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re: Boeing is crushing it!

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 1/13/26 at 8:43 pm to
Now if they could stop fricking up all of their military products.

- T-7 training aircraft, 3 years late
- B-52 GPS Interface Unit (basically a computer), after spending over $100M they couldn't even get to a critical design review and the entire program was cancelled
- B-52 Link-16 integration, 4 years late
- B-52 Radar Modernization Program, Nunn-McCurdy breach and 5 years late
- B-52 Commercial Engine Replacement Program, 5 years late
- B-1 external weapon pylons, costs tripled over a 2 year period and deliveries are now 2 years behind
- MH-139 helicopter, Nunn-McCurdy breach and 2 years late
- Design for Carriage and launch equipment for the Long Range Standoff weapon (new nuclear cruise missile, contract terminated for cause and eliminated from competition for further design and production

Guess we'll have to see how they do on the F-47 Next Generation Air Dominance program.

re: 211 years ago today

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 1/8/26 at 7:33 am to
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revealed all those red coated regiments lined up to attack.


'Ol Hickory said we could take 'em by surprise if we didn't fire our muskets til we looked 'em in the eyes.

re: 0W-16 Weight motor oil? WTF

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 12/30/25 at 8:50 am to
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run, don't walk, from 0 weight oil


I've been using 0w20 in my Acura TLX since I got it in Aug 2017 and have 117,000 miles on it with no issues.

re: Those true freshmen d lineman

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 12/27/25 at 10:51 pm to
Well, we thought McKinley was that dog and he hasn’t done shite.
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What you did should be ban worthy


I apologized and edited. Way worse has been done on this site without the person receiving the Banhammer.
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Potential to be an all time downvote record.
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Deservedly. I don’t post much, but I am on this site a bunch, so I should have known better.
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I can scan you a copy.


FlyingTiger6310@gmail
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My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined


My bad. Should have posted it as a question. Sorry fellas. Will edit.
I really did search and could only find the cover.
Any of you old baws got some old Playboys around with this specific issue? One of the Color Guard members from 1999 was in that issue and is at the Alumni gathering right now. Friend of mine is there with his son (Freshman LSU) and wants to show his son this chick’s Playboy picture. Can’t find it on Google so taking a wild shot because the OT always comes through on random crap.

re: Best Christmas movie

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 11/20/25 at 8:00 pm to
Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
Trading Places
Rambo: First Blood
Christmas Story
Elf
Polar Express

We do it all the time. We also do tests of the AGM-86B Air Launched Cruise Missile (ALCM) that is our nuclear cruise missile and tests of the B61 nuclear bombs. Just none of them have the "physics package" in them. They have either warhead simulators or other test payloads in them. Oh, and don't look now, but we are also in flight test for the new nuclear cruse missile to replace the ALCM. It is called the AGM-181A Long Range Standoff (LRSO) missile.

re: Where were you in 1999?

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 10/31/25 at 7:51 am to
Senior year at LSU. Graduated and commissioned in the AF in December. For NYE, I was working for a catering company and we catered a huge party thrown by the people that own the house the movie "The Toy" was filmed in. They renovated the horse stables on the property into a huge party venue with a large ballroom in the center and multiple small rooms on the sides. Must have been about 1,000 people at that party.
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When Tommy was our S&C coach, our players did just fine in all the NFL Combine metrics


Now this isn't true at all. Every year I watched LSU OL and DL be underwhelming in the bench press.

re: Cancer vaccine breakthrough

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 10/10/25 at 8:56 am to
Yep. Lost my dad in December to this as well. Diagnosed in February, seemed to do well with the chemo and radiation, but then in October he started having bad body aches. Turns out it got in his spinal column and spread throughout his body. Was still mentally all there through the week before Thanksgiving but then went over the cliff and died on December 2nd.
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I am able to shop these places


Just know that as a retiree, it is now my solemn duty to corner you in an aisle and tell you my lamest, longest, and least relevant war story. Then, as you struggle to get away I have to fulfill my secondary duty of telling you how soft the current generation is and how that wouldn't fly during my extremely difficult deployments to tropical paradises like Diego Garcia.
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Good coaching would tell the DE's to drop it down to 75mph & don't get behind the QB.


Like we did to shut down Johnny Manziel. Make him stay in the pocket and beat you there. Don't let him scramble and ad lib. That's where these dual threat QBs hurt you the most on passes. As far as straight up run plays, you have to remain disciplined to your lane just like any other option-based offense.

re: B-2 Spirit Flyover.

Posted by FlyingTiger06 on 9/26/25 at 7:52 pm to
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Starting to think Ole Miss treating this game like it’s their Super Bowl.


The University has very little say in what aircraft performs the flyover. They can request a specific airframe, but that doesn't mean they get it. There's an Air Force Public Affairs website that shows all the flyby's and other aerial events that have been approved by Public Affairs and if a specific airframe has been requested. Even still, any aviation unit can volunteer to do that aerial event. All except for the Rose Bowl flyover. Each year, that is directed by the Secretary of the Air Force to be a B-2. In a few years, that will change to be a B-21. All because the Northrop Grumman facility that builds them is right there in Palmdale, CA.
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The development of the F-15 to combat the Soviet Foxbat.


We did the same thing. Look at the XB-70. We throw out a Mach 3 bomber forcing them to develop really long range SAMs such as the SA-5 and later the SA-20.