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POPSHow robot drones revolutionized the face of warfare U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Major Morgan Andrews is one such combatant. He kisses his wife goodbye, drives to Creech, a tiny desert air force base in Nevada, and within minutes could be killing insurgents on the other side of the world.
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POPSFlawless Preparation: The Key to Winning Nothing gets me more excited than carrying out a mission exactly to plan. Whether flying a jet fighter sortie, delivering a keynote, making a cold call, or successfully bluffing at poker, when things go flawlessly, it just feels great!
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POPS"Machine rebellion begins: Killer robot destroyed by US jet"
more: The statement goes on to say that the errant killdroid "impacted the side of a mountain" and that there "were no reports of civilian injuries". USAFCENT don't specify just what manned jet went up against the mutinous machine, or what methods the pilot used. However the logical choice would be a fighter plane - probably an F-15, -16 or -18 - and the cheapest and most fun weapon to use would be cannon fire. Opposition from the Reaper wouldn't be an issue, as it is a low-performance aircraft compared to a jet fighter and has no air-to-air capability. It wasn't clear from the US military announcement whether the erratic death-bot had turned on its masters and was planning an attack on critical US logistics bases located north of the Afghan border, or whether it had sickened of reaping hapless fleshies like corn and was hoping merely to escape. Alternatively the machine assassin may merely have succumbed to boredom or - just possibly - a mundane, non-anthropomorphic technical fa
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POPSMorre Military Obscenity They're gonna train our kids to be video game warriors...killers without contact, dehumanizing the "enemy" even more. Obscene!
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POPSDrones: Good & Bad News & Star Trek
The good news would be that fewer live pilots would be at risk. The bad news? 1. The use of drone attacks might go up since no direct US casualties at risk - only ground forces from friendly fire, ground forces from more violence against them in reaction to drone attacks. 2. Civilian and on-combatants casualties would go up - which might increase violence against the US. 3. There will be a drone factory of sub-contractor in the district of every congressmember who serves on a committee that give budget to drone programs. Thus welfare for defense contractors would likely increase and funds that might go for more productive things and peace might well get lost in the shuffle. Remember the Star Trek episode where a society conducted all of its war via computers? If the computer said you lost or had casualties, people then had to report for death or to be a wounded casualty. Without a draft of people into the military, the care for waging war seems to have gone down, sin
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POPSMemorial Day 2007: Remembering our Fallen Wingmen It’s 7:00 pm on a warm and sunny day in Atlanta. It’s Memorial Day, 2007, and like many of you, I had a great time at a barbeque/pool party with some friends. We shared some laughs, good food, and relaxed. Life is good.
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POPSSurviving Vs. Winning: The Leader's Mindset Admiral Stockdale was the highest ranking U.S. officer at the “Hanoi Hilton” POW camp during Vietnam. A navy fighter pilot, he was shot down and endured brutal torture, all while doing everything possible to inspire and strengthen the spirit of his fellow prisoners.
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POPSENGAGED vs. SUPPORTING: What's your Business Role? Many of you have heard me emphasize that no fighter pilot ever flies a combat mission solo. We always fly as a team – with our wingmen. It’s impossible to win solo because the missions are very complex and change so rapidly.
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POPSWhat to expect if you ever call a pioneer of space exploration a coward Buzz Aldrin KO's a "we-never-went-to-the-moon" conspiracy wacko The moon doesn’t make people crazy. However, it sure does help point to crazy people. Take Whoopi Goldberg. Please. Take her far, far away. The former Captain Planet and the Planeteers star has questioned the moon landings. Really. Personally, I’d like to see Buzz Aldrin take a shot at her. Like he did this idiot:
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POPSHow robot drones revolutionized the face of warfare All great until some kid hacks in and links it to his/her Wii or PS3. While these are interesting tech times, you have to wonder just how far off of T2 we are really molding into and how just when Optimus prime might unfold out of some of these.
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POPSLeadership Seminars Waldo will prove to you that the term “fighter pilot is a state of mind, not a job title!” and ultimately demonstrate that you don't need to fly a jet fighter or wear a flight suit to develop a fighter pilot attitude of success!
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POPSNazi Stealth Jet Could Have Won War for Hitler This craft did test fly in Germany during the war, but when one prototype had a flameout in one of its engines, the resultant crash landing killed its test pilot. This plane looks remarkably like the British Swallow. The "Tailless Swallow" is the craft that killed Geoffrey De Havilland when he was trying to break the sound barrier. It broke apart in mid air and ended Britains attempts at breaking the sound barrier...
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POPSF 35 Joint Strike Fighter--Highly Marketed Aircraft This plane does everything except orbit the earth. The U.S. is using this aircraft as a platform to sell to everyone who wants it...It will displace the F22 Raptor,(expensive), but I wonder will it truly be ALL things for ALL Missions??? Nothing has worked this way before.. DOES HAVE GREAT TOYS INCLUDED ARE: A distributed-aperture-infrared sensor system will provide full spherical infrared coverage around the aircraft. In addition to providing warnings of missile launches, information from the system can be displayed on the pilot’s helmet visor, permitting the pilot to see “through” the airplane’s structure in all directions, and eliminating the need for night-vision goggles. This system will dramatically increase the ability of the F-35 to conduct any type of mission at night.
