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Rollover
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Gross Vegas
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Sep 29, 2015 - 06:58am PT
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RIP dude..
Condolences to his wife and kids and all that knew him.
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yosemite 5.9
climber
santa cruz
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Oct 16, 2015 - 06:19pm PT
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I jumped out of a plane six times in 1977.
I used an WW2 round army parachute due its reliability.
I landed in landing boots made with extra heel to absorb some of the shock.
I learned the Parachute Landing Fall (PLF) roll and practiced it many times before I jumped.
Those old chutes landed me pretty hard. You had to know how to do a PLF well to avoid injury.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Oct 27, 2015 - 03:19pm PT
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Speaking of very cool aero engines, here's a water cooled, 24 cylinder radial built by Junkers Jumo.
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perswig
climber
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Oct 29, 2015 - 02:53pm PT
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Dale
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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It would really suck to get in the wrong place relative to wake turbulence.
Roger that! BiTD, before separation standards were heavily modified as a
result of a number of bad accidents a friend was flying the night checks
(remember those things?). He was cleared into LAX (remember it is the
wee hours and he has probably been flying quite a while) in his Navajo, a
6000 lb twin. I don't know what he was following or how closely but it was
too close. About 100' just short of the runway he hit the wake turb of the
big guy in front of him. It instantly flipped him and he landed on his head.
Miraculously he survived but he lost his medical. I'm happy to say that he
had enough of his wits left to become a teacher.
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Brokedownclimber
Trad climber
Douglas, WY
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Reilly and Vegasclimber: The mystery airplane is a Mk.V Spitfire, and the clipped wingtips are diagnostic. The fuselage and empennage are pure Supermarine!
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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for you airheads out there - short video on some local pilots and a game they invented to encourage flying.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Nov 10, 2015 - 06:02pm PT
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Tasked to be the first responder for the aircraft and personnel stationed at NAS Whidbey Island, Washington, and to support Washington State agencies in case of emergencies, medical evacuations and search and rescue activities, NAS Whidbey Island SAR is a one of a kind rescue unit, equipped with the MH-60S “Knighthawk” helicopters.
The team, consisting of three helicopters, 10 pilots, 10 rescue aircrewmen and 3 SAR Medical Technicians (SMT’s) is “the premier in Navy Search and Rescue:” personnel of NASWI are highly trained in day and night both overwater and mountain rescue including helicopter rappel and hoist, and mountain landing.
For SAR missions, the unit typically maintains either a 15-minute or a 30-minute alert posture.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
The Chief may have some insight on this one.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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How an ugly, brutally effective warplane won the battle for its future
By David Axe
November 24, 2015
U.S.-backed Syrian rebels launched an attack late last month on Islamic State militants near the town of Hawl in northern Syria. They regained control of roughly 100 square miles of territory, according to the U.S. Defense Department.
“It was a fairly straightforward, conventional offensive operation,” Army Colonel Steve Warren told reporters via video conference from Baghdad, “where we estimated … several hundred enemy [fighters] were located in that vicinity.”
Warren continued his description. “There was a substantial friendly force — well over 1,000 participated in the offensive part of this operation. And they were able to very deliberately execute the plan that they had made themselves.”
Two types of U.S. warplanes, both optimized for precision attacks in close coordination with ground troops, were critical to the Syrian rebels’ success, Warren revealed. “We were able to bring both A-10s and a Spectre gunship to bear,” he said, “… It can only be described as devastating …. it killed nearly 80 enemy fighters and wounded many more.”
Video shot by a correspondent from the Kurdish Hawar News Agency showed A-10s wheeling over the battlefield as rebel fighters advanced.
The lumbering Spectre gunship, basically a cargo plane with side-firing guns, is one of the Air Force’s favorite aircraft. It’s the beneficiary of billions of dollars in new funding to buy new models and upgrade older ones.
But the twin-jet A-10, an ungainly-looking, single-pilot plane with thick, straight wings and a massive, nose-mounted cannon, is out of favor with Air Force leaders — despite being vitally important to the U.S.-led campaign against Islamic State. The flying branch’s top generals and civilian officials have fought for years to get rid of all 300 A-10s and divert their operators and budget to other initiatives. Meanwhile, a grass-roots effort led by current and former U.S. ground troops and bolstered by key lawmakers has protected the A-10, also known by its nickname “Warthog.”
Why the Warthog fell out of favor, and how the plane endures despite the Air Force’s eagerness to retire it, reveals deep schisms within the U.S. military as it continues its war against Islamic extremists while also retooling to deter high-tech Russian forces.
The A-10 is one plane that’s clearly helping Syrian fighters retake their homes from Islamic State. Yet it’s also a uniquely evocative symbol of strife inside the Pentagon.
THE REST OF THE ARTICLE: (and I encourage you to read it as it is
the meat of the article)
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/11/24/how-an-ugly-brutally-effective-warplane-won-the-battle-for-its-future/
All the puerile crankloon Air Force generals want are the high tech toys.
They don't give a damn about our nation's defense or having an effective
fighting force. During the design phase of the F-16 they fought its funding
because they said it was too short-legged (even though it has better range
than the F-15), it didn't carry enough bombs, blah-blah-blah. Air Force
generals are even dumber than admirals, and that's saying something.
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squishy
Mountain climber
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Dec 11, 2015 - 12:01pm PT
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