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I had the same thing happen to a 3X7 Leupold that I had given to my uncle. Turns out it was an internal scope problem. I sent it to Leupold and they replaced it, free. Great customer support. BTW, I've had some good luck with IMR 3031 in both .308 and 7-08. I had met a guy at the range in Ft...

Pugs, I'm also a Silhouette shooter, mostly pistol but with some rifle thrown in. I've got a Rem 700 Varmiter in 7-08 that shoots the Sierra 168 gr like gangbusters. I've got it in an H-S thumbhole stock with Jewel triggerat 8 oz, and Lyles custom mounts under a Leupold 6.5X20. I printed a 7"...

I'm not "Smartypants", but the answer is HYDROPHONES... :icon_tong Do I win anything???? :icon_smil

Yeah, if yer just a pax might as well go ahead and get out too... :)

Back in the day the Tweets called 'em "One Wires"... :icon_tong

Or if you're blue instead of green, it's a "Commander's moon". :)

What he said... As a SCPO I had to stand duty watches at TW4 where we had to go with Base Security to any disturbance in Base Housing. You wouldn't believe some of the living conditions I would run into (picture a "Cops" show). Not knocking Enlisted folks, (I wuz one) but as MB said, most of...

Actually started out as a play on words from something I had heard on "Three Stooges" years ago. Googled it... Unintended meaning.:o I'll be more careful next time...

Did they blow the canopy? And if so, where did it land?

Great stragedy...:)

There, i fixed it for you...:D

We have friends who live on the golf course in Fernley. Talked to them yesterday and they say the flooding is pretty localized in the new development area of Fernley. China Chef (if it's the resturant I'm thinking of, I've slept since I was last there) should be OK. BTW, Why does this ad keep...

There, I fixed it for you,,,:icon_tong

Former USN Lockheed SP-2H (P2V-7) with 2 R-3350 recips and 2 J-34s. Jets were used for takeoff and were normally shutdown inflight, started and idled for landings or emergencies.

Good point... Perhaps I should have said "strap into and fly with"... I just remember pushing the headknocker back for the first time was a little unsettling.

Old bird??? OLD BIRD???? Sigh...:( I was in VX1 when we did the OpEval on the NEW birds. I installed the only known S3 paper MAD recorder for some of the tests. Only time I ever got to ride the ejection seats.

Nah, probably not... They'll probably just put some of us tube rats back there to operate the radar and look out the windows.:)

And Jets...:icon_tong

Huge power to weight ratio and LOTS of practice. Looked real to me. The cameraman was very good.

The "Morality" of using a tool in combat that saves your own combatant's lives and helps insure your success in that conflict? 'Bout the same as the "Morality" of calling in an airstrike or launching a terminally guided artillery shell or missle. Just a use of a technology to give yourself the...

Phrogdriver's Avatar Phrogdriver, Here's the real thing for your Avatar...:) Saw it at the Evergreen Museum in McMinnville, OR. Not a very good picture because of all the clutter in the background but you get the idea.

Yeah, I'm gonna stop writing 2007 on my checks....

Back in the day, (60's - 70's) I would get a Class II from the Flight Surgeon at the same time I took my Annual flight physical. Don't know if they can still do that or not.

Also, did you catch the "Could have had the crew jump out and land it by himself." bit? Glad I never had to ride the COD if they use the PAX to lighten the load...:icon_rage

Yeah, I know it's a Malibu, with a long ass nose and a heavy prop. I remember from my Cherokee 6 time how easy it was to wind up with an aft CG. Losing that much weight from that far out on the moment arm could make things a little more hectic. A less competent pilot might have let this sucker...

I wonder how far aft the CG moved with the loss of that much weight out on the nose? Enough nose down trim available?:eek:

One less pollutant in the shallow end of the gene pool...

I got WindowsLive with this message... "The message you selected could not be found. It may have been moved or deleted. Please click the folder again to refresh the view"

Not too unusual a scenario. My stepdad worked for LTV as an aeronautical engineer for 30+ years. He was doing a workup on the A7 planned for the Greek AF and discovered that some of the restrictions on the USN version (I'm not clear exactly what, something about airspeeds and loading) weren't...

