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USAF's New Carrier

hahaha! I can just hearing people say "four!"

Baaahh who needs the USAF anyways, NO DIS-RESPECT TO THE VTB!!!!!

lqcorsa wrote:Baaahh who needs the USAF anyways, NO DIS-RESPECT TO THE VTB!!!!!

Thanks for the compliment, only coming up on my 8th year now in the USAF. Served in Bosnia, Iraq and many other places....I would surely think my country needed me there as well as all my other AF members. I would think with the wink you were joking about that comment so I will take no offense by that. Just one of those subjects I take very seriously.

Flying the Friendly,

Sorry YES YES YEEEESSSS We need USAF, it was just a joke

hints my sig says F/A-18C

Thanks for the compliment, only coming up on my 8th year now in the USAF. Served in Bosnia, Iraq and many other places

Thanks for your service to our country, LD.


Without the USAF, there would be no one to save the Navy in a dog fight. Not only that, the Air Force is so great, they train pilots from foreign countries.

All joking aside the Air Force is probably the best branch to promote leadership, teamwork, and morale for both troops, mission personnell, and pilots.

Scooter

What about LD LOL... USAF is great, and I agree. I was just joking around. I love the USAF and USN, I just choose the USN because I really love the Navy and the Hornet. I'm thankful for every night I can sleep in peace because of our armed forces.

PS: While were on the subject, are USAF pilots carrier qualified? I thought I saw a pic a while back of a F-16 w/ a tailhook.

Yeah, what about me??? How did I get dragged into this discussion!? Funny, but thank you Striker for his contributions to freedom overseas!

LD

lqcorsa wrote: PS: While were on the subject, are USAF pilots carrier qualified? I thought I saw a pic a while back of a F-16 w/ a tailhook.

The tailhook is used only when a fighter has an emergency, not to land on carriers.

Sorry, I meant Striker...Thanks, bud!

-Scooter

Hehe, now that I would like to see. So then do they train USAF pilots to land on carriers? I would really like to see how that would go. They never land on carriers, and they only do it when they are in trouble, thats asking for a boo-boo. Naval pilots use carriers all the time and they have enough trouble as it is!

lqcorsa wrote:Hehe, now that I would like to see. So then do they train USAF pilots to land on carriers? I would really like to see how that would go. They never land on carriers, and they only do it when they are in trouble, thats asking for a boo-boo. Naval pilots use carriers all the time and they have enough trouble as it is!

The tailhooks aren't ever used to land on carriers, including emergencies. They are only used on land runways in cases of brake failures and such.

Yes an F-16 trying to land on a carrier would be a sight to see as the landing would no doubt crush the landing gear as well as rip the tailhook clean off.

Makes sense. I knew that couldn't be right.

Without the USAF, there would be no one to save the Navy in a dog fight.

Hey there Scooter, I bet ya' ten bucks I can go upstairs and get a hold of one of our Junior O's and see if they'll let me burn some sensor and hud footage of just exactly what happens when the F-15's from Langley decide to come out here and try some 1v1 exercises vs. our Super Hornets. You'll have plenty of time to distinguish the F-15, trust me......BECAUSE HE'S ALWAYS IN OUR GUN SIGHTS. Who's bailin' who out now? Both great branches, with equally awesome planes. I think you need to go join the Army so you can try to get yourself a platform that you can actually talk about with knowledge. So far the Air Force and Navy are all taken up. Maybe the Marines will let you join one of their new Osprey squadrons. Now that's a fighter!

Creature