First, the official press release: Missing WWII Pilot Is Identified The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced today that the remains of a U.S. serviceman, missing from World War II, have been identified and will be returned to his family for burial with full military honors. He is 2nd Lt. Howard C. Enoch…
The term tipping point describes a point at which a slow gradual change becomes irreversible and then proceeds with gathering pace. It is derived from the metaphor of a rigid solid object being tilted to a point where it begins to topple. Couple of observations from the region… Iran to launch 1st domestic satellite soon…
Been a rough few for our AF comrades in arms and while we well remember all the grief we received when the tables were turned back in ’92-93 we note with interest the items below passed our way earlier today. Couple of bullets caught our eye – things like: “…build a balanced force for the…
Not quite a shutdown, but definitely light posting for a few. Why? Just check the most recent headlines (and a few still to be written). Will endeavor to get Flightdeck Fridays up and catch up on the weekend – if not otherwise occupited… – SJS
NSS, NDS, NOC, NMS, MS – there is a veritable alpha-bit soup of documents out there and trying to make heads or tails of them individually or their relationship to one another. In trying to make sense of this morass, some few years ago we carved out substantive portions of our day to develop a…
…And it is an interesting read, informing the potential rationale behind some recent decisions, such as the Navy stepping away from the DDG-1000: Future Challenges Risk An underlying assumption in our understanding of the strategic environment is that the predominant near-term challenges to the United States will come from state and non-state actors using irregular…
…no, not those. First up — Hustler Love: Over in the comments section for the Flightdeck Friday we did some time back (for VALOUR-IT), one of our visitors (blog author of Mostly Flying) left this very interesting commentary: As a young lieutenant in 1967 I had control of SAGE air defence radars across Washington, Montana,…
Eighty feet & 7 inches wingtip to wingtip; 700 sqft of wing surface; Controls linked by a conglomerate of torque-tubes, hydraulics and cables (old school fly-by wire) and a propensity for interesting excursions in the “burble” which can manifest at the ramp: So Nose – how would you grade it? Oh, and don’t forget the…
So, um Scribe — been a little lax in posting this past few weeks, eh? What gives? Well, a little bit of: Mix in a lot of: And of course, all from the AO viewpoint: Â So yea, been a bit busy with the necessary stuff, but that said have been scribbling offline in the wee…
Update 19 July 2008 Come to find out a few new bits of information – like the fact that Capt. Mauldin was a graduate of The Citadel (Class of ’44). The tribute to Air Force Capt. William K. Mauldin came 56 years late. But that Friday’s moving funeral service here came at all is a…
