Sorry about your sensitivity, but you illustrate my point. When you were drafted, everybody in the crosshairs of the SSS either became a veteran or knew someone who did, and we weren't sheltered from what was going on; today military service is something you can see in the movies if you feel like it. Patriotism has nothing to do with ignorance.
A lumber yard caught on fire one night, and we watched as the sirens and flashing lights on the fire trucks zig zagged around the neighborhood - 45 minutes later, the fire was out and they still hadn't found it.
I didn't even have to leave Exceptionalistan to see that happen. I live in a suburban square mile bounded by four section-line streets, trisected by the confluence of two streams, and bisected by a power-line easement. My son's buddy hurt himself on a dirt bike, I called his HMO, the HMO operator set off a full-boat response of police, fire engines and ambulances...and I got to listen to the sirens dopplering up and down and fading in and out until I sent a kid out on a bicycle to tell them how to do their job.
Previous target drones were intentionally one use only.
Au contraire. The Air Force and the Navy both had F-86's modified so they could be flown either by a live pilot or by RC. The Navy had a squadron of them, called QF-86's, in California that provided drone services for all military users on the West Coast.
Pilots would make a number of unarmed sorties against live-pilot machines to practice the techniques, then take a few actual shots at unmanned ones. Live-fire missions were done out over the water, so if a drone was damaged and unsafe to land, they could safely deep-six it.
Every flight of a military aircraft goes into a logbook, and if a drone wasn't manned, the entry for pilot name would be NOLO: No Onboard Live Operator. Navy pilots referred to those missions as "shooting down Ensign Nolo".
The Culver Aircraft Co. produced a small piston-powered aircraft that worked the same way in the post-WW2 years called the PQ-14; a few of them found their way into private hands, with the remote controls removed.
Anyone who wants to do something different for vacation than go on a cruise.
This. What could be more doucheful than paying piles of money to be waited on hand and foot by a legion of poverty-scale Third Worlders who get fired if they aren't sufficiently servile?
The Miami airport is a sanctuary for the burrowing owl...they poke their little heads up out of the ground and watch you taxi by.
The open areas adjoining the old Denver airport had a population of raptorial birds that fed on the local jackrabbits and prairie dogs. When the airport moved, the birds moved too -- but not until several years later. Turned out the attraction of the old airport was that the ground critters were deaf from jet noise, and easy to catch. As the next generation of un-deafened animals grew up, the birds moved to easier pickings at the new site.
Are you talking about "Maj. Joe 'Cowboy' Blow" under the canopy rail? Because that (a) isn't a name of the airplane, and (b) doesn't even mean that Cowboy is aboard. Military pilots seldom "own" airplanes any more; it usually just means he's a pilot in the squadron.
Well, if car analogies don't work and we have to resort to oceanic analogies, you could compare MRI scanners to the Indian Ocean, industrial uses to the Pacific, and sports/entertainment usage to Chesapeake Bay...
True, strictly speaking, but overcomplicated. The interior of the hull not occupied by gas cells is vented outside, so the volume of the hull is irrelevant. Only the volume of the sealed portion -- i.e., the gas cells and associated plumbing -- counts in determining the buoyancy. If the total weight of the ship divided by the sealed volume is less than the density of ambient air, the buoyancy will be positive.
What pla said. A dirigible is not a gasbag. It has its lifting gas in many individual cells, and the outer envelope is vented to atmosphere; if you look around the Net, you can find pictures of Hindenburg crewmen walking around inside it on catwalks with the gas cells all around them.
Connect hoses to the cells, and you can compress gas from them into a rigid tank, whereupon the cells get smaller and the closed volume of the ship does likewise.
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By the way, fuck your "patriotism" in advance.
Sorry about your sensitivity, but you illustrate my point. When you were drafted, everybody in the crosshairs of the SSS either became a veteran or knew someone who did, and we weren't sheltered from what was going on; today military service is something you can see in the movies if you feel like it. Patriotism has nothing to do with ignorance.
It means most people today not only aren't veterans but don't even know one.
Welcome to Colorado.
A lumber yard caught on fire one night, and we watched as the sirens and flashing lights on the fire trucks zig zagged around the neighborhood - 45 minutes later, the fire was out and they still hadn't found it.
