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http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/30/report-co-pilot-moved-seat-sent-jetliner-plumetting/?hpt=C2 So this is why adjust seat is in the prestart checklist.

Sure, that's what I tell the pax.

Purely, no, but we are planning on buying a shitton of EFV's at a ridiculous price for that capability.

We were both responding originally to the idea of putting them on small decks with EM catapults and arresting gear. Cost benefit isn't quite as clear once you tack on those costs. It'd be nice to have a land-based augment but the Corps' purchasing decision is going to be based on what's coming...

OIF I and the strikes launched under Operation Southern Watch during the leadup to the war. Contested in the air, not so much but there was a credible IADS threat.

The point though (to reiterate the last half of Lawman's post), is that F/W vs R/W CAS is a narrow comparison of tactical abilities. In the big picture they're still just different varieties of delivering air-to ground ordnance, and a Tucano can't take on all the essential roles of a strike...

Wars always turn out great in the imagined world where they stand there and take a beating. Unfortunately in the real world they get a vote and tend to fight back.

What does lite FW CAS bring to the table that RW CAS can't, other than range and loiter time? You still lose OCA, EW, and honestly, any serious deep strike capacity against even rudimentary IADS. If we're dependent on Navy/AF support for air ops in any serious threat environment that really...

And yet their nuclear plant is surprisingly modern. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/23/north.korea.nuclear.facility/

I subscribe to the theory that the vast majority also don't fly that much and don't see a personal loss. Groping (and other intrusions) are all a-ok in the interest of security until they're touching your junk. Hopefully the holiday season will shift that.

Seems like up until the last minute, it was the Tornados that were to be axed, not the Harriers. http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?story_id=17468447&subjectID=349020&fsrc=nwl

What the......

I was more partial to m4carbine.net; it's more heavily moderated and there's a better signal:noise ratio there. The 14.5" mid-length and carbine barrel itself differ in where the gas port is drilled. The practical difference for you is that the carbine upper will fit a 7" rail, the mid-length...

The mid-length refers to the gas system. The gas is tapped at a different place in the barrel, so there's a carbine, mid-length, and full-length gas system based on how far down the port is placed. This also determines where the front sight is located if you used a standard fixed front sight...

1. 16" is a federal minimum barrel length on rifles; you can have a 14.5" barrel with a permanently attached flash hider as CAMike mentioned. I'm of the school of thought that if you're going to have the length, you might as well get the additional pressure and fps on the bullet of the 1.5" of...

AIM for anyone searching: http://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/ATPubs/AIM/aim.pdf I couldn't find the FAR, though. The Navy airworthiness website (CAC only) has each IC to the NATOPS- useful if you're trying to update a hard copy. Otherwise get it from NATEC (also CAC only), which has...

Cameron held healthcare and development assistance off limits, but everything else got schwacked for 25%, as opposed to 8% on defense. They seem to be mortgaging high-intensity capabilities like tanks, arty, ships, and allowing a fighter gap until the F-35 to keep their commitment in...

Isn't the AV-8B pure reaction thrust for when the normal control surfaces are ineffective at low airspeeds? This mimics the function of a control surface by altering the airflow over the wing; should be more powerful as it redirects the lift vector. [/geek]

BAE UAV prototype completely controlled by jets of air The simple writeup: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2010/10/new-test-plane-flies-without-flaps.ars The engineer's writeup: http://journals.pepublishing.com/content/k7242w814m3194lx/fulltext.pdf

Heard something in a youtube ad (of all places) about GE's elimination of stairstep approaches. Looks pretty cool. Seems like a coupla folks are working on it but GE's the first to implementation...

You mean these olden days? I don't think we're exactly lacking for witnesses.

Firsthand account of the boarding from the USNI blog http://blog.usni.org/2010/09/10/the-magellan-star/

Something's hinky about the first wiki numbers; they don't agree with the sources they're citing. The city college study they cite puts evangelicals at .5% in 2001; so unless they're lumping other denominations in there I don't see how they're getting the numbers they claim.

Because there's been death threats levied against the Baghdad embassy. It's not ordinarily the place of SecState or CENTCOM to comment on domestic politics. Fred Phelps may be obnoxious but the only people in lethal harm as a result of his actions are his own flock. And I suspect their...

