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@F111Driver Ugh. Too much banter. So glad I got to fly single seat.

Back when they made Music and LYRICS 😅

@clashreport So many experts on X. Y’all are great.

WATCH: Iranian MANPADS hit came very close to taking out a U.S. Navy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet jet over Iran yesterday.

@kadonkey Shot one with an AIM-120. It was a bittersweet privilege.

A QF-4 assigned to the 82nd ATSD1 at HOLLOMAN DEC16 (Joseph Eddins, Jr)

@BuzzPatterson Spent a lot of time staring up at that yellow line down the belly!! KC135s saved my tail many times… I’ve posted this before- there’s nothing like the feeling of watching your fuel totalizer going back UP when it was very low. Amazing relief!

Thinking back to when I used to do this and I marvel that I ever did.

A few years ago my company (an OEM) changed their livery and I did the form flying on the “other side”. The flying was the most challenging I’d had since the F16 flying. The shots and videos they captured- true art. Air-Air photography is a niche and those who do it are real pros.

I don´t envy this sort of photography When I was 24 or something, I got to shoot a 19-year-old Miss Portugal Runner-Up. On the beach, in winter At a certain point, I thought I was in a movie

@ron_eisele Recently learned QANTAS is an acronym. I never knew that.

25 March 1979. QANTAS retired its final Boeing 707 and became the first airline with an exclusive fleet of Boeing 747s.

@MeNMyRC1 Loved flying the B727. Didn’t know there was another one (besides Oil Spill Response) that was still flying.

The Raytheon radar testbed 727 N289MT, aka Voodoo-1, was active out over the gulf about an hour ago. 📷 credit Stephen Stein

@BabakTaghvaee1 Great shots of Vipers, not “FF”! 🤓 Flew most of those Shaw jets. Nice to see they are still going strong.

My images of F-16C Block 50 Fighting Falcons of the U.S. Air Force from the 14th and 77th Fighter Squadrons en route to Ovda Airbase, Israel. They are set to replace fighter elements previously deployed aboard the USS Gerald R. Ford of the U.S. Navy, which were conducting combat air patrols over the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb. Some of these aircraft will also participate in operations to defend Israel and Jordan against incoming one-way attack drones launched by the IRGC Aerospace Force. This is the final deployment for the 14th Fighter Squadron based at Misawa, Japan, as it prepares to retire its F-16s and transfer them to other units, including the 480th Fighter Squadron and the 77th Fighter Squadron. #OperationEpicFury #OperationLionsRoar

@Combat_learjet @theATCapp Praying. This is very sad.

Terrible accident at La Guardia airport last night. Reports currently say 2 fatalities ( pilots) and 41 injured. Horrible. . . @theatcapp

@kadonkey You can do a lot with that loadout.

Viper 14MAR26. (usaf)

@boomers_ass I’ll have to go check my old G-suit to see if the knife is still there. Somewhere I have that old glow in the dark watch (with the radioactive moniker). I wonder if that’s worth anything.

Back in 1988, during Basic Training we were called into a meeting in the last week or two. They were looking for volunteers for a few flight crew positions: B-52 Gunners, C-5, C-141, or C-130 Loadmasters, and KC-135 Boom Operators. I had promised myself not to volunteer for anything, but I had also wanted to be a pilot before I joined. That dream was crushed by the recruiter months earlier… but this looked like a back door into flying. I didn’t hesitate one second. I don’t remember exactly when I was finally issued my flight suits — it may have been at Castle AFB when I was getting to the actual flying part of training. Along with the gear came a whole stash of new things: a watch that glowed in the dark, this switchblade (MC-1 Parachute Knife shown in the photo), flightsuits, summer flying boots, Nomex gloves and long johns, plus a very cool Nomex flight jacket (it was 1988… think Tom Cruise). And patches too! The knife was interesting. It had a lanyard (a word I learned during Survival Training) — basically a string to connect something to yourself so if you drop it, it isn’t lost. And seeing as how this was to be used when bailing out of an aircraft, the last thing you’d want to do while falling through the sky was drop it and lose it. The curved blade was specifically to cut riser cords if there was a problem. The switchblade side was so you could stab your copilot if he got out of line… …no, no… just kidding. The straight blade was just for whatever. Actual use? Not much (I never bailed out). Opening beer bottles after a flight occasionally. Cutting 550 parachute cord (best line in the world) during our infamous “Animal in the Woods” camping parties. And when I got out, I got to keep mine somehow. It was in my helmet bag for ages until one day my 8-year-old son found it. He thought it was cool. He took it to school. I got a phone call. This was in the mid-’90s, the helicopter parenting age… it didn’t go well. It wasn’t much of a knife, but the school’s disciplinarian didn’t seem to care. Bringing a knife to school was a huge major breach of the rules. And the effing bastard wouldn’t return it to me. So… it was gone. I razz my son about it occasionally, but in reality, it’s not like I’d really have much use for it these days. BTW, the button makes the long blade pop out. The little switch stops the button from working so it doesn’t pop out in the special pocket — which could be a big pain in the leg.

@Combat_learjet While lawmakers get escorted through the lines…

Had to leave lots of passengers behind this morning due to being stuck in TSA lines. HATE IT.

@WatcherGuru How and with what?

JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran warns it will "completely close" the Strait of Hormuz after President Trump threatens to "obliterate" its power plants. 20% of the world's oil supply passes through this strategic waterway.

@OnDisasters That NWA livery was the best ever.

747s... 747s everywhere Tokyo Haneda Airport sometime in the 70s, with a bunch of royalty parked 📸 Boeing 747 The Queen of the Skies

@RSE_VB Sometimes the TV in our rooms didn’t have a remote and we had to get up and go change the channel on the TV. It was pretty rough. Aim High, Air Force!!

Accurate.

@BuzzPatterson Can’t believe you let them snap the photo with your legs straps on. Ouch!! 😂😜

You think I had a Robin Olds fixation in pilot training? 🤣

@kadonkey Vipers from Aviano!

a pair of FIGHTING FALCONS near purgatory (Nicholas Monteleone)

@BillE18314 @HowThingsWork_ Or the Hyd PTU on an Airbus.

@HowThingsWork_ Not possible to hear the stab drive system in the cabin. More than likely it’s the flap and slat drive systems!

You know that strange grinding sound before a plane takes off? ✈️ Ever wondered what that noise was? Here is your answer!

@miami_rick Yes. INS/IRS ground speed page.

The 747’s flightdeck sits so high up off the ground that it truly is close to impossible to accurately ascertain the jet’s true ground speed while taxiing which is of the outmost importance with a jet that size especially during 90° or tighter turns. I’ve never flown a jet without ground speed displayed on either the Navigation Display or the Primary Flight Display (or on both) or on the Electronic Horizontal Situation Indicator (EHSI) on the older 757s and 767s. Question for the wise elders… How did you monitor ground speed during taxi? I’ve seen the control interface unit for the Inertial Reference Units (INS) of yesteryear, did you monitor ground speed through there? How about jets before that without INSs? Just seat of the pants?