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  1. mmx1

    Adventures in Air India

    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.
  2. mmx1

    F-35B/C Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter)

    Purely, no, but we are planning on buying a shitton of EFV's at a ridiculous price for that capability.
  3. mmx1

    F-35B/C Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter)

    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...
  4. mmx1

    F-35B/C Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter)

    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.
  5. mmx1

    F-35B/C Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter)

    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...
  6. mmx1

    North Korea Just Attacked South Korean Island w/ Arty. 4 DEAD. "Vipers" Scrambled

    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.
  7. mmx1

    F-35B/C Lightning II (Joint Strike Fighter)

    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...
  8. mmx1

    North Korea Just Attacked South Korean Island w/ Arty. 4 DEAD. "Vipers" Scrambled

    And yet their nuclear plant is surprisingly modern. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/23/north.korea.nuclear.facility/
  9. mmx1

    TSA or T&A ???

    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.
  10. mmx1

    There will ALWAYS be an England ... ???

    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
  11. mmx1

    Now think about your dad

    What the......
  12. mmx1

    The next great AR question thread...

    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...
  13. mmx1

    The next great AR question thread...

    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...
  14. mmx1

    The next great AR question thread...

    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...
  15. mmx1

    Going digital question

    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...
  16. mmx1

    There will ALWAYS be an England ... ???

    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...
  17. mmx1

    BAE: Look ma, no control surfaces!

    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]
  18. mmx1

    BAE: Look ma, no control surfaces!

    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
  19. mmx1

    Satellite-assisted (RNP) approaches

    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...
  20. mmx1

    12 Dead, 31 Wounded @ FT HOOD

    You mean these olden days? I don't think we're exactly lacking for witnesses.
  21. mmx1

    The Great Pirates off the Somali Coast thread

    Firsthand account of the boarding from the USNI blog http://blog.usni.org/2010/09/10/the-magellan-star/
  22. mmx1

    International Burn a Qu'ran Day

    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.
  23. mmx1

    International Burn a Qu'ran Day

    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...
  24. mmx1

    International Burn a Qu'ran Day

    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...
  25. mmx1

    The Point of No Return

    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...
  26. mmx1

    The Point of No Return

    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."...
  27. mmx1

    The Point of No Return

    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.
  28. mmx1

    The Point of No Return

    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...
  29. mmx1

    The Great Universal Health Care Debate w/Poll (note: it just passed both houses)

    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.
  30. mmx1

    The return of barefoot running....now with Five Fingers!

    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.
  31. mmx1

    Ft. Bragg CO bars Brigade CO's wife from unit functions.

    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.
  32. mmx1

    Sikorsky X2 snatches Lynx's speed record

    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...
  33. mmx1

    The Return of the Fleming

    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...
  34. mmx1

    The Return of the Fleming

    Even Harvard has to recruit and sell itself to get the best applicants.
  35. mmx1

    Aggressive Maneuvering Helo UAV

    Oh crap, they've learned teamwork.
  36. mmx1

    New Air Boss takes over

    Good call; sure looks like Chaplain Elson: http://www.hadassahmagazine.org/site/apps/nlnet/content.aspx?b=5698175&c=twI6LmN7IzF&ct=8182463
  37. mmx1

    McDonald ET AL., v. City of Chicago SCOTUS ruling in favor of 2nd...Woo Hoo

    Extraconstitutional, not unconstitutional.
  38. mmx1

    US arrests 10 Russian deep-cover spies

    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...
  39. mmx1

    US arrests 10 Russian deep-cover spies

    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.
  40. mmx1

    US arrests 10 Russian deep-cover spies

    Wasn't she on Firefly?
  41. mmx1

    Gen. Stanley McChrystal: on the job market soon ... ???

    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
  42. mmx1

    Artic MARPAT

    The zombies in this documentary seemed quite spry.
  43. mmx1

    Searching with new forum software

    The forum software has never been able to search for three-letter words. Use google search ("site:airwarriors.com hsc") instead.
  44. mmx1

    Gen. Stanley McChrystal: on the job market soon ... ???

    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...
  45. mmx1

    Gen. Stanley McChrystal: on the job market soon ... ???

    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...
  46. mmx1

    Gen. Stanley McChrystal: on the job market soon ... ???

    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...
  47. mmx1

    Gen. Stanley McChrystal: on the job market soon ... ???

    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...
  48. mmx1

    Gen. Stanley McChrystal: on the job market soon ... ???

    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...
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