Dave

I'm looking for a DVD that came out in 2004 or 2005 time frame about the Concorde. It was narrated by a female and gave a brief history of it but focsed on its final flight to New York and the passenger experience. What was the name of it? Where can I find it? Been looking for this all afternoon.

Couldn't agree with you more. I have yet to see it and will not see it. The hype killed it. People around here for example... "I have seen Avatar 10 times. OMG it was such a life changing movie......blah blah blah....." Makes me want to vomit. Loved the Hurt Locker, and I own it. Awesome movie.

Jomni I wouldnt have a problem with you posting an update to NF4+. Submit it to me or hgbn, we can check it out for you.

THIS IS NOT A TEST.........PLEASE GO TO YOUR NEAREST STORE, OR REFRIGERATOR AND GET A BEER AND ENJOY IT. (If you are under age then, no you won't) THIS IS NOT A TEST, HAD THIS BEEN AN ACTUAL BEER DRY RUN THEN INSTRUCTIONS WOULD OF FOLLOWED TO HELP CURE YOU OF THIS. THIS IS NOT A TEST. (Long day in the CP.)

531Ghost is the guru of CH products. I will give him a shout to look at your post sir.

Thanks for the heads up. I am glad I didn't touch mine.

I say we make him drink......Keystone Light too.

Our very own Southernap is out on the USS Nimitz for a long cruise. He sent me this update to his trip with lots of photos of what is going on around the ship. He promises to send more later. He also found the Combatace official CD. Dave, Here are some pictures of a no fly day out to sea near the sandwich islands. A couple of these shots are of my rack and my berthing compartment. The shots labeled "insidemyrackXXX" are shots of all the storage space I have. This storage is all under my rack, called a coffin locker since it opens like a coffin. There is a sun down shot of the fighter line on the bow of the ship with a E-2. Finally there a couple shots of aircraft, including one from my squadron with its engine out. Then I got a shot of some blue mk82 death built up with JDAM packages. Oh and the meet the eels album to share with C5 and the rest of the CA staff. We have been out doing a number of time changes, I can tell you as I write this it is 0900 back home with my wife and it is 0500 where I am in the world. Somewhere down the path we are going to do a time change that will include jumping a whole day. We were out near the end of July doing Carrier Qualification (aka CQ) and then pulled back into to San Diego on the 29th if July thru the 31st of July. It was fun and exciting, because in the middle of the CQ we received a message that downed all our jets for an immediate inspection of some certain fuel lines. Then to top that day off one of our aircraft took what is called Foreign Object Damage hit to its engine. So we went from having four up jets to qualify twenty four aircrew down to zero and after a twelve hour shift we were back up to only two because of some supply issues. Thankfully, we had qualified all but two crew teams the previous couple of days. We pulled out of North Island on the 31st July for cruise and did the whole manning the rails in whites thing. I didn't do it because I am too senior, I have done it in the past just standing there at attention till you get far enough away from land for anyone to care. Since pulling out we have been doing just some basic currency flight ops. That is about it to report right now. Charles

