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seawolf departure julian departure Hornets will fly both departures at 300 knots S/F

After the Navy rids itself of the Prowler in a few years, the Marine Corps will take over the Prowler RAG, move it to Cherry Point, and make Brett the CO. S/F

the US sales F-15's to Israel ... over the years Israel develops EA pods and other stuff ... Israel sales those pods & the other stuff to India ... India hosts USAF F-15's for Cope India '04 ... USAF F-15's gets "slammed" by the Indian AF during Cope India '04, per well publicized news media ...

My 2¢ … IA billets, especially Joint IA billets, are a convenient way to avoid reinstating the draft. S/F

IIRC from my criminal justice education years ago, a house with nobody in it (or bank, car, building, etc) can’t be robbed, only burglarized … either way, sucks for Scoob … I took appropriate measures after reading this thread. S/F

Every couple years HQ Marine Corps puts out an Aviation Plan (AvPlan). It can be found on the HQ USMC Aviation website. They released the latest one this month … contains some interesting stuff, particularly JSF intro timeframe, 2 more reserve Hornet sqds going away, 2 cadre active duty Hornet...

while you "cool" Marines are working on Memorial Weekend, us fighter & attack pilots are on that party boat full of bikini-clad coed's laughing at you ... S/F

hmm, follow NATOPS (blow the gear down) or listen to the MAG CO (an O-6)? that's a tough position to be in, I'm sure. So are you screwed if you gaff the MAG CO off and follow NATOPS? Or are you screwed if you listen to the MAG CO and end up f*ck'n the jet up (like in this case)? S/F

yes .... if you rate lets say $1200 for BAH, your rent/mortgage is $1000, you pocket $200 for whatever you want to use it for. whenever you live off base/non-government quarters. yes full BAH non taxable money that you get every payday - half on the 1st, second half on the 15th. you'll...

A4 … Generally - - Plasma black levels and contrast are currently superior to LCDs … higher end LCDs (Sony XBR2’s & 3’s) black levels & contrast are comparable to low to middle of the road plasmas. - Plasmas look better in low light rooms and have trouble with glare in bright rooms … LCDs...

jarhead = tumbleweed ... thought you were dig'n on modern tacair so i was giving you some shit. (my laptop is setup to block images so i didn't see your Kong pic). S/F

huh? TACAIR lite? F-16CJ's & F/A-18E/F's? "lite" compared to what? Here ya go - I'll take a division of CJ's & a division of SH's against your four ship of F-14's & four F-4's --- I'd even spot you a four ship of A-6's so you could have some attack capability. Strike against a Point DCA, then...

My 2¢ (not directed at anybody in particular) … I didn’t watch the video assuming it would be a waste of time. It’s fun to poke fun at other services and their training. But like Skid said, the AF doesn’t recruit “meatheads”; they need “geeks” (not literally – the AF has meatheads too, try...

why? are you North Korean?

Single seat Hornet guys are already earning the FAC(A) qual. The syllabus was approved early last year and the T&R manual was updated soon after. Whether or not single seat FAC(A) is as effective as two seat FAC(A) is debatable. My opinion ... in all this "Jointness", the Corps is setting...

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beautiful day today ... didn't go, didn't want to deal with traffic. didn't know it happened till the folks called asking if everybody is ok. it happened between Laural Bay base housing & the departure end of runway 5 (open source info); i live about 5 miles from the end of rwy14. buddy called...

There are no significant differences in the missions of Marine Corps F/A-18C’s and D’s. I don’t know about the Navy's E's & F's but I suspect their missions are similar, if not the same. F/A-18D’s can go to the boat but they don’t, other than at the RAG, because of limited fuel/“bring back”...

I had a peer a few years back say in a conversation that he loved flying in F/A-18D’s because all he had to do is worry about aviating; the WSO did the navigating & communicating. All he had to do was “join up and shut up”. Along those same lines, about 6-7 years ago, a MAG-31 CO did a pilot...

why not build an unmanned Flat-top to carry these UCAVS ... it'd be like a huge video game, and nobody would have to "heave out trice up" to start their day S/F

neat video yes i am one who wonders why Marines would pass on flying a Hornet, one of the most capable fighter & attack aircraft in the world, where you have access to some of the most sophisticated (and classified) technology available, where you beg to fight other fighter aircraft because...

na bro, I've been out of the 'pit for almost a year ... I was happy that I could remember that much, suppose I'm behind the curve yet even further now seems like EPs in the hornet are changing at the cyclic rate. crazy for a jet that's 15+ years old ... change the software, change the EP S/F

interesting ... thanks for the heads up.

for Marines ... one way of coordinating a flyover is to know the event coordinator and have him/her fill out the appropriate FAA & HQ MC paperwork, and get approval from your boss. another method is to get Frag'd by higher to do a flyover or static display ... this usually occurs when a...

OCF procedures for the "classic" hornet, such as the one in the video ... controls release/feet off rudders/speedbreak in still out of control: throttles - idle altitude, AOA, airspeed, yaw rate - check when recovery is indicated by AOA & yaw rate tones removed, side forces subsided...

a loaded roll followed by a steep dive once the is nose down? ... probably not official but i've always known it as the "Pappy peel-off" (after Pappy Boyington)

still happens no way, not even close

Brett ... typo on my part Fly & Turn ... like I said, I have no reason to not believe the operators, you fellas would know 'cause I don't ... I was just regurgitating (bad) info

I suspect the information is outdated since you, the operator, is saying otherwise … but here is what my “source” wrote on page 6, Mar-Apr 2007 ed of Naval Aviation News … Super Hornet Weapons Tested The Air Force’s Arnold Engineering Development Center, Arnold AFB, Tenn., conducted a wind...