Heard this on the radio today. News Report BZ to all involved.

Looking at the levels of fraud and waste in the current government health care systems (i.e. Medicaid, Medicare), I just don't see that working. The enormous costs just to administer such a program beyond just the medical part make it untenable. "We're from the Government and we're here to...

Not to be a prick, but I think it's Director of Civilian Marksmanship. Part of the CMP (See, another acronym... heehee:icon_tong) that is explained here.

OK, you're on. There's a newer Cretin's over on 16th. I've only been to the old one several years ago. "Rick" sounds right, although I wouldn't bet my next paycheck on it... Wait... I'm retired, I don't get a paycheck anymore:(.

Close enuf... Oak Harbor Tavern work for you? Haven't been there since '69 but back then it was a good place for beer, cribbage, and pool. The owner was a HUGE Packers fan and Dallas Cowboys shirts weren't advised, as he was also just HUGE...

For the young'uns... FASRON = Fleet Air Support SquadRON... Kind of like what AIMD's do (or did) at Naval Air Stations. They had pilots and maintainers qualified in most types of Naval aircraft used in their area at the time. As for the "Salute", picture a very young and green Airman (me) at...

Cobra Tales Story from a guy I used to work with... He was a Vietnam era Army Cobra pilot. On one mission he's in the front seat, loses his hard cigarette pack holder which winds up binding the rearward movement of the front seat cyclic. They had to do a run-on landing due to loss of control...

Anyone remember what the "FASRON Salute" was??? Free beer for the first correct answer

Yep, my stepdad was a NAVCAD during the Korean War. Primary in SNJ (T-6), advanced in F8F Bearcats at Cabiness in Corpus. Just can't imagine putting a low time STUD in that beast, but that's what they did back then. He tells an amusing story about losing his new helmet over the side when he...

Santa's checkride Always liked the story about the FAA guy showing up to give Santa a checkride. Santa agrees and they walk out to the sled. The FAA guy has a shotgun under his arm. Santa asks "What's that for???". The FAA guy replies "You're going to lose one on takeoff..."

Did the guy in the Mustang get wet???:D

I don't know about now, but in my day, CO trumps MCPO...:icon_smil

Coupeville NOLF An interesting (at least to me) story about Coupeville NOLF. On my Private checkride, in a Piper Colt, Wes Lupien pulled power on me over the runway at Coupeville. Wx at the time was about 3500' with wind out of the west gusting to 20+ kts. I immediately started to set up for an...

If you have Google Earth, so a search on Coupeville NOLF. I noticed that the Google Earth pic shows yellow X's on the runway. Any Whidbey EA6 guys care to comment on that?

Is there still a Teacher's College in Bellingham? Used to make the run up Chuckanut Drive pretty regular for liberty there. Closer than the border, but Vancouver was pretty good liberty also.

I was the AIMD Avionics Chief at NAS Corpus Christi at the time. We supported VT-28 (T-28s) and the station C-131 so we were not all that busy. I went to Corpus Christi State College (now Texas A&M at CC) and finished my Computer Science degree in 4 semesters. I was fortunate in that I was able...

I'd take that with more than a few grains of salt. I finished my degree at the end of my Naval career in a job that afforded me time to study while at work and lots of leeway to set my own schedule. I still had to work my ass off to complete everything within two years. Depending on the type of...

OK. My daughter used the term "Do a JOBBY" for her girls. Better???

Nah... One thing I always liked about P-3 deployements... We usually had liberty on the first day of deployment.

If this IFT cooked it, it might not be edible, and you might be spending time on that shitter you talk about... :icon_tong We always had ordies and even a couple of AWs who were good at it and enjoyed it.

That kinda surprises me because I've been on the golf course here in Yuma when one or two have flown over. The first time I was curious as to what it was, not having heard one before. Second and subsuquent times I knew what the noise was and was excited to see one in flight. I would estimate the...