Saw this item in the group of DoD press releases recently received. All our thoughts and prayers are with his family… By John D. BanusiewiczAmerican Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, April 2, 2007 – For 23-year-old Joe Finn, it wasn’t enough that his parents’ Richmond, Va., Liberty Tax franchise was serving as a drop-off point for…
Light posting this week — That Which Makes Other Things Possible (otherwise known as YHS day job) is keeping him quite occupied in the early part of the week and issues of greater import take precedence later this week (Holy Week – more to follow). Flight Deck Friday will take a pause here this week,…
Two RFIs actually. Looking for someone w/experience in dealing with the following to provide advice/lessons learned: Establishing a .com blog (who best to buy name through, hosting services, posting software, etc.) and transferring archives from blogspot; Drafting and submitting a book proposal (OK, two book proposals) to Naval Institute Press. Drop me a note offline…
Mach 2+ speeds with a fixed inlet. Push-button cruise control. All weather intercept capability with the AIM-7 Sparrow. A flat-out drag-racing king on the straights and in a climb. All this was the XF8U-3 Crusader III. < ?xml:namespace prefix = o /> Envisioned as a high speed, all weather interceptor follow-on to the already noteworthy…
Under the circumstances, thought it was time to resurrect this golden oldie…
Turn around and you’re two, turn around and you’re four, Turn around, you’re a young boy going out of my door So. Some events are supposed to make one feel – older? Graduations, children moving along and the like. Yet, curiously some of us feel – energized, excited at the prospect of watching fledglings take…
Quick one tonight as YHS takes time to perform human sacrifice finalize taxes. So. Saul Tigh, Chief, Tory and Sam all think they are Cylons; Baltar, after being acquitted on charges, is spirited away by a group of religious nutcases and to top it off, Starbuck comes back from the dead to lead the fleet…
So Scribe — what do pilots and NFOs talk about when things are quiet on a flight? – Lots of stuff, but some conversations you *don’t* want to hear…
Standby; standby; mark” In the relative cool of the early dawn, remote recording equipment began timing the grey and orange streak that thundered by at 125 ft above the desert floor. The date is 28 August 1961 and a second attempt at the world’s low altitude speed record is underway. Flying a 3km closed…
The report is available for reading/download (PDF) here. Don’t go expecting to find deep insight into tactics/doctrine — rather gives a general look at the organization, training, equipping, administration and routine operation of the PLAN. A worthwhile companion volume to the ONI report might be this one, a recently updated (7 Feb 2007) Congressional Research…
