Guess it's good he gets his commissions done between flights!

Hopefully Sgt. Jarom isn't into distracted flying when reading the mail up there...

Well Iam enjoying the comic incomplete pages and all

is it just me, or are the island and plain just cut outs moved around the page?
loving the series none the less
--Rick

I hope everyone will get the hint with them...

That he's drifting off-course?

Yay, You get the classic NoPrize!!

Even worse, he's going to have to foot the bill for 350+ issues of Funny Furry if he ever gets back!

"Incomplete?" I didn't know you were planning to publish this! If it's an entertainment for your own pleasure and dribbled out to us no-lifers, you probably needn't worry.

That irascible, mustachioed Mouse looks vaguely familiar, for some reason.

Publishing it might be an option at some time, but the exercise is a matter of getting back into a production groove, so more or less finished work is important.

Yup... flying in circles. And did you google 'furry furry' to make sure it was fictional?

The text being a little cut-off at the bottom of the page, I'm assuming his reply to his nephew getting his commission was "Good for him!"

The key to good photoreconnaissance is not only flying a prescribed course at a given altitude, but also that the photos overlap so a 3-D effect results to aid in determining the size of items of interest.

Should have made it clearer, He's flying up to Makesh and from there do the photo work.

And a general explaination. The Flt Sgt. and his plane is something of an orphan, in that his wartime unit has been dissolved, but he is still being tasked for missions. But he doesn't have his own unit level support, meaning routine servicing isn't getting done. He is also largely out of the local chain of command. Overall, he costs the base in resources but isn't on the allotment, so is considered something of a parasite.

He's getting blown a bit to the side there....

Yep. Like our own aviation/meteorology history, they didn't yet know about the full effects of the "jet stream" and how strong it could get. Not that the knowledge would have helped, as he didn't bother to check with weather before take off either.

So lax. I'm getting to know several pilots due to some projects I am involved with and they tend to be very meticulous about preparations. now that could be that they are civil pilots and scared of lawsuits, but they are a careful bunch.

Actually, most pilots, most of the time are really good about prep. Military pilots in war time, if they trust they support crews, sometimes became a bit complacent, with variations of "kick the tires and light the fires and last one off is a sissy", along with the notion of a mechanical abort could be construed as more a loss of combat nerves than real concern about the machine's status. Our Flt. Sgt. has, among other things, fallen into the complacency of familiarity. The plane has always worked before, even in iffy circumstance, so why won't it work again on a cake walk. An attitude reenforced by the seemingly bullet-proof nature of more reliable X-generation turbines versus finicky piston types or iffy first generation turbines. And he is in a generally really bad mood.

Blowing off course and failed to file a flight plan... yeah this is going to end well.

...that plane doesn't look like it's following a straight line at all...

No flight plan, and going off with no wingman... If he somehow makes back, he's done for as a pilot. Oh yeah, this is going to end up as a classic example of a massive screw up.

What would you need a wingman for? Not a fighter looking for a fight.

True. But bad habits die hard. Besides, no one said that the area was completely safe.

I'm in an over-reacting cranky mood this morning, but even knowing that, I'm going to go off on a rant- though not nessisarily directed at you-
Why do so many people double down on their errors or some such instead of acknowledging the mistake? Or not simply dropping it? Actually, I know the answer- its just frustrating to see so often. (and recon flew solo even in wartime, again, wingmen were for fighters looking for a fight.)