We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2010 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html Sat, 24 Mar 2012 15:31:53 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2012 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification In an email, I busted on him: Oh, we have time to surf the 'net for pics and stuff, and to engage in serial emails... but I can't get a post out of the slacker, noooo.... That drew him out of babe-ogling defilade: Hey, we just stuck up a new sat-receiver -- plus I've been busy snapping oddball boom-tubes to edify the readers. Plus teaching Iraqi stoon't pilots esoteric aeronautica. Plus putting a class together to teach *all* the pilots in the IqAF instrument flight skills so there's no repetition of that Mi-17 crunch (the pilots didn't want to take... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:29:41 -0600 That's not a nose wheel cover, that's the fairing housing the teeny-weeny GAU-3B -- a miniminiminigun. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html#comment-70902 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html#comment-70902 Wed, 19 Mar 2008 01:37:00 -0600 You need to remove the nose wheel cover, it is not serving any purpose without the main wheel covers in place. You are losing all your stealth, not to mention air speed in the FB-172. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html#comment-70901 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html#comment-70901 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:35:23 -0600 Ah...the young and the crazy meets the old and the crazy. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html#comment-70888 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html#comment-70888 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 10:53:51 -0600 ...Bill and those-like-Bill didn't make the editorial cut... Durn Youth Culture. BTW, the Iraqis shown in the pix are neither student pilots nor pilot students, as the more perceptive among you have already guessed -- having pix of the kids appear online would be tantamount to handing them *and* their families to the local dirtbags.]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html#comment-70885 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2008/03/twitchy_bill_ha.html#comment-70885 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 09:22:41 -0600