Our guest correspondent, Southern Air Pirate, sends his latest missive on the joys of that well known locus of liberty in the Mediterranean, Naples. Napoli Bella! We just wrapped up a 6 day port visit to Naples, Italy. Naples is like it has always been the last three times I had visited there. There…
Photo essay (click on image) of the sinking of the Explorer, the first passenger ship to make the Northwest Passage. (h/t Fred Fry)
www.noradsanta.org and don’t forget snoglobe…
1959. Changes are afoot in the tactical aircraft programs for Air Force and Navy’s specific requirements. The Air Force sought to replace the F-105 with a new fighter-bomber that would address the shortcomings of the Thunderchief — it was to land in half the distance of the F-105, be able to fly unrefueled to Europe or Southeast…
(Ed. Note Flightdeck Friday will be up later today – SJS) Skippy-san broke the news first here and PACOM himself (ADM Keating) expresses his concern and perplexity here. He notes, somewhat ironically, that it would be hard to "put a positive spin" on this latest incident (coming on the heels of China’s equally curious refusal…
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.  Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.  Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and…
Dogs finish 7-4, score the most points ever vs. VMI and Silver Shako remains in Charleston – for yet another year…plus we were able to catch it on TV. Yeah, it was a good Saturday, though probably not so for others. Maybe next year guys – umm, no. Rumor has it the VMI…
So comes that time of year when we are prompted to render thanks. While some hew to a generic form thereof, others would like to be more direct in their thanks, delivering same directly to someone at the pointy end, as it were. Well, you’re in luck. Over the next several days we will be…
Sometimes vindication comes quietly – as, say, a couple of years later in part of an interview and provides demonstrative proof that there is a core group that ‘gets it’: “In a Nov. 15 interview with ITN, Morgan said that when Navy officials wrote the NOC in 2006 “we knew we were doing the process…
