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Forger Stucky

@Stuck4ger

Test pilot/commercial astronaut who’s Forest Gumped his way through an amazing aerospace piloting career. Didn’t write “Test Gods”, just takes the blame ;)

Costa Mesa, CA Katılım Şubat 2015
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Forger Stucky
Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
I’m on X for two main reasons - 1) to give unique insight into aerospace topics garnered from my unusually broad test pilot career. 2) To inject humor (usually sarcastic and sophomoric at best) in the hopes of getting at least one person to smile. Follow me if you want to live…
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@CorkNuts1 Capt. Derek Argel, Capt. Jeremy Fresques, Staff Sgt. Casey Crate, Maj. William Downs) and one Iraqi co-pilot
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ben@CorkNuts1·
@Stuck4ger Is that the Downs crash or Argyll/Fresques?
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
Memorial Day is specially memorable for me because of a crash that occurred in Iraq on Memorial Day 2005, killing a handful of USAF special forces (including the pilot). I was sent there with a small team to do flight test in their aircraft. They had numerous severe deficiencies.
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@853_re Fixed wing. Light recon/counter-insurgency aircraft
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@gregtaniguchi @DJSnM As a paraglider pilot you need time keep your head on a swivel and listen for the sound of an approaching engine. As a general aviation pilot looking for paragliders you basically only need to look within a small cone centered about your velocity vector.
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Greg@gregtaniguchi·
@Stuck4ger @DJSnM I had to ask grok if paragliders basically fall under VFR however, I’m not a pilot so I have no clue how hard it is spot doing a couple hundred miles per hour
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@alanbirtles I know. I’m trying to give the public information on why as a general rule we don’t cut away from our destroyed aircraft prior to deploying a reserve parachute.
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alan birtles@alanbirtles·
@Stuck4ger We regularly fly way more than a few hundred feet above terrain, in high mountainous regions it might only be 1000 ft but over flat lands it can be 6000 ft or even higher. We are only limited by cloudbase
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Eric Berger
Eric Berger@SciGuySpace·
No one born after 1935 has walked on the Moon.
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@Subflyer @DJSnM Of course there are world-renowned site exceptions where you can boat around many of thousands of feet high but at many (most) sites you work the lift well below the minimum normal altitudes for free fall skydiving.
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Sven-Hajo Sieber@Subflyer·
@Stuck4ger @DJSnM At least for gliders, absolutely not true. And even those doing cross country flights with a paraglider do so without staying close to a mountain.
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@stevecrye @DJSnM for propellant efficiency when braking, hit the brakes hardest and at the highest speed you can (within the constraints you have)
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Stephen T. Crye@stevecrye·
@DJSnM I really don't know why they need to light so many of the engines during boost back. One would think that a smaller number igniting followed by a ramped increase would be more reasonable.
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Scott Manley@DJSnM·
I slowed down and resynched the engine diagram during the booster engine restart, that's a pretty hard failure that damaged neighbours.
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Kristin Fisher
Kristin Fisher@KristinFisher·
Nicki Minaj making an appearance on the SpaceX livestream with just under five minutes to go
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@im_hoag @MCCCANM Yeah, and add “yo-yo” (you’re on your own) on the end of the tumbleweed call.
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Hoag@im_hoag·
@Stuck4ger @MCCCANM Tumbleweed is far more than being Blind. It's a complete loss of SA. Can not distinguish between Friend and Foe, don't know where they are or who is who. Tumbleweed is the radio call. Cluedo is essentially the same, but is informal and not typically used on the radio.
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KC-10 Driver ✈️ 👨‍✈️ B-737 Wrangler
Ok, going to explain the humor here for non-pilots. In a formation, the leader is “Lead”, everyone else is a number. Most common formation is a 2-ship. So the wingman is “2” & acknowledges radio calls with a simple “2”. Now, formations aren’t kept super close all the time. That’s tough flying & your wingman can basically do nothing else than stare at you & fly. They can’t look around & help clear for other airplanes or terrain & such, which is a waste. So you kick them out to a looser formation, freeing them up to help. It’s surprising how fast you can be looking around, then look back & your flight lead is not where you expect them to be. Now you are desperate to find them & hope you haven’t already drifted to a point that you’re already on top of each other but neither can see the other. It’s 2’s job to keep Lead in sight & just be on the wing no matter what Lead does, but Lead should also consider 2 when maneuvering & also check on them sometimes. Anyway, 2 is in a loose formation, scanning, turns their gaze back & Lead is gone. This is called being “Blind” – you have no idea where Lead is. You make a call over the radio saying simply “2 is blind”. Lead then directs altitude seperation & coordinates for a way to rejoin. Sometimes that is simple & fast, other times you have to meet at a designated point. Since the job of 2 is to just be there, it’s kind of a shame to have to call “2 is blind”…but not calling it means Lead is maneuvering around, you can’t see them, they might be really close to you & they are expecting you to be behind & to the side of them, not in a position where they may hit you. I know it sounds difficult to imagine, not being able to see another jet in this way, but you’ll have to trust me, it happens. Almost every military pilot has gone “Blind” at some point. In fact, more than once. Now, a band of two Air Force pilots got popular in the early 2000’s. They were called “Dos Gringos” & one of their big songs was “2’s Blind”. It’s a hilarious song if you know the job – we’ve all been there – but you can now probably understand it without knowing all the random terms. You can find it on YouTube or Apple Music. Just search for “2’s Blind” by Dos Gringos. Enjoy!
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@im_hoag @MCCCANM Tumbleweed is blind (leader not in sight), no joy (bad guys not in sight), cluedo (no clue what’s going on), and basically just blowing with the wind.
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Hoag@im_hoag·
@MCCCANM Blind is very bad, but "Tumbleweed" is potentially far worse. I knew a controller who called Tumbleweed @ the merge while controlling a 4v4. From that day on, his callsign was "Tweed" & yes it WAS short for Tumbleweed. FYI: "Tumbleweed" is a TOTAL loss of situational awareness.
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
What I’d really like to know are the *long term* effects, if any (e.g. reduced or increased risk of dementia?).
Ihtesham Ali@ihtesham2005

