Light posting for a bit over the next few days as we shift our pennant from the two bedroom apartment we have shared with SWMBO and two college-age kids to the new digs. In between, it’s another DITY move. Provided fortune smiles upon us (read: the internet provider doesn’t goober up the connection), we should be up to speed eary next week. In the meantime, we have one or two posts scheduled to fill the gap.
Midway POSTEX: Southern Air Pirate passes a couple of links related to the Battle of Midway well worth tucking into your “Favorites” folders. Some good, rare and poignant imagery at those sites. See especially the color series on VT-8 and what is probably the last photo of VT-8 as a squadron joining up overhead to…
Northrop Grumman Annual ROBOTICS Essay Contest Goal: Discuss the most pressing needs where ROBOTICS may be a solution The Challenge: “Next year, the US Air Force will procure more unmanned aircraft than manned aircraft,” Air Force Lt. Gen. Norman Seip, commander of Twelfth Air Force (Air Forces Southern), has predicted. Â Will advances keep up…
So – sitemeter does us all a favor and “upgrades” the website. Of course, we’d *love* to be able to checkout the “improvements” – but it won’t allow us to access our account. All the more aggravating as we had gone the paid path some several months earlier. Evidently others are equally “enamored” of the…
After being off scene/tactical for the last 1.5 months thanks to “he who styles his hair w/hand gernade” (note: if you think the days of port/starboard watches are behind you when you enter the private sector — think again) the scribe is back and in a new location. Reflections and other items of longer content…
As promised, the Flightdeck Friday Index has been completed and is now available under the "Pages" heading on the sidebar. Future topics will include Brewster’s F2A Buffalo, Curtiss SB2C Helldiver, Boeing PB-1W, Blackburn Buccaneer and de Havilland Sea Vixen (among many others). If there are any favorites out there, drop a line and we’ll add…
Just a quick note about a new feature – Table of Contents. On more than one occasion I know I have used a category search to find a particular post, only to have to wade through pages of hits. Well, this nifty new plugin for WP blogs generates a table of contents by Category type…
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