I remember bombing those triangles!
6 Big bombs, 10 little bombs, 8 AAMs and 23k lbs of gas. The F-15E was an amazing machine back then.
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If I could make a living flying helicopters around Manhattan, thatās what Iād do. Fly the Pitts for fun. Maybe do a little glider instruction. Home every night. Yep, Iād be up for that.
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Wowā¦200K - how much does the C-47 cost new. Because I was looking on the used market at a Kodiak for 500K or something, but it was 50% or soā¦so Iād be curious how much it would cost to repair it once purchased. Sometimes a bargain isnāt a bargainā¦
Iāve got the 172 Bush again out of 25U back up to Pullman. Wowā¦that takeoff over the cliff is breathtaking! Turbulence kicking my butt tooā¦
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Gonna have to put the drink cart awayā¦
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Even more fun when ur butt is really getting hammered! (Iām assuming you donāt have this feature). It really gets your attention. Take the lever on my office chair (to raise/lower it); if I donāt āsuppressā (piece of foam) it will rattle like crazy in over-G or high turbulence situations. Catches me by surprise sometimes. Think it makes me smoother on the controls too (G-effects when yanking on the stick/yoke). No proof of this though 
A slot for the quarters on this ride is handy.
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Alrightyā¦172 Bush is back in Pullmanā¦
Shake and bake! Itās not too bad unless you are trying to get a type rating. 
So Iām in Pullman with a VA airplane, but I need to get back to my own company base where my Husky is (Pangborn) and Iāve gone through the list of items available at Pullman and found that Livestock is $14 more in Moses Lake (itās on the way) - so 500 x $14 = $7000ā¦seems like a good haul. Butā¦I canāt see HOW to buy the items? Iām lost in a sea of menusā¦!
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Oh myā¦Iām embarrassed to admit I did not even know those left hand tabs were there! ANDā¦I was doing a base by base search using the upper tabs which was dreadfully inefficient! Thank you for showing me a faster way!
Ahā¦using your technique of just scrolling through and looking at the map - I can see that Fine China is even more profitable at +19ā¦ Now, whether it can survive the turbulence is another matter!
Do you know if those commodity prices are dynamicā¦do they change according to supply and demand?
Ahā¦actually China is NOT more profitable because it is only more differential in dollars, but not percentage of the total cost of the commodity. @Bearhedge would be proud.
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Hahaā¦now Iām debating the ethics of borrowing 10K from the VA to allow me to completely fill my 500 pound capacity and then repaying the VA when I offload the cargo 
Of course, it will be flown IN a VA aircraft by a VA pilot (me)ā¦so I think management (me) should be OK with it. And I will pay the cost of the aircraft rental and fuel and mx reserveā¦(which I have yet to figure out on the 172 Bush)ā¦
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Next week. Dark pools and mortgage backed securities.
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Jeepers - hauling 464lbs of clothing (disguised as cement) to KBLI. I think I can, I think I can (get over the moutains West of KEAT)!
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Now, if only there was a way to take all our individual risky airplane loans and lump them together into bigger lumps of debt, then give that tranche a generic risk grade and sell that debt on, offloading the riskā¦what could possibly go wrong!
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Ah poop. Iām running into a roadblock. Situation is this:
Me (BeachAV8) owner of MAC - base is KEAT
Iām currently in KPUW - a VA base that is under construction.
I transferred 50K to my personal account to buy 500 pounds of Livestock
When I go to buy the stuff, the Deliver To box does not populate and it says 0 free spaceā¦do I need storage room somewhere?
I have a plan for those sheepā¦
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