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A lot of it is tradition and style. My Corvette is 30 years old and still gets stares and wows the crowd. Will a 1995 Mitsubishi be able to do that in 2025? Or Mitsubishi's, or Mazda's, or Honda's.

My hobby car: .030 over 350 roller cammed, aluminum heads, ~400 HP, Tremec 5 speed. Fast and loud.

The recommendation is for OCS, LDO School, CWO school and the Direct Commissioning courses to come to Newport. Being at Newport right now, I can tell you there is more than enough space. The goal would be to consolidate all non-ROTC/USNA programs. Aviation related stuff stays at P'Cola...

Brett, I'll let you tell that one. :icon_zbee I'll retell the good ones. Besides, how many other guys do you know with class A's to their name. (who are still alive and in the Navy). But now, for a nice VAQ-129 story: Summer day at Whidbey. My last flight as a RAG instructor. VR1350 A...

A-6E Tailpipe failure at high power on Cat 3. Aircraft was a total loss.

Anything except LSO. LSO is a squadron duty except for the CAG LSO who is a senior LT/junior LCDR. Air Boss and CVN Ops are post command CDR's. Safety Boss, Gun Boss, Air Ops, Strike Ops are usually non-screen CDR's. CVN CO is an aviation CAPT. 1310 or 1320. After squadron command, there...

As opposed to what, "Growler"? All the good names are gone. Names like "Intruder" and "Prowler". 500' at night violating some other country's airspace. Yeah, baby. :icon_smil Now those new names just remind me to go take a growler and hopefully, it will be bigger than a musketeer.

So, what happened to the "there I was" stories? A discussion of the pro's and con's of VT sim instructors are not what I was hoping for in this thread. :banghead_

Well, what's wrong with that. ;) I thought 5 bills was the MINIMUM airspeed for breaks at the ship. We did an CAX at 29 Stumps while I was in VA-95. Flew out of the expeditionary airfield inside the restricted area. No 250 KIAS <10k restriction there. :icon_smil Every break was at "warp...

Now for my Prowler X-cnty story: Crew of 3 J.O's have to deliver a Prowler to the Grumman facility in St. Augustine, FL for rewinging. The jet is due at Grumman at 0900 on Monday so we have to spend the weekend within a short distance. Answer - Pensacola. Saturday launch O'dark thirty...

Deception Pass bridge ???????? :eek:

Agreed. The Isreali's have an F-16I that is an improved version of the two-seat D. Overwing conformal tanks and better avionics. Good match for their other aircraft. http://www.airforce-technology.com/projects/f-16i/

Another good rule of thumb is: "How would this read in the mishap report?"

USAF AWACS Flight crew of four plus mission crew of 13-19 specialists USAF ABCC Flight crew of four plus mission crew of 12 specialists USN Crew of five—two pilots and three operators. And the E-2 does everything the EC-130E and E-3 does, at the same time, and better! At...

Funniest thing about this list is that except for the F-15C, every plan on it is a "strike/fighter". Even the USAF realized that a pure fighter is no longer the way to go and redesigned the F/a-22 (small a on purpose) to carry the Small Diameter Bomb (250lb JDAM). The only purpose of a...

At lot of that stuff, just like jamming, is classified. E-2 bubbas may be able to talk in generalities but I doubt you will get too many specifics.

Was that in a whiny pilot voice?

Damn, CQ qual rate must be up. Are they trying to get the Cat I's more than 50 hours when they cross the ramp? :D

Substitue USMC for USN, but since USMC aviation is trained by the Navy, it applies: :icon_smil (Especially with one USMC Hornet squadron in each Navy air wing, just substitute cannon cocker and grunt for shoe and bubble head) USN or USAF? by Bob Norris Bob Norris is a former Naval aviator...

Not just no, but hell no. Even if I knew, I would not contact you. The USMC or USN (there are two Navy C squadrons on the same boat as 323) will contact the family members. I have been involved in two mishaps and that is how I would wannt my family contacted. NOT via some bubba off a...

Of course some days....... http://www.gallagher.com/ejection_seat/

The advesary are reserves. Start rushing them about the time you hit your first shore tour. Generally, your wing comittment (8 years) will be over about the end of your first shore tour).

Well, if you want to talk about water bombers that scoop a load, two of the four Martin Mars ever built are still water bombing every season. www.martinmars.com

USAF propaganda. Big jets can refuel using probe and drogue: Brits: Russians: The reason the USAF went to booms is because of the poor throttle response of the early jet engines. The early jet bombers (B-47) needed to be refueled to have a useful range but the poor throttle...

Back in the day..... O-course in 3+26 or you were gone...any of you guys actually do the O-course? Marine DI's - no chiefs. Back gate runs every day with the last leg in the surf. Mountain climbers, rose garden, grenade pit, "owing the DI's". "Officer and a Gentleman" was...

