a fucking PIMP

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4/20/2008 5:26:23 PM

if i landed a chinook in my gf's parents backyard to pick her up, they'd probably think that was pretty badass too.

gg

4/20/2008 5:33:32 PM

HOT

4/20/2008 5:36:11 PM

4/20/2008 5:36:48 PM

i thought this was about salmon fishing...

4/20/2008 5:36:50 PM

i mean...he's hot as hell and all....

but the dirty dirty dirty things i would do to the one that won't be the king....

4/20/2008 5:42:10 PM

I just wanna take a military helicopter bar hopping, partyin, and broad bangin with my boys

4/20/2008 5:43:03 PM

4/20/2008 5:44:14 PM

can i get a ride?

4/20/2008 5:44:28 PM

That chick is hot, but he is a fucking prince, he could do a hell of a lot better.

4/20/2008 5:45:12 PM

^^^ holy shit, thats bad ass and ballsy as fuck

^^ sure


^ I'm sure he does what and who he wants on the side

4/20/2008 5:46:29 PM

at least in a monarchy it is "cute" when the ruling class squanders state money with some personal bullshit

and I appreciate his sentimentality - in the US some senator would have just given her family a billion dollar government contract

4/20/2008 5:51:45 PM

to a point he"inherited" shit since his ancestors did help establish the place and defend it back in the day

but yeah

lol @ a monarchy

4/20/2008 5:53:45 PM

I'm sure that was the military helicopter he inherited from his cousin the duke of wales or some bullshit

that's taxpayer money buying that helicopter... and staffing it

4/20/2008 5:56:12 PM

haha hell yeah, he baller



shit it was probably cheaper than him doing it the other way and the taxpayers flippin the bill lol


plus I suppose the bright side is he got hours

4/20/2008 5:58:51 PM

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"at least in a monarchy it is "cute" when the ruling class squanders state money with some personal bullshit"

In his defense, it doesn't really matter where he practices landings and takeoffs. A field is a field to a helicopter pilot as long as its big enough and free of obstacles. It isn't like it'd be any cheaper if he'd spent two hours on a remote landing strip.

*shrug*

4/20/2008 6:01:29 PM

i haven't read all about this, but my guess is that there's a good chance that he was flying anyway, and they just happened to land at his girlfriend's house.

we do the same things in our jets here (except that we can't land in fields ). Wanna go to Vegas or San Diego for the weekend? No problem...plan up some training flights that you were otherwise gonna do locally, and take a jet or two on the road for the weekend. You win by getting to fly to somewhere you wanna go on the taxpayer dime, and the taxpayers win by getting more training done by having the jets flying and the aircrew working on the weekends.

[Edited on April 20, 2008 at 6:05 PM. Reason : i've taken a jet from FL to CA mostly just to visit a hot chick i knew who was stationed there]

4/20/2008 6:04:05 PM

hours are hours, doesn't matter why you're in the air lol

4/20/2008 6:08:07 PM

4/20/2008 6:08:19 PM

Key West, San Diego, Vegas...a whole shit ton of training is accomplished enroute to and from these places (and it's better training than normal, in some cases, because it's in unfamiliar areas where you don't fly every day)

4/20/2008 6:12:48 PM

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"i've taken a jet from FL to CA mostly just to visit a hot chick i knew who was stationed there"

dang!

what jet you fly?

4/20/2008 6:25:12 PM

It's kind of like tacking on a few days of holiday, weekend, or personal time to a business trip somewhere.

4/20/2008 6:32:29 PM

4/20/2008 6:37:51 PM

thank god we revolted against the crown

4/20/2008 8:17:36 PM

im 2nd thinking this whole independence thing

4/20/2008 8:23:09 PM

yeh, america is heading straight for the shitter once we elect hillary or bama. at least we had nasa for a while.

bai cool america, it was fun while it lasted

4/20/2008 8:25:17 PM

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"dang! what jet you fly? "

EA-6b Prowler

4/20/2008 8:49:00 PM

^where are you stationed again?

4/20/2008 9:02:42 PM

^^aren't f-18e's replacing the prowlers?

[Edited on April 20, 2008 at 9:03 PM. Reason : ^^]

4/20/2008 9:03:00 PM

can someone explain to me why we need to buy new fighter jets?

4/20/2008 9:05:00 PM

^^^ NAS Whidbey Island, WA. Coming to Cherry Point in a couple of months.

^^ the EA-18G is replacing the Prowler for the Navy. The USMC is keeping the Prowler for the foreseeable future.

^ make a thread in the Soap Box. that's too much discussion for here.

[Edited on April 20, 2008 at 9:08 PM. Reason : asfd]

4/20/2008 9:07:55 PM

are you serious? ^^

there's about a million reasons to do so. here's 1.
so we can stay ahead of the rest of the world. stealth fighters that avoid enemy radar = we win any potential war.

^oh. i thought i read recently that the f18E has all the necessary radar / jamming equipment now + longer range + weapons + cheaper to maintain. thats cool though, it's an ugly ass plane though

[Edited on April 20, 2008 at 9:09 PM. Reason : ^^]

4/20/2008 9:08:19 PM

Even Princess Di couldn't counteract the ugly of that Charles.

4/20/2008 9:14:32 PM

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"we win any potential war."

wut

4/20/2008 9:16:07 PM

hahaha

4/20/2008 9:16:38 PM

Prince William = HOT and so is his little brother

4/20/2008 9:18:28 PM

i wouldn't kick either one of them out of bed....




unless they wanted to do it on the floor

4/20/2008 9:19:24 PM

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"^oh. i thought i read recently that the f18E has all the necessary radar / jamming equipment now + longer range + weapons + cheaper to maintain. thats cool though, it's an ugly ass plane though "

E= single seat fighter/attack aircraft
F= 2 seat version
G= 2 seat electronic warfare (basically an F model Super Hornet with the EW stuff from the latest and greatest version of the Prowler, plus some other stuff, along with more or less the same fighter/attack capability of the regular F model)

4/20/2008 9:22:37 PM

theDuke866, nice to hear you will be coming to Cherry Point. I work down here as well (civilian on the base). I hear the prowlers all the time.

4/20/2008 9:25:32 PM

yeh, i'd honestly rather get caught with my pants down in an f18G than stuck in a prowler

but gg either way

4/20/2008 9:26:01 PM

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"I hear the prowlers all the time."

Oh sweet jebus those things are loud. One was landing at Pope late last year and I thought a fucking C-5 was about to come in my kitchen window.

4/20/2008 9:46:16 PM

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"i wouldn't kick either one of them out of bed.... unless they wanted to do it on the floor"

ha, will use that in the future

4/20/2008 9:55:57 PM

On a largely unrelated note; I found out tonight that R.J. Mitchell, the man who designed the Sptifire, died in 1937 and never knew the impact of his aircraft, nor was he ever knighted, even posthumously, for it. If Elton John can be knighted, why isn't this guy?

4/20/2008 10:00:53 PM

ahhh the randomness of JCASHFAN's brain

[Edited on April 20, 2008 at 10:03 PM. Reason : .]

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