Steeljaw Scribe

Notes and commentary on things present, reflections on a career in naval aviation and serendipitous items as strike me at the moment…

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Power Point Riposte (updated)

July 27th, 2007 1 Comment

Some folks   think that by enabling that most noxious of programs spawned from the den of inequity otherwise known as Redmond, WA to be displayed via the bolgsphere is…progress?  Forsooth!  Cease  and desist!  Do ye know not what evil thou hast loosed upon this goode land?  Evidently this most humble of scribes and servants [...]

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Flightdeck Friday - Fleet Air Arm Edition: “Hurricats”

July 27th, 2007 2 Comments

 
Desperate times call for desperate measures… 
In 1940 Britain was in a desperate fight for survival.  Isolated from the Continent, Britain was relying on a lifeline extended from the States via merchant convoys.  Plying the North Atlantic, out of range of land-based air cover, the convoys were subject to attack from German submarines, operating singly [...]

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