I always tell people that it beats working for a living. :D

Always glad to help a Prowler bubba out..... USN or USAF? by Bob Norris Bob Norris is a former Naval aviator who also did a 3 year exchange tour flying the F-15 Eagle. He is now an accomplished author of entertaining books about US Naval Aviation including "Check Six" and "Fly-Off". Check...

EA-18G = F/A-18F minus the gun plus the recievers from the ICAP III Prowler and the ALQ-99 pods we have had all along. This is what they call risk reduction by using existing technology. Don't know about "seriously high tech". Also, no offensive weapons other than HARM and Air-Air initially. It...

Best thing in that video is the Prowler taxiing in the background.

Kapton wiring. Very prevalent in the Prowlers. Or I should say "was" very prevalent. As the jets get reworked, it gets replaced, but no-one knows how much is in each jet. EA-6B NATOPS states that circuit breakers will not be reset unless "operational necessity" dictates due to the danger...

Battleship will never come back. Can you say "railgun" boys and girls. Here is a link: http://nrac.onr.navy.mil/webspace/reports/04_em_gun.pdf Or do your own google search. Basically 200nm range, 2kg projectile hitting at >1.5km/sec releases a lot of kinetic energy.

I can only post to "Member Galleries" and have a 150k limit????

I believe the VA-196 crash off the cat that you see on Discovery was an engine failure. I know I heard about an A-6E that had a stab go full leading edge down on takeoff resulting in a stall (early '70's ??) and I believe there was a Prowler that had one go full leading edge up (much better...

The problem is recognizing it as a Dual Gen Failure. Remember, no gens = no warning and caution lights. With the battery backup for EFIS, the pilot won't get an immediate blank screen staring him in the face. All your pitot static will still be working. Obviously, at night, you will lose the...

If I remember my A-6E NATOPS correctly, wasn't it: Canopy max speed: 150 KIAS to close 200 KIAS to open 250 KIAS with it open I do remember canopies popping open an inch or so on heavy cat shots. :eek: Just had to close it before the pilot isolated the secondary combined. ;)

Brett, I have been wheels in the well 30 minutes after landing there. Guess the service has gone downhill. I'll stick by my other choices. After all, if you are trying to get a quick turn at Nellis, that is an automatic below for headwork. Heck, I want to break in Nellis.

Grand Junction, CO - great "Howl at the Moon" party every month Hill AFB - Ski the Watasch mountains on opening day. Great powder. Quick turn, good low levels. NAS North Island - San Diego. Why? You say. Why not? I say. NAS Key West - Once again, why not? Mountain Home AFB - Don't...

Hey, another reason for the G to go to NUW. :D

For five minutes till the Hornet hits ladder and has to go to high holding and max conserve to make the next recovery. When a Hornet can fly a 1350A entry/1355 without running out of gas, we'll talk. For those that don't know, two spectacular low levels out of Whidbey. VR1350 Pt A is...

Not waving off when directed and trapping.

All avition commitments are from the date you recieve your wings. That date can be 18 months to two years after commisioning.

ABSOLUTELY!!! I remember when they wanted a Hornet to do a supersonic fly-by for the tiger cruise airshow. Only way he could do it was completely slick...no tanks... no pylons...nothing. Of course, good thing fopr him we had tankers airborne. Hornet = slowest supersonic fighter in the world.

Happy to oblige. Personally, I don't think a Hornet can't break the number at sea level while carrying tanks. The can come close depending on density altitude, etc but I will give them the benefit of doubt since I assume they were cross country birds and at least double bubble. As for the...

There is a Marine Major who work with me. He has 3 or 4 houses that he rents from all his duty stations. Taxes this year, he did nothing fancy. 0.0% tax rate using Turbo-tax. He got every dime back. Buy it and rent it. Slum lord is the way to go.

Nope. Sorry. Have to come form the top rope on this one. It was the Bommers of VA-165 who did the flying. I just looked at the credits. I know 4 guys on the list. One LCDR ended up being my first skipper in VA-95 (Green Lizards). Two LT's were RAG instructors of mine (one of whom came to...

Fire fighting training birds and museum birds. Basically, all the carrier bases have old jets that they crane on board to practice firefighting on. Nowadays, they are using A-6's. So, you round up some of those, crane them on, instant air wing. BTW: The squadron that did all the flying was...

The biggest problem with the intel officers that aviators work with every day (squadron AI's) is that they are generally ENS's with no experience. The only guy in CVIC (carrier intel center) with any prior sea time is usually the CAG AI and he is not really involved in daily interaction with...

Lows if know of: - 15 hours a month as a RAG instructor (jet availabilty) - Less than 10 hours in 90 days (no jets) - Average approx 18 hours a month on cruise (72 traps in 8 months, floating around WESTPAC in 2003) Highs I know of: - 75+ hour months (Allied Force) - 80 hour months...

Heck, you have one job as a student - get winged. Big Navy is spending a lot of coin on you until you get to that point so suck it up. What you don't realize is that you will never have less responsibilities (and more free time) than when you are in flight school. You just have to use that...