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The warbird community has lost an extraordinary number of aircraft the last five or six years. A higher rate than the military, airlines, and general aviation. Something is seriously wrong in this community, including oversight by the regulators.

Murph has thousands of hours flying fast jets, including the F-15. He isn’t an armchair pilot. And given the number of videos of this incident, there are some very obvious errors. These powerful tools (video/images) will be used in the investigation. I was a human factors in military aviation facilitator for the last eight years of my time in service. We had a CF-18 crash at an airshow practice and there was a lot of video/images of the incident. We knew immediately what to look at based on this material. I’ll say one thing about this incident, it was preventable. Too m

Agree, so many human factors in these videos. Why was the P-63 entering the airspace at such a high rate of speed and why was he banking and not keeping the slower moving B-17 in view, a total loss of situational awareness.

Agree, this isn’t only F-22/F-35 related, I took 6 photos of a Hornet in the exact same spot on our base over a six hour period, it went from a light gray all the way to a very dark gray depending upon the lighting and cloud cover. This is true through history. The only way to match colors is under the same lighting conditions.

Lighting changes the color of every color that I know of.

Buy the D kit and use this to convert.....https://phasehangarresin.com/products/48083-f-14b-tomcat-cockpit-and-external-enhancement-wit-gru-7-seats-and-ecm-blisters-tamiya?_pos=1&_sid=abe65848d&_ss=r

Hasegawa is far easier to build and is much better dimensionally. Having worked on Hornets, whenever I see a Kinetic Hornet the first thing that catches my eye is the rounded spine. Looks so weird.

Agree, great looking markings. Hopefully we will see them soon in decal form.

I doubt it. A friend of mine helped with the development of that kit, it was one of the first kits they released and it was rather crude IMHO. My friend wanted more changes from the test shot, although Kinetic said no more corrections to the kit as they wanted to send it to market.

I just change my pre-order from one to two after seeing that video.

As always, great stuff Phantom!

I did a TD at Miramar with my RCAF Hornet squadron in 2005, at that time the base was covered in CH-53s. Yes, it was a great show for my son.

That explains it, I was sure the CH-53 was gone from the base in 2019. My Scottish Cousin, ex-RAF, saw the Reds in St Louis the same year, he lives in Indy now. He had his picture taken with the Red Arrows CO. At Miramar, I met the same CO. We posed for the exact same pose in our photo and I sent it to my cousin. He had a good chuckle. My son also met and had his photo taken with every Red Arrow pilot and every Blue Angel pilot at the Miramar airshow. This summer I pinned my sons wings on at his wings parade. I did a three week deployment to Miramar with my RCA

Great photos, thanks for sharing.

Great images, I didn’t realize the Marines were still flying the CH-53. My son and I flew down from Canada a few years ago when the Red Arrows were at the show, we had a great time. There is a UK Defence video online of my son being interviewed by UK Defence Media. They were surprised to find a Royal Canadian Air Cadet in the crowd.

Are you part of the Edmonton IPMS Chapter? I knew a lot of the Winnipeg guys.

I noticed you were nearby yesterday when you made the decal shipping request from a US address, I’m in Edmonton. I actually find shipping from the US very slow internally, once it hits the border Canada Post moves it fast.

Still waiting for my shipment to Canada, tracking says they are in Chicago. Been there the last 7 days.

I know.

Because it is suspected the Wulan scientists were doing research in those caves, they were collecting specimens for research. I understand the science that covid isn’t fabricated and is naturally occurring. The only thing I agree with you is it likely escaped from the lab, they were working on it. But this is only my opinion. China actually helped with the vaccine production by releasing the genetic code, which reveals they likely had been working on it for a long period of time.

My wife is an RN and worked on a Covid only unit, yes vaccinated people died but the higher percentage of deaths were still in the unvaccinated after the Covid vaccines were developed. And your first sentence confirms you agree, vaccines save lives.

I work in medical research and clinical care. And my colleagues who who have worked in virology research for 20-30 years are well versed in the complex world of viruses, the covid virus is natural and is not spliced together and is traced back to bats. But we are of the opinion it was leaked from the lab in Wulan, there were no outbreaks in the province where the bat caves were located, where the virus originated.

As Habu mentioned, the virus mutated due to so many people not being vaccinated, some by choice, others due to the developed world not sharing the vaccine with countries that needed it. And yes, the virus originated in bats, it was not man made. It was likely harvested and accidentally/carelessly released from a lab, but it is not man made.

And the vaccine was developed for delta and earlier variants. Which it did largely eradicate. Against omicron and on variants it was less effective at reducing although we were lucky it still lessened the impact.

No one was forced to take the harmless vaccine which prevented a lot of deaths. You say hundreds refused it in the military and first responders, well 5.35 billion are vaccinated worldwide. And you were vaccinated for the Gulf War, did you refuse then? No, because social media didn’t exist then. BS games? One million Americans have died from Covid, currently Covid 19 is the third highest cause of death in the US. https://www.ibtimes.com/leading-causes-death-us-where-does-covid-19-stand-3611791