Green deck – post your trackbacks here, and enjoy the flick!
Parts 2 & 3 below the fold
So — how’d you spend your Sunday? Ours looked very much like this: as we spent the afternoon thinking the sort of thoughts we had left church in the AM foreswearing *ahem* Whomever said code is poetry must’ve been smoking crack…
` Join us for Midrats this Sunday, 22 July 2012 on blogtalk radio, where the topic is missiles – ballistic and cruise; and your humble scribe is the guest. Seven months into this year and we have seen much on this front. Pick a theater and you will find ballistic and cruise missiles are at…
There is a saying in politics that if you really want to find out what is going on, follow the money. The current Chairman of the USNI Board of Directors has cited the need for the Institute to gain financial stability as the prime motivator behind their actions leading up to the mission change. Following…
18 Nov 1934: A contract was issued to the Northrop Corporation for the XBT-1, a two-seat Scout and l,000-pound dive bomber. This aircraft was the initial prototype in the sequence that led to the SBD Dauntless series of dive bombers introduced to the fleet in 1938 and used throughout World War II. 18 Nov 1942:…
(You know who you are ): 1947 – Air Force Capt. Chuck Yeager, 24, flying a Bell X-1, became the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound.
Well, despite the best efforts of the distaff side yesterday with an unplanned site mod (which we wrapped up in the wee-hours of the night with the last a/v cable re-zip-tied in place, btw) – plan on seeing some major changes around here with the New Year. Fear not – the favorites will remain and…
