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The story on the Ospreys is that they are doing "urban" training. Essentially getting used to flying around different urban areas. I heard they were from Camp Pendleton (down the coast near San Diego). They have been flying around the LA area for the last week or so.

Pt Mugu is just down the road and gets a fair amount of interesting aircraft. They do electronic warfare testing there, so they tend you use various aircraft as "targets". I have seen a Mirage (probably a Kfir actually) flying around and a Hawker Hunter (which recently crashed near the airbase). Just saw a Cobra today (probably part of the Osprey group).

I suspect on Osprey has about the largest radar return signature EVER!

aircooled wrote: I suspect on Osprey has about the largest radar return signature EVER!

…I didn’t consider that until now.

If one was specifically tasked with created the most potent radar signal reflector possible that was capable of being transported at several hundred miles per hour, there’d be several concept iterations followed by some feasibility studies and the like and ultimately resulting in…wait for it…the V-22.

How else could you present such a large profile without displacing a prohibitive amount of air but to have some sort of rotating screw? It’s actually brilliant if your goal is to be as wildly conspicuous as possible.

Also, radar system down, no problem…even with the shrilling noise of my leaf blower, I had plenty of advanced warning that something interesting was approaching.

You have to wonder if the wildly over the top return of an Osprey would have the same effect that chaff was originally designed for, overwhelm the search radar and obscure anything else.

A squadron of Osprey probably look like the Hindenburg, the USS Nimitz and the Chrysler building are flying at you!

In reply to RX Reven':

I wonder if the crew chief on that bird was looking out side and saw you. And now he is telling his friends about the weird guy on a hill playing his leaf blower like an air guitar

aircooled wrote: The story on the Ospreys is that they are doing "urban" training.

The military has been practicing taking over our cities for a few years now. Sadly, no one seems to care.

Our cities?

Jeebus, some people are dumb.

jsquared wrote: *Our* cities? Jeebus, some people are dumb.

I’m going to go way out on a limb here and suggest there might have been an ever so slightly less contentious way for you to have gotten your point across.

Besides, a superior example of dumb would be our military NOT having any contingencies for a scenario where they have to direct their resources domestically.

Think about it, we’re never further than one pissed off Canadian away from disaster.

Joking aside, I’d be amazed if the military hasn’t formed and is continually updating highly sophisticated dooms-day, zombie apocalyptic scenarios.

Come on, it’d nothing short of dereliction of duty if they haven’t.

Training for a large urban area is certainly not a ridiculous scenario. It IS a hard thing to simulate on an army base though. Perhaps the armed forces are worrying about an upcoming scenario involving large urban areas, but realistically, they should be prepared to fight anywhere, that is how you avoid being caught off guard. (e.g. I would fully expect we are prepared to fight in the arctic)

I would also like to point out that the thread about the Civic got locked and not this one!!!

Lancer007 wrote: In reply to RX Reven': I wonder if the crew chief on that bird was looking out side and saw you. And now he is telling his friends about the weird guy on a hill playing his leaf blower like an air guitar

I’d do it in a dress if it kept the cool fly-bys coming but they were so close, they’d soon spot the Adams Apple and be all like, “oh man, that’s a dude, never mind”.

I used the E36 M3 tone because of that guy's conspiracy-theory outlook.

I, for one, welcome our Osprey overlords.

aircooled wrote: Training for a large urban area is certainly not a ridiculous scenario. It IS a hard thing to simulate on an army base though. Perhaps the armed forces are worrying about an upcoming scenario involving large urban areas, but realistically, they should be prepared to fight anywhere, that is how you avoid being caught off guard. (e.g. I would fully expect we are prepared to fight in the arctic) I would also like to point out that the thread about the Civic got locked and not this one!!!

so far I haven't seen any action that was far enough over the line to cause either deleted posts or locked thread …

looking at the history of any politically based threads here, I'm amazed … happily so … but amazed none-the-less

Swank Force One wrote: I, for one, welcome our Osprey overlords.

Better than Sea Stallion overloads, one of those pee'd on me (D model).

In reply to wbjones:

Well, one post was probably deserving of censorship, but its more fun to laugh them out of the thread than give them what they want.

And I am still keeping an eye on those crafty dolphins......I know they're up to something big

yamaha wrote: In reply to wbjones: Well, one post was probably deserving of censorship, but its more fun to laugh them out of the thread than give them what they want. And I am still keeping an eye on those crafty dolphins......I know they're up to something big

Stop berkeleying the dolphins.

Dolphins Rape People!

yamaha wrote: In reply to wbjones: Well, one post was probably deserving of censorship, but its more fun to laugh them out of the thread than give them what they want. And I am still keeping an eye on those crafty dolphins......I know they're up to something big

I had been watching prior to that … really started afterwards … so far I'm fine with how this one is going

And I am still keeping an eye on those crafty dolphins......I know they're up to something big

In reply to Wally: Did you have a traumatic experience at Sea World?

KyAllroad wrote: In reply to Wally: Did you have a traumatic experience at Sea World?

From Family Guy:

... and that, Chris, is why daddy can never go back to Sea World again. When you are older I'll tell ya what the blow hole is not for.

And officer Wilson is now out of a job and no income.

I feel sorry for him.

Strange.

At least he didn't use "you people"

T.J. wrote: Apparently, it is ok for you to say that 'some people' are dumb, but not ok for me to question whether you may be 'some people', so I cannot respond to your inferred insult.

Your response was wildly politically loaded. It was a good idea to delete it. I approve.

I was considering requesting a thread lock after seeing it.