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… 190 miles away as it were. Amazing the things amature astronomers can do these days. Latest example – take one Boston-area high school class, mix with the Clay Center Observatory‘s 25" telescope, a digital camera and adaptive optics and voila: More on adaptive optics here h/t: Chap and Danger Room
Flightdeck Friday – Maintainers
Usually these spaces are given over to aircraft or the operations and battles they have flown in. The aviators normally are well represented as well, but there is another group, without whom from the dawn of aviation, none of this would have been possible – aviation maintenance personnel. Long before the mission is flown and…
Flightdeck Friday – Fleet Air Arm Edition: Blackburn Buccaneer
August 1977. Nellis Range – Nevada. The flight lead of a section of F-4E’s is searching in vain for the intruders. Flying CAP, their mission is to intercept ingressing strike aircraft as part of the large scale exercise known as ‘Red Flag.’ Normally an exceptionally challenging environment, meant to replicate the skies over Central Europe,…
Lunar Reflections
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Flightdeck Friday: The F-101 Voodoo
So it’s like this – the Slavemaster Pops (aka SJS) is out of town this week and left us with a boooring article to post for this Friday (some biplane *bleh*). Frankly, we think he needs to widen his view and we think the Voodoo is a perfect one to start with. Besides, it just…
Flightdeck Friday: RF-8 Crusaders and BLUE MOON
(Consider it an early weekend present — enjoy! Now, get to reading that new Maritime Strategy – lots of discussions next week and some surprises in the offering on this site…stay tuned. -SJS) 15 Oct 1962. Imagery from U-2 flights begun on the 14th continue to roll in for imagery analysts at NPIC (National Photographic…