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On this note, OP could create an account on AirlineApps or Pilot Credentials (the app services that most of the majors use) and go through the criminal history section(s) to see what stuff he would be required to disclose. No guarantee that an airline wouldn't have other questions later on...

That's the date that all domestic first officers self destruct....obv

Haha touche sir, touche. I remember getting gas from an all female tanker crew one afternoon.....to the point where we had one wingman pull up WAAAAAY acute (like forward of wings) to verify. Plenty of the typical fallic/sex jokes were made on boom freq as we all "plug" the basket one by one...

This would certainly curtail some of the issues. However in this day and age, that proposal would go down about as well as a fart in church, I'd think. The irony is that USS Ship, wherever she may be, is far less "connected" than virtually any other type of deployment, among any service...

If you look close, it appears that they are filming a recorded file, off NIPR. You can see it's playing from windows media player, with the pause button and playtime tracker bar at the bottom. So my guess is that they somehow accessed whatever CATCC/Air Ops had captured for the mishap...

Took me a second to figure out technology :) Sorry guys, I lied....the ink appears to be black. This also was issued a little later on, after he had left Mexico and started flying up in Alaska.

My grandfather flew actual gold around Mexico in the late teens/early 1920's for (IIRC) Texaco. It was the payroll delivery for employees at various stations. Family legend has it that he was even held up at gunpoint by Pancho Villa's bandits, once, while stopped somewhere. As a Finnish-American...

Yeah, maybe Jeff is speaking semantics, but in the tower cam video, you can see the mains get sheared off by the round-down. Not a splitting the jet in half "ramp strike" like some others perhaps, but as you say, that was no hook slap. The jet was engulfed in flames as it spun down the LA, so...

This sounds nearly identical to a case study we listened to when I was going through CACO school as a JO (for those who don't speak Navy, CACO = Casualty Assistance Calls Officer, i.e. a person designated to be the guy/gal in dress uniform at your door to tell you that your loved one was...

Appears to be in some random shop on the ship rather than in, for example, a ready room. So I'm going to guess whoever leaked this was not an aviator, and may not have been familiar with the rules around this sort of thing. With that having been said, I guarantee the ship went into...

My old man sold his longtime 55 Bo' last year. New-ish prop, some new IFR avionics, meticulously maintained in every respect (it was his baby and he spared no expense). Sold to a Bay Area guy for I think maybe $35-40k? That dude got a great plane for a good price. Pretty sure my dad had put at...

Possibility, but the real difficulty with a pitching deck is that it is not necessarily always a perfect cycle/period. As the ship moves across the water, the swells and valleys can be kind of random in the open ocean, so you don't have a predictable up/down movement of the deck always...

On the automation note, as Nauga mentioned, Mode 1 approaches have been around for years. But as he also mentioned, the system itself is frequently down (the ship's portion of it), and also often can be so out to lunch that it isn't safe to use. Beyond just the ACL system, I don't think the nut...

Yeah very cool I'd say. Also, what do you mean when you say this person claimed to "have NOTHING"? I'm not understanding the reference, if there is one? Nothing as in no other disease? Or nothing as in penniless and homeless?

I feel this way when I take the SEA garage shuttle and realize I have forgotten to make a stop at an ATM to get some tip cash. I almost never carry cash though, so it is truly a conscious effort to remember.

I wouldn't tip you either based on your spelling :) Seriously though, while it has been a long time, when I was a ramper, I don't remember ever expecting a tip. It was cool when the biz jet guys threw you a $20 for dumping the lav and pumping some jet-A+PRIST, but it was a min wage college job...

hah there was a tomahawk nose cone that used to be in an office of mine in Fallon, which was the end state of one of these tests.

Haha I want to be best friends with all 3 of you. Great pic. Also, I don't think an early intro to flying can be understated. Even if she doesn't want to be a pilot one day, she will always have an appreciation for it. But I can speak from experience that getting the bug that early goes a long way!

I flew a little bit with a former RAAF -111 driver. Great dude. Didn't have to do any of these things, but talking to him fulfilled my childhood airshow dreams of flying that plane. It sounded pretty cool......you guys did some cool stuff before your analog became digital if you know what I...

Is Blackstone the only place doing these labs? I know a particular portion of the BMW enthusiast community that owns a certain 4th generation M3 with a V8 that is known to sometimes eat rod bearings also swears by them. Just funny they pop up here too :) I have nothing else to add, or anything...