Congressional Oversight
Under the circumstances, thought it was time to resurrect this golden oldie…
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A Milestone…Of Sorts
We note with bemused interest the fact that we have crossed the "1,000 spam comments blocked" threshold – the last 500 of which appear to have been passed our way during the course of the Valour-IT competition. Hmmm… Oh, and standby – Flightdeck Friday will be up today and we promise it will be worth…
Monday’s Reading
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 selected…
See and Avoid
30 June 1956. Two airliners, a TWA Lockheed Constellation and a United Airlines DC-7 are eastbound, in uncontrolled airspace in the vicinity of the Grand Canyon. Both were flying under visual flight rules ostensibly to avoid the thunderstorms building in the area. At 1056 local, the DC-7 struck the Connie from above and behind, severing…
Heads-up WordPress/Bad Behavior Users
You need to install an update to Bad Behavior right away (go here) if you’ve been having trouble posting (like moi). I’ll let this suffice for my rant.
Airplan: 5-11 Sep
Several years back I had the extraordinary privilege to get to know a survivor of the Pearl Harbor attack who had been assigned to one of the gun turret crews onboard the USS Nevada (BB-36). As a junior "hinge" (O-4/LCDR) I was both captivated by the re-telling, first hand, of the accounts of that morning, and…
Turn,turn,turn
Turn around and you’re two, turn around and you’re four, Turn around, you’re a young boy going out of my door So. Some events are supposed to make one feel – older? Graduations, children moving along and the like. Yet, curiously some of us feel – energized, excited at the prospect of watching fledglings take…