FMC rates are deceiving … a good MMCO can make the numbers read anything the AMO needs (to keep his job). The real proof is when you start your jet up (and the last jet shuts down at the end of the day) … what is really working in the jet versus what is “working” on paper. If you can honestly...

the Corps could standup a new squadron, in this case a FRS, by using hand-me-down Prowlers transferred from the Navy after they transition to the F/A-18G.

let me reiterate what i said on the first page ... why anybody would want to select a 15-20 year old airframe that isn't being built anymore and is always breaking and rarely FMC over one that is less than 5 years old and has all the fancy avionics built into each one of them vice being tossed...

just like the Navy is doing with the Osprey, eh? sit back & let the Corps do the R&D, then when all is said and done, jump on the bandwagon. and you gentlemen underestimate the Marine Corps cheapness ... the Marine Corps will move the RAG to Cherry Point, shitcan the carrier qual requirement...

why anybody would want to select a 15-20 year old airframe that isn't being built anymore and is always breaking and rarely FMC over one that is less than 5 years old and has all the fancy avionics built into each one of them vice being tossed randomly "after market" into a few here and there is...

i thought it was MECH that was never flight tested in the hornet. the F-22 is badass ... we'll see with the F-35. performance wise, i'm afraid the AF version of the F-35 will be superior to the Navy's version, and both of those versions will be vastly superior to the Marine Corps version.

we had two pc's hooked to one drop in my squadron's vault. i could spend hours on sipr, if i wasn't flying, i was in the vault on sipr ... ya gotta know where to surf. it was about as fast as a good dialup connection, sometimes faster. i can't remember the link to intelink, i think it's...

Are you talking about the one on IntelLINK homepage? I've used it before ... it's kinda quite but seemed like analysts jumped out the woodwork when I posted a couple Q's there. "Analysts", funny and strange creatures... my first experience with "analysts" was just after I hit the fleet when I...

if we just had a SIPR airwarriors ...

and you believed him? the A+ is far from archaic. besides, I'm fairly certain Squeeze can discern the difference between weapons & avionics.

while I agree that the Harriers are newer than the Hornet, I'm not too sure about it having more capable weapon systems than the Hornet. What does it carry that a Hornet can't? I'm not trying to argue here, just curious why you made that statement. Semper Fidelis

mercenary according to the Geneva Convention: Art 47. Mercenaries 2. A mercenary is any person who: (a) is specially recruited locally or abroad in order to fight in an armed conflict; (b) does, in fact, take a direct part in the hostilities; (c) is motivated to take part in the...

Report: Russia Completes Delivery of Missiles to Iran Monday, January 22, 2007 FoxNews Russia completed the delivery of a load of modern anti-aircraft missiles to Iran last week, the Eurasia Daily Monitor reports — a deal Moscow said does not violate any international agreements. Russian...

last time i qualed with the rifle and pistol was in TBS, in 1999.

both are interesting articles ... seems like, IMO, the Captain knows little actual facts about the MV-22 and is regurgitating information based on little to no actual Osprey-working knowledge. take for instance survivability ... the Captain states "in addition to the exposed engines, there is no...

Here's what the Commandant said, with no Marine Corps Times spin ... ALMAR 002/07 Date signed: 01/19/2007 Subject: EVERY MARINE INTO THE FIGHT COMMANDANTS INTENT R 191555Z JAN 07 FM CMC WASHINGTON DC(UC) TO AL ALMAR(UC) UNCLASSIFIED// ALMAR 002/07 MSGID/GENADMIN/CMC...

took the plunge and used my $600 plus in Best Buy gift cards from X-mas (that's all i ever ask for anymore for X-mas) and got myself an xbox 360 with HD-DVD & wireless adapter add-on's and hooked it up to my 37' Panny Plasma HDTV ... got Madden07 with the system & it looks sweet. HD movies are...

Russia Confirms Sale of Tor-M1 Air Defense Missiles to Iran Tuesday, January 16, 2007 Associated Press MOSCOW — Russia's defense minister said Tuesday that Russia has sold Tor-M1 air defense missile systems to Iran. It was the first high-level confirmation that such a sale took place...

agreed ... Yuma BOQ is an embarassment. If anybody is ever headed that way and you have to stop somewhere, stop into Davis-Monthan in Tucson (average BOQ considering it's AF), or continue to N.Island or Miramar. Hell, El Centro would be a better stop than Yuma. I'd just as soon sleep in the jet...

The throttles stay in AB majority of the time during BFM. You do what you can to maintain sight during BFM to include flying left handed. Thanks for the critique, Sir. BFM is taught different today because of performance differences between the aircraft, but generally the same rules and...

The fight took place almost 2 years ago and was a standard butterfly set starting at 15k, 400knots, 1.5nm abeam … full-up at the merge, Aim-9M’s & guns only. Both of us had about 500hours or so in our aircraft. I appreciate your critique but there was no reason to do anything fancy against this...