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Chuck Yeager, 97, Departs the Fix
Brigadier General Charles Elwood Yeager “The Fastest Man Alive” who first broke the sound barrier has passed. His wife Victoria Yeager, announced, “It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET,” she wrote. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest Pilot, & a […]
Transition From Autumn to Winter
Waiting for winter to pass…. This isn’t another rant about uncontrolled fires in the West and the people who think nothing should be done to make the human-occupied areas safe for habitation, but complain about those fires. It’s just a follow-up to the article about raging forest fires that I posted last week. The attached […]
Valor Friday
I’m going to do something a little different. Military folks, particularly in wartime, become a superstitious lot. There are lucky trinkets individuals will carry and there are certainly vehicles seen as cursed or blessed. I’d like to explore some of the latter. The B-26 Marauder, made by the Martin Aircraft Corporation, first flew in November […]
Lunacy, and The Moon Is Not Yet Full
Delusional is a barely adequate description of AOC and Thunberg and others like them, but they’ve caught the attention of the media. Here’s a pdf describing the path of destruction that these two are asking their followers to take. https://larouchepub.com/eiw/public/2019/eirv46n14-20190412/15-20_4614.pdf From the article: Currently, organizations targeting children for recruitment to “save the planet” number in the […]
Merrill’s Marauders: We Few, We Happy Few
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US Army photo Eight surviving members of Merrill’s Marauders will get a Congressional Gold Medal. It took some work and time, and it has paid off. The photo is from one of those jungle treks. Note the soldier on the bamboo bridge, leading the horse: the man is so skinny that you wonder how short […]
Trump Presents Distinguished Flying Cross to 7 Guardsmen
President Trump honored seven members of California’s National Guard with the Distinguished Flying Cross, Sept. 14, 2020. Eggs sends. …for Wildfire Rescues By Bing Xiao President Donald Trump awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross on Monday to two California Army National Guard aircrews who flew repeatedly into a raging wildfire in two separate endeavors to rescue […]
The US Air Force has built and flown a mysterious full-scale prototype of its future fighter jet
The Air Force’s top acquisition official told Defense News they’ve built and flown a full scale demonstrator for the next generation fighter. The U.S. Air Force has secretly designed, built and flown at least one prototype of its enigmatic next-generation fighter jet, the service’s top acquisition official confirmed to Defense News on Sept. 14. The development […]
Airline Pilots Landing At LAX Report “A Guy In Jetpack”
Flying Alongside Them Skippy sends. TYLER ROGOWAY As if 2020 couldn’t get any weirder, airline pilots landing at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on Sunday, August 30th, reported seeing “a guy in a jetpack” flying about 300 yards off their wing while on final approach to the bustling airport. What makes the reports even stranger […]
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