Steeljaw Scribe

The term tipping point describes a point at which a slow gradual change becomes irreversible and then proceeds with gathering pace. It is derived from the metaphor of a rigid solid object being tilted to a point where it begins to topple.
Couple of observations from the region…
Iran to launch 1st domestic satellite soon - Ahmadinejad
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Been a rough few for our AF comrades in arms and while we well remember all the grief we received when the tables were turned back in ‘92-93 we note with interest the items below passed our way earlier today.  Couple of bullets caught our eye - things like:

“…build a balanced force for the future [...]

Not quite a shutdown, but definitely light posting for a few.  Why?  Just check the most recent headlines (and a few still to be written).  Will endeavor to get Flightdeck Fridays up and catch up on the weekend - if not otherwise occupited…
- SJS
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(ed.  OK, so it’s not Friday - we were otherwise engaged this weekend and the coming week looks like it is going to be fairly busy - so consider this either a delayed post from Friday past or a downpaymet on the coming Friday… - SJS)

“Vergeltungswaffe” - literally translated it means “compensation weapon” and in [...]

It began with a letter, you know - the old fashioned kind, paper and pen, that opened with “You don’t know me but we have a mutual friend…”

From there it grew - a whirlwind relationship with precious moments snatched between squadron dets, workups and deployments.  We found the end of one path and the start [...]

Just a few noteworthy quote:

- I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.
- It is not because [...]

NSS, NDS, NOC, NMS, MS - there is a veritable alpha-bit soup of documents out there and trying to make heads or tails of them individually or their relationship to one another.  In trying to make sense of this morass, some few years ago we carved out substantive portions of our day to develop a [...]

OK, so a bit of a cop out but it serves in a pinch, especially after this kind of week…Up first, Phoreign Phantoms doing their thing to a bit of Wagner.  Some vintage footage, and for those of us who spent a wee bit of time in Kef working with our RAF counterparts across the [...]