Any "Latest & Greatest" about Delta?
08-25-2012, 08:15 PM
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I'd never call an Air Force guy a liar. This is what happens next...
Buzz Aldrin Punch - YouTube
Besides, the Blue Angels had to cut up their F-14s when they went to F-16s. So the Australians couldn't use them as spares.
Buzz Aldrin Punch - YouTube
Besides, the Blue Angels had to cut up their F-14s when they went to F-16s. So the Australians couldn't use them as spares.
Awesome.
08-25-2012, 08:18 PM
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only Americans would figure out how to put skyscrapers into space.
08-25-2012, 08:18 PM
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God I hope so, but it's hard to tell sometimes. Some of them were not born when the first RJ's came on line. I've not seen too many B1's around lately, and I heard it was the only airplane in the inventory -not- to fly in Desert Storm.
I had some AF buds who flew it, but they said it was always broke and half their missions cancelled. One guy I whet through UPT with was one of the guys who punched out of one about 25 years ago...after turning it to just miss a school or hospital or something, on a low level training run out west.
I heard it was a real POS, after Jimmy Carter got done cutting the budget for it.
I had some AF buds who flew it, but they said it was always broke and half their missions cancelled. One guy I whet through UPT with was one of the guys who punched out of one about 25 years ago...after turning it to just miss a school or hospital or something, on a low level training run out west.
I heard it was a real POS, after Jimmy Carter got done cutting the budget for it.
08-25-2012, 08:19 PM
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God I hope so, but it's hard to tell sometimes. Some of them were not born when the first RJ's came on line. I've not seen too many B1's around lately, and I heard it was the only airplane in the inventory -not- to fly in Desert Storm.
I had some AF buds who flew it, but they said it was always broke and half their missions cancelled. One guy I whet through UPT with was one of the guys who punched out of one about 25 years ago...after turning it to just miss a school or hospital or something, on a low level training run out west.
I heard it was a real POS, after Jimmy Carter got done cutting the budget for it.
I had some AF buds who flew it, but they said it was always broke and half their missions cancelled. One guy I whet through UPT with was one of the guys who punched out of one about 25 years ago...after turning it to just miss a school or hospital or something, on a low level training run out west.
I heard it was a real POS, after Jimmy Carter got done cutting the budget for it.
B-1? Who is talking about the stealth fighter?
We're talking about Ferd's F-15Fs!
08-25-2012, 08:21 PM
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08-25-2012, 08:23 PM
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F-15s = McDonnell Douglas
F-18s = McDonnell Douglas
F-117s = McDonnell Douglas
MD-88s = McDonnell Douglas
MD-11 = McDonnell Douglas
L1011 = McDonnell Douglas
P-51 = McDonnell Douglas
B-17 = McDonnell Douglas.
Read it and weep Bar, read it and weep.
F-18s = McDonnell Douglas
F-117s = McDonnell Douglas
MD-88s = McDonnell Douglas
MD-11 = McDonnell Douglas
L1011 = McDonnell Douglas
P-51 = McDonnell Douglas
B-17 = McDonnell Douglas.
Read it and weep Bar, read it and weep.
08-25-2012, 08:23 PM
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08-25-2012, 08:24 PM
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I mean I get the rooster tails happening, but were like the engines on the F-16 pointed at each other to give it that effect? Seems odd.
I don't think Bob Ross would've done that. He was Air Force. He'd known.
08-25-2012, 08:25 PM
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The whole Apolo program is what inspired many of us to get into flying in the first place and was a big part of our motivation to get through grade school, high school, college and join the military, chasing the dream.
Wouldn't it be great if 50,000 pilots showed up, in uniform, at his funeral?
Any word on where/when it is?
Wouldn't it be great if 50,000 pilots showed up, in uniform, at his funeral?
Any word on where/when it is?
Our kids need these types of heros.
08-25-2012, 08:25 PM
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Ben Rich, in his book about running Skunkworks for Lockheed said after Jimmy Carter was briefed in on stealth he realized the B-1 was already obsolete. Reagan made Carter look soft for cancelling the B-1. However the real difference was that Carter had a Top Secret clearance and Reagan did not. Carter could not talk about the future he knew was coming.
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