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 "If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne "Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24 | |||
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What's the problem??? הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים | |||
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Absolutely!!! _______________________ | |||
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nope, maybe a good thing about helicopters!! | |||
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always with a hat or sunscreen |
Yup, you and (F-14 RIO) Ward Carroll, CDR, USN (RET) remain perplexed.  Certifiable member of the gun toting, septuagenarian, bucket list workin', crazed retiree, bald is beautiful club! USN (RET), COTEP #192 | |||
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| Ammoholic |
I seem to recall one ejectable helicopter, a Russian model. Kamov maybe? An explosive charge separates the rotor head before the seats fire. Still sounds a little frightening. ETA: Kamov Ka-50. Pass. | |||
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GAO report: F35s on average, mission capable 55% of time. What GAO Found Maintenance challenges negatively affect F-35 aircraft readiness. The F-35 fleet mission capable rate—the percentage of time the aircraft can perform one of its tasked missions—was about 55 percent in March 2023, far below program goals. This performance was due in part to challenges with depot and organizational maintenance (see fig.). The program was behind schedule in establishing depot maintenance activities to conduct repairs. As a result, component repair times remained slow with over 10,000 waiting to be repaired—above desired levels. At the same time, organizational-level maintenance has been affected by a number of issues, including a lack of technical data and training. https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-23-105341.pdf _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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^^^^^ The ratio of F-35 problems to F-22 problems is amazing. I don’t have hard numbers, but I can’t recall seeing any reports of significant F-22 problems in the last couple of years. The F-35 is a vastly different story. Serious about crackers | |||
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Didn't F-22 have an oxygen system problem that was pretty bad and suspected as having caused more than one crash? They had grounded them all, and this was before F-35 was pronounced ready for primetime. Only one I ever heard of though. | |||
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The 911 call showing interaction between an operator and the F35 pilot who ejected over South Carolina last weekend has been released https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...t-sure-plane-is.html The unnamed pilot, a 47-year-old with decades of flying experience, parachuted into a resident's back yard from 2,000ft after the super-advanced stealth aircraft suffered a malfunction over Charleston. More at link _________________________ "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." Mark Twain | |||
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What I am surprised about is that he called 911. Wouldn't he have a squadron commander, or some emergency contact at the base to call? I mean, if he needed immediate assistance, or the crash set someone's house on fire, I get a 911 call, but that wasn't the case. Maybe that was the AI that took over the plane, though . . . The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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An active duty 47-year-old fighter pilot? Can't be too many of them. ________________________________________________________ "Great danger lies in the notion that we can reason with evil." Doug Patton. | |||
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Sounds like either the Squadron CO or XO given the age. | |||
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| Little ray of sunshine |
That would be my guess. Almost got to be a Lt. Colonel or Colonel at that age. The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. | |||
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Assuming the pilot was commissioned at 21-22 y/o, the pilot would have around 25-26 years of service. _________________________________________________________________________ “A man’s treatment of a dog is no indication of the man’s nature, but his treatment of a cat is. It is the crucial test. None but the humane treat a cat well.” -- Mark Twain, 1902 | |||
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