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What Color is Your Brain (??!!)
Mmph, I can think of a high school physics teacher who might beg to differ, though as it turns out his prognostication skills were woefully, umm, constrained… (h/t Curt) Your Brain is Yellow Of all the brain types, yours is the most intellectual.You crave mental stimulation, and your thoughts tend to very complex.Your thoughts tend…
Of Wargames, JSFs and Baby Seals (Part I)
“The federal opposition has dismissed new doubts about the capacity of the multi-billion dollar Joint Strike Fighter to perform against jets used by Russia and China. The JSF jets, for which Australia is likely to pay $16 billion, were comprehensively beaten in highly classified simulated dogfights against Russian-built Sukhoi fighter aircraft, it has been reported….
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
Drone Bites Back?
Heads-up fighter dudes — all those years of shooting at hapless drones may soon be over: Comes word, courtesy Defense Industry Daily that the QF-4 may be getting a new capability — to bite back: Yep — that’s a QF-4 firing the missile, an unmanned QF-4. No word on if it’s an AAM or ASM…
Paul Leonard Newman: 1925 – 2008
A racer who supported his racing habit by acting – that’s how Paul Newman wanted to be remembered. An accomplished winner in both fields, Paul Newman died Friday, Sept. 26, after a long battle with cancer. He was 83. Newman came to racing late in life, driving his first race car in his 40s. Bob…
The Ridiculous Not Restricted to DC
Meantime, the denizens of NYC were, not surprisingly, alarmed at the sight of a large airliner being intercepted and escorted by a fighter near the site of the World Trade Center: Yep, you’re not seeing things – it’s the 747 that serves as Air Force One on a photo op over downtown NYC… But hey,…