How’s your damage control training program? Is it ready to face the likes of what caused this damage? Ready for something that lasts longer than a standard GQ battle problem – measured in days not hours or minutes? Oh and about the PRT program too…
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(From March 1955 Naval Aviation News, h/t Sid) (2006: F-35 Flat Panel Cockpit)
БУДЕТ наукой ракеты! (h/t Exile in Portales)
A little over two years ago, China conducted the now notorious direct ascent ASAT shot on the Fengyun-1 satellite which was in a polar orbit. We’ve commented extensively at the time and a year hence on the issues raised by this shot. So where do we stand just past the second anniversary? Well, like rabbits,…
Quick note to pass along that VAJoe.com has an interview of Your Humble Scribe up at his site. Try not to laugh too hard… The rains (and oppressive humidity) have relented so with blue skies in the offing, believe it’s time to hit the roads for the mountains of WVa with the family – in…
’tis been a while since Spaceman Spiff has made an appearance, so… Happy weekend …
Folks – the “official” fundraiser finishes tomorrow, but don’t let that artificial calendar mark stop you from adding CWtT to your holiday contribution list. Attached below is one more reason to for pitching in to this worthy cause: Thanks to all of you for the multitude of posts about Cooking with the Troops.  As a…
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On a prosaic note:
Having been in a couple of fire damaged edifices, I hope the photographer was wearing some sort of respirator, the residual stench must have been something else.
I (when I was a CE) took a tool box into a fire damaged computer room once for a brief inspection, then left. I placed that toolbox in the back of my station wagon. For the next 10 years (I had that car 12), on humid days, I could still catch a whiff of smoke.
That poor photographer probably had to burn those clothes and replace his shoes. Just hazards of the trade I suppose……
Joe:
Concur. When we went back into the Pentagon after the fires were out we had to wear a mask and protective clothing because of the toxins released by the fire and by the mold (which was quite varied, ranging from the spotted black variety that had climbed halfway up the walls to the roped variety hanging from the overhead). For a long time afterwards you still smelled the smoke and to this day the whiff of smoke one gets from a doused campfire, BBQ grill, etc. brings memories of that awful time crashing back on the present. Ditto the air “freshener” that was deployed in coffee-can size canisters around the building…
– SJS