Dave, So we are out here in the waters somewhere off the Ryukyu island chain. Trying to conduct flight ops. The last couple of days it has been fun. Between the deck dancing around, our E-2C squadron swapped out their shiny jet planes for older planes, and a couple of healthy storms. There has also been a resurgence of the cruise 'stasche. So where to start. Lets start with the returning to home classes they have been offering. As it has been since the US Navy notice an increased rise accidents with sailors and cars, they have been bring highway patrol out to the ships to talk about safety. Then as various other things have crept to the fore front of the safety thing more and more things have crept in to these returning home briefings, until it happened. One day they decided to stretch the time out over a period of a week, using trained facilitators to give lectures on everything from how to spend/save money wisely, buying car strategies, how to re-integrate as a family/couple, how to be a new dad, etc. Most of these are pretty informative and very useful. Leadership is hoping that some of these lessons will sit in people's minds and keep bad things from happening. It will take some time and see what will happen come the end of this deployment Our E-2C outfit traded out their aircraft over the last few days with the forward deployed guys. VAW-117 was instructed to trade their E-2C Hawkeye 2K's for VAW-115's E-2C group II aircraft. This was an adventures for our brethren in the Hawkeye command. To start with they had to downgrade their shiny new planes with most of the quirks figured out for older birds that have lived the forward deployed life that have new quirks to figure out. I have never done a swap of aircraft mid-cruise, the worst that I have done was picked up an old Prowler that needed to head to the depot for a repair. So we fixed it enough to fly safely off the ship and to the depot. What is really bad about getting a new bird is trying to figure out the quirks of the plane. The way that some of the different systems have gremlins in them and then trying to beat them out. Or retraining aircrew that the older systems installed don’t have all the bells and whistles of the newer systems. The last couple of weeks for our VAW friends have been challenging, on top the fact that we have had a couple of nasty days out here which suspended flight ops, they finally got all the aircraft transferred around. The storms that we sailed through for the last couple of days were interesting. Really reminded me of being up north into the Irish or Norwegian seas in the middle of a winter storm. A whole bunch of cold and an rain at times. Winds that were exceeding 60 knots across the flight deck. Saltines and soda water out on the mess decks. Dramine and other anti-motion sickness pills going like hot cakes in medical. Finally a whole bunch of rolling and shaking going on. It was challenging and difficult to say the least. Not anything that I haven't experienced before, but still an adventure. The adventure came from all the brand new to the Navy folks or brand new to sea duty folks who haven't experienced rocking and rolling like we were doing. We had pulled a few of our escorts close by and there were a few times I saw sonar domes start to breach the surface and rudder tops come up as they went into the trough of the waves. The dramine ran started to run low pretty quick for a few guys, the suggest then from the docs was to eat saltines and clear soda (like sprite or 7-up). If all else failed they have a few other tricks up their sleeves for the chronic motion sick folks. I don't know if it was popular when you were sea going, but every cruise or deployment I have been on so far, there has been the rise of the cruise mustache. It always seems as if the guys who get away from home (and their wives control) start to try and get their personalities back. That primarily seems to be in the form of growing a mustache. I have seen everything from a bad Magnum P.I mustache down to the pencil-thin mustache. It is all cool through most of the ports the guys sport some variation of these mustaches. However the closer you get to home the sooner the mustache becomes a memory. Yet for some reason in the last couple of days after leaving Hong Kong, the cruise 'stache has come back into vogue with a few of the guys. So it has been kind of funny watching the mustaches come back into vogue for a while and wondering as we get closer to home what will happen to these last attempts to define their personalities for this deployment. As for myself. I don't have the capability to grow a mustache. The best that I have done after a month of no shaving during a transfer leave was facial hair that sort of resembled some beatnik beard like Maynard Krebs or Shaggy. The final thing that can best be viewed as one last prank is an almost constant rumor that we are going out again for three months just after the 234th anniversary signing of the Declaration of Independence. I mean we are just finishing up an eight month deployment and they wouldn't treat us to a basically a port visit to home and then send up back out again for three months to play in some exercises would they? I really don't know, but I hope that if it is true we will only be out for a little bit like under two months. It will be a challenge if true, cause basically if you look at this cruise has now been extended into an eleven month deployment. Even if you figure in the time at home, this will be a time will basically be washing our clothes. Getting repacked, compressing time to get some aircraft inspections doing, compressing some major maintenance actions, and finally starting the preparations to go back out to the ship again. In my heart of hearts, I feel as if this isn't a joke and seriously wonder if anyone above my pay grade is paying attention to wearing out our people and aircraft. Though there might really be chance to completely decompress as we begin transition to the Electric Rhinos. I decided to cast my fate to transition. I decided on this after many hours with the wife via email. The decision broke down to what would be easier to deal with the devil I know in this squadron then the devil I didn't know. For everyone that isn't going to make the transition will be given a choice of where to go while having a phone call with their detailers. This goes for both Officers, Chiefs, and Sailors alike. It will be interesting to see how that goes and how the transition itself goes. Receiving brand new airplanes with the brand new airplane smells. Trying to figure out what can be fixed on the fly and what will be a science project to work on. I know that my schooling will be seven months of fun. I will spend it either in Lemoore or over in Oceana (my preferred choice). After which I come back home for an additional two months of schooling at Whidbey. After that it will be to the RAG to being working on my qualifications and actually working on the jets, all the while the aircrew are learning how to fly the new jets. The other difference will be the change up in our manning levels. A reduction of flying officers, the potential of getting a few new ground maintenance officers (such as a gunner), and some additions to size of shops. On top of that they are telling us to get use to five jets instead of the four that we have worked on before. There are all sorts of madness being planned for and hopefully some one with the right amount of insanity in their minds will be able to keep it all running right. Sincerely, Charles

They may get done eventually. I know of one person who has it NF4+ updated but his school schedule is kicking his ass and hasnt had time to get it all together and sent over. ODS is JSF_Aggies baby and his work with the F-35 is beating him into the ground as well. The rest of us have moved onto working on the Korea War mod. (Which is progressing nicely by the way.) All the knowledge to change NF4+ is in the knowledge base i.e. fixing any of the HUD and the AB effects. That is the most glaring changes needing to put it at Feb 2010 standards. ODS is a lot more involved and would take weeks to convert.

Any F-4 assigned to the Arkansas ANG was a razorback rhino.

Did you load the gun pod? The Marine and Navy ones had a gun pod. The USAF had an internal gun.

I think those are the rules Lexx. I'm finally having one now! Cheers to all of you and your drink of choice!

Hats off to any man who has taken the self supporting step of making his own beer. That is a true achievement.

It doesn't mean a anything in the grand scheme of things. Not sure why we even have. As far as buying the beer goes. Come on over, I always have plenty of good beer around.

Thanks Ed, had a terrible time trying to find if it was a single barrell or not.

Its the MK 4 gunpod that carried 750 rounds of ammo, http://www.chinalakealumni.org/IMAGES/1965/145139%20A-4C%2003DEC65%20VX-5%20XE-11%20Mk-4%20Rocketeer%20(1).jpg Looks like the 4 barrell kind.

Its on the list to do.

Love that red tail one Ant.

They had the SR-71 open, the A-10, the A-37, F-22 (which had cardboard cutouts of MFD showing and not the actual thing). I didnt make to the WWII stuff so I am not sure what they had opened. The place was packed and some lines were a hour wait to see the pit.

Wow how did I miss these. Good work and can't wait.

Hawk I couldn't reproduce your glitch. I am not sure what it could be. Also people I forgot to set some decal.ini's last night but I fixed it now. So if you delete the package and re download, all your decals should be working fine. My apologies.

The Mossad gets rid of a terrorist, and now there is a man hunt for the terrorist's killers and the world is ouraged. How ironic eh?