Steeljaw Scribe

Following up from our earlier post   , we now have a shot (still unofficial) of the Raptor and its prey:

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Eagle1’s Sunday Ship History narrative   this week covers the marriage of ships and radar, opening with a cautionary tale.
Mike returns from a prolonged EMCON A period (courtesy Blogger) with a fine post commenting on the Japanese Coast Guard   via an article in International Security, and along the way laments the lack of direction his [...]

The keel of the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, the USS Enterprise (CVAN 65) was laid at Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company.

Enterprise under construction in slipway #11

Big E in late 1960 (USS Robert E. Lee in foreground, outbound for sea trials)

Underway, October 1962 with CVW-6 embarked for the Cuban Missile Crisis (hmm, keel [...]

Minimal posting (continuing) for a while as real world events intrude and demand their pound or so of virtual and real flesh… - SJS

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On February 4, 2003 President George W. Bush delivered the following memorial speech at the Memorial Service in honor of the STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia Crew–David M. Brown, Rick D. Husband, Laurel B. Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, William C. McCool and Ilan Ramon. 

The service was held at National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s [...]

trans·for·ma·tion (trāns’fər-mā’shən): the act of changing in form or shape or appearance.

1928.  Boeing is rolling the dice and has invested its own money in developing two prototype aircraft it hopes to demonstrate to the Navy and later the Army as replacements for the F3B, currently serving with the Navy, and PW-9, serving with the Army.  [...]