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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Admin Notes
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…
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Flightdeck Friday – Gasbags and Hookers
Massive floating airship carriers deploying squadrons of fighters – a scene from some fantastic grade-B thriller? Well, maybe. But back in the mid-1930’s it wasn’t all that far fetched. The Navy, in the midst of transformational experimentation with aircraft carriers, was well into the trials with lighter-than-air ships. Of these, the USS Akron and USS…
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Mach 6.5 At 100K Feet…
Perhaps you remember this: or this: Roll out the TFH crowd because: “The Air Force has awarded Lockheed’s Advanced Development Projects arm a top-secret contract to develop a stealthy 4,000-mph plane capable of flying to altitudes of about 100,000 feet, with transcontinental range. The plan is to debut the craft around 2020. The new jet…
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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…
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Props!!
Readers of the legacy site know that your humble scribe is something of a throwback in that he has a fondness for prop aircraft. Comes today an offline note from Mike C. (DC Tailhook RR “Handler”) that included links for F4U training vids. 😀 … so work up those right thigh muscles, there’s more…
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Flightdeck Fridays
(ed: OK, so it’s not Friday and this is an older Flightdeck Friday, but for some of the new folks arriving at the new site for the first time, here is what Flightdeck Friday’s are all about. Read, enjoy [hopefully] and comment – Please… – SJS) Well, we have Friday Musings , Fullbore Fridays, Beer…
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Friday’s Missile Commentary
Yesterday, the Russians provided their official response to the US and Czech/Polish plans to place elements of the BMDS in the Czech republic and Poland. YHS has manged to obtain a copy of the document provided US representatives and is providing it FYI: After the round of posts the past few weeks leading up to…