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Yes they were. Back when you didn't have any instruments to know your attitude it was routine to put yourself in a known flight attitude, in this case a spin, and hope you have enough distance when you break out left to recover the aircraft. Dangerous, but kinda smart.

Like the guy who flew up to Austin for his solo CC and then flew back with his friend in the back seat... Yeah that worked out well for him.

You should have heard the guy who said "Geez Luise." It was the most vulgar thing his mind could come up with on his first trap.

And by the full months pay he means the next 15 days of work. In the navy you do the work and then get paid. So 1-2 days for the first half month, then the full second half month. If that makes any sense.

You know, someone once thought that we'd never need guns again on aircraft, that missiles would rule the sky and we'd never again fight in the visual arena... I think that person was wrong too...

Ah yes the Air Force giving away their money to other services... Or the equivalent there of... Yeah that'll never happen. They want all the money. They'll never buy Navy jets.

Repeating of course.

I kinda miss my SWB shirt. Makes a good bowling shirt you know...

What he said. The waterslide is totally awesome.

Is it wrong that I want to help MB trick some poor unsuspecting fool into this arrangement...?

Is that supposed to be like an ink blot test...? Where what you see says something about your messed up mental state? Cause all I see is a blur that could be anything. Kinda hard to tell if there's sunglasses there or not...

And then there was also the mythbusters episode where they took all the moon conspiracy theories and showed that yes, physics proves they actually could have done this on the moon. Hence it was real you dumb asses.

I recommend teaching your plebes that swo's sucks and pilots (and nfo's too) are gods. That should hold them over for four years and serve them well.

Marathons. Plural. Seriously, the first guy who ran one died. Why do people want to copy him?

BEST advice for CFET is sleep. The only guy who passed out in our class was a guy who got screwed over by the airlines, had about 1 hour of sleep and then showed up to class. He was gone right away. The rest matter too, but your body needs to be well rested. Eating, drinking, in shape...

I don't know about gun equations but F=ma. 'A' is the same with one gun or two, same end velocity. If you double the mass (for two projectiles) then you require double the force for the same 'a.' So simple version, 2x force required. Now someone go find the complex equation that you can...

Air warriors made me do it? I wonder how many uses this excuse could have...

Does it matter the odds? Someone's going to be first. Who says it won't be this kid? If he has the determination and the dedication to make it through it just may be his lucky day. Still, there are some things you don't tell other people just because they'll make you're life a living hell...

To continue with the nerd theme in this thread... Technically the speed of sound is based upon temperature. Given that mach is a ratio of the speed of the aircraft to the speed of sound, different parts of the aircraft could have different mach numbers. Granted they'd be a small difference...

Actually you can tell the mach number from a photograph. It's impossible to be precise but it's possible to get an estimate based off of the shock wave angle. According to my math the raptor's going at least M1.15, or at least parts of it are. It's probably going faster than that but that's...

The museum stash was pretty fun back when I was in A-pool. You got to wear a flight suit early, which meant when everyone else was mustered in khakis we got to wear the flight suit, we got to go sit in an F/A-18 simulator and basically enjoy a giant flight simulator for free. In between...

Hey Master, think you could incorporate one of these into a new king cat?

A4s is also able to kill men by the hundreds, thanks to the fact that he can consume them with fireballs from his eyes and bolts of lightning from his arse.

A bronze statue of Master... Now I know the world is about to end.

So why do we have to do things the Air Force way in the navy? That's the thing that bugs me the most. When it comes to being "joint," being "joint" seems to mean doing things the air force way. Seriously, wtf? Don't the rest of us get a say in how to do joint things?

If someone wants to go use the bathroom make them recite a limerick in order to ask permission. If its not funny say no. But respond with a limerick of your own that is far wittier that theirs.

Give them their sword later. There's no reason to wear it at graduation. I don't see this as a big deal.

You really have to bug those bastards to get your jacket. I was 0701 and it took all the way until advanced to get my jacket (~1 year). I was calling them like once a week near the end. I think someone finally changed the people working the place which was why I finally got one. Granted they...

We didn't even get a NATOPS manual here. They cost money so we just got a cd. Any gouge out there on how to effectively use jumps?

I've heard the same thing...

"Faster, funnier."

Or just leave it slick. If its good enough for the commodore its good enough for me.

And for what its worth moving from Kingsville to Lemoore sucks. My rates doubled. And here I thought north Mexico's drivers were supposed to be the worst...

Didn't the test pilots need to attach a rocket pod to one wing to get it to actually generate a steady state spin...? Otherwise the jet would always fix itself...

afblues.com Sure it's airforce. But it's still funny.

Unless they've built housing on base in the past month, there's nothing on base. What they have is a public-private venture with some apartments out in town, Hunter's Cove and Hawk's Landing. That's what they're talking about. No actual living on base except for the BOQ and puma dwellers.

I always preferred huzzah myself.

Might as well give him the help he requested before someone yells "SEARCH" or locks the thread. Two apartment complexes, Hunter's Cove and Hawk's Landings, are where most SNA's stay at. No housing on base unless you live in a puma. The houses in town arn't too bad depending on where you live...

I use USAA Master. Been using them for about 2 years now for my own personal stock trading. Never had a problem with them and their stock portion of the website is as easy to use as the rest of their website.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=white%20paper I actually googled it myself. I just always wanted to use that website though. Wikipedia explains it all.

I liked it. I think it only seemed left because of the timing of the latest deficits/surpluses, aka Clinton/Bush #2. They pointed out other moments in the little history that had democratic presidents that caused the deficit to soar. This last one just happened to fall under Bush #2. The...

You can also be an officer at the academy and stand OOW. Then you get to wear a sword all day when you walk around. Either that or it was just at formation time. I don't remember. But swords were used there more than anywhere else...

So Master, was this e-mail from the CAPT just about getting wings on a cover or did it concern helping out the AWG effort as well? Just to clarify...

Actually he is wearing aviators. I'll be. I did that once because I didn't want to change visors for a night flight. It worked but I liked the feel of just the clear visor better.

I like to play with my wood. You know, spend all day working on it till i get the shape just right. Rub it down from time to time. Put on a couple coats of the good stuff till it shines. Rub it again until its finished just how I like it. Made an entertainment center and flag display case...

Trust me, we don't need them as JO's. I got conned into getting a set of them. I never used a single one of them. Never had a party or event that was hosted that needed a little card with my name on it. Its a waste of money. Maybe later it'll be useful but as a JO, its a waste of money...

Wait. There's no hurry. I never used it in primary. I only used it in advance because the squadron actually sent us e-mails. Most were worthless of course but from time to time there was something nice that came around. Needless to say there's nothing really needed from an NMCI account in...

Fixed it for you. After all, it tends to be one or two or ten who ruin it for 100. It's probably not the first time they've done something dumb either...

And for those who want to read the story from the local paper about the incident: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2009/feb/18/authorities-seven-face-possible-state-federal-char/ I knew some of the people from the academy. As Phrog said they could very well be innocent, but it wouldn't surprise...

I prefer PC. All of my stuff is for PC. If it breaks I know how to fix it. I have no clue how to use a mac. If it breaks I don't know what to do. I know how to crawl inside of my pc and fix things. I don't want to learn a new computer. And the mac commercials are funny but stupid. My PC...