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[super-bee_ski]

Here's one for Blade......

 

[super-bee_ski]

Great pic Pops!

 

[super-bee_ski]

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Here's my niece (on the right) and her helicopter. God bless our troops, especially those away from home on Christmas!

God Bless her!

 

[Budnicks]

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Here's my niece (on the right) and her helicopter. God bless our troops, especially those away from home on Christmas!

Very cool, you must be very proud...

 

[Pops1967GTX]

WAR PAINT...WWII USAAF Type A-2 leather flight jacket artwork

 

[snakeyes]

very nice now there is some history

 

[oldbee]

Always wondered why USAF used camouflage on planes and USMC went silver in Vietnam?? Always thought it was bigger "cajones", but open to a better opinion; BUT it better be good.!!!!

 

[Pops1967GTX]

n March 2003, two F-16 pilots were called to assist 52 British special operators surrounded by 500 Iraqi troops — meaning the friendlies were outnumbered almost 10 to 1.

The Iraqi troops were pressing the attack, pinning the Brits down and preparing to overrun them.

Thinking fast, one of the pilots climbed to high altitude and then went into a dive, quickly building up sonic energy around his plane as he neared the ground with the massive amount of sound energy surrounding his cockpit, he broke the sound barrier and pointed the bulk of the energy at the ground where he believed the Iraqi troops to be.

Lynch pulled up a mere 3,000 feet from the ground, sending the massive sonic boom against the troops below.

 

[Photon440]

Automation saving lives...
Here's a video from last spring, wherein a pilot blacks out while flying an F-16. Rather than auger in, the automatic ground avoidance system took over....
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/september/21/automation-saves-another-pilot

 

[Pops1967GTX]

That's some Battlefield **** right there.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Automation saving lives...
Here's a video from last spring, wherein a pilot blacks out while flying an F-16. Rather than auger in, the automatic ground avoidance system took over....
https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2016/september/21/automation-saves-another-pilot

We have that on the F-22 now

 

[Photon440]

Glad to hear of it. The planes are expensive, but the pilots are priceless.

 

[super-bee_ski]

Yes,
Well we lost our beloved Test Pilot Dave "Cools" Cooley in 2009 while performing a difficult flight test manuvere

David P. Cooley, the retired Air Force pilot who was killed Wednesday in the crash of an F-22 near Edwards Air Force Base at age 49, had a significant career as a versatile test pilot and a large effect on the test flight community in the high desert as a trainer and mentor of future test pilots, colleagues told The Times on Sunday.

A test pilot since 1989, Cooley flew a long list of aircraft that included the F-111, F-15 and F-117 as well as the F-22.


"He was calm, cool, collected. His love of flying was infectious. He was a consummate professional, and a true leader and an inspiration to everyone," said Steve Rainey, a fellow F-22 test pilot who, like Cooley, is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel.

From 2000 to 2003, Cooley was the vice commandant for the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards. He was responsible for the day-to-day operations of all aspects of the school and also mentored students as a full-time flight instructor.

 

[super-bee_ski]

That's some Battlefield **** right there.

Pops:
This is a incredible fact!
Holy cow!

 

[Bladecutter]

Yes,
Well we lost our beloved Test Pilot Dave "Cools" Cooley in 2009 while performing a difficult flight test manuvere

David P. Cooley, the retired Air Force pilot who was killed Wednesday in the crash of an F-22 near Edwards Air Force Base at age 49, had a significant career as a versatile test pilot and a large effect on the test flight community in the high desert as a trainer and mentor of future test pilots, colleagues told The Times on Sunday.

A test pilot since 1989, Cooley flew a long list of aircraft that included the F-111, F-15 and F-117 as well as the F-22.


"He was calm, cool, collected. His love of flying was infectious. He was a consummate professional, and a true leader and an inspiration to everyone," said Steve Rainey, a fellow F-22 test pilot who, like Cooley, is a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel.

From 2000 to 2003, Cooley was the vice commandant for the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards. He was responsible for the day-to-day operations of all aspects of the school and also mentored students as a full-time flight instructor.

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RIP.

 

[Budnicks]

That's some Battlefield **** right there.

Huge Cahonnies !!

 

[super-bee_ski]

Budnicks quote: Huge Cahonnies!!

Yeah huh?
Not thinking survival instincts, OR maybe solely driven buy survival, to have the cognitive reasoning to pull out a pistol and start shooting an adversaries aircraft!
Holy

 

[oldbee]

My deceased uncle's Pt-19 at Akr-Canton airport. I know blade&ski will go crazy! Yes, flew in it once.

 

[oldbee]

Just after Michigan Int'l Raceway opened. Free tickets from Roger P.

 

[Pops1967GTX]

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MY good Friend work the Flight Deck...