Petraeus made the unusual move of making a statement asking them not to do it (I guess the protests in Kabul made it appropriate for him to weigh in). They don't care. I heard the guy on the news this morning; truly Fred Phelps stupid...

If you think they're out of sync then I think you're taking an aggressive reading of the administration's stance. Emanuel, Rhodes, and Mullen all say explicitly that military force isn't off the table. None are advocating it as a desirable or likely outcome. The administration is aggressively...

Helolumpy, I don't think those two positions are irreconciliable; he made the very much same points on Meet the Press, saying that we had military options on the table but "None of them are good in a sense that it's certainly an outcome that I don't seek, or that, that we wouldn't seek."...

Has Mullen said that? His most recent comments on Meet the Press last week were "I think the military options have been on the table and remain on the table" but to no one's surprise, that they're not anyone's first choice.

To sum up the points Goldberg himself makes, there's a 50% chance Israel will launch an attack which its own military leaders think they can't pull off, to secure a temporary reprieve from a nuclear Iran, risking lethal reprisals to Jews abroad, a regional war, solidifying the Iranian regime...

It's communist to believe political power comes from the barrel of a gun? Because I've heard that bandied about quite often and admiringly at gun shows, gun ranges, etc by gun enthusiasts.

I think the Bikila would be a good pick for an urban runner, the tread seems like it'd be more suited to artificial sufaces like concrete and asphalt. I've been running a bit in the city and the KSO's are no fun on concrete.

http://www.armytimes.com/news/2010/06/ap_drinkwine_wife_bragg_bct_061110/ http://fayobserver.com/articles/2010/06/11/1006135?sac=Home Not sure where the best place was to post this.

The idea behind the X2 is that the counterrotating rotors only produce lift when advancing; I assume they are reduced or flat pitch when retreating. At least that was the idea for the advancing blade concept. The wired article talks some weirdness about slowing Nr to increase the retreating...

That's not even a close comparison. The schools recruit for excellence in sports the way they recruit for excellence in sciences, arts, or any other endeavor. They understand that not all excellence is measured academically, and that sports carry many non-tangible lessons (a study of the effects...

Even Harvard has to recruit and sell itself to get the best applicants.

Oh crap, they've learned teamwork.

Good call; sure looks like Chaplain Elson: http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?b=5698175&c=twI6LmN7IzF&ct=8182463

Extraconstitutional, not unconstitutional.

The world is not simply divided into good friends and people that hate us. They all act out of their own interests. GB's are mostly aligned with ours. Israel, not completely. The ideology conflict of the Cold War is mostly gone; we are competitors for power with the USSR but does that mean they...

If they're our good friends, why do they spy on us? Frankly at this point, they're getting far more out of this "friendship" than we are.

Wasn't she on Firefly?

Eliot Cohen's caution against drawing reductive morality tales from this war or the McChrystal episode: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/25/AR2010062502153.html?sid=ST2010062504115

The zombies in this documentary seemed quite spry.

The forum software has never been able to search for three-letter words. Use google search ("site:airwarriors.com hsc") instead.

What's your basis for that? Taliban endorsement of Gen. Petraeus and a wisecrack about him fainting? It was probably the least disruptive move to move the head of CENTCOM to head Afghanistan, and politically, Petraeus's aura also undercuts a lot of arguments for McChrystal's indispensability. It...

I can buy Peter Feaver's thesis, that the article is an amalgam of three; it was pitched to McChrystal as exploring the tension between his ROE and the risks he's asking his troops to assume; it was pitched to the magazine as hitpiece on McChrystal and the US strategy in Afghanistan; and by luck...

I don't think it's quite as simple as that; Eikenberry after all was a general. The print copy of the Rolling Stone piece has a graphic showing McChrystal's allies and foes within the administration - it may be a sidebar link online. In the foes camp is Jim Jones and the VP; in the allies...

I'm amused if not surprised at the attempt to portray this as a tussle between the Prez and McChrystal. The real friction is between McCrystal and Eikenberry and Holbrooke. Letting slip insubordination distracts from the problem of unity of command, which leads me to believe this wasn't a...

How does this article help McChrystal, though? Yes, it airs some frustration between McChrystal, Eikenberry, and the administration, but on a whole it's more a critique of McChrystal's strategy and of the effort in Afghanistan in general. There's personal animosity and some turf clashing with...