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…
At present there is a slanderous attack underway over at a certain blog (we won’t link directly to it for obvious reasons, rather, Galrahn has assembled a good summary and parry over here). We call it slanderous because it is an attack, by name, on a current CO in an operational billet was undertaken with…
Well, Repair 5 reports fire is out, the space de-watered and all gear re-stowed after this weekend’s, um, issues. You will notice (we hope) that the original theme is back, with a few fine-tuning tweaks and we appear to be OPS normal, for now… – SJS
Well, sometime last evening Finagle’s Law was operationalized and our Cutline theme got munged. Whether it was malicious or not remains TBD (examination of the logs tends toward the former). So, for now, we’ll run with WordPress’ “Classic” theme until we can figure out what went wrong. It will mean some earlier posts are a…
Well, upgraded to WP 2.5 and of course, there were…issues. So now we’re running a post-upgrade post to check and see if everything is working – a post maintenance check flight or PMCF as it were….
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…
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…
Breaking my pennant aboard the new site and in the process, offering a warm welcome to those coming from the legacy site.  Please use this posting to place comments/suggestions/toss brickbats etc. re your impressions of the site. Thanks! – SJS
Through the 2996 list this blog has been nominated for a “Thinking Blogger Award.” As part of the acceptance we are to nominate up to five other blogs for the award. Having been at this for about a year now (the old blog kicked off in Apr ’06 and the new version, if I can…
