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Fun With Snowglobes…and Tracking Santa

New! Improved! Singing snowglobe (Buck – this one’s for you…) (click on image to start snowglobe – flash needed) And don’t forget — NORAD tracks Santa again this year: —– —– Sphere: Related Content [...]

Flightdeck Friday

Flightdeck Friday – of Willie Fudds and Stoofs with Roofs

17 December 1956. The icy fog of the mid-December morning had long dissipated when an odd appearing aircraft took the active duty runway.  Twin-engines and a shoulder mounted wing marked its lineage to with that of the S-2 family, but a set of twn tails and more importantly, a huge, airfoil-shaped radome that stretched back [...] [...]

Nuclear weapons

Красная звезда вторник: Red Star Tuesday

Bulava SLBM Update:  According to press reports, the star-crossed Bulava SLBM will go into serial production “soon” – most probably after the next test flight.  There is one more test shot scheduled for sometime later this month (after 21 Dec) after which it is anticipated that the new SLBM will be declared operational.  Nine tests of the [...] [...]

history lessons

This Date in Naval Aviation History – 14 Dec 1961

14 Dec –Installation of the Pilot Landing Aid Television system (PLAT) was completed on Coral Sea, the first carrier to have the system installed for operational use. Designed to provide a video tape of every landing, the system was useful for instructional purposes and in the analysis of landing accidents making it a valuable tool [...] [...]

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Ode to Scotch Tape

It is time to dance, time to playful It is time to dance Rainbows are watching the mountains when you whip out the Scotch tape Baby, get me the Scotch tape It’s been a long, day So I need to put the pieces, together again   – Indi and Rustan Leino Oh yeah — scotch tape, [...] [...]

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If ‘Code is Poetry’…

This is some butt-ugly free verse we’re up to our elbows in… We “updated” to WordPress 2.7 and, of course, not everything is working (over in the sidebar, admin page, etc), so bear with us – we’re working it ***UPDATE   If you have “WP Automatic Upgrade” installed as one of your plugins, deactivate it.  That [...] [...]

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Chicago — Meet Mockba: Russia tops bribe payers list

Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous. – Mark Twain in “Pudd’nhead Wilson’s New Calendar”  Couldn’t swing a cat yesterday without encountering another story about the enlightened (now indicted) governor of Illinois, calling to mind [...] [...]

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Announcements, announcements…

As promised we have a couple of announcements that will impact the frequency of posts here over the coming year. Naval Institute Blog:  We were asked to join a panel consisting of several other bloggers – some we knew and served with on active duty, others from milblogs and other venues since, that will be [...] [...]

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Welcome USNI Blog Visitors

If you’ve arrived from the USNI Blog (or not…), welcome and please take some time to look around.  At the top you’ll find some of the major topics we cover here — Flightdeck Friday, which focuses on the lesser known aspects of all matters related to naval aviation, Reflections – which is an ongoing recollection [...] [...]