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12/22/2008 12:28:49 PM EDT
Hey guys, just joined a bit go and friend said there was a UAV thread going on in the Aviaton forum.  No luck finding it, was he on drugs?
12/22/2008 5:03:43 PM EDT
[#1]
Didn't find any current UAV threads in here either.

The best UAV thread is Darkstar117's in GD.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=687658

I guessing from your board name that you're and Eagle driver stuck with flying Reapers.  That has got to suck!

2A373
Eagle Keeper



12/22/2008 7:52:06 PM EDT
[#2]
Quoted:
Didn't find any current UAV threads in here either.

The best UAV thread is Darkstar117's in GD.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=687658

I guessing from your board name that you're and Eagle driver stuck with flying Reapers.  That has got to suck!

2A373
Eagle Keeper




Yes, thats the one i was thinking of.  And yes it sucks a bit.  But the mission is pretty cool and we do some interesting things I never did in the Strike Eagle.  All in all tho, I'd rather be back in a real cockpit.  Unfortunately this is the wave of the future.
12/23/2008 8:03:50 AM EDT
[#3]
When did you go thru training at SJ.

I was in the 333rd from 95 - 00.
12/23/2008 9:42:00 PM EDT
[#4]
Quoted:
When did you go thru training at SJ.

I was in the 333rd from 95 - 00.


I didn't.  I went through the FTU at Luke (Im dating myself) in 93-93.  I was at SJ in the Rockets x2 96-99 and again 2003-2005.  Briefly flew with the 333rd when I went through a TX2 course in 03 to get re-qualed in the jet.
12/31/2008 1:01:34 PM EDT
[#5]
The company I work for makes the Shadow.  I got to work a little bit with the crew trainer and saw some of the capabilities.  It doesn't carry weapons, but it's a pretty cool system.

We also did the Pioneer, which from what I've heard will be replaced by the Shadow.

I heard a rumor that the JSF has a provision designed into it for the aircraft to later be converted to a UCAV.  I don't know if that's true.
12/31/2008 11:26:25 PM EDT
[#6]
I'd love to move to some unit support UAV operations, but the Nav keeps their program pretty strictly an AC aviator-thing.  I really need to see if there are billets in my Reserve career field out at Indian Springs where I could support USAF ops.
1/2/2009 4:34:31 AM EDT
[#7]
Quoted:
 I really need to see if there are billets in my Reserve career field out at Indian Springs where I could support USAF ops.


It's a nice place if you like the color brown.