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now THAT would be a man-cave!

the one shot that put up top is one I took from the flag bridge on Indy in the North Atlantic. If you look closely you'll see an A-7 wing in the spray, and just think of the A-6 spotted in front of the one in the center forward of the deck...... yea, a little bit of corrosion control work for the next month.............

cool! Those planes are in the NATO AEW Force at Geilenkirken and do the logistic support for NATO E-3 deployments.

very nice. I like the interior shots. looks vaguely familiar..............

its been awhile since I saw the flick (so so bit of hollywood nonsense) but I thought it was an F-14 Tarps mission being depicted. and yes, updated version of Bat21 but not nearly as good. nope - just looked at the clip and it certainly was a bug...........

fun times! yee-haw...

congrats!!

an updated analysis of the weather conditions the aircraft likely encountered. http://www.weathergraphics.com/tim/af447/

viewgraph engineering some of those stats are pretty hard to accept. 36k of weapons 1500nm from the carrier without refueling?!!!!!!! like I said, anything is possible with viewgraph engineering........

hope you all can work it out. Innocent until proven guilty is and should be sancrosanct. By the same token, this place has to defend itself as well which requires a variation of guilty until proven innocent, which is a variation of "burned once, shame on you, burned twice, shame on me." its not easy to sort things out after this kind of an event.

yea, I remember all that too. YOu are quite right, it was a lot on our heads as well. just serves to underscore how things can spin out of control when you go hunting drug runners with a "shoot them out of the sky" ROE.

unfortuneatly, yes. All we found was wreckage that eventually washed up on the beaches. 269 were lost in KAL007, no survivors. We shifted from search and rescue to search and recovery to find the black boxes using ships with sonar including a USCG cutter towing a tactical sonar tuned to the black box frequency. We did not recover the black boxes, the Russians found it within Soviet territorial waters were the aircraft went down. My squadron spent 7 weeks as part of the search task force starting the afternoon after the aircraft was shot down until we were withdrawn for other committments.

this is really bringing back a lot of bad memories...........

yea, didn't they splash a missionary and his entire family a few years ago in a case of mistaken ID?

wreckage and bodies now located http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525297,00.html this will give them a good place to start the black box search with sonar.

Good Job!!

yep. Only ships can realistically do any recovery ops. The aircraft can find it but it takes the ships to recover anything.

having hunted for downed aircraft, including an airliner, and missing ships and stuff; I can tell you that there is a lot of junk floating around on the surface of the ocean that has to be sorted through as you go through a search area. It is a long and meticulous process. We were picking stuff up for six weeks before we were withdrawn from the search effort. When we shifted from Search-and-Rescue to Search-and-Recovery it was a heart-rending point, as Jug points out. Then the search team is picking up all kinds of junk floating around from who knows where and sorting through it to determine if it came from the aircraft you're looking for or something else. They did report a seat and an oil slick on the first day, but were unable to recover the seat due to the sea state. Now they can't find it which means its probably sunk. That is a pretty good indication that is where the aircraft crashed, but without being able to recover any debris that clearly came from the aircraft they can't say with absolute certainty. A lot of speculation and nothing can be ruled in or out. I doubt the terrorism possibility simply because the crash did occur in a major storm system, but no one at this point can rule that out either. So we will see. I doubt we will ever find out unless by a stroke of extraordinarily good fortune, the black boxes can be located and recovered. At this point all we have is the fragmentary info from the onboard systems received prior to the aircraft breakup and the recorded weather data at the time. Time will tell. My prayers are for those lost at sea and their families ashore.

there are some Stargate models which came from, I think, the A-team if you're logged on with them. No Stars Wars ones though that I know of. It would be kinda cool if someone wanted to put the amount of effort into one for atmospheric flight. I'm not sure the flight engine would model right though.

she did at one time. She's working free-lance now and that's about third or fourth on her list of things to do every day. I'll check.

my daughter is a commercial artist who designs things like this for part of her living. this is a classic intellectual property rights case. The theft of someone else's work to make money without due compensation is just that - theft. just like illegal music downloads copied software piracy and stealing aircraft flight sim skins and passing them off as one's own. the details are different, but the fundamental principles are the same.

I don't really see the problem. just add a tailhook and JATO bottles................

hopefully they can pick up the signal. the pinger in the box from the airliner I was hunting for, way back when, continued to operate for several weeks. So there is some hope we will be able to find these boxes. The problem will be the rough terrain with canyons and such that could potentially block the signal or result in multipath echoes. Time will tell.

is blowing in the wind