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2026-07-10 -Land of the Free

Hegseth steps in to ‘fix' situation after Apache pilots suspended for ‘Salute from the Shores' flyover

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Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-10 15:57|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [2053 views ] Top

1 Hegs made an "On-The-Spot" correction, but perhaps an Article-32 investigation of the leadership is warranted.

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-10 16:27|| 2026-07-10 16:27|| Front Page Top

2 This got more just action than when that DEI chopper pilot flew into a commercial airliner approaching Wash. National.

Posted by DooDahMan 2026-07-10 16:58|| 2026-07-10 16:58|| Front Page Top

3 @1 While I am not criticizing the pilots, I'm fairly certain that they broke one or more flight regulations during the flyover. If there had been a crash due to a violation of flight regulations, the CO career would have almost certainly ended.

Posted by Chantry 2026-07-10 17:39|| 2026-07-10 17:39|| Front Page Top

4 ^hear, hear.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2026-07-10 17:41|| 2026-07-10 17:41|| Front Page Top

5 See https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/14/91.119

for the FAA regulations the pilots may or may not have broken

Posted by Chantry 2026-07-10 17:46|| 2026-07-10 17:46|| Front Page Top

6 Unrelated, but I just stumbled across this link:

https://duck.ai/

Posted by Besoeker 2026-07-10 17:49|| 2026-07-10 17:49|| Front Page Top

7 ^ Being suspicious of naked links on the interwebs, he decided to ask Google "What is duck.ai?".

AI Overview ___ Duck AI (found at Duck.ai) is a privacy-first AI chatbot platform developed by DuckDuckGo. It allows users to have anonymous conversations with multiple third-party language models (such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Llama) without needing to log in or create an account.

Interesting.

Back in the day, we wrote chatbots in LISP. Eliza being one of the most famous. Today's chatbots, being trained rather than coded, are much more convincing and capable of fooling humans.

As for low passes at air shows, I saw the Blue Angels once at the Cherry Festival in Traverse City. The finale was a burn across the bay at what looked to be full military. Low and directly over the crowd, it was awesome. Thinking about it still makes my nipples hard.

I realize there are insurance reasons for not doing such things in public places, but on the other hand, flying low and not crashing is a skill the pilots need to have.

Posted by SteveS 2026-07-10 19:10|| 2026-07-10 19:10|| Front Page Top

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