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If inefficiency leads to having the tools, troops and leadership to win a war (if the politicians let you), I'm all for it.

How could anyone tell???

Probably the new Piper wing AD. There's a thread on this that I can't find right now.

https://www.wsj.com/business/airlines/electronic-warfare-spooks-airlines-pilots-and-air-safety-officials-60959bbd?st=ngAL5v&reflink=article_copyURL_share

I doubt you could pay me enough to be grilled as the new guy by some of the pompous asses at a congressional hearing (and I’ve been at a few as a horseholder).

I never realized the DH affinity for creature names before. :biggrin:

When I graduated from Engineering School, I went to work at Wright-Patterson AFB. A lot of the engineers were WWII Vets who had gone to school on the GI Bill. One of my best friends and a true mentor was a B-26 Co-Pilot. After he completed “type rating” in the Marauder at McDill in 1943, he...

Aha!

I’m not embarrassed to admit I still don’t get it.

Nothing Enerything is FINE!

Used to go Squirrel hunting with my Dad. I got good enough to bark a squirrel with one shot. Basically you place the shot on the branch or tree close enough to the head so the bark does the damage and not the bullet. Good eating.

Yes it does. I was looking at the fear and it didn't seem to the the most robust arrangement. I then wonder it has to meet both FAA and NTSA standards for crash loads. I suppose it will have to meet the toughest of either a Head On / Side / Rear Highway crash or a FAA crash landing.

I wonder how many G's the landing gear/drive wheels / whatever they are called are stressed for?

Was there a companion study for women?

The one thing standing between my GF and I from a perfect relationship. She loves beets, I HATE them. Well, there may be one or two other things, like her irrational love of THE ohio state university, but they are minor compared to beets.

Love Orange Popsicles

I don’t consider “plans” infrastructure nor do I consider something “under construction” useable infrastructure. Are you suggesting heliports as the existing infrastructure?

I wonder how much insurance this outfit had and at what cost? Obviously not a big enough expense to deter operations.

My hopes that you and yours can get through this. Having lost a daughter too early, I can only say I try and remember the good things as the other remembrances fade over time, albeit never go away.

Curious why a USAF/US Army plane would have a USN Bureau(?) Number.