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POPSOLED data glasses give wearers an eyeful Article by David Greig about a project being researched that displays interactive data on your eyeglasses. Could have some interesting applications - could also cause catastrophes on the highway! It will be interesting to see how it develops.
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POPS Leonardo Da Vinci's 10 Best Ideas “The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.” “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” “Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.” “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” “I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.” “There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.” “Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it.” “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” “Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?” “The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.” Leonardo da Vinci quotes http://thinkexist.com/quotes/leonardo_da_vinci/
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POPSSuper Sully: How Crash Landing Hero Pulled Off The Incredible
have resulted in the plane cartwheeling on impact with the water and potentially killing those on board. 'Fantastic job' "By the look of it he's done a fantastic job, the aircraft looks to be in fantastic shape," Mr Jackson said. The successful ditching has energized pilots, many of whom appeared skeptical as to whether it was possible. Pilots also did not train for ditching, both Mr Jackson and Mr Glynn said. "He needed to keep the wings level as much as he could but, given one engine could have had more damage than the other, this would have been difficult," he said. "If a wing had pitched into the water first, the aircraft would have cartwheeled" As it turned out, Mr Sullenberger brought the plane down nose-up with wings level, allowing the tail to break the surface of the water first, Mr Jackson said. In a comment reflective of many of the comments on the online pilot forum, user PPRuNe said: "Remarkable, just proves you can ditch."
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POPSMiracle Emergency Airliner Landing In Hudson River "He did a masterful job of landing the plane in the river," the mayor said of the veteran pilot who lives near San Francisco. With water seeping into the plane, Sullenberger, a former fighter pilot, walked up and down the center aisle twice to make sure nobody was left before he joined the exodus from the jet, the mayor said. "He was the last one off the plane," Bloomberg said. Meanwhile, investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board began inspecting the 9-year-old Airbus A320, which was towed to Battery Park City and moored to a bulkhead just north of the World Financial Center. It appeared to be the first time in 45 years that a major aircraft crash-landed in the water - and every passenger on board made it out alive. Former Airbus executive George Hamlin said the pilot deserves a big thank you from the city.
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POPSP-47 Pilot Aanenson Dead I saw "A Fighter Pilot's Story" on PBS in '94 or '95. It's quite a documentary, about how he met his wife during pilot training in Louisiana, and his battle experiences over Europe. He and Jaqueline's letters figure in the film.
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POPSGreat In-flight Photos Of The F/A-22 These are Great In-flight Photos of the F/A-22 as the first aircraft delivery was being made to Langley AFB in Va. Langley is to be first Operational AFB for the F/A-22. It is a very beautiful AFB, located in a picturesque location, as you can see in these photos, near Norfolk and Hampton, Va. If their on-board locator is switched off rven our own satellites can lose track of them. They're the first military aircraft rver built that is equipped with a 'black-out button'... ehat that means is this... The best-conditioned fighter pilots are capable of maintaining consciousness up to in the vicinity of 15+ G. The Raptor is capable of making 22+ G turns. If someday an adversary builds a missile that is capable of catching up to one of these airplanes and a Raptor pilot sees that a strike is imminent, he hits the 'b.o.b.' and the airplane makes a virtual U-turn, leaving the missile to pass right on by. http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/12/first-fa-22-fighters-delivered.html
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POPSHusband & Father Of Crash Fatalities ~ "I Don't Blame You" He tried to land at the Miramar base near Mr Yoon’s home in San Diego, California. But the engine failed and he tried to steer away from houses, ejecting with seconds to spare. He suffered minor injuries. Mr Yoon called him “one of our treasures for our country”, adding: “I don’t blame him, I know he did everything he could.” Store worker Mr Yoon could not get near the cordoned-off crash site on Monday and had to watch TV coverage of his burning house.
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POPSUFO Sightings by Astronauts Much more information from other astronauts @ source, Donald Slayton a Mercury astronaut revealed in an interview he had seen UFOs in 1951: "I was testing a P-51 fighter in Minneapolis when I spotted this object. I was at about 10,000 feet on a nice, bright, sunny afternoon. I thought the object was a kite, then I realized that no kite is gonna fly that high. "As I got closer it looked like a weather balloon, gray and about three feet in diameter. But as soon as I got behind the darn thing it didn't look like a balloon anymore. It looked like a saucer, a disk. "About the same time, I realized that it was suddenly going away from me -- and there I was, running at about 300 miles per hour. I tracked it for a little way, and then all of a sudden the damn thing just took off. It pulled about a 45 degree climbing turn and accelerated and just flat disappeared."
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