OT: Air Force to wear Sweet New F-35A Helmets?
So the Air Force Falcons may be rolling with their stylin' new headgear on Saturday. Here are a couple of quick primers so you'll know the back stories:
So what's the big deal about an F-35A helmet, you ask? Well, at $400k a pop, quite a lot it appears:
September 12th, 2017 at 2:16 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
We're talking the F-35 pilot helmets, not the football ones and no they don't prevent concussions. Think of it as essentially a football helmet with softer padding, and oxygen mask instead of a facemask and a bunch of technological doo-hickeys.
As a former C-130 pilot I have to say I find the integrated night vision option intriguing.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 5:24 PM ^
They're basically the easiest way to access all the crap you need when flying an unpressurized plane above 12,000 ft. It's also easier to hang NVG's off of them.
Plus if getting your head bounced off of the seat while doing something to create a G-force, they're handy(happened flying as a Pilot Training Instructor, not in a 130).
September 12th, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 6:37 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 3:27 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 3:45 PM ^
Got the sarcasm, but figured I'd talk to some of the technical bits, what else am I going to do on a Tuesday? Work?
September 12th, 2017 at 6:20 PM ^
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September 12th, 2017 at 5:14 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 5:20 PM ^
MC-130H's out of Kadena
Tweet FAIP at Vance to start.
Separated in '08 and started with Ross in '09.
Loved visiting Yokota for Typhoon evacs.
Nice to know there's another driver of the four fans of freedom around here.
September 12th, 2017 at 5:45 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 7:04 PM ^
Ha! We had FAR different C-130 experiences. Slick guys were cool, but AFSOC sucked Donkey ass and the Talon II's were/are uniformly hangar queens, I had much more fun as a FAIP.
E-mail inbound.
September 12th, 2017 at 10:08 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 9:08 PM ^
thats the closest I have come to being a pilot.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:39 PM ^
Speaking of which...anyone watch the Vikings/Saints last night and see that hit on Stefon Diggs?
Why in the HELL do we throw college players out of the game for targeting, but in the NFL it's just a flag?
I feel like it should be the other way around. (Actually I think unless you are deemed 100% intending to hurt someone it should be a personal foul and 2 personal fouls and you're done). And yes, I think there's a different between being reckless (Devin Bush) and going Vontaze Burfict on someone trying to end their life.
September 12th, 2017 at 6:41 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 2:20 PM ^
Helmet comes with a visor instead of a pair of aviators? Do not want.
September 12th, 2017 at 3:15 PM ^
Visors look FAR cooler.
September 12th, 2017 at 5:16 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 5:21 PM ^
Nice deep voice, sound unflappable and you're there.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:20 PM ^
Is there a really cool flyover on Saturday?
September 12th, 2017 at 2:21 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 3:09 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 2:23 PM ^
I love flyovers...and the wings on Michigan's helmets.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:28 PM ^
they have fun trying to come into the NO FLY ZONE!!!
Wait? That isn't us? That was actually a stupid name given to some other team's secondary like five years ago?
Never mind then.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
$400,000 per helmet, approximately 3 helmets per F-35A, approximately 3,100 F-35As. That's $3.72 billion. For helmets.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:38 PM ^
Don't think we have anywhere near that many F-35As right now. About 120 in service.
Still a lot of money though, for something we hope never gets used as intended.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:41 PM ^
The United States plans to buy 2,663 aircraft. Its variants are to provide the bulk of the crewed tactical airpower of the U.S. Air Force, Navy and the Marine Corps over the coming decades. Deliveries of the F-35 for the U.S. military are scheduled until 2037.
From wikipedia, large number but spread out over 30 years.
September 12th, 2017 at 6:19 PM ^
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September 12th, 2017 at 3:10 PM ^
hey a billion here and a billion there, eventually you're talking real money...
September 12th, 2017 at 3:28 PM ^
Killin people is expensive yo. Those Toyota Hiluxes aren't gonna blow themselves up (well... usually...)
September 12th, 2017 at 11:02 PM ^
September 13th, 2017 at 12:52 AM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 2:29 PM ^
so if it rains they'll have to forfeit.
September 12th, 2017 at 4:18 PM ^
Or if it's too hot
or too dusty
or the pro sup is being a dick
September 12th, 2017 at 5:19 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 9:01 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 2:32 PM ^
Oh, we're on to you.
Stop making us feel bad about wanting to beat you Air Force!
Why can't you just be Ole Miss or Baylor or some hate-worthy OOC opponent like that?
September 12th, 2017 at 2:46 PM ^
and I hate the Dallas Cowboys. Let kick some Air Force ass.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:36 PM ^
Michigan gets some of these cool, night vision helmets. Then we play all our home games at night.
And we never turn on the lights in the Big House!
Homefield advantage.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:45 PM ^
September 12th, 2017 at 2:53 PM ^
It's no "I'm All Right," but still pretty good. (And both are better than "Footloose.")
September 12th, 2017 at 3:29 PM ^
Song for a Navy movie.
September 12th, 2017 at 2:42 PM ^
Let's Play some Solid Football
Go Blue
September 12th, 2017 at 3:00 PM ^
If they wore the new F-117 Nighthawk helmets, then we couldn't see their heads, and there would be a shit-ton of unintentional targeting, and all our players would get ejected in the first half, and they'd win by DQ.