Ev, this one’s for you! We gotta get rid of those turbines, they’re ruining aviation and our hearing… A turbine is too simple minded, it has no mystery. The air travels through it in a straight line and doesn’t pick up any … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: February 2009
Oh boy, this road trip is finally at an end… My butt is draggin… I get to go home for a whole thirty mumble hours before I have to leave again… sigh… Main thing is everybody is going home in … Continue reading
Tiger Woods accepted the invitation to speak at the inauguration…….. But he didn’t deliver the message his inviters had expected! Tiger Woods spoke Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington during “We Are One,” an inauguration celebration for President-elect Barack … Continue reading
Here is the link to the Hero Factory, go play 🙂 Ironically, the logo is actually our shooting team logo, minus a bullet hole… … Continue reading
On the way in this morning, everybody was ducking/dodging something in the road; as I get up close, move over and get ready to dodge… There is a student driver! That poor sucker was doing 55 and everybody else was … Continue reading
No- not THAT kind… A3D Skywarriors, also known as Whales, also known as All Three Deads… Built in the 1950’s, accepted by the Navy in 1956, still flying in 2008. Er… Do. The. Math… 52 years and tens of thousands … Continue reading
Zero dark 30- the bird has been prepped, unplugged from “shore power” and is being towed from the hangar. As it bounces over the door tracks, the wings flex, almost as if stretching and getting ready for flight. We step … Continue reading
Gimme a minute, I’m trying to get the seat cushion outta my ass… Sigh… Let me count the ways I hate LA… Traffic, traffic TRAFFIC!!! 1.5 inches of rain, 4 lanes wide, STILL doing 65mph bumper to bumper, wrecks everywhere … Continue reading
HBO will be showing Taking Chance this weekend. If you can either watch it or TiVo it do so. This is a very special story written by LT Col Michael Stroble, the officer who volunteered to escort the body of … Continue reading
This evening (Feb. 14th), Fox News will be airing an exclusive investigative report “Trillion With a ‘T’: How to Spend $1,000,000,000,000“.Since I don’t have anything better to do, I’m gonna watch and see where my money is really going…h/t JR … Continue reading