A Little Common Sense
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
– Thomas Paine
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
– Thomas Paine
“…everybody’s going to make it.” – Thomas K. Jones, 1982 Counterveil vs. Countervalue… Decapitating strikes… Winning a protracted nuclear war… Nuclear calculus… These, and other topics were points of not just mere discussion, but deep, serious study and analysis in the early 1980’s by, among others, a small cohort of graduate students at the Naval…
On February 4, 2003 President George W. Bush delivered the following memorial speech at the Memorial Service in honor of the STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia Crew–David M. Brown, Rick D. Husband, Laurel B. Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, William C. McCool and Ilan Ramon. The service was held at National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s…
Sometime in April 1958, Lockheed first undertook the study of a replacement for the U-2. Unlike the U-2, this would be an aircraft able to cruise at Mach 3, with a range of over 4,000 nm at altitudes exceeding 90,000 ft. It would also have an RCS (radar cross section) smaller than the U-2 and…
So yes, it’s not really Friday by the calendar – but that hasn’t stopped us before. For your consideration an interesting take on this Independence Day of Americans flying a British fighter for recce missions deep into Germany, sans armor (or armour if you please) and guns, loaded with gas and cameras. Big cameras (for…
(Ed: This week’s offering comes from Grampaw Pettibone, of whom your humble scribe has been a fan for lo these many years. This article was first printed in Naval Aviation News in the 15 April 1943 issue)Duck SoupWhile simulating a strafing attack at a speed of approximately 250 knots, the pilot of an F4F-4 reported…
Memorial Day Tribute from Steeljaw Scribe on Vimeo.