I wonder where some poor bastard's troubleshooter qual is . . . or is going.
Although the latch is latched, so there's that.
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Although the latch is latched, so there's that.
The struggle is real right now.
Not anymore!
Brings back fond memories of when we were waiting for an S-3 to do an OCS flyover before we did ours in a pair of mighty T-2's and the tower tells the S-3 a panel fell off their bird and landed in the Naval Aviation Museum parking lot. My lead told the tower they were just getting an early start to delivering the bird there...
Someone had a fin fly off a training missile at Oceana a few years ago, and it went through the engine block of some poor guy's truck... Wish I could find a picture.
Panels falling off, child's play. My squadron had a leading edge slat depart a War Hoover in the break over El Centro. It was quite sporty. Over banked the aircraft past 90 degrees. Pilot did a great job. Carrier break for FCLPs . He recovered at a couple hundred feet. Climbed back into the pattern for a straight in arrestment. Slat landed in a wheat field. Took awhile to find.
A RAG Prowler got the entire fleet redstriped below 5,000 feet in the mid-2000s in a similar situation. Didn't lose any parts, but as you may or may not be aware, the jet didn't have ailerons. It controlled roll via what NATOPS called flaperons, which were technically spoilerons. Marine FRS IP brought a jet back into the break, and the flaperon actuator on the downward wing blew up when he rolled into the break. Boom . . . instant partial hyd failure and no way to control roll. As I recall the story, he landed it with the rudder.
Would be WAY cooler with "Ride of the Valkyries" or screaming, "This is Charlie's beach!"
Sweden Bucked Conventional Wisdom, and Other Countries Are Following | National Review
No lockdown, no shuttered businesses or elementary schools, no stay-at-home. And no disaster, either.
www.nationalreview.com
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that for most of the country we vastly over reacted.
Sweden Bucked Conventional Wisdom, and Other Countries Are Following | National Review
No lockdown, no shuttered businesses or elementary schools, no stay-at-home. And no disaster, either.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that for most of the country we vastly over reacted.
But good luck getting the doom-sayer/“Shelter-in-place-or-die” crowd to admit it.
How do you define “conservative” in this case? If by conservative you mean made up on the spot, then yes that’s a conservative estimate.
The meatpacking plants didn't shut down, but now we have empty shelves in the grocery stores. Testing shitshow and lack of PPE. Has Sweden had a similar experience?Sweden Bucked Conventional Wisdom, and Other Countries Are Following | National Review
No lockdown, no shuttered businesses or elementary schools, no stay-at-home. And no disaster, either.
It’s becoming increasingly obvious that for most of the country we vastly over reacted.