Monday, October 24, 2011

DT, Winslow Wheeler and 'Manufacturing' Problems

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Defense Tech is 'moderating' a comment of mine I tried to post on this thread . The last time they did this my comment disappeared i...
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Saturday, October 22, 2011

AR Project: It Has Begun

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As I've noted elsewhere, I've never been a huge fan of the AR-15/M-16 family of rifles. Not because of the issues (largely mythical ...
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011

F-35B: an 'Audacious Display'

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Dave Majumdar with Defense News reports : "In an audacious display of confidence, the U.S. Marine Corps and the Joint Strike Fighter (...
Sunday, October 16, 2011

Lucky

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Or: How I flew on C-130B 57-0526 to the very end and lived to tell the tale. Going through the web looking for planes I flew on, tested, o...
Friday, October 14, 2011

Occupy Fort Worth A Total Bust So Far

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Or: 'Dude! If you are bald or gray ditch the ponytail - you're creeping out the children! First - I'm not going to dive into ...
Sunday, October 09, 2011

Same Old Scum Protest....UAVs?

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This time at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. They're pretty much the same sh**head losers that pop up at all the anti-this-or-...
Tuesday, October 04, 2011

F-35B Performed First At-Sea Takeoff Today

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After slacking off all night. (Just kidding!) Today,the aviation world is abuzz  over the F-35 landing on the USS WASP yesterday. Solom...
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Saturday, October 01, 2011

Dead Terrorists & Stupid Politicians: Anwar al-Awlaki Edition

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Updated and Bumped! News reports today  have now added a third significant 'kill' to the list of 'al-Qaida' operatives: On...
Thursday, September 29, 2011

F-35 to Begin Sea Trials Next Week

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Defense News Reports : "They start on 3rd October, and should last only two weeks," said Lt. Gen. Terry Robling, the Marine's...

Centennial of Naval Aviation #2

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Historic U.S. Navy PN-9 Seaplane, Circa 1925 Bumped: Find a new comment from a Grandson of the designer. Here are some crops of another n...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

DDG-1000: US Surface Stealth News

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I was wondering why there hadn't been any actual DDG-1000 "Zumwalt" photos on the web even though there were discussions about...

UAV as Satellite Backup

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 Without passing any judgement on the technical approach, the idea of having an unmanned high flyer communications network in case our spa...
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Friday, September 23, 2011

Inside the Pentagon: JSF Faces Potential $3 Billion Bill To Reconfigure Early Production Aircraft

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...and it is NOT as big a deal as you might think, and is certainly less than the JSF-Haters fantasize .  50th F-35 Center Fuselage Deli...
Thursday, September 22, 2011

Deliver Us from Beancounters: Learning Curve Edition

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Learning Curves and Production Breaks Dancin' with 'Engineering_Economist' a.k.a. to me as ' EngeCon' again at Defense ...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Congressional Bloviation On The 'Concurrency Bogeyman'

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There's no 'There' there... I was initially going to post on this when it was first announced, then I decided to just let this ...
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