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Saturday Matinee
Mike wonders aloud at how the VAW community seems to have a surfeit of talent when it comes to making videos – *we* all know it comes from our regular dosing of Vitamin R in the form of the megawatt+ of energy we haul around with us. How else can one explain the likes of…
Springtime in DC
Ahhhh, just soak it in — warm days, Dogwood blooming, pollen a dustin’ and all around the city, the sap is rising: Alas, for the poor dears – not as many this year as in years past because, you know, it’s *expensive* coming to DC and what with the economy and all, mom and dad…
Initiative and Decisiveness: Here’s one from the “Able Dogs”
Recent discussion over in Lex’s ready room on resurrection of the COIN mission and supporting aircraft types sent your humble scribe over to the Able Dog’s site for some refresher training. In so doing, stumbled across this story that is timeless in its telling and lesson. Reproduced in part here in the hope that you,…
Postcards from Deployment
Deployed correspondent Southern Air Pirate drops in with another post from the Truman CSG with notes from the post-Christmas period, dust-up in the Straits and observations of trying to work orders deployed. We well remember the latter, especially back in the day when one’s tools consisted primarily of waiting until pulling into Naples to go…
Sunday With Calvin
Minimal posting (continuing) for a while as real world events intrude and demand their pound or so of virtual and real flesh… – SJS
China’s ASAT – The Problem With Debris (Part II)
Well, can’t say YHS was entirely surprised. As we first discussed here, the repercussions of this type of test would be felt for sometime. Comes now today an article from Reuters wherein we find the debris field to be larger than first expected: U.S. DETAILS CHINA SATELLITE DEBRIS, Reuters, April 11, 2007. A larger than…