Gen 3,4 Vipers look way better in person than in photographs compared to Gen 1,2,5 which are stunning in photos. I’m bias my answer is always Viper.

I'll add one thing that makes me very excited if I go Growlers, and I was recently told this by 0-5 in a fleet fly-in. The RAAF is going to do an exchange tour with the US so the plan is by 2017 to have EWO in the back seat flying to Australia for a tour. Do want!

I have about 1000 questions sir. My roommate and I are currently in VT-86 about to start the final push through AWI. Both of us go back and forth every day between rhinos and growlers. We will hopefully wing in June. Any information about squadron life, Whidbey, the growler frs life, why we should go growlers would…

The 1989 Viper Concept

April fools?

I remember the all hands call on DDG-93. As a MIDN they loved the free labour. It wasn't so bad, but I was only on the ship for a month.

If we are being technical all officers when we retire resign our commission. It's just jibber jabber though.

The dos gringos are flipping awesome.

If you aren't maneuvering your planes(hands) in 3d space, you simply aren't utilizing your hands enough during a conversation.

The damage, and the business still conducted within the White House while the president is away. It would disrupt a lot, but options are options.

I couldn't agree more with you. Unless you shut down the white house for two weeks at a time every 6 months and let the Secret Service train this is the only option to get trained individuals in place..

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.