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The B-52 can make the sky black with several hundred pound iron rain drops.

How many times has the rumormill spun on retiring military war machines, lets not forget the "Bone" was already cancelled, but brought back from the dead, w/evil laughter; "MuahHAHAHAHA!" Possible reduction in front line aircraft to keep airframe time low on a reserve semi-moth balled contingent. I would beleive that over full retirement it still has a place in our inventory. But I'm just a lowly civie now w/no political leveradge. Good luck Motha Bone, may the political hatchet stay in the shed in back of the Capitol Building where it belongs. Geese that sounds like a toast, I better go get a beer. Icarus999 I don't think they will destroy them like the Tom Turkeys. The 14 reached it's peak back in the late 80's early 90's. I belive the main reason for destroying them was the Iran factor, Iran Iran so far away well anyways. The 14 was a bear to work on 10-14 hours of maint. for 1 hour of wheels up time when the Legacy Hornets are 6-8, and the supers are 4-6. This is bearing in mind the pilots don't over stress the planes to much. The Maint. crews get pissed if you bring their plane back all bent to s**t.

After getting into a big fur ball w/6 MIG 23s and 6 MIG 21s, It was this Yank and I left from his flight of 2 and mine of 2. He was a LtCol and I a Fg Off. He took lead for the flight back to friendly airspace.

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Ens. Roberto "Suje Pássaro" Souza gets his F/A-18+ of VF-1 De Falcões in the groove for the first offical trap on the newley refurbished NAe DOM PEDRO II. October 2014 Marinha do Brasil official photo. The "DOM" is the former USS Constellation CV-64.

I am a huge fan of history, not only my country but of all the Americas.

As memory serves he was one of the better ones abolishing slavery, like our A. Lincoln. So he can't be all that that crapastic. And "Dirty Bird" is the call sign.

Been using these 3 for the past year depending on the mood.

Welcome to the "WAR ON TERROR" Russia. No country is immune from this cowardicegrabasstickbulls**t.

What Japan companies would have built the F-8 and the BAC Lightning?

Yeah it's me stumbling in not reading all the replies again. Tron was cool, but it didn't impact me like STAR WARS or STAR TREK. How bout this for reaching outback and pull'n hard, loose tv spinoffs Automan (and his buddy cursor, there was a cursor like toon in Tron if I remember) and Streethawk.

The Fishercat is an evil animal. Its is the only animal besides man that kills for the hell of it.Dont get confused for fun it will just kill because it can. The fisher cat lives in the North East and Western mtn areas. Its a 3 foot long weasal/polecat type animal. they hunt porcupines, and other varmint, and are known to hunt domestic cats and dogs. Their bark/shriek is something to be heard. It sounds like nothing I have ever heard before.

If this happened at a small regional airport no big deal, but one of the busiest airports in the U.S. he was asking for this. If the kid was talking on the ground freq. and not the tower/departure freq. I don't think it would be that big a deal.

Its a wild animal that kills, Hence Killer Whale it kills whales. Why punish an animal that kills.

They found her body today, very sad. no more words......................

It's been almost a month they hav'nt found her, 2 other students and the faculty members. Just recovered another body of one of the girls from the Hotel Montana yesterday. Sad.

He was a tough bastard. I remember the season he was sick with pneumonia, drinking Red Bull by the gallon, and still chain smoking like he was powered by those damn things.

STS-130, Shuttle Endeaver Shortly after 4 am lifted off uneventfully bringing the last component to ISS.

Stop flying stuff from 1917.

Out in my Hornet, practicing rolling in on targets of the coast. Pulled some Gs little blackout came to and there was a lot, A LOT ! of yellow and red infront of me, which is cool if it's a plate of hotdogs with ketchup and mustard. All the bad stuff was lit up, the Xs were just the icing on the cake. I leveled the plane it wasn't flying right, looked over my shoulders " AH !", and the plane was several hundred pounds lighter. I was missing some critical parts that would help me land. Well it took about 30 minutes to figure out what inputs into the controls would work. I could use my rudders as long as I didn't bank more than 20 degrees, and slight elevators up. For roll (after all they are elevons) I could input slightly, I mean slightly. Kept my speed up above 400 kts for flight, after I got slow got the wheels down landed at about 250 kts. It was not easy (meaning the flight model was on hard), couple tail slides that reduced my speed into almost loss of control/ approching wing stall. To correct I would release pressure on the stick and rudders and she would right herself in whatever attitude she came back, then I would have to work to get it level.

This is realistic, but the F-18s along with some other tactical planes have a G limiter which can be deactivated by the pilot if needed. Also G loads change with payload. I know the ground crews don't like it when you bring back their plane all bent to s**t. Real life example I was reading Air and Space or Air Power or some mag like that a few years ago. One German pilot was saying they grounded his primary aircraft for airframe hours and they would not be doing any overhaul because it is to old, and he said that there are severel other aircraft approaching that same problem. Just trying to nurse them along to 2012/2013 for the Typhoon to replace them. Example the Blue angles use older F/A-18A the 1-4 planes last a lot longer than the 5+6 cause their job is to push the plane for that great opposing demo. One of the oppsing solo guys said their job was the best they get to fly hard and break them.

I have come back with damage before from whipping the poney hard. I was pulling between 4-7 Gs for about 10 passes and I pulled about 10 before I blacked out not wanting to wack the ground I pulled a little harder, must have been little to much.

Yes it is TW and this was a first for me, I was surprised as w(H)ell.

Anybody remember the TV series that aired back in 84/85 "CALL TO GLORY".

Joint Ops RAAF RNZAF, June 2014.