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inertia I'd imagine. You are getting lift, but the lift vector is perpendicular to the gravity vector, so i guess inertia will keep you from going down until it is overcome. The plane isn't like that for very long.

I'm curious how you track a sub with paper grams... i've seen them on the reserve planes we use for bounce birds, but i'm not even sure they work! Did you ever use the diesel sniffer?

nope. the devil dogs use the Huey-Cobra http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ah-1.htm

Love that war spoon. I used it up until Candi-o phase.

NO WAY! GOD DAMNIT! It isn't snowing in Washington, the ski areas are either not open or the coverage sucks, and CORPUS GETS SNOW?! There is NO justice! I'm going to go cry myself to sleep on my bloody great pillow.

ah, that makes sense! thanks for the info!

the shower scene would have been better had it been an all female platoon... but I agree, the movie missed the point

i'm friggen dyslexic! My apologies! as i were...

edit: yeah, hookt an fonicks wurkt four mi!

after seeing those pics....i'll be in my bunk...

I've got a glock 22 with a .22LR conversion kit. It is a nice gun and all, but .40 is spendy. The conversion kit was spendy too (about $250) but well worth it. Glocks are good all around guns. They aren't the most accurate in the world (they are, however, pretty damn good) but they are nigh...

Starship Troopers - great military book. "You apes want to live forever?"

When you use ailerons they work as a pair. One wing gains lift when the aileron moves down and increases that wing's camber, the other wing looses lift as the aileron moves up and that wing drops. With spoilers one wing's lift is reduced, "spoiled" if you will, and it drops - there is no...

So i'm trying to come up with a quote for a framed picture of my brother and I in our work uniforms (he's a firefigher, I'm a per diem collector) and I've come down to these. It is to be a gift for our parents, mom's and dad's dig pics of their kids in uniform. Which do you all think i should...

A4Forever, thanks for the 747 info - very interesting read. I've always loved that plane - it is big, bad, and beautiful. No air bus will ever be half as cool as the 747, even if they were twice as big. It was the first of the true Jumbo jets. If you're ever in SEA for a spell I'd love...

DOH! that's 250million down the drain. Hope the pilot is okay.

Fuel gauge malfunction in a P-3 procedure: 1 - Test - press test button 2 - TAP - lightly tap on gauge 3 - Check - the circuit breaker.

Hey A4's forever, does the 747 require a lot of pilot attention during flight and landing or is pretty automated? Is it a pilot's plane or just a huge pig? You ever fly into Kai Tak?

porn. lots of porn. or naked pics of your buddies wife, those are even better, because you know her - better still if it is you who took them.

they are used for that. Some aircraft, however, do not have ailerons (the B-52 for example). To turn they put the spoilers up on one side which spoils the lift on that side, dropping the wing and now you've got angle of bank and you're in a turn. on aircraft like the f-18 the whole...

it wasn't a bomb, I don't think - it was CAT. The plane crash was pretty lame. The engine running on the beach after the crash and exploading sometime later was really really lame, but the show is actually very good. Can't have everything.

big steering wheels are cool. it isn't as if they're mechanically linked in any way to the rudders, so they could be push buttons and work just as well. All ships ought to have a bigass wheel - just to be cool.

it is a school you'll go to as an aircrewman.

I doubt they'll care. My advice though, wait till you're through SERE before considering any tattoos.

NASCAR must totally kick your ass then! :P

I try to not run at all. if i can drive, I do that.

if only i'd had this book! ....i'd have still selected P-3's. I'd be a crappy fighter pilot anyhow - too interested in beer and per diem.

it's freakin' me out man!

Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die; Maybe you've heard the above before. There are some days where I am livid at having to follow the orders of those appointed over me. I do not always agree with what I'm told to do or how I'm told to do it...

I should give you negative feedback for showing me yet another way to waste my time! I'm friggen addicted, jackass! i have no self control...

P-3s are sooo cool. but not nearly so cool as P-3 pilots. Man, those guys are totally awesome. I like having our own room.

I wouldn't want to expose those good folks spending their days in Levenworth, turning big rocks into little rocks, to these worthless individuals. Let them leave and bring canada down. This is the HOME OF THE BRAVE! I don't even want to spend the money or effort to try and jail them...

This was emailed to me and just cracked me up. ******* Remember when Puerto Rico was raising hell about the US Navy using that nothing little island just off the coast of Puerto Rico for bombing practices, which they had used for the past 75 years? Demonstrations were held, Hollywood left...

I like speed myself.....

Let them run. Let all the cowards who only wanted money from the government for college, run. The sooner we have those low life, scum sucking, commie pinko bed wetting COWARDS out of my military, the better off the rest of us who actually believe in something greater than ourselves will be...

The one thing I DO like is that women are given a fitted shirt. The marine woman's uniform is great - women look like women in them! Maybe if the navy have fitted shirts and IF we enforced uniform fit standards (e.g. not sagging over your waist line, or women five inches shorter than me...

Our own special place!!!!

If the sim is anything like the plane (and lets face it, would the navy buy a sim that doesn't fly exactly like the plane?) then it could be done. I'd never try it in the actual plane - but I have done it in the sim. I've also done a loop. Lost a LOT of altitude.

Nittany - good news if you go P-3s. We almost never cancel for weather. If we can't do a PT we'll do a DFW.

better to overestimate them and crush them with ease than to underestimate them and face a much greater adversary. The US population is pretty big, about 300mil or so. China is about 1.6 BILLION. We'd need a lot of bullets. I'm sure we'd win, but the mauling we'd take would make WWII look...

I think it would be best to not underestimate the power of China's military. If nothing else, they have numbers. Numbers can do an awful lot in the face of superior tech. While i have no doubt we could wipe out their navy and air force, the cost would be high. The cost of taking them on the...

the Escher Sketch shirt has me in tears!

Good thing religious extremeists only rarely have a double standard...oh wait, they always do!

so if they encourage the killing of our people in Muslim countries....does that mean we should be killing them in ours?

PFPS is my wet dream. That program friggen rocks. Bevo, do you guys still run charts in your Natops for tests? The p-3 Natops is filled with wonderful charts to run in order to determine all kinds of things you usually don't care about. Man it suuucks. PFPS, however, is many times faster...

buy one of those small ones that mounts on your deck railing. Or keep it till you can fly it. Get another one from walmart (one made in the USA, NOT CHINA!!!!!!) to hang on your wall.

I'd not hang a flag like that on my wall. I'd fly it from a pole every 4th of July, Flag Day, Veterans day. That's just me though.

man, if i had to do a jet log now I'd be in a world of trouble. good thing they teach it to us back in primary...

you won't report until sunday. most people's orders say No Earlier Than XXXX time Saturday and NLT (No Later Than) XXXX time Sunday. Do NOT show up any earlier than your NLT time. In fact if it is early in the morning you might consider being late. That's always good for a laugh and really...

I was there, but now i've run