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Why do F-15s have a rear cargo compartments? So the pilot has enough room for his ego. Have you heard about the new solar powered F-18s? twice the range at 1/4 the cost, which means they now can carry weapons Three pilots are walking through the forest when they come upon a set of tracks. The first pilot says, "Those are deer tracks." The second pilot says, "No, those are elk tracks." The third pilot says, "You're both wrong! Those are moose tracks." The pilots were still arguing when the train hit them. A young guy in an F-16 fighter was flying escort for a B-52 and generally being a nuisance, acting like a hotdog, flying rolls around the lumbering old bomber. The hotdog said over the air, "Anything you can do, I can do better." The veteran bomber pilot answered, "Try this hot-shot." The B-52 continued its flight, straight and level. Perplexed, the hotdog asked, "So? What did you do?" "I just shut down two engines, kid." An F-18 pilot was flying a solo cross-country. He lost his way and before he finally ran out of fuel he decided to put it down on a road. With hardly any cars on the road he managed to coast his aircraft into a gas station and said to the attendant, "Fill 'er up!" The attendant just looked at the pilot. "I bet you don't get too many airplanes asking for a refuel," said the pilot. The attendant replied: "True, most pilots use that airport over there."

There was a brief meeting of several Generals and an Admiral. The Air Force General said, "I think I have finally found a way to show you true guts. "Airman, come here!" The airman trotted over and came to attention with a brisk, "Yes, sir?" The Air force General said, "Airman, climb to the top of that flag pole". "Yes, Sir", came the quick response and up the pole he went. When the airman reached the top, the General told him to jump. The airman shouted, "Yes, Sir", and dropped to his death. The General turned to his peers and said, "now that is guts." The Army General did the same and the Admiral did too, with the same results as the Air Force poor airman. The Marine General told them they were all full of s**t and called a Marine Private over. "Private, climb that flag pole!" "Sir, yes, Sir!" was the quick response and up the pole he went. The Marine General than told him to jump. The Marine Private then said "screw you sir!" and stayed in place. The General than turned to his peers and said, "now that's guts"

A young man joined the army and signed up with the paratroopers. He went though the standard training, completed the practice jumps from higher and higher structures, and finally went to take his first jump from an airplane. The next day, he phoned his father to tell him the news. "So, did you jump?" the father asked. "Well, let me tell you what happened. We got up in the 'plane, and the Sergeant opened up the door and asked for volunteers. About a dozen men got up and just walked out of the 'plane!" "Is that when you jumped?" asked the father. "Um, not yet. Then the Sergeant started to grab the other men one at a time and threw them out the door." "Did you jump then?" asked the father. "I'm getting to that." " Everyone else had jumped, and I was the last man left on the 'plane. I told the Sergeant that I was too scared to jump. He told me to get off the plane or he'd kick my a#$." "So, did you jump?" "Not then. He tried to push me out of the 'plane, but I grabbed onto the door and refused to go. Finally he called over the Jump Master. The Jump Master was this great big black guy from Alabama. He stood about six-foot five, 250lbs of pure muscle, and was 17 stone. He said to me, 'Boy, are you going to jump or not?' I said, 'No, Sir. I'm too scared!' "He grabbed me, shook me up and said, 'boy you better jump!' "No sir I said!" ''So the Jump Master pulled down his zipper and took his junk out. I swear, that thing was about ten inches long and as thick as a baby arm! He said, 'Boy, either you jump out of that door, or I'm sticking this up your a#$' " "So, did you jump?" asked the father. "Well, a little, at first."

What is mass confusion? A group of blind lesbians in a fish market. A blonde, redhead, and a brunet were at the doctor discussing their pregnancies. The brunet said "I'm having a boy because I was on top." The redhead said "I know I''m having a girl because I was on bottom." Just then the blonde blurred out, "Oh no I'm having puppies!"

Nuclear tech, power, and weapons have been around for over 50 years, most of the stuff from just 20 yrs ago is common knowledge, what is boils down to is having the money and materials to do so. Now the nuclear tech of these seemingly developing and 2nd world nations may not be up to par with the US, Russia, China, or NATO but believe me, I doubt if it is a 1940s vintage box crammed to the gills with the Radiation King 200. Brazil wants to join the club and if they step out of line (which I doubt) an ADCAP will do nicely.