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

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Forger Stucky
Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
It’s great when people treat the public with respect and give them honest and educated commentary. Too much of that is lost in these days of “what if” lawyering and marketing.
Robert Sterling@RobertMSterling

I just had the craziest experience at the airport. We are about to board a flight to Atlanta when the pilot from the incoming plane walks out of the jetway. Guy is probably late 50s, salt and pepper hair, military look. The kind of pilot you instantly feel good about seeing on your flight. Pilot walks over to the counter, gets on the PA system, and starts addressing everyone. “Folks, I’ve been doing this a long time. Flying one of these jets is easy. The hard part is looking at 130 people and telling them their flight is going to be delayed.” Audible groans throughout the boarding gate. Most people here are flying to Atlanta as a layover before another flight. 130 people just had their day become a complete mess. The pilot goes on. “I get it, trust me. But here’s the deal: During our landing, we had a small mechanical issue. I’m not your pilot for the next leg, but I don’t feel confident the jet’s safe to fly until we have a mechanical team look it over, and I don’t feel comfortable asking the next pilots to fly you guys until we get confirmation.” He points at the agents next to him behind the counter: “Now, none of this is the agents’ fault. Please be kind to them. I’m the one who made this decision, not them, so any inconvenience you experience is my fault. Just please know that I don’t do this lightly, and I’m only doing it because I believe it’s in the best interests of everyone’s safety.” Now this is where the story gets crazy. The pilot puts the microphone down, grabs his suitcase, and all the people in the gate… Start clapping. I’m not joking, everyone starts clapping for the guy. 130 people who just had their travel plans ruined give an ovation to the guy who made the decision and delivered the message. All because he addressed them with decency and transparency, took ownership of the decision, made it clear that it was necessary, and explained why it was in everyone’s best interest. It’s honestly one of the best examples of strong communication—of strong leadership, for that matter—that I’ve seen in a long time. @Delta, whoever your Atlanta to Wichita pilot was this morning, he’s one of the good ones. Please tell him the delayed passengers of flight 1637 appreciate what he did.

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Robert Rice
Robert Rice@mokierico·
@Stuck4ger For sure, hope the crew from ac didn't hit the other during ejection. Tomorrow is MU 2 anniversary date, a day I will never forget. RIP Lt Garnett and AEAN Lorenzo. Lt Garnett was alive when I got to his window, literally passed as we were looking at each other. Still haunts me.
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Forger Stucky@Stuck4ger·
@BowTiedBroke Let me know when you have a slope overlooking the valley floor that faces the prevailing winds and is cleared enough for me to launch my paraglider...
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BowTiedBroke@BowTiedBroke·
I’m not going to jack the prices up of my cabins. I want people to see what I get to see every week. The amazing WAVES of mountains. They’ll be around $200-$275/night depending on the season. Shouldn’t break the bank. AND, you’ll not only see the Mtns, but also these…
Brian Keller@kellerbrian1

@BowTiedBroke Absolutely amazing my man. I could only imagine how expensive those are to rent out🤦‍♂️

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