I didn't even have to leave Exceptionalistan to see that happen. I live in a suburban square mile bounded by four section-line streets, trisected by the confluence of two streams, and bisected by a power-line easement. My son's buddy hurt himself on a dirt bike, I called his HMO, the HMO operator set off a full-boat response of police, fire engines and ambulances...and I got to listen to the sirens dopplering up and down and fading in and out until I sent a kid out on a bicycle to tell them how to do their job.
The police are not the ones doing the extortion here.
No, we have a new name for it these days: plea bargaining.
Yes, I find it quite amusing that America was schooled by Putin on exceptionalism.
Well, considering who named it..
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/how-joseph-stalin-invented-american-exceptionalism/254534/
It's possible to operate drones from an AWACS loitering just outside the combat area.
The summary suggests the F-16 was made by Lockheed Martin, but wasn't the F-16 a product of General Dynamics?
GD sold the F-16 business to Lockmart in 1993.
Previous target drones were intentionally one use only.
Au contraire. The Air Force and the Navy both had F-86's modified so they could be flown either by a live pilot or by RC. The Navy had a squadron of them, called QF-86's, in California that provided drone services for all military users on the West Coast.
Pilots would make a number of unarmed sorties against live-pilot machines to practice the techniques, then take a few actual shots at unmanned ones. Live-fire missions were done out over the water, so if a drone was damaged and unsafe to land, they could safely deep-six it.
Every flight of a military aircraft goes into a logbook, and if a drone wasn't manned, the entry for pilot name would be NOLO: No Onboard Live Operator. Navy pilots referred to those missions as "shooting down Ensign Nolo".
The Culver Aircraft Co. produced a small piston-powered aircraft that worked the same way in the post-WW2 years called the PQ-14; a few of them found their way into private hands, with the remote controls removed.
...his home town is Ludowici.
Anyone who wants to do something different for vacation than go on a cruise.
This. What could be more doucheful than paying piles of money to be waited on hand and foot by a legion of poverty-scale Third Worlders who get fired if they aren't sufficiently servile?
The Miami airport is a sanctuary for the burrowing owl...they poke their little heads up out of the ground and watch you taxi by.
The open areas adjoining the old Denver airport had a population of raptorial birds that fed on the local jackrabbits and prairie dogs. When the airport moved, the birds moved too -- but not until several years later. Turned out the attraction of the old airport was that the ground critters were deaf from jet noise, and easy to catch. As the next generation of un-deafened animals grew up, the birds moved to easier pickings at the new site.
The Windows source is open to the best coders at Microsoft, and stuff still gets by them...
Are you talking about "Maj. Joe 'Cowboy' Blow" under the canopy rail? Because that (a) isn't a name of the airplane, and (b) doesn't even mean that Cowboy is aboard. Military pilots seldom "own" airplanes any more; it usually just means he's a pilot in the squadron.
...on Sheldon Cooper.
Most pilots name their planes, and many (most?) pick women's names.
Have you ventured onto an airport since 1945?
Oh, I think I see. So apple trees vote R and people vote D, is that it?
Well, if car analogies don't work and we have to resort to oceanic analogies, you could compare MRI scanners to the Indian Ocean, industrial uses to the Pacific, and sports/entertainment usage to Chesapeake Bay...
Yes.
This is what armored cockpit doors are for. You can detonate a bomb. You cannot take the plane over
You can open a pretty sturdy door with the right explosive...
The hull is rigid, but it's supported by structural members, not by internal gas pressure.
True, strictly speaking, but overcomplicated. The interior of the hull not occupied by gas cells is vented outside, so the volume of the hull is irrelevant. Only the volume of the sealed portion -- i.e., the gas cells and associated plumbing -- counts in determining the buoyancy. If the total weight of the ship divided by the sealed volume is less than the density of ambient air, the buoyancy will be positive.
What pla said. A dirigible is not a gasbag. It has its lifting gas in many individual cells, and the outer envelope is vented to atmosphere; if you look around the Net, you can find pictures of Hindenburg crewmen walking around inside it on catwalks with the gas cells all around them.
Connect hoses to the cells, and you can compress gas from them into a rigid tank, whereupon the cells get smaller and the closed volume of the ship does likewise.
It has cruft and junk in it from almost all languages
The generic term for such a language is creole.
a scosche of this
Matterafact, "scosche" (actually skosh) is a corruption of a Japanese word.
But manufacturing spacecraft on the Moon seems ludicrous. Build them in orbit, and never even consider putting them in a deep gravity well.
Sure, just haul the construction materials and tools up the gravity well and then put 'em together.