Its not baffling, eels are what they are, nothing more, nothing less. In fact tomorrow we are having a bobbing for blind eels coop match. Teamspeak optional.

Check this vid out. I always thought those were cams next to the A model hud..but you be the judge. You will see several pit shots throughout the video. This stuff is early to mid 80s vintage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPI2z5von4s A-6 Strike Downtown (I'm talking Downtown!) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RWQlN1wcnQ F-4 Formation Flying (Good online stuff) F-4 vs Mig-21 in 1972 Apocalypse Now Wings Over Europe Merged with WOV (excellent music and mix of real/sim clips)

Your mother is a midget stripper, she jumps outta cupcakes for loose change. Female logic... A blonde is in her front yard rowing furiously in a row boat. Just then a brunette walks by and shouts. "Hey you! It is simple women like you that give the rest of the female gender a bad name!" "We are already oppressed and objectified and now this!?" "If I could swim, I'd come out there and smack you around!" If a firefighters business can go up in smoke, and a plumbers business can go down the drain, can a hooker get layed off?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-nljYQq9PM This one just for fun

Man that sucks, I'm sorry you have to go through that. Outsourcing another way to screw the common folk. But just look at it this way, it is temporary, you never know what better things are around the corner. My suggestion is if your wife likes the finer things in life...oh like eating, lights, and water, she should do whatever it is necessary. If not she can always work two jobs and you can stay at home. You have to do what you have to do to make it and do not let anyone tell you otherwise.

Ok is there anyway to delete my comments, was not trying to start a war or even go down the road of political debate. Bad judgment on my part.

This article maybe "fair and balanced" according to media standards, but they still failed to look at problems that are causing. The military operating in two different theaters in addition to stepping up and maintaining commitments at home and abroad. (i.e. service personnel protecting the lives of the very journalist, who will sell their souls for 15min of fame, that dog out the military so much.) The media is a fare weather friend with no alliances to no one (not even its own country.) As demonstrated before the media is putting down the military and government that it once praised so much. It is all about ratings and commercial endorsements, even it that means being a treasonous snake (reguardless of who or what is in office.) The American public at large isn't to bright either, because they do whatever the media tells them to do and are slaves to "pop" trends. Hollywood pop icons do not get nearly as much scrutiny and bad press as the military does. One group is a spoiled selfish attention brats who drink and drug to much, the other is a group of men and women who are giving up their lives for the greater good. ok...I think I got that out of my system, pheew..

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Also all those little airshow "tricks" are done with near empty fuel tanks and no combat load out or drag.

Taking all funds for a F-8, F-105, or F-14

Yep, most planes do not bring stuff back on board (especially the hornet.) Not to sure of the A-6 or F-14. Typhoid, I see where you are coming from and you are hitting points right on, but where do you think the Navy could have better ulitized money/resources for a better plane? It seems like during the late 90s the USN was dead set on placing all of its eggs in the hornet basket while waiting another century for the JSF to come through.

I will have to disagree with you there. The tomcat generally only carried two lgbs on the forward two pallets and maybe 4 dumb or gps bombs all togther. The right wing root was taken up by the Lantrin the left a sparrow, two winders, and maybe if LGBs where loaded possibly a sparrow on on rear. Now the suphornet is supposedly much slower than the legacy at low atl, it has 3 stations on each wing, plus centerline. The cheek stations may be loaded with flir and sparrow/amraams, wingtip winders, centerline fuel, and the two inline stations fuel. That leaves four more hard points for varied ordinance. Be it A/A, A/G, fuel, anti-radar, cruise missles, or JSOWs. So in the A/G arena the superbug packs more of punch. The superhornet and even the legacy can bring (although limited) varied types ordnance to the fight and it has the software and cpu cabilities to allow the crew to mix and match weapons as well. So in areas were range isn't much of an issue, ie forward deployed in Iraq or operating of carriers in littoral areas (where the navy and marines are increasingly starting to operate) the hornet is a swiss army knife. The tomact, although varied weapons were tested on it (especially on the D), was limited to sparrows, winders, 4 dumb bombs, 4 JDAMs, or 2 lgbs. But.... The tomcat has speed, range, and loiter time. And up until 2003 the ability to reach out and touch someone. Now I do not think it was a wise move to use all pissants...or errr I mean hornets to replace the F-14 in the role of intercept, fleet defense, and barrier combat air patrol (and it could come back to bite everyone in the ass) but the F-18s series clearly has advantages over the Turkey in A/G arena. And as much as I dislike the hornet, even F-22s have problems trying to "dance" with them. It might not be a mach 2 plane, but it can move like no one's business. Hopefully the Navy will wise up and put someone money into a dedicated tanker fleet that could rival that of the KA-3.

