Fellas, the AA/TWA deal sucked for EVERYONE except the greedy corporate bastages who walked with million$. I am one of those 17 year native FO's. I remember getting my new seniority number that year and moving down several hundred. At the same time, a lot of long-term TWA guys were stapled and...
It's pathetic that supposed AVIATORS and professional pilots would swallow the first story, hook, line and sinker. You're the type who buys "World Daily News" and really believes Brittney carries an alien fetus, or Obama is really a genetically-altered bigfoot.
The media published it because...
Sell it. When I outprocessed from the AF, they wanted EVERYTHING back, including my helmet and mask, which they promptly destroyed. I wanted that as a memento, to give to my grandchildren.
Screw them. If they wanted all their dash-1's back, they'd make it part of the outprocessing.
Is anyone else as %&*&% SICK of the media putting a price tag onto EVERY SINGLE GD ACCIDENT??!!
"Yesterday, Bill Smith was hospitalized with minor injuries after his $18,000 Cessna 172 blew a tire and skidded off the runway."
What the bleep difference does it make how much the fighters...
Stay at the engineering job. There is so much fun to be had in aviation outside of scheduled service. Learn to soar. Be a hobby CFI. Build an airplane.
Flying to Tokyo isn't fun, it's work... that's why they pay you for it. If it was fun, we'd do it for free.
:p Too funny! You BW and GM guys will always be little kids in my mind. In my day, the only cool toy worth having was a Schwinn Stingray bike. The Big Wheel was, well, a tricycle, and only fit for toddlers and below.
They did seem to cause carnage, though. Hardly a day went by when some kid on...
Chemistry. A brutal degree. I'd never do it again. I know less chemistry now than my H.S. daughter. Utterly worthless for anything other than saying "Yes I have a B.S. in chemistry." But my ability to say that got me hired, so I guess it was worth it after all. I would NOT have been hired...
Champagne... don't know that one. I'm going to guess a tall, very vertical formation, which can be tough to sort. Some units created their own terms, that might be one of them. Stinger to me implies a loner (or a tight 2-ship) in a rather deep trail designed to create havoc once the merge has...
The F-117, if not properly prepared for flight, will have a trackable radar signiature. For example, if the seam in an access door is not puttied correctly with some cosmic ant-radar goo, the seam will reflect. It's entirely likely that there was a mistake by the USAF that allowed this to...
The whole slew of Tally, No Joy, Visual, and Blind terms come from military comm whereby the "code words" spoke volumes to all on a congested frequency with minimal airtime. Listening to a professionally executed air-air engagement between a 4-ship and some bad guys is a thing of beauty. Comm...
The probability of surviving any crash from altitude seems to be near 0, whereas runway excursions (LIT) seem to produce survivors. Has there ever been a survivor from a high-energy impact type crash? I can't think of any off hand, but I don't dwell on it. Maybe the good folks at airdisaster.com...
Last night it was a goat rodeo still. We were passing by on our way to Guatemala city. There were at least two or three arrivals that were denied permission to land and amazingly had enough fuel to return to DFW and IAH. All were "stub" callsigns like 9245, etc.
On our way back to DFW this...
It's not an analogy. Like the TSA, the FAM did in fact call the cops. My friend passed the cops on his way out the door. Neither FAMs nor TSA have arrest or detention authority in these cases. While the FAM tried to talk my friend into "staying put", he had no power to detain him and could not...
Not really... it's actually quite easy. And it happened to a friend. A FAM accused him of being intoxicated. He immediately left the area, got himself to a hospital, and had the exact same blood work done at the hospital which would be executed if a cop dragged in a drunk motorist. The...
I tried getting the CZM weather via ACARS the other day, and it was "Not Reporting". Darn it, I was CZM-bound for diving in November! Not gonna happen. :(
You pilotless proponents still haven't addressed the bandwidth and transmission media problems. A level of autonomy could be built in, but an external link will probably always be required. And the only current technology is radio. Ponder that the next time you fly into precip and your ability...
One of our governmental agencies I believed recently set an air-breathing record with an unmanned scramjet... Mach 6 or 8, somewhere around there.
Any more trivia, Duck? Or are you on a trip?
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