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I'd be setting off some fireworks down here for the 4th today, the only downside is that its been so dry down here that's there's a "No Burn Order" up so it'd be bad to, but we may still do what's become a "tradition" for me, which is find a car model, cram it full of M80s and see how long it'll last.

And for those of you whom would like to see the initial action that started the whole novel, here it is. May 2007 Sea of Japan "Attention inbound bogey, bearing zero-two-zero, one hundred eight miles and closing, forty thousand," reported one of the controllers aboard the E-3C Sentry AWACs aircraft over the Sea of Japan. "Contact the bogey on GUARD and get his intentions and give him a turn to vector into Japanese airspace," the senior controller on the plane instructed calmly. This mission was like any other, a standard orbit over the Sea of Japan to monitor all the air traffic in the area. The strange contact raised the hairs on the senior controller’s neck. It had been a few years since any country had been bold enough to fly her aircraft near anything with the US military's herald on it. "Attention, unidentified aircraft bearing zero-two-zero, request you turn to heading zero-five-three and await instructions and vectors into Japanese airspace. I repeat turn to heading zero-five-three and await vectors. State your intentions," the controller said rapidly. The aircraft's symbology on the radar screen then changed from a simple blip to a bat-wing shape with a 27 in the center. "IFF idents bogey as a Su-27 Flanker." The Flanker continued to close with the Sentry and now the senior controller broadcasted the same statement, "Su-27 bearing zero-two-zero, state your intentions. All right, crew, he's a bandit; get me some fighter coverage here now. Pilot, get us out of here! We have a single hostile aircraft inbound." "Radar offline, rotodome secure, power coming up to full, turning zero-niner-zero," the copilot said in rapid-fire succession. She reacted quickly by pushing the throttles to their stops while the pilot slowly wheeled the lumbering aircraft over into a hard but steady left turn. With the radar now deactivated, only the passive Radar Warning Receiver (RWR) tracked the Flanker's progress towards the E-3. "Dumping, all crews secure your stations," the senior controller warned the entire crew and sent all the radar, sensor, and flight information out over a secret satellite data link. "Flanker still closing, range now seventy-five miles," the controller reported. "Holy $h!, we're being painted! I repeat we are now being targeted by the inbound fighter." "Mayday, mayday, this is White Star one-four, we are engaged defensive with a single Su-27, request immediate fighter support," the pilot radioed over the GUARD frequency. "One-four, we copy. Bull Rider two flight of four, ETA one-one minutes," the lead pilot in the nearest fighter patrol called as he pulled his F-22 Raptor towards the distressed AWACs. The mayday call was the last any heard from the E-3 crew. Seconds after the Sentry announced its status the Su-27 launched two missiles at the huge radar plane. In response, the pilots tried to break away from the missiles but it was in vain. Moments later, the area the E-3 occupied was enveloped in twin twenty-kiloton nuclear blasts.

Easy, I had a sheet that had every character's name, country of origin, rank, and aircraft flown, and I'd slowly work my way through them all until everyone had said a piece here and there...basically I relegated some of them to supporting roles and took away their names so instead of naming every member of a ground crew, I just refer to them by rank. aaaaantione, to answer your question. All of the US aircraft were flying in a tight formation with one another, with the MV-22B Osprey in the lead, the three B-1C Lancer bombers a close second and the fighters grouped with each bomber. There was a North Korean MiG-27 (Russian built, circa 1973-ish, fighter-bomber) patrolling in the area. In most military aircraft, especially combat-coded aircraft (fighters, bombers, tankers, etc) they have what's called a Radar Warning Reciever, or RWR when a threat is detected on that reciever it shows up as a little depiction, like a fighter shows up as a bat-wing symbol with a number in it, such as a MiG-27 would show up on a RWR as a bat-wing with a "27" in it....I hope that helps

thanks blu....great way to think that one out, I didn't mean it literally

thrifty

that wasn't a wise idea BV, you might have just ruffled some feathers....

that would be funny if the come up with a movie called "Trucks" that would have Mater in it. I took my parents to the movie a little while back and they laughed all the way through it just like we all did when it came out.

rolling through the hills on some country back road with the windows down, sunroof open, tunes blaring with a load of people in the Impala.

right now I'm revising the 4th chapter, I'd written about six at the time when I decided to make it a little more gritty and realistic, so i'm taking the basic same chapters and adding a little more realism and grit to them. I'm shooting for about 10-14 chapters max for this one. Then I may start on the second (the books are going to be more or less part of a series) then I'll hopefully be able to get in touch with a publisher.

And now no one will post here.....man seems like it was acutally going to be more than a page long set of posts and thread here....and it just dies....

I really like the MAXX SS, it looks great, especially in that color.

Exactly hawk...like the warnings on claymores.....in bright yellow letters, "this side towards enemy"

Donut!

Leasing isn't such a bad idea since if you don't have the best credit in the world, then you can build it up some by leasing for 3-4 years and then going for something else, either another lease if you like going with the newest of the new, or possibly just buying out your existing vehicle if you like it enough.

I was thinking about a system to combat this....wuire up an automotive battery to a capacitor, run high voltage current to the skin of your car....anytime someone touches it while the system is armed.....they get the $h! shocked out of them.

Happy Birthday loki!

you know, I saw this one last night, wasn't going to post, then I read all of this and I couldn't help but laughing at it all.....and at least average isn't as bad as wee....

That sounds about like the instructions on my cousin's new MAXX....hit lock (kinda wish you could skip this step) then press'n hold start.

There are actually quite a few CTS's roaming around down here, no sport versions, only one CTS-V that I've seen so far, but they all look good, maybe I'll convince the wife to move up to a CTS once the lease on the Cobalt is up.

You have got to be kidding me....that's, thats, that's just STUPID!

Creme

Yeah, it intially started out with about 45 characters, all of different nationalities and everything like that and I decided that was too broad. Then I revised it and cut down to just two countries contributing characters, and found it still too big, and here it is now about six revisions later with a good character mix and much more realistic.

I'm thinking of getting a new set of tires for my truck since they're starting to get a little dry-rotted, any suggestions, they're the stock 225-65R15 tires (at least I think they're 225s...I may be wrong).

I still like the state law in Alabama that allows you to drive the wrong way down a one-way street with a lit lantern attached to your vehicle. I've done it once, didn't get in trouble, freaked a few people out though.

head shrinker!