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Originally Posted by aston70
Is that for real?
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It is for REAL. If you read the book by Ben Rich (successor to Kelley Johnson) about his time at the Skunk Works, he was the main guy managing the F-117, and those are words from his mouth.
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Originally Posted by boxmonkeyracing
Cool. just don't become one of those pilots that doesn't listen to maintenance. lol. if you do we might have a fight on our hands. . .out of uniform of course.
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Frankly, a lot of the pilots I have met are just pricks, plain and simple. That fact alone makes me not want to fly fighters. I actually do not like Air Force pilots much, even though I want to be one.
If maintenance says the aircraft is down, well, that's that. It sucks, but what am I gonna go do? Get pissed at the guys who were up all night doing their job? No. My philosophy is to respect the people who make your job possible. Anything else is being stupid, and far from any sort of leadership.
I knew a Lt. from the Army who was a Blackhawk crew chief (160th SOAR, Ft. Campbell, KY)...I learned a lot from that guy.
About the coolest guys I have met are the chopper pilots and A-10 guys (minus one who was a real dick). Hence, my aspiration to be one of those guys. On my dream sheet (pending making it through IFS, UPT and all that...) it's going to be something like: U-28A, A-10C, and HH-60G/CV-22/new CSARX helo, whatever it ends up being.