This is a good take. Sometimes as an Instructor Pilot (IP), you have a long leash to let the student learn by making mistakes (like in military airspace w/ altitude blocks). Other times, not so much.

Post a picture you took, just a picture. No explanation.

WC-135 Constant Phoenix nuke-sniffer active over Barents Sea. Good catch MeNMyRC 👀

This photo is great for a bevy of reasons but I did a double take seeing the Tomcat with AGM-88 HARM. Following a dive down the rabbit hole into F-14 websites and message boards - integration of HARM into F-14D was explored and Grumman flew a single prototype with the missiles.

When you hire RAF_Luton to do your web design.

A cake in the electronics compartment of a T-45. While doing strike detachments at NAF El Centro, we'd do out-and-in flights to Palm Springs International (KPSP) and hit this fantastic spot called Sherman's Deli & Bakery (Sherman's Deli) for lunch. Portions are huge (pastrami on

Good thread on the proposed DoD acquisition czars for USN and USAF. The fact we’re here is testament to how broken our acquisitions paradigm is. That programs like B-21 can work under special groups like RCO while others have such poor outcomes begs the question of what will it

Another aviation related “what’s the actually business” model. Most jet engine manufacturers sell the motor at very low profit but have very high margins conducting the initial overhauls and spare parts sales. Razor & blades hits different on a $25M ticket price sale.

Unironically, one of the biggest threats to aviation readiness are the godforsaken locations of our major air bases.

Honestly, I thought like this until I was a qualified maritime patrol pilot and started doing realistic anti-surface warfare training missions. Technically, it seemed like carrier or other large ships were dumb plodding targets. Reality was much different. Imagine it. You’re

My guess is this is an incentive flight. Ejection seat equipped jets have a selector switch that chooses which aircrew ejection seat fires when one of the crew pulls. When you’ve got two qualified crew onboard, you default to either of them being able to make the call to go.

There’s a mixed bag of reasons for this. After 9/11, Boeing couldn’t justify continued production of B757 - given slack demand, but the jet soldiers on because its performance makes it good fit for certain thin or hot and high routes. B777-200 is more a factor of low fuel

Only on this site can you ask and get detailed takes on handling characteristics during landing and go-around of the U-2 (in a particular engine config) for a former tester. What a time to be alive.

Every so often allied air forces do a large force exercise (LFE) and a story like this pops up. “Rafale kills the F-35” or “Type 214 diesel submarine sinks CVN.” IMO there’s not much use putting stock in this sort of thing. When you’re bringing real life forces together to

Looks like a R.550 off a Mirage 2000 to me. “Fox 2!”

Huntsman has been all over this for ages. The buys are an almost perfect overlay for our most critical air bases and training ranges. Future historians will marvel at the “end of history” naïveté of our so-called “elites” and their insatiable avarice.

New Zealand Defense Force announced yesterday that the replacement for their B757 transports will be A321XLR. Sad to never get to see this aircraft display. Regardless of B737 MAX or A321 - whatever the Kiwis picked would never have the same presence.