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  1. 8 hours ago, niart17 said:

    Sorry, but this is an extremely judgmental and VERY ignorant statement. These "individuals" are trained pilots with tons of hours. How about you keep the armchair piloting to yourself.


    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 many accidents have been occurring in the warbird community, far too many. Existing flight safety programs exist, it is time for these mechanisms to be put in force.

  2. 1 hour ago, Murph said:

    Some of the individuals flying these "warbirds" have no business being in a cockpit.  Way more money and ego than brains.

     

    Regards,

    Murph


    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.

  3. 5 hours ago, Camus272 said:

    Exactly. I've watched an F-16 change from a warm metallic bronze to a deep dark gray in a few minutes, as the clouds pass over. 


    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.

  4. On 11/5/2022 at 11:24 AM, Niels said:

    FS36170 is the correct color. The odd thing with this color is that it changes according to the lighting, hence bloody difficult to capture correctly. So it will be anything from light greay, almost metallic, to metallic engine gray. It is however still FS36170

     

    As for the RAM panels, it is only the early models where these were highlighted. The F-35's rolling out these days they are less prominent. 

     

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

  5. 40 minutes ago, scotthldr said:

    Hi all,

     

    I bought one of the above kits direct from Luckymodel when they first came out in 2012, however the quality of the finished mouldings were far from great,  to the point that the kit was basically unbuildable and ended up in the bin. At the same time I ordered the Mirage2K-5 kit which also suffered from the same problems ultimately sharing the same fate. However Raymond at LM very graciously replaced the M2K5 kit with a later run version which was leaps and bounds better than the original. So am wondering if the problems with the initial F-5 releases have been rectified over the years? I know Kinetic changed their injection process procedures about 2015/16 and it seemed to correct a lot of the earlier sub standard boxings.


    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.

  6. 14 hours ago, Tank said:


    Up until 2012 we had 3 squadrons flying the D model. Even pulled a few birds out of storage during OIF. They are now E or V-22 units. 
     

    That is cool about your son and the interview. 
     

    I think the last time I was at Miramar was 2000. When then they broke the longest wall of fire record. Looks like Yuma holds that record now.


    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.

  7. 14 hours ago, GreyGhost said:

    Yea, the Marines are getting the new CH-53K King Stallion ...

    That's cool about your son being interviewed for the UK  ...

    We seen the Red Arrows perform that year also but here in STL ...

    Attended many Miramar shows back when it was still "Fightertown USA" ... 

     

    -Gregg


    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 RCAF Hornet squadron in 2005. It was an awesome trip.

  8. 15 hours ago, Specter1075 said:

    My experience is the same. I was in Winnipeg until a year ago, and it was the same out there too. I think there are a few of us here from Alberta, now that I watch for that sort of thing.

     

    Are you part of the Edmonton IPMS Chapter?

     

    I knew a lot of the Winnipeg guys.

  9. 7 hours ago, Specter1075 said:

    Still waiting in Alberta too, Scooby. That border is a difficult chasm to cross if you're a mail or parcel delivery service.


    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.

  10. 6 hours ago, KursadA said:

    So, what did you think? Looking forward to seeing your first builds - the serial number and extra stencilling sheets will be available soon, so you can build multiple jets from the new sheets. 

     

    Scaling them down to 1/72 as we speak.


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

  11. 5 hours ago, GW8345 said:

    That's like saying "I stayed in a Holiday Express last night".

     

    If it originated naturally from bats and was not manipulated by humans how come there was no cases from the province where the bat caves are located? Wouldn't you think that if it was a natural virus and was just brought to the lab and accidentally released from the lab that there would be cases in the area around the caves?

     

    But hey, you believe what you want to believe and I'll believe what I want, in the end we'll just agree to disagree (if some people are still capable of that).


    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. 

  12. 5 hours ago, GW8345 said:


    Why is there a higher percentage of deaths for unvax compared to vax.........because the vax wasn't available the first year of the virus yet they are all the deaths in the equation instead of just those that happened after the vax was available.

     

    I like how you label anyone who is opposed to mandatory COVID vaccination as an "anti-vaxers", wonder what we can label pro-vaxer's........kool-aid drinkers?


    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.

  13. 25 minutes ago, GW8345 said:

    As I stated, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, if you want to believe the virus originated from bats then knock yourself out.

     

    Heck, you have the right to believe 9/11 was a gov't operation, that the Holocaust didn't happen, that Sandy Hook was fake and that the US never sent a man to the moon. I just take offense in someone who blames the unvax because they chose to exercise their right not to be forced to inject something into their body they don't want. Again, everyone has the right to believe what they want, what you don't have the right to do (at least here in the states) is to force your beliefs onto others.

     

    And to say that it is because of the unvax that the virus is still around shows how far removed someone can be removed from reality and facts it.


    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.

     

  14. 16 hours ago, GW8345 said:

    Never mind, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

    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.

  15. 1 hour ago, Niels said:

    That is an experience not shared by everyone. May be differences from country to country, but the vaccines where never marketed as guarantee against getting the disise, only lessoning the impact. Most deaths where due to other underlying illnesses in addition to covid, not covid alone. 


    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.

  16. 3 hours ago, Dave Roof said:

     

    Seriously!?

     

    Hundreds of first responders and US military personnel were forced to get it and if they didn't, they were fired or were administratively discharged. The worst part part of all that bullshite? DoD has since rescinded those requirements and put an end to the 'punishments' previously put in place. 

     

    All of us that remain unvaccinated and never wore a mask or bought into the BS games are now living in the biggest "we told you so" moment ever.   


    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

     

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