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Thats a big step forward...normally you have a person at the back of the tanker helping to direct the line and the fighter...what does that job now?

 

Probably just for the Commonwealth members...

Scott Morrison tells Queen she was 'quite the hit' at G7 summit during Windsor Castle visit

Scott Morrison tells Queen she was 'quite the hit' at G7 summit during Windsor Castle visit

 

That's the "boom" refueling of the USAF, where the boom operator "flies" the boom to the fuel port. In the "probe & drouge", it is all up to the refueling plane's pilot with no guidance from the tanker.

I have heard the Probe & Drouge compared to shoving wet spaghetti up a cat's backside.

 

I seen it reported it several news outlets that Biden was quite impressed by her.

 

She is impressive...far more than just a ditzy monarch. She doesn't suffer fools, so you can see the nerves of those who speak to her. I've never seen our Prime Minister look so nervous before. A true head of state, one that Australia has been proud to call Queen of Australia...But once she has gone, things will change.

On a separate though related topic, Australia has been following Biden's meeting with Putin...Some people said it would show Biden to be incompetent...But Australia is reporting a serious meeting where Biden didn't take a backward step. (Which is what the world was hoping) - Of course this may not amount to much, I don't know, but it is what we wanted to hear down here.

 

Been surfin hobbysearch Japan and hobbylink Japan. Lots of new 144th I really want that centurion mk1 I think I should be able to make lots of the later mks. Saw an IS3 but I think I will finish the one I'm building since I have it going. Saw a seiran looks great, would love to get one and make the land version the nantan I think and one on it's storage rack. I think they could have done a better design for the storage want to modify one to what I think would have been better and cut down flight prep time. Have to get the m3 Lee and Grant, LoL and Monty. I think I still have the old humbrols ,8th army desert paint, need to get me a hind A have a bunch or hind Ds and was going to try to convert one tried to get a A but sold out and got out bid on eBay curse that stupid snipe program. I'd sit on some auction to the end and think I have it I think it stinks!!!!

 

The three worst things to hear in the cockpit:
The second officer says, "Oh shit!"
The first officer says, "I have an idea!"
The captain says, "Hey, watch this!"

 

A sad story on using ETA ( estimated time of arrival ) for bombing really...

From Hastings´Bomber Command

Peter Donaldson, the navigator who had flown with Bill staton on the night of the Sylt raid, took off at 8.30 pm on the evening of 27 May ( 1941? ) to attack a German aerodrome in Holland. His pilot was a 10 squadron officer named Warren. They were on course, flying steadily across the North Sea, when they encountered a sudden magnetic storm.After a few minutes Warren asked Donaldson for a new course to escape the weather. The last light had gone now, and as their ETA at the Dutch coast came and went, they began to search the sea below for a pinpoint. At last, they saw the Rhine estuary below. Flak curled up towards them.Suddenly the second pilot called from the nose " This is it! I´ve got it!" The Whitley lift as the bombs fell away. " Give me a course for base," said Warren.

At first light as their ETA Dishforth approached , they dropped through the cloud. They saw below them a city, and the sea beyond. They were obviously on the west coast of England. Warren turned to the crew and said flatly: " According to my calculations , we can only have bombed something inside England. Christ, what are we going to do?"

They flew miserably home to Yorkshire.Their magnetic compass had been thrown hopelessly out of true by the storm. In fact they had dropped a stick of bombs with unusual precision across the runway of Fighter Command´s station at Bassingbourn in Cambridgeshire. Their Captain was demoted to second pilot, and known to the mess for ever after as Baron von Warren. After the incident two Spitfires flew over Dishforth and dropped Iron Crosses....

 

Wow that's pretty wild and sad, the crew must have felt like dolts. Having to face their fellow squadron mates. Bombing their own home land. I'm sure those guys at that base were mad as hell

 

An F-111 was flying escort with a B-52 and generally making a nuisance of himself by flying rolls around the lumbering old bomber.

The message for the B-52 crew was, "Anything you can do, I can do better."

Not to be outdone, the bomber pilot announced that he would rise to the challenge.

The B-52 continued its flight, straight and level, however.

Perplexed, the fighter pilot asked, "So? What did you do?"

"We just shut down two engines."

 

Wait...

You mean

Wasn't the joke????

 

And the F-111 pilot hits the after burners and says" I'll see you tonight when you land"...

 

“Mr. Chairman, there isn’t enough thrust in all Christendom to make a Navy fighter out of that airplane.”
Vice-Admiral Tom Connolly to Senator Stennis during Congressional hearing on cancelling the F-111B.

 

I'm guessing it was considerably heavier than the 14? Why could the 14 take off from carriers but not the F-111?

 

Somewhat heavier, about 4,000 pounds, and the F-111 did reasonably well in takeoffs during it's carrier suitability trials.

Not speed, but acceleration. Th F-111B went from .8 Mach to 1.8 Mach in 6 minutes. The plane it was replacing, the F-4 Phantom did that in half the time(3 minutes).

Basically, the Navy did not want it, but the DC politicos(McNamara & LBJ) did.

Interesting reads on the matter.
Flightdeck Friday: TFX — A Time for Turkeys (Pt I) – Steeljaw Scribe
Flightdeck Friday: TFX — A Time for Turkeys (Pt II) – Steeljaw Scribe
http://steeljawscribe.com/2007/12/16/flightdeck-friday-tfx-a-time-for-turkeys-part-iii

Was the Navy’s F-111 Really That Bad? | Military Aviation | Air & Space Magazine

 

Bazinga!

 

Q: Who fired the last 3 shots into Mussolini's body?
A: 3,000 Italian sharp-shooters

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From "Spitfire offensive" by Wing Commander RWF Sampson:

Exeter wing p 68

The Wing leader, Camille Enright Malroy, "Cam" for short, could volley a tennis ball in the centre of his tennis racket, regardless how high or fast it had been struck, but he had great difficulty in seeing enemy fighters which were any distance away.

There was the famous occasion when the Wing had to rendezvous inland from Cherbourg to escort flying Fortresses coming back from a raid south of Paris. As we crossed into France, I spotted and reported 12 FW 190s to our right and approaching towards our rear. His response was " can´t see them, keep your eyes on them." Seconds later he called me, asking " Where are they now?" Before I could answer , the slow, bored voice from an obvious Australian pilot, was heard to say " You´ll f***ing soon find out, chum!"

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"The Pope! how many divisions has he got?"
- Stalin

"Tell my son Josef that he will meet my divisions in eternity."
- Reply from the Pope when he heard the story years later.

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