|
|
|||
|
Aut insanit homo, aut versus blogit
|
Easy folks — completely SFW here So Scribe — what exactly do they mean by a “Commander’s Moon” ? Well, strictly defined, a “commander’s moon” is: “A night lighting condition with clear skies and a large (late phase) moon, to provide optimum lighting condition for night flights, and especially night traps. Favored by, and planned [...] [...] Quick – F4H or F-110? Depending on the markings and the date, it could have been either – or none. Despite the fact that 15 years earlier, the Department of Defense (and departments of the Army, Navy and Air Force) were created by the National Security Act of 1947, the three Services continued with their [...] [...] Forty-nine years ago – within one day of each other, one astronaut headed for orbit as America’s first to circle the Earth and a future astronaut opened a series of record attempts in the McDonell F4H Phantom: Images Courtesy Rex Features & NASA 20 Feb 1962: Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn. USMC, in Mercury spacecraft [...] [...] 18 January 1911: At 11:01 a.m., Eugene Ely, flying the same Curtiss pusher used to take off from Birmingham (CL 2), landed on a specially built platform aboard the armored cruiser Pennsylvania (Armored cruiser No. 4) at anchor in San Francisco Bay. At 11:58 he took off and returned to Selfridge Field, San Francisco, completing [...] [...] 
Project CADILLAC (Part I) Ed note: Everything has a beginning and that beginning is usually quite humble compared to present conditions. Consider, a small spring at the headwaters of the Madison River in Montana is the source of the mighty Missouri River which itself empties into ol’ man river — the Mississippi, all of which [...] [...] |
||
|
Copyright Steeljaw Enterprise, LLC © 2013 Steeljaw Scribe - All Rights Reserved
Powered by WordPress & Atahualpa |
|||
Vox Populi