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  • Quick look on google news says it was the first shipboard launch test from EMALS and first trap test on AAG, with four trap-and-launch rounds on the first day of tests.

    First shipboard dead load test was in June.

    Guess they really want to prove it works before Trump tells them to rip it out...

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    • You know... I miss seeing the steam cloud from the launch. It made for very movie-worthy visuals. Now? Zoom of the plane goes... not even some sparks... Top Gun will not be the same...

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      • Originally posted by jlvfr View Post
        You know... I miss seeing the steam cloud from the launch. It made for very movie-worthy visuals. Now? Zoom of the plane goes... not even some sparks... Top Gun will not be the same...
        I was thinking the same thing...no more dramatic clouds of steam partially obscuring the hyper-masculine ballet of the flight deck.

        Maybe Trump really is onto something....

        “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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        • Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
          I was thinking the same thing...no more dramatic clouds of steam partially obscuring the hyper-masculine ballet of the flight deck.

          Maybe Trump really is onto something....

          Thanks for that. Love that loop and the soundtrack however the movie was just a little too corny for me at the time and still is.

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          • Originally posted by tbm3fan View Post
            the movie was just a little too corny for me at the time and still is.
            I always say, Top Gun is one of them most militarily ridiculous movies ever made.

            But that opening 4 minutes...pure naval aviation porn.
            “He was the most prodigious personification of all human inferiorities. He was an utterly incapable, unadapted, irresponsible, psychopathic personality, full of empty, infantile fantasies, but cursed with the keen intuition of a rat or a guttersnipe. He represented the shadow, the inferior part of everybody’s personality, in an overwhelming degree, and this was another reason why they fell for him.”

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            • just makes me curious how top gun 2 is gonna be like! :-)
              There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "My ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."- Isaac Asimov

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              • I was always a bit partial to segments from TheFinal Countdown .
                https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1SwgU42XSpw

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                • So on Twitter we were discussing the how Top Gun 2 opens. My idea is we see LTCDR Pete Mitchell sitting at a desk as XO of US Navy Training Publications Depot, NAS Memphis.
                  “Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.”
                  Mark Twain

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                  • Originally posted by TopHatter View Post
                    I always say, Top Gun is one of them most militarily ridiculous movies ever made.

                    But that opening 4 minutes...pure naval aviation porn.
                    If those first four minutes weren't enough to make one want to go out and enlist I don't know what would. Alas it was 13 years too late...

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                    • Originally posted by Albany Rifles View Post
                      So on Twitter we were discussing the how Top Gun 2 opens. My idea is we see LTCDR Pete Mitchell sitting at a desk as XO of US Navy Training Publications Depot, NAS Memphis.

                      Tom Cruise confirms he’ll play pilot of cargo plane hauling rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong in ‘Top Gun 2’

                      Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2017/05/to...#ixzz4oSO6a53N

                      [quote]MALIBU, Calif. — Actor Tom Cruise has confirmed that “Top Gun 2” is happening, and he’ll be taking on the role of a cargo plane pilot who hauls rubber dog shit out of Hong Kong, sources confirmed today.

                      Cruise, who owes his superstardom to his portrayal of hot shot Navy fighter pilot “Maverick” as he trains at the elite “Top Gun” pilot school, says he’s excited to start filming an update to the 1986 blockbuster. Although moviegoers enjoyed the dogfighting scenes and homoerotic beach volleyball matches of the original film, Cruise says his role will be quite different in “Top Gun 2,” which is filming under the codename “Gold Base.”

                      “The film is going to be great, absolutely fantastic,” Cruise told reporters. “I can’t really give away too many details, but I can tell you that I’m coming back as Maverick and Val [Kilmer] will be back as Iceman.”

                      According to sources, “Top Gun 2” is set roughly 25 years after the original where we meet “Maverick,” a washed-up former naval aviator who has found work as a cargo pilot for a Chinese toy manufacturer that specializes in novelty poop. As a flashback scene reveals, the career of Cruise’s heroic character Lt. Pete Mitchell ended after he was dismissed from the Navy for his role as a ringleader in the Tailhook scandal of 1991.

                      After leaving the Navy, he becomes depressed, gaining weight and becoming an alcoholic — though he eventually runs into his former commanding officer, who helps him get a job. “And you asshole, you’re lucky to be here!” the officer tells him in a highly-motivating speech, according to a partially-leaked script.

                      After meeting up with his old friend “Iceman” on a layover in San Francisco, both former Top Gun competitors take off their shirts for a game of volleyball while scaring away the local children due to their beer bellies and use of profanity.

                      Then, sources say, a mysterious official from the US Navy shows up, telling both that they are needed for a top secret mission to train the next generation of elite drone pilots. Now back in uniform as Navy O-5s, the pair of former fighter jockeys train America’s best video gamers while also enduring horrifying battles against the Defense Travel System and learning to insert animations and sounds into PowerPoint briefings for the admirals.

                      Later in the film, Maverick and Iceman both high-five as they say in unison, “I feel the need. The need, for speed!” prompting a Navy Substance Abuse and Rehabilitation Program counselor to confront them over what appears to be a plea for methamphetamines.

                      “Top Gun 2” is slated to begin filming in 2018, as long as Cruise doesn’t begin work on the 18th iteration of the Mission: Impossible series.



                      Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2017/05/to...#ixzz4oSOWay2j[/quote

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                      • Get your tickets now...
                        "This aggression will not stand, man!" Jeff Lebowski
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                        • A USN test pilot describes his perceived sensations of EMALS and AAG.
                          http://www.navytimes.com/news/2017/0...st-flight-ops/

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                          • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                            A USN test pilot describes his perceived sensations of EMALS and AAG.
                            Maybe he should be giving his assessment of this:

                            No urinals on the new Navy aircraft carrier
                            http://www.navytimes.com/news/your-n...20Bird%20Brief

                            I'm S-O-O glad I'm no longer part of this candy-ass military.

                            And to add insult to injury - the powers that be did this AFTER the professionals told them it was a sanitary disaster waiting to happen. All in the name of equality. Bull shit!

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                            • First CVN 77 went to waterless urinals then CVN 78 went to zero urinals. So in summary things have been going down hill after CVN 76 Ronald Reagan.

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                              • Originally posted by surfgun View Post
                                First CVN 77 went to waterless urinals then CVN 78 went to zero urinals. So in summary things have been going down hill after CVN 76 Ronald Reagan.
                                I wasn't aware if was THAT entrenched. But, once Pandora's Box has been opened...

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