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The US Government does it stupid (also: airplanes are fucking awesome)
Thomas Edison:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 28 Apr 2009, 05:37 ---Planes! Posing! How do they even do that.
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Edit: At first, I was all hotlinking and shit, but now, I'm cool.
pen:
--- Quote from: Patrick on 28 Apr 2009, 14:18 ---
--- Quote from: pen on 28 Apr 2009, 08:16 ---Which again, not the smartest thing. Do you want guys in training to be flying so close to buildings? I'm not sure that the fact that it was combined makes me more comfortable with it at all.
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They're not being trained to fly for the first time, that would be absolutely retarded. Which is why they don't do it like that. Beginner flight training takes place well away from populated areas and it kinda doesn't involve 747s. Ever. It involves such machines as the T-38 (the T stands for Trainer, whereas the F in F-16 stands for fighter. Those military guys are kinda creative!), which is a tiny little fuck of a jet plane.
The training most likely involved close intercept with a large transport airplane, or the escort thereof.
(I hang out with the people at the Defense Attaché Office at the Embassy pretty frequently, the military aren't all baby-killers)
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Thanks for clarifying. When I think of training, I think of people who are less than 2 months experienced. This does help the image in my head a bit.
Slick:
Yeah the military are (or ought to be) always training. You got trained at your job and you may need to trained on new stuff but you do not need constant training to stay in practice because you work at your job and thus stay in practice by default. Fighter pilots, on the other hand, do not get to 'go to work' very often at all. I've got a friend who flies big transport planes for the military and says in Canada right now they actually have to make some of the new recruits go into fighter training because not enough people are saying 'hey I want to be a fighter pilot'. Yes, I know it's the Canadian Air Force but this is still a little bit of a reflection of the fact that fighter pilots just don't get to fly very often anymore.
--- Quote from: Thomas Edison on 28 Apr 2009, 15:00 ---image + image
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YOU FUCKING HOTLINKING SCUM.
No, really, don't hotlink from other sites. Re-host on imageshack.us or something. You see the pictures just fine because they are in your cache, other people get broken links or something saying 'don't hotlink'.
Patrick:
--- Quote from: Slick on 28 Apr 2009, 22:07 ---I've got a friend who flies big transport planes for the military and says in Canada right now they actually have to make some of the new recruits go into fighter training because not enough people are saying 'hey I want to be a fighter pilot'.
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Man, what kind of country doesn't have people flocking to hop in the seat of a ridiculously high-performance plane and blow shit up with it?
Joseph:
A country of apathetic pacifists?
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