Tuesday’s Child
…and more of Hobbes’ wisdom:
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Hammer Time
No, not this one – more like this… Item: Navy ship $840 million over budget and still unfinished (h/t Phibian) — The highly touted nerve center of the new, $1.8 billion amphibious ship San Antonio is fraught with computer hardware crashes that could cripple operations. The ship lacks basic safety equipment, such as hand rails and…
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Fight’s On!
The Government of India (finally) tendered it’s offer for the Multi-Role Combat Aircraft (MRCA) – a deal estimated at $10B and one of the largest of it’s kind offered. Plan is to purchase a total of 128 with the first 18 bought in a "flyaway condition" to equip the first squadron. The remaining 108 will…
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Weekend Notes
Quick note to pass along that VAJoe.com has an interview of Your Humble Scribe up at his site. Try not to laugh too hard… The rains (and oppressive humidity) have relented so with blue skies in the offing, believe it’s time to hit the roads for the mountains of WVa with the family – in…
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Ouch…
БУДЕТ наукой ракеты! (h/t Exile in Portales)
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Why Serendipitous Searches on the ‘net
… can be hazardous to one’s financial health Found the following whilst running research for a future article: For Sale: $195,000 (museum quality restoration)
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Form = Function = Beauty
Is it just YHS or does it seem since the intrusion of CAD and other automated design devices that aesthetics have taken a back seat in aircraft design? There was a day when an aircraft both funcitoned well and looked, well, pleasing, was easy on the eyes and sprang from the worn pencil and…
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Blog Survey
Aw heck, since it seems some others have suddenly discovered the project, let me toss this blog in the hat too (carried over from the legacy site BTW). Please take my Blog Reader Project survey.
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Welcome to the Digital Age – You’re Busted
Comes this way a new tool from the fertile minds at Google – Street views. Google mapping teams hit five cities (New York, Miami, Denver, Las Vegas and San Francisco) with specially designed vans, to take panoramic imagery along the streets to give one a three-dimensional view along the metropolitan highways and byways. In capturing…