zool
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- Oct 16, 2021
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Phuck Tom......You Tom haters….. learn to love
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Phuck Tom......You Tom haters….. learn to love
Yes, the EX is and improved version of a phenomenal airframe. I worked at McDonnell Douglas for my first real job after college. They paid for my MBA. My favorite thing was to go over to building 1 and walk the assembly lines, but especially the F15 line. It was cool watching them take shape over time. Plus the building I worked in overlooked the cross wind runway at the St. Louis airport. The Missouri air guard was based there and they used that runway a lot with their F 15s.The F-15 is still being actively developed, after 5 decades of service. Still undefeated in A-A combat I believe. Of course, the latest F-15EX Eagle II has better engines, avionics, weapons, etc. It'll never be stealthy, but what a weapons platform: Boeing: F-15EX
I know that Grumman had ideas/upgrades for extending the life of the F-14, but the Navy went down the F-18 path for almost everything at that time.
I don't think that would be allowed now!
See that guy in the middle, the one on his knee? That guy’s brain can process more in one second than most people can process in a year. They are not human. They are smart beyond human comprehension.We have our H1 Unlimited Hydroplane races here every year and our yacht club has a dinner cruise for the pilots and crews of the boats and also of the airplanes that come for the airshow. A couple of years ago USAF send an F-22 demo team with 2 planes and 2 sets of crew for each plane. We ended up having the crew (minus the pilot) of one of the F-22's on our boat.
I've always felt that if you don't ask, you don't get, so in conversation with one of the crew I casually asked him what it would take to get a walk around on the F-22. He hopped to another boat, OK'd it with the pilot and came back to tell us we were on for the next day.
We met him out at the airport the next morning with 2 of our grandsons and got a tour of the planes. We couldn't get in the cockpit, couldn't touch the radar absorbing material on the skin, and couldn't take photos inside the cordoned off area.
That was an afternoon the boys will likely never forget and one where ol' gramps gained a few status points.
I'd tell ya about the radar absorbing material but I'd have to kill ya. Sorry.
We have our H1 Unlimited Hydroplane races here every year and our yacht club has a dinner cruise for the pilots and crews of the boats and also of the airplanes that come for the airshow. A couple of years ago USAF send an F-22 demo team with 2 planes and 2 sets of crew for each plane. We ended up having the crew (minus the pilot) of one of the F-22's on our boat.
I've always felt that if you don't ask, you don't get, so in conversation with one of the crew I casually asked him what it would take to get a walk around on the F-22. He hopped to another boat, OK'd it with the pilot and came back to tell us we were on for the next day.
We met him out at the airport the next morning with 2 of our grandsons and got a tour of the planes. We couldn't get in the cockpit, couldn't touch the radar absorbing material on the skin, and couldn't take photos inside the cordoned off area.
That was an afternoon the boys will likely never forget and one where ol' gramps gained a few status points.
I'd tell ya about the radar absorbing material but I'd have to kill ya. Sorry.
About 8 or 9 years ago the Air Force sent an F 22 for static display. It's a big air and most years the Blues are there. Usually about 70,000 people would attend (it's also a fair). Anyway, there 5 armed airmen around the F 22 and signs on the ropes said to expect to be shot if you step inside the rope. They weren't playing.
Good for Grandpa! They'll always have that memory of you.
Read “Boyd. The fighter pilot that changed the art of war”…. He really developed the F-15.
I don't know if there's even anything to argue. Undefeated. I could see the F-22 giving it fits, but there just aren't enough of them.The "Mad Major" may have been the smartest guy to ever fly. He and the rest of the "fighter mafia" came up with the F-15.
I could easily argue the best air superiority fighter ever.
"NOT A POUND FOR AIR TO GROUND!"
The F-22 put on a heck of an airshow for us. That plane (and the pilot "Rock") did things airplanes were not supposed to be able to do.
What @zool said!Phuck Tom......
Seems like some people like itOk, just got home from watching...
Script was a little predictable, little cheezy at times, but paid good homage to the original. Let's face it, I loved the the original, but it was not God's gift to screen writing. Some great and unpredictable parts though in the new one as the show rolls on.
The flight sequences were awesome!! My wife said she was dizzy at some point.
If you liked the original, then go get your need...your need for speed! We are gonna go again, but gonna see it in IMAX next time!! Will wait for a rainy day though, missed a good dock party...
If any of us here think we have aged since the 1st Top Gun wait until you see Val Kilmer. Boating keeps us young looking.
Ya she went a little southPoor guy really lost his voice. It was a nice touch by Cruise. Loved the movie. I hear Kelly grew fat and ugly. Damn.