This is the new automated system. No hands! Read more

Too close to the back of the boat Read more

imagine if he caught the wire!!! Read more

Maybe one good pass (touch and go) and then had to divert? I will get someone to explain the greenie board for us Read more

I hate to chime in on this one, but the flyby scene was filmed at NAS Fallon in the old tower according to multiple first hand reports. It looks a LOT like that one, but maybe that is the idea for the display:

That was the FAA registry year, the aircraft has a serial from 1944 Read more

wow, great find, maybe Read more

Very kind words, thank you! Read more

Very much so, and how unreliable fighters really are! Read more

Well there was a lot of tanker support! Who knows, maybe ‘other aircraft’ were used that needed gas coming off target, or more probably this was just part of the plan the Eagle/Tanker team came up with. You need a lot of contingency fuel for a long mission like that. Like a boom once told me before a Red Flag flight.… Read more

I was thinking the same thing. Read more

Not a bad response! They got back to me in 24 hours which I greatly appreciate. Read more

Large structures, larger surface areas, fortified structures and even bunkers depending on the warhead/bomb type used (google BLU-109). Also different weapons effects. Do you want to vaporize a target or destroy it. Read more

I go through the situation there broadly, but that should not turn you off from the piece. Give it another read. Read more

Actually no! I remember reading a paper on some sort of UK Harrier mod that would make its way to the JSF one day. Here she is! The VAAC Harrier http://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php… Read more

Thanks guys, yeah late night and huge Kinja issues. I thought I already fixed that. Read more

It’s the least we can do. Considering all that the Pentagon gets wrong with Vets and other topics, they get this right. Maybe you would feel different if you had a family member or friend that died in a foreign land and never even had dignity or being returned home for closure. It is a hell that haunts many to this… Read more

Customary to fly with this loadout into combat even against a low-end a2a threat Read more

no just a crushed external, these are not CFTs Read more

Thanks! Read more