The $136.3 Million dollar Whoops

Airman Forgets to Lower Wheels, Crashes $136 Million U.K. Fighter Jet

A Royal Air Force top gun crash-landed a new $136.3 million Typhoon fighter — apparently after forgetting to put the wheels down during a training exercise in California.

The state-of-the-art jet was badly damaged as it skidded along a runway on its belly at 130 mph.

"Everything points to the pilot forgetting to lower the wheels, which does happen from time to time," an RAF insider said.

Another possible cause of the accident is landing gear failure — but none of the other 48 Typhoons in service has been grounded with such a problem.

The top gun and his co-pilot from 17 Squadron climbed unhurt from the 1,500-mph jet. They were taking part in a major war games exercise at China Lake air base in California where aircraft can train with live weapons because of the remote location.

The mangled jet will be brought back to Britain to see if it can be repaired.

From FoxNews.com

They fail to mention however that it also did a good amount of damage to the runway here.

Stuff!!!

I got all my stuff today and the place is a mess, but its way better than it coming on the 21st like its was supposed to.

New Place

Here are some pics of my new place.
Garage:

Living Room:
Kitchen:
One of the Bedrooms (the other is the same):

Spoiled

I finally got the new spoiler I bought mounted on the Trans Am, I painted it with a gun metal colored wheel paint and also did the hood vents - I'll post some pictures once I clean it. I also did some other tune up things to it before the move.
Now I just need to do the spark plugs (Pass. side is hard to get to around emissions stuff, as in not getting done before the move), and the fuel filter which is under the car somewhere (I have no jack or ramps).

Wanted!

So for some reason, maybe due to my roommates being action figure collectors, I have started to collect the new McFarlane Halo 3 figures. Thinking that these would not be limited production I didn't buy up all the different variations right away, so I am missing some of them. In case anyone comes across them here is what I am missing:
1: Grunt [Green]
2: Grunt [Orange]

Jeepin

So I have gone out 4-wheeling the last few weekends with the local Jeep club, and also one of our friends. I went on the ATV when I was with the Jeep club and in the truck.
It was good fun...the roof was damaged (on the one below) and the hood was also, but we just rolled it back over and kept on going.

What goes up...

Today we went for a drive to the Rio Puerco riding area outside of Rio Rancho to go exploring. The area is a lot of washes, large drop offs, and rocks for the Jeeps to climb. Here we were about to start back from the end of our drive. This is heading west out of Rio Rancho until you hit the edge of the Laguna Indian Reservation. We are going to take the ATV out next week with a GPS and hope to explore a much larger area.