charlielima
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Affirmative. AOCS. I was across the street at the Naval Aircrew Candidate School in the early 80's.
Very entertaining during their "Poopy Week"
CL
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I believe in local warming.
Every day it gets warmer during the day after the night.
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of all things pissing me off today this is the least of them.
Irritation Rex
Known here as CL
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Iconolasters huh ?
I believe the activists ( ex occupy, anarchists, anitifa, and what what paid by george soros ) wont be happy until every city in the USA is named after somebody not associated with western civilization.
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I just saw/heard the most retarded thing on FOX news. Well allright I can see tracy galleger calling all helos (and Choppers Army guys) Blackhawks. But he stated Navy FIGHTER pilots where heroicly jumping in the water to save people.
A big dis to the enlisted Aircrewmen.
CL
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I was on both the Coral Sea and the Midway in the Mid 80s. No F-14s or F-18s assigned to CAG-14 or CAG 5 then. VF squadrons had F-4s.
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Why does the SR-71 have rear view mirrors ?
Really. I'm serious this time.
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Yup Texas Ranger La Boeuf has left us.
And this is no Sierra.
Who would of known ?
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Yep, seen it and enjoyed it, quite realistic and daunting. Kenneth Brannah held a great deal of the movie together with his portrayal of a Naval Commander who is tasked with getting the soldiers evacuated from the beaches whilst under constant air attack.
The only small criticism I can make is appearance of the fake Me-109 which is infact a Spanish HA-1112Buchon , but nevertheless I thought it was good enough to add to my movie collection whenever it becomes available on DVD.
I would give it 4 stars out of five.
Yah even 50 years ago there were no shortage of spanish CASAs and ME-108s in the WW-2 movies. I'm looking forward to this movie tho.
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Well heres another step forward.
http://fireaviation.com/2017/07/25/747-supertanker-obtains-interim-approval/
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RIP
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Amazing and beautiful.
Hmm?
EF-10, and ECM/ ESM bird with 4x20 mike mikes.
I'll snivel for one later.
Thanks Kevin, Bitchin' post and wicked pictures.
CL
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152nd airlift wing, Nevada ANG has been activated with the MAFFs system.
Sorry don't have a link. but the maffs don't get called up until all the contractors are assigned.
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And the 747 Air Tanker that the US Forest Service refuses to use on Federal lands
I stand corrected.
This does look like a ground pounder friendly system.
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Yah what a mess Typhoid. The US Forest Service contracting ( yes the forest service only owns lead planes and jump planes ) is messy thing. Aero Union who operates the P-3s and I think an electra too. lost their contract and they have/had the newest planes. Last I heard before I retired there was a handful of those "mini hercs sitting at davis monthanon that the forest service and the land management heavies in congress were serious about but they went to the coastys instead. I never did find out if the forest service got the coastie's hercs or not. But yah VLATS indirect with no chance of hitting guys on the ground, i'm on board with that. Do you remember the Boing concept of "fire balls", pallets of large plastic spheres full of water on pallets to roll out the back of any trash hauler with a rear door? Us ground animals gave a hearty negatrons on that. The S-2 tracker/C-1trader are popular airframes for air tankers. i wonder why i never saw an E-2 with its rotodome swapped out for a retardant tank. No surplus airframes ?
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Jeez. That's insane. I wonder far the smoke will carry on.
I hope you folks out there stay safe.
Edit: Removed question. It was stupid as it pertained to another country and not the USA. It was about helicopters taking pool water to fight forest fires.
Could you explain to the uneducated please? I.e me?
I am curious; what aircraft have proven to be very successful when fighting fires? And what kind of procedures are there for aircraft doing drops, do they coordinate with the ground? Improve the situation or make it worse?
They can all be successful if used right. One factor in alot of wildland fire fighting tragedys is communication.
OK best case with comms on the ground is a hotshot crew directly talking to a helo for close in bucket drops.
worse is the Air Attack ( not that he's evil ), he runs the air show, having Air tankers painting ridge tops and " saving the world " with several layers of communication between ground people and air people.
Being a handcrew guy i prefer SEATs and helos.
But yah the show is complex with alot of factors. my favorite is when the managers put all the air tankers on the coast and the marine layer doesn't clear untill 1200. Brilliant.
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At least Boise Idaho.
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Handsome boat.
Can you give us background ?
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And the 747 Air Tanker that the US Forest Service refuses to use on Federal lands
Those drops will be rough on the hand crews.
When the VLAT (DC-10) shows up there is not much warning and it does really mess with what a firefighting module is doing.
I'm in Nevada sucking the smoke from this mess now and i do have family in Mariposa that are most likely not going to sleep in there own beds / house tonight or ?
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cool what if.
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At the 5 min mark you'll see the PT-109 that,, I helped to get the torps too work, in SH-4 ,http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=229564, the down load is in subsim down loads,, it will have a 40mm single on the bow and a twin 40mm on the rear ,,
Wow they finally did the PT mod for SH-4 ?
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Should be good enough to beat the Somalian pirates, I think.
Well then we can't have too many MK-21 Mod 0s then.
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Are you going to watch Tom Cruises new movie American Made?
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American Maid ? Wasn't she a character in the Tick ?