Interesting article all around about on of my favorite planes, the AC-130. But I love phrases like this.
“Departed controlled flight” hehe. I am never going to stumble again, I am just going to momentarily depart controlled ambulation.
ETA: Ahh crap, thought I was still in MPSIMS.
That’s one hell of a sideslip! I couldn’t imagine doing that accidentally in a C 152, much less a Hercules.
I would always get a kick out of when the CO would come on the 1MC and report that we had “delivered” some ordnance to a target, like we were UPS, or some shit.
Hercules.
For some reason Eddie Murphie crossed my though processes.
Ordnance delivered, sir!
When it absolutely, positively has to be destroyed overnight! :cool:For sale: 1 slightly used aircraft. Low mileage.
Flown only on exercises over the Gulf of Mexico. Armament not included.
But I’m paying it off at ten bucks a week. And I wouldn’t be doing that if I’d gotten that extra collision coverage.
Hey! You wreck it, you’ve bought it!
Hey, you gotta read the fine print on the contract. It clearly says no smoking, no unapproved operators, no inversions.
How much for just the guns?
The language they use in those reports can be fun. Came across an interesting turn of phrase the other day.
Air India flew a Boeing 787 around with only 4 of 47 screws installed in a fuselage panel.
According to the official report:
It didn’t just fall off, “the panel liberated from the aircraft,” it simply chose to be free!
You’re going to need a progressive loader.
Yeah. Imagine that. The aviation engineering industry has jargon. And flight test and other military aviation fraternities use the same jargon.
I’m in loooooove! :o
Okay, who noticed her seconds before they noticed her gun?
Mi amusing encounter with military jargon took place when I worked as an electronic tester for medical, military and aerospace electric components.
We were supposed to have the ISO military standards manual for test methods for electronic and electrical parts. To this day I still wonder why between many electronic and environmental procedures there was a military standard for a burrito; yes, the edible kind. Size and components precisely mentioned.
From my experience with the military supply system, I’ll offer two possibilities. 1) someone was bored and slipped it in as a joke, and B) someone transposed some numbers in a Federal Stock Number.
I was an instructor at the CG electronics schools. There was a 1st class ET there who may have been good at repairing electronics and passing promotion tests, but he was terrible at dealing with people. Especially those he outranked. So, after he was assigned to the school, it was very quickly determined that he wouldn’t be an instructor. Well, there were several support positions there. And one was in Electronics Supply. There was a lot of equipment used at the school, both trainers and test equipment (VOMs, DMMs, oscilloscopes, signal generators, frequency counters, etc.) for the students to use which sometimes needed repairs. They sort of shrugged off the time he transposed some FSNs and ended ordering 65 feet of tread for a M-60 tank. However, they HAD to tell the CO and the Base Commander and some Captain on the Area Commander’s staff when the same guy did it again and ordered launchers for radar guided surface to air missiles and they were delivered.
BTW, I knew second hand one of the instructors at the Gunner’s Mate school there. Those guys were all drooling over those. 
Probably transposed numbers as mentioned above. For those of you wondering about a mil-spec burrito in the first place - consider the greed of military contractors and suppliers. If there weren’t exceedingly exact specs for absolutely everything, the suppliers would be cheaping out and your Burrito, Bean and Cheese, One Each would be the size of a taquito and filled with floor sweepings.
With a chick like that, who cares if she can cook? :o
you really should be getting treatment for your Paternal Conflict Syndrome. I know they’re years away from a vaccine, but there are management therapies.