Yes another person that likes good music. Give me old school Hip-hop, electro, b-boy music, funk, classic r&b, and some good ole metal over this MTV/BET crap they play over the radio and on tv. Today any no talent bum can get a record deal as long as they "act" like a thug or dress like a $2 stripper.

Damn two batches, do you know how expensive saltwater fish are!? lol Well from keeping a lot of freshwater fish over the years the best advice I can give you is... Use tap or mineral water. (Most people use tap but make sure you have it conditioned) Make sure you have good filtration. If you are going to have live plants add good substrate and fertilizer (and put the plants in well before you by the fish.) Disease due to poor water quality and over crowding is the primarily killer of fish. Make sure you run the tank, filters, and water treatments well in advance of even thinking about buying a fish. Most treatments require that you turn off all carbon filtering for at least a few hours. Algae build up is not necessarily a bad thing. When you buy your fish by as few as possible (if they are schooling fish generally start of with a high female to male ratio.) Maybe 2-3 females to every male. And it is good to start off with a number of about 2-4 small fish to see how things go. (I prefer just 1 or 2). Slowly add the desired number and type of fish but make sure you don't over crowd (can lead to stress, fighting, and disease.) The bigger the tank and the more live plant life, the less frequent of a water change and gravel/sand vacuum you have to do. Saltwater fish prefer aquarium sand and or coral over gravel.

Hello gents, right now I am in the line for a new system. I want to build one but right now I'm trying to decide which gfx card to get, memory, and which type of OS (Vista or Xp). My last system is on its last legs and there is but so far DDR and APG can go. Right now I'm not trying to spend any more than about $500 on mb and video card. I have been stomping around tigerdirect to see what I can find. Any suggestions?

Thanks fellas. I especially thank runs with scissors Here is what I found, I know the stuff is a little dated but...I'm such a die hard nivida fan http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...mp;sku=P56-8500 http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/Se...=MBM-680ILT-925 Any more suggestions?

Hot eel and puffin sandwich please, with side of cowbell.

Yeah it can be confusing, I thought you where re-working a whole new model. Why not just release it as a mod of the MF F-14. If it is listed as a modded IRIAF f-14 with permission and full credit given and granted.

Now I have to jump in on this one as far as payload goes. But as a F-14 lover to the core, there is no way in hell you can rig a cat to carry more than a super bug. The F-14's airframe, although almost indestructible due to this heavy and beefy internal frame, just can't do it. Sure I have seen test of of inert mk-81/82s stacked up on the centerline pallets, but is that really feasible under launch and recovery conditions (excluding lugging that stuff across the beach.) Sure the F-14 can fly faster, further and higher, but a dedicated ground attack and fac (as with the Marine D and USN F) it was not. Btw, I know the F-14 did so dome fastfac, identification, and spotting working as well. Now doing deep.... penetration...by dropping two LGBS or 4 Jdams on a target is an area in which the Tomcat owned in the post intruder days. But luggin iron across the beach, taking out air defenses on the way to the target, swatting a low speed fly, and being able to take out multiple ground targets (as long as fuel is not a issue) the bug wins hands down. If we had ever gone to war with a country that had a integrated air defense network and an air force that was willing to fly and fight the turkey would be in its element. I would fly long range cap, escort, and BARCAP. But if it ever had to do a deep strike it would need a large package of support planes. Jammers, SEAD, strikers, and fighter escort. Now yes the F-14 can fullfill two of those roles without a hitch, but the F-18 (although just barely) can do all four.