JediMaster

The Chinese and Russians are said to be working together on a new high-alt helo model for Tibet. Russia won't be buying, just providing assistance.

It's not easy to get them to work well up that high.

You really need to get something to put the moving red lines on your MFD so it looks like the cockpit of KITT.

"Michael, you have a SAM launch!"

It depends where you live. My wife's uncle is getting treated for PTSD. He was ok for years, but it really started hitting him the last 5 years.

He went to the VA in Santa Fe, NM, and they were a bunch of incompetent pricks. Kept telling him they couldn't figure out what was wrong with him, screwing around on different meds and dosages all the time, taking a month plus between visits, etc etc.

He moved out here to FL a couple of months ago--night and day. Tons of supportive staff, weekly appointments, REAL help.

So it does still suck some places, but it's unfortunately dependent on where you live.

Fezzic, are there rocks ahead?

If there are, we'll all be dead!

The problem with every form of government is that it is run by humans. I think we've had sufficient time to prove we don't know WTF we're doing and can't do it well.

I won't pretend making a computer to run it would work, because they would be built and programmed by humans, so how is that different? Likewise, I can't pretend that people would accept governance by non-humans of any type, whether artificial, alien, genetically engineered, or cats.

It's a catch-22--we can't do it for ourselves, but we won't accept anyone else doing it.

In a move to save money, you can download and start using it now long before any development is finished. This concurrent testing and production will allow everyone to enjoy it long before it can be enjoyed.

I forget how many more of these lines are going to be introduced. I guess we'll see PR for each one that comes on line.

Yes, everyone knew it was dumb to cut F-22 production but BUDGET. So we're going to make old planes and fighter-bombers do air superiority.

Of course, we could just stop sending our planes all over the damn place and then we wouldn't need so many.

The problem with that idea is you make civilian ships into targets since the enemy can't tell them apart.

Ideally, you would need to make them look like the enemy's civilian ships.

They have nothing on Fighter Ops.

When it's out, I'll consider it like I would anything else. Before then, it's just another promise, of which the DCS landscape is littered.

Hawks make good display mounts.

The YF-22 flew even further back. I was still in HS when that happened.

Granted the YF was an ugly bugger, the production model really cleaned it up.

One of my favorites is Crimson Tide. Just so well made.

The F-16s are getting old. They need to be replaced.

What's sad is that there are already more than half as many F-35s as there will EVER be F-22s.

Ruined by the crappy music. I wanted to hear the guns and missiles, not some techno turd!

My guess is the estimated likelihood of a crash is higher for a military plane than civilian (flying into harm's way and airfields that might otherwise be closed, etc), and frankly if your plane crash lands with you facing aft the seat is going to support your head/neck/back a lot better.

More important to keep the passengers alive than comfortable.

Well, aliens gotta take vacations, too.

Hotel Transylvania 2 comes out in theaters in Sept. Make of that what you will.

Tom Clancy did, although in his case it was someone with a personal grudge as opposed to a political statement.

Some of these songs are far too new for me to call them "old"!

When I think of old, I think of songs that were already old when I was a kid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LBmUwi6mEo

Same thing I think when I see those "watch out for motorcycles" stickers. How about telling the bikers to watch out for the cars by not driving where we don't expect them? Why is it cars are supposed to drive predictably but we should anticipate the bikes behaving erratically?

Unless you're in an 18-wheeler, it's generally speaking a Pretty Bad Idea to ride in another vehicle's blind spot for more than about 5 seconds. When you're riding something small it counts triple. Don't do it. I've had people fail to see my Toyota 4 Runner and start to change lanes into me much to my surprise...but of course, they never looked, so it hardly matters if it's a bike or a truck or an airplane.

Everyone thinks it's everyone's responsibility but their own, but the truth is no one is exempt. Sometimes you can't avoid it, but often you can if you just pay attention.

An underrated film for daring to lampoon what were still very popular films at the time. Ironically, they have returned in popularity today.

Would've been better if she'd been a true redhead, but one takes what one can get...