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Short definition. Doing a takeoff and landing as quickly as possible and as short as possible.

A lot tbh. I'm almost done with school, and I've been flying like crazy. Have my private pilot license and instrument rating, almost done with my commercial rating. Should be graduating with both my aviation and music degrees this summer. I've just been too busy to keep up with CZcams videos. That's why I've been streaming lately instead. But I do have another video in the works.

@@Ultimate_Aviator well I am really glad everything is going well for you. I can close the book on this channel knowing you’re well. Best of luck to you.

@@jochenheiden I appreciate it! Although I'm definitely not done making videos. I'm just on a hiatus because of life lmao. It's much easier to live stream than to edit videos. But as my aviation adventures continue, I definitely plan on uploading more videos!

These are pests: ants. I’m not losing sleep over killing a bunch of them. 😅

Since it has been like 5 years, I will take whatever you are willing to offer 😅

@@Ultimate_Aviator How about$30? I don't know if that's enough but I'm on SSI so let me know.

@@happythepitbull7363 that’s fine with me. I appreciate the interest! I’ll have to check back at home to see if we still have the casting. We should, but it’s been a few years. I’ll find a way to send you some pictures of its current condition to see if you still want it.

Yes I would like to see the current condition of it it's pretty neat hobby your enterprising young man

@@happythepitbull7363 perfect. What would be the best way to send you those pictures?

Thank you! Yeah it was a lot of hard work but it came out nicely.

So a friend of ours was a C-17 pilot in the Air Force reserves, and he was retiring that year. As a farewell to him, this was his last flight and they let us go for a ride!

Yes landing into Balad was crazy especially if you never did it before or nobody warned you about it. I had no heads up and was gripping my seat wondering why the pilot was doing top gun moves in a C-17.

Cringe bro

@@zacharyfloyd3697 The term "cringe" is an idiot-identifier.

You’re a true idiot. Do you know what kind of skill and balls it takes to pull off a tactical landing in a C-17 ? Obviously not or you wouldn’t have made this comment.

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Webb Culpepper Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

Yeah it was very frustrating.

Yes that is true. And not having enough aluminum made the casting very fragile in some places.

Perhaps you haven’t been out in the desert sticks very much. There are plenty of ant hills out there. This was just one, so I’m sure that other animals were just fine. It’s not like doing this is all of a sudden going to cause a mass extinction. Also, this immediately vaporized the ants, so there was no suffering. This is much more humane than the pest control you probably use at your home, and definitely much more humane than the ant poison many people use at their houses to get rid of them. So please find something else to complain about that actually matters. 🙂

@@Ultimate_Aviator all life is precious, I use repellents, not insecticides, and I have fire ants. You destroy life, and call it art.

@@leslieclark6237 I totally understand where you are coming from. I don't agree with it, but respect your opinion. Now allow me to offer one point of clarification. I personally do not call burning ants an art. That's not the reason that we did this, nor did we take pleasure in killing the ants. That was not our main goal. What we call art is what the ants do themselves. The way that they dig their homes underground through the tunnel systems is what I see as the art, and quite a fascinating part of nature. The main reason that we did this was for modeling the art, and casting of the underground system. That's what we took pleasure in. Even though it may have sounded like we enjoyed watching the ants burn up, that wasn't what we were pleasuring in. I hope that clears some things up!

@@Ultimate_Aviator OIC, why don't you watch QUEEN OF TREES, it's on CZcams. There are other ways to appreciate these systems, rather than destroy them to look at the interior of their homes. 😞

@@Ultimate_Aviator so killing the ants and destroying their home is just a side effect of your goal?

LOL

Last time I flew on a C-17 we had a 15 hour flight and right when the wheels left the ground I hear the load master say "btw the shitter is broken" 😂 way less bumpy assault landing than a C-130 though.

Yes it would have been a much better result if we had more aluminum. But with the crucible that we had, this was the most we could do.

Thanks I appreciate it! Yes I hope the FAA will eventually approve me, they’re just really slow with everything. Unfortunately, I don’t remember you from realflight, but I’m sure that we flew lots! I miss those days so much, it was so much fun to fly on that.

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@@Ultimate_Aviator Yee ha! I'm in Phx.

Nice! I actually grew up in Mesa so I was probably close by!

I understand where you are coming from, but you seem to be forgetting the fact that these animals are pests, along with many others. I'm sure that you have pest control come to your house to prevent creatures like these from being around, and to exterminate them if found. So by your own logic, you have no right to do that.

Human,God doesnt really care about the ants as much as us,Satan doesnt care about ants so why should we care about ants? Plus there's trillions more of em to view. Ants dont have a life,they just work for a queen and dig and that's basically it.

I think I remember it being crazy cold in there, like it was hard to even enjoy the ride 😂

Because you flying at 45000 ft off the ground

You do make a fair point. But, I don't think we were flying that high, and not to mention that they should have some sort of heating in there...

@@bnsfrailfanr24csx16 typically, the Globemasters cruise altitude is 28,000ft. However, on lighter loads, maybe like this experience, they tend to cruise higher at around 32000ft give or take

That’s because the crew didn’t turn floor heat on 😆 when I went to Poland on a c17 we flew over the North Pole and I fell asleep on the floor and I woke up to the floor frosted over. Coming back they turned floor heat on and we all were sitting in our sand Ts

Yeah you make a good point. 😂 Thankfully these ants didn’t bite, so we were all good.

Yes I definitely agree. More aluminum would have been nice. Unfortunately, we used as much as we could. Our crucible was not that big, and we fit as much aluminum in it as we could. That’s why we weren’t able to cast the whole hole. And you could even see in the casting how there was a very thin part, meaning that the liquid was still flowing down and not stopping up. So you are definitely right. If we continue to do this in the future, we will look into getting a bigger crucible so that we can use more aluminum and cast the entire network.

While there is some truth to that, you have to keep in mind that this is right in the middle of the desert, where there is little moisture at all. I remember the ground already being pretty dry, so most of that was indeed and vapor. You could smell it too, so that also showed that it wasn't water vapor.

Thanks! I’m glad you like it! Really, any ants work. If you need help making your foundry, just let me know and I can refer you to the source that I used.