintaining mission readiness. The debriefs let us…

It isn't like when we do these exercises we ask for more money from taxpayers. All these expenses are built into the annual defense budget. This training isn't an extra cost on top of our budget, and the money could not be used for anything else which you think would be more valuable. The cost is built into what we…

I'm not looking to argue, I'm just curious. What would you rather we do or are you genuinely curious of the cost and that is all?

Alot of has to do with training over water, weather, and a safe location. Getting comfortable maneuvering over water takes flight hours, you can't crash in to anything. we can use our ships radars to track everything in the exercise for debrief. If an accident happens landing in the ocean means no collateral damage.…

Soon it will be the Bio Fuels the Navy is developing. Future tech is ready to make some very large advancements.

I would do a lot of things to get my hands on the ability to own that car. A few of the other Viper owners have some million dollar car collections, but I've never met anyone with an MC-12. You can be the first!

No no, not a 12C. An MC-12

Using a piece of machinery, vehicle, weapon in a way that is dangerous to bystanders is against the law. Your arguments aren't logical. A human life is a human life. If I murder a murderer, I still get charged with murder. You claim the deaths shouldn't count because they were street racing spectators, and racing…

I don't know what you do, and I like the mystery of it all. I just want to appreciate what you do for the car world, and if by any chance you ever happen to get my all time dream car of a MC-12 I really would love some personal pics. I get to play with multi-million dollar government toys, but one day when this is…