charlielima

very nice indeed. Hmm! nose art ? or what if A-7Ds were kicked down to them ? CL

Here we go again. Getting smoked out in northern Nevada. I can't see the Sanoma Mountains or Mt Winnemucca. CL

American Maid ? Wasn't she a character in the Tick ?

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

I believe in local warming. Every day it gets warmer during the day after the night. CL

of all things pissing me off today this is the least of them. Irritation Rex Known here as CL

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. CL

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

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. CL

Why does the SR-71 have rear view mirrors ? Really. I'm serious this time. CL

Yup Texas Ranger La Boeuf has left us. And this is no Sierra. Who would of known ? CL

More pictures http://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-looking-for-cheap-lethal-aircraft-at-light-attack-experiment-2017-8 CL

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. CL

Well heres another step forward. http://fireaviation.com/2017/07/25/747-supertanker-obtains-interim-approval/ CL

RIP

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

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. CL

I stand corrected. This does look like a ground pounder friendly system. http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/why-wont-the-us-govt-let-the-worlds-largest-firefighting-aircraft-fly/ar-BBEAInj CL

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 ? CL