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Hello all you wandering people and friends who have stumbled upon my channel. As you may or may not have seen, I have changed the name of my DA page. Additionally, I have changed my Youtube handle, Twitter, and instagram to all resemble AviatorAndy (no spaces). I have decided to make this change to allow for a better direction I want my content and name to travel. I still am, and most likely will, be a Brony for life, but I want to allow my name and content to reflect not only my aviation photography and videos, but to capture my cosplay and other photography without singling a certain genre, if that makes sense.
Basically, I want to include all my interests into one name. And I felt like the "Brony" Part singled only a certain group of people. In addition, I know I won't be a Boom Operator forever, but I plan to continue my aviation career as long as I possibly can, ergo where the new name comes from.
Still expect the same content (aviation, cosplay, pony, ect.) just under new names
If you haven't yet, follow on twitter and instagram; AviatorAndy, and subscribe on Youtube!
Thanks for following me on DA, you are cleared off at the bottom of the block!
Basically, I want to include all my interests into one name. And I felt like the "Brony" Part singled only a certain group of people. In addition, I know I won't be a Boom Operator forever, but I plan to continue my aviation career as long as I possibly can, ergo where the new name comes from.
Still expect the same content (aviation, cosplay, pony, ect.) just under new names
If you haven't yet, follow on twitter and instagram; AviatorAndy, and subscribe on Youtube!
Thanks for following me on DA, you are cleared off at the bottom of the block!
Finished Instructor School/ The next 6 months
Well, I did it.
One of the most challenging experiences I've been through, today I completed my instructor school and became an Instructor Boom Operator. I'm excited to finally be finished, and to get out of Altus. For those that don't know where that is, it's in the middle of nowhere 15 miles North of the Texas border in Southwest Oklahoma.
That being said, I am finally able to head back home after a little over a month in school. Of course I'm going to stop by my folks place on the Florida coast and enjoy the 4th of July weekend.
As for the next 6 months, I'm going to be kept busy just the same as the last 6 months.
Unfortunately, I
Remembering Shell 77
On this day in 2013, three years ago, we lost a KC-135R over Kyrgyzstan as it departed Manas AB on a combat sortie. Three lives were lost, and the tanker community as a whole took a huge hit.
No one had seen the loss of a KC-135 since 1999, when 4 were killed on approach to Geilenkirchen, Germany.
Approx. 8 minutes after departure from Manas, the rudder power on tail 63-8877 failed and the airplane began what is known as a dutch roll condition. The crew tried to correct with additional rudder power which led to the condition becoming worse until the tail portion of the aircraft physically separated from the rest of the aircraft.
We as a
Chance for the Ride of a Lifetime
It has become known to myself that the Commemorative Air Force will be visiting my airport soon with 5 or 6 of their warbirds including a P-51 Mustang, T-6 Texan, Boeing Stearman, C-45 Expeditor, and FiFi. Fifi, if you don't know, is currently the only operational flying B-29 Superfortress in the world. Produced from 1943 to 1946, this bomber saw action in WWII and Korea and dropped the two Atomic Bombs that ended the Pacific War. I am excited to see these planes as warbirds as increasingly hard to come by.
These aircraft are also availible to ride in.
I am working on an opportunity to get on board FiFi for a ride around my city. I beli
Operation Red Flag 16-2 Debrief
Two weeks later, I am finally home from Las Vegas after attending Red Flag at Nellis AFB, Nevada. I just wanted to share some brief thoughts on how things went.
This was my first time attending a training exercise this large in scale, and my God was it huge. I've never seen so many fighters and other aircraft in one location before. The air was constantly filled with the roar of jet engines; the "sound of freedom" as I like to say.
There were a ton of squadrons there, mostly F-16s and F-15s and a few A-10s, however the F-22s and F-35s that are at Nellis also took to the skies. We had a few AWACS aircraft from Oklahoma, B-52s from Barksd
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Are you planning on becoming a tanker pilot or fighter pilot by any chance? 