Hitting the Big Silver-Winged bird for a part of the country without ready access to the UNCLAS ‘net. Fear not – we’ve some articles queued up for the next few days, including a Flightdeck Friday, until we return a few days hence.
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…and no, sigh, not *that* kind of silver-winged bird, alas…
OK folks, we’re in the home stretch. Two or so days to go and overall we’re still shy of the $180K goal. If you are one of the folks who have contributed – bless you and thank you. You have made a marked change in someone’s life for the better. Would you consider another donation?…
Maybe it was growing up in Nebraska with tornadoes as part of our springtime ritual. Maybe it was time spent in Boy Scouts and Civil Air Patrol. Perhaps it was coming of age in the shadow of SAC headquarters, knowing there was a big red “X” on some Soviet targeting map. Whatever the reason, we…
Some things just turn out, well, naturally … You Should Drive a Ford Shelby Mustang Cobra You have an extreme need for speed, even when you’re not in a hurry.And while your flying by, you don’t want to look like every other car on the road! What 2007 Car Should You Drive?
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…
Press the edge of the technological envelope and sometimes it snaps back and bites you. Promise the moon and fail to even deliver a scintilla (and oh yes, demand more money in the process) and the customer naturally gets a little testy. These themes are at the core of a couple of today’s news items – the first, dealing…
UPDATE: Happy 60th Birthday to the USAF (18 Sep 1947 – 2007) (thanks for the reminder Mike) Frequent readers of this site (all 3 of you…) know that we tend not to cut the Junior Service too much slack, especially since their idea of a tailhook has not much more heft than a bent…
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A long time ago(1975) I watched an EC-121 taxi past the stop lights at NAS Norfolk. The taxiway from the VAQ-33 line had to cross one of the major roads on NAS. It was at night and all here taxi/landing lights were on. What an amazing sight!!!!