I remember the B-1 reliability program
 

It takes 3 to start
2 to taxi
Leaves 1 to take-off

Although it is pretty cool to see they now do "close air support" with JDAMs from 30,000 ft.

And L1011 = Lockheed. I wouldn't tell any Lockheed engineer that McDonnell Douglas had a thing to do with the L1011!

Hook, line, sinker.

As they do their duo, I can just picture some anal retentive usafa grad squirming in his seat while reading it.

That alone makes me laugh about it.

The F-104 used engine bleed air for a "blown flaps" system to allow it to fly slow enough to land, so engine out landing was pretty much impossible (except for Newk, of course.). They say it glided like a set of car keys. I still would love to fly it...thay was one sexy beast.

I had a few books I bought earlier this year for summer reading, one of which was First Man, the life of Neil Armstrong. Yesterday I was perusing the various books deciding which to start, and saw the biography was dated 2005. Curious what he as doing now I googled him to find out he just died. No question of which book I'm reading now.

Like many of you I was completely enthralled with the Apollo program as a boy, and it was probably my prime motivation for both the military and a flying career. Apollo and Neil were larger than life, and a testament to what this nation is capable of achieving.

God Speed Neil Armstrong.

That's a pic of 4 B-1 engines being delivered.

he could be squirming as he looks up at his gigantic poster, the one he hung in his dorm room in Annapolis, of all seven of the Thunderbirds in their classic Delta formation:
http://www.flightglobal.com/airspace...-formation.jpg

I mean who doesn't look at that without getting a little misty eyed and saying "be all you can be!!!"

But then I'd be a fkning politician! :eek:

Nothing can get fixed that the Lobbiests don't want fixed, and they like it the way it is right now. When money talks, politicians listen. Oh, and now that Corporations are Peple too...well, what chance do we the people have, to have our voices heard, when it comes to campaign contributions?

Talk about a waste of money!

All of this military talk reminds me of all that I missed out on while flying the

http://airlinergallery.nl/e145cont.jpg

Beech 1900C for Delta Express.

We didn't even have an autopilot in those things.

But you know, it was during those times flying in and out of our in Cleveland, looking out over the mountains, that I had my most religious experiences. I'd harken back to those first verses in the beginning of the Bible, Exodus chapter 12, and recite them: "And John the Baptist said, once upon a time..."