Archive for the 'Aircraft' Category
Sunday, September 27th, 2009
Another Grim Moment in Marketing…
AUTOMOBILE DOORS
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Images: (smoke) pyr.ec.gc.ca; (saab 93) en-wikimedia.org; (Saab ad) vintagetechnology.com; (military plane) worldwide-military.com; (clouds) ics.uci.edu; (T-Bird) user morrea via en-wikipedia.org; (ejection suit) canit.se; (Saab Aero X) zeenz.nl; (aqurium) aquarium.com; (Fiat) en-wikipedia.org; (Van) renault-logan.eastroblog.com; (church) freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com; (purple curtains) party.pro.com; (Nose Art) aert-letters.com;(French doors) (Versailles) (BMW) edge-inc.net; (Mercedes) readthisblog.net; (’57 Ford) tocmp.com; (Mazda) […]
Posted in Business, Environment, Energy, Automobiles, Industrial Design, U.S. Navy, Aircraft |
Sunday, August 9th, 2009
Just don’t tell us how to live, Mark!
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Image: (barrel) (Mark) examiner.com; (flag) & (Buenos Aires) rlv.zcache.com via zazzle.com;; (fragile) noonaco.com; (end up) everythingradio.com;
Posted in Holier Than Thouists-Conservative Evangelical Arm, Aircraft, South Carolina, Argentina, Mark Sanford |
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009
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In other news, Doug Corrigan was honestly confused…
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and Saint Thomas (a.k.a Doubting Tom) really believed in the Resurrection, but after having seen David Cronenberg’s VIDEODROME at the Jerusalem Golgotha-Plex on Saturday evening, wounds intrigued him. Caravaggio’s painting demonstrates.
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Images: (Post) via worldpeacethroughtbeer.org; (parade) + (book) + (movie) via 100megspop3.com;(sheet music) via smithsonianlibraries.si.edu;(James Woods) in david […]
Posted in News Media, Art, Religion, New York Times, Aircraft, Watergate |
Sunday, April 12th, 2009
ABC News
Stolen Cessna’s Pilot Captured
Pilot Took Off Running After Landing Plane Following Pursuit by Fight Jets
By PIERRE THOMAS and LUIS MARTINEZ
WASHINGTON, April 6, 2009
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Images: (Larry King) CNN via magkachi.files.wordpress.com; Sandra Bullock)–from SPEED via oviereviews.today.com; (Airbus) fantom-xp.com; (C5A) p.base.com; (Preston) via truckhobby.com; (St. Louis) users.globairnet.co.uk; (Mud Flaps) from Warner Bros. via yosemitesam.net via wise-family.info; (Cessna) aerospaceweb.org; […]
Posted in Television, Crime, Aircraft |
Thursday, September 11th, 2008
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Images: (Air & Space Museum) letsgo.dc.com; (Ford) texashideout.tripod.com; (Terraplane) hetclub.com;(C-123k) via staticflickr.com; (’54 Greyhound) Redden Archive Collection via walkercustomer.com; (Packard) via imstumped.com; (Con-Air) via allposters.com
Posted in Movies, Automobiles, Washington, Museums, Aircraft, 1950s, 1930s, Smithsonian |
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
U.S. Pilot Sues Boeing Over F-15 Falling Apart
By bruce rolfsen
Published: 24 Mar 15:27 EDT (11:27 GMT)
The pilot of the F-15C Eagle that broke apart in November, forcing an U.S. Air Force-wide grounding of F-15s, has sued the jet’s builder.
The lawsuit seeks more than $75,000 from Boeing.
(Capt. Tana Stevenson / U.S. Air Force)
Maj. Stephen Stilwell’s lawsuit […]
Posted in U.S.A.F., Weapons, Aircraft |
Tuesday, March 11th, 2008
McCain advisers lobbied for Airbus
March 11, 2008 - 5:57am
By JIM KUHNHENN and MATTHEW DALY
Top current advisers to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign last year lobbied for a European plane maker that beat Boeing to a $35 billion Air Force tanker contract, taking sides in a bidding fight that McCain has tried to referee for more […]
Posted in Business, Pentagon, John S. McCain III, Transportation, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Aircraft |
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Unchecked aliens cram flight schools
by Bill Hutchinson
Daily News staff writer
Thursday, February 28th 2008, 4:00 AM
Despite tough post-9/11 laws, thousands of foreign students are training at U.S. flight schools without proper visas or security background checks, government documents show.
“TSA’s enforcement is basically nonexistent,” Bill McNease, a former Federal Aviation Administration inspector, said in an interview aired […]
Posted in Business, administration, Terrorism, 9/11, Airlines, Aircraft |
Friday, October 26th, 2007
My pal Mark emailed some photos of the Tucson Bone Yard of retired military aircraft in the Arizona desert. Most of us have seen these incredible bird’s-eye view photos of the resting planes.
For example…
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But, no one ever talks about or photographs the airplanes at night.
I have and found this incredible event.
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Images: (intermission) […]
Posted in Pentagon, Movies, U.S.A.F., Arizona, Aircraft |
Thursday, September 6th, 2007
The Seattle Times
Thursday, September 6, 2007 - Page updated at 02:08 AM
Air Force fires commander in nuke error
By PAULINE JELINEK
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The Air Force fired a commander after a B-52 bomber was mistakenly armed with six nuclear warheads and flown for more than three hours across several states last week, Pentagon officials said […]
Posted in Nuclear Issues, U.S.A.F., Weapons, Aircraft, 1950s |
