The Clown Show aka trump's Cabinet

[jakee 1,554]

1 hour ago, Phil1111 said:

Technically that would be one hour. Well.....plus taxi time.

And not technically but really?

[Phil1111 1,149]

12 minutes ago, jakee said:

And not technically but really?

AFAIK this is the same as what Billvon and Joe use. So click, click, kick the tires and light the fires.

 

Edited November 27, 2024 by Phil1111

[jakee 1,554]

Ok, very amusing.

[billvon 3,057]

2 hours ago, jakee said:

How many hours work do you think it takes to fly one hour?

For me it's about two hours work for one hour flying - and I pay an FBO quite a lot of money to do most of the maintenance, get the fuel etc.

[billvon 3,057]

54 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

AFAIK this is the same as what Billvon and Joe use. So click, click, kick the tires and light the fires.

I gotta say that the various ADS-B receivers (and associated apps) have revolutionized things quite a bit.  A decent ADS-B RX will have ADS-B, GPS, real time weather and backup attitude - which gives you not only air traffic and weather, but is a quite capable IFR navigation and attitude reference platform.

[jakee 1,554]

14 minutes ago, billvon said:

For me it's about two hours work for one hour flying - and I pay an FBO quite a lot of money to do most of the maintenance, get the fuel etc.

Which fast jet do you fly?

[Phil1111 1,149]

On 11/22/2024 at 2:21 PM, billvon said:

So do I owe the FBO a case of beer for this?  (My first flat during landing)

 

9 minutes ago, jakee said:

Which fast jet do you fly?

Thats restricted need to know classified. But the public one is pictured above.

Edited November 27, 2024 by Phil1111

[jakee 1,554]

15 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

Thats restricted need to know classified. But the public one is pictured above.

Well I’ve flown 180 hours in one of those this year, I guess I’ll see who’s ready to strap me into a Martin-Baker and get the afterburners going!

[JoeWeber 2,797]

28 minutes ago, Phil1111 said:

 

Thats restricted need to know classified. But the public one is pictured above.

I think you need to feed it more.

[kallend 2,098]

1. Never pass up an opportunity to post a picture of your plane:

2. See rule #1

 

 

[billvon 3,057]

1 hour ago, jakee said:

Which fast jet do you fly?

None.  I fly the cheapest, simplest planes out there.  Manual everything.  And it still takes me an hour of paperwork/prep/preflight/runup/shutdown for every hour I fly.

Now imagine you're flying a $100 million aircraft that costs $50K an hour to fly, and that carries weapons.  That's going to take just a tad more effort.

[jakee 1,554]

22 minutes ago, billvon said:

Now imagine you're flying a $100 million aircraft that costs $50K an hour to fly, and that carries weapons.  That's going to take just a tad more effort.

Why are you telling me that?

[billvon 3,057]

9 minutes ago, jakee said:

Why are you telling me that?

Beause you asked how many hours of work it takes for a combat military pilot to fly one hour.

[jakee 1,554]

10 minutes ago, billvon said:

Beause you asked how many hours of work it takes for a combat military pilot to fly one hour.

But you already know that I already know it's a crazy tough job with mega long hours, whereas Phil thinks it's easy because your plane is easy. (I know he doesn;t really, but still.)

[base698 20]

5 hours ago, kallend said:

1. Never pass up an opportunity to post a picture of your plane:

2. See rule #1

 

 

TIL Kallend and I are Eskimo brothers for planes.

[johnhking1 97]

6 hours ago, kallend said:

Never pass up an opportunity to post a picture of your plane:

[SkyDekker 1,465]

On 11/27/2024 at 3:37 AM, Phil1111 said:

If the F-35 is such a horrible aircraft why did Israel just order another 25 just this summer. Bringing its total orders up to 75 when it is the only country in the world to actually employ them in combat conditions.

Jut which other US aircraft are they going to order?

[Phil1111 1,149]

1 hour ago, SkyDekker said:

Jut which other US aircraft are they going to order?

They just bought some F-15EX fighters which is the latest with digital flight controls. Israel gets its jets at about 1/2 price because of the Jewish lobby in America.

[TriGirl 327]

On 11/27/2024 at 6:37 AM, Phil1111 said:

Then there is the poor NATO ally Turkey which recently discovered that Russian military equipment isn't worth a single rouble.Let alone the $2.5 billion USD Turkey paid Putin for the S-400 system. Turkey is now trying to sell the system which has never been deployed in Turkey. Its still sitting in boxes in Turkish warehouses. So it can rejoin the F-35 program, which of course the US has refused to allow.

We were spelling out the repercussions to Turkey way back when I was a diplomat there, when Turkey was just considering whether to purchase the S-400s. At the same time they welcomed the U.S. Patriot battery on loan to help guard against attacks from Syria. We tried to warn them, but they had to ... "find out."

[billvon 3,057]

On 11/27/2024 at 3:37 AM, Phil1111 said:

If the F-35 is such a horrible aircraft why did Israel just order another 25 just this summer.

Because it was politically advantageous to do so.  I hope you don't think weapons systems are ordered/obtained based purely on their value to the military!

If you do, consider the KC-X contract disputes from a few years back.

[Phil1111 1,149]

39 minutes ago, billvon said:

Because it was politically advantageous to do so.  I hope you don't think weapons systems are ordered/obtained based purely on their value to the military!

If you do, consider the KC-X contract disputes from a few years back.

The KC-X is an excellent example of how politicians, insiders, weapons suppliers and lobbyists drive the $800 billion machine. Although Canada and some other countries are worse when it comes to domestic jobs/politics first. Functioning of the system and value are way down the equation.

[normiss 840]

1 hour ago, billvon said:

Because it was politically advantageous to do so.  I hope you don't think weapons systems are ordered/obtained based purely on their value to the military!

If you do, consider the KC-X contract disputes from a few years back.

Not just disputes, felony convictions.

[kallend 2,098]

Well, DEI isn't dead after all.

Trump has an affirmative action program for the nation’s least privileged: “Under this peculiar new DEI program, previously downtrodden billionaires have been tapped to run the Treasury, Commerce, Interior and Education departments,”

 

[billvon 3,057]

On 12/2/2024 at 2:02 PM, normiss said:

Not just disputes, felony convictions.

Felony convictions mean nothing in Trump's America.  If anything, it makes those people heroes for sticking it to The Man (in this case Airbus.)

[jakee 1,554]

18 minutes ago, kallend said:

Well, DEI isn't dead after all.

Trump has an affirmative action program for the nation’s least privileged: “Under this peculiar new DEI program, previously downtrodden billionaires have been tapped to run the Treasury, Commerce, Interior and Education departments,”

Remember when the best thing about Trump was that his government wouldn't be beholden to rich campaign donors?

Now the best thing about Trump is that his government will be run by rich campaign donors!

 

It really all makes sense if you just look at it sideways and squint a bit. Not like a cult at all.