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  1. Re:The B52 is just wierd on Build Your Own Model B-52 · · Score: 0

    The normal technique for crosswind landings involves lowering the upwing wing by use of aileron, lining up with the runway centerline, then using opposite rudder while leveling the wing during the flare/touchdown. The huge span of the B-52, and the engines mounted on pods beneath the wings makes it impossible to do this because an outboard engine would touch down first. The problem is solved by rotating the landing gear to match the crab angle on final approach, touching down with wings level, but cocked off from the runway centerline. Looks weird as Hell, but it works. My brother flew them for years, now he's a retired LCOL.

  2. Re:It's a cartoon on Jet-powered Nausicaa Glider Project · · Score: 0

    As a 20,000 hr. pilot, I say it is NOT "doable".

    There are any number of succesful RC models similar to this, prop. powered, but the thing seems to lack any controls. as pictured

  3. Re:Also pictures of dresden genocide? on WW2 Aerial Photographs Go Online · · Score: 0

    The blame for all of the destruction that befell the German cities can be placed firmly on Hitler. He should have surrendered sometime in 1943, when it became the military situation was hopeless. This was his way of punishing the German people for losing the war. The Allies were simply conducting the war. The same can be said of Japan. They were finished long before Hiroshima, and they knew it, so please don't blame Truman for using the A-Bomb to end it all. It probably saved Japanese lives in the long run.

  4. Don't dare criticize Bloody Israel. on What You Can't Say · · Score: 0

    http://www.federalobservercom/archive.php.?aid=236 5 Vol. 03, No. 139 How to survive attacks from the ADL, JWV, and JDL By Ed Toner ~ Foreword ~ The Spotlight was illegally shut down a year ago, yet the following still remains relevant. The American Free Press has taken the place of the now defunct publication (see link below). To the editor of Spotlight, The obituary notice of Irwin Suall of the ADL brought back some memories for me. Your story dealt mostly with the ADL's aThections (sp - word unknown) against some of the most patriotic organizations in the USA. They did not stop there. They went after me, an individual. I am now a retired TWA Captain, as well as a retired LCDR USN. During the 1970's, I flew many trips to Tel Aviv. What I saw there was just the opposite of what I read about the place in the newspapers. The media claims that Israel was "The only Democracy in the Mid-East" were shockingly wrong. Israel is as much a two-tier society today as Germany was in 1939. They just inverted the place, put the Jews on top, and the Gentiles underfoot. This was not outwardly noticeable at first. The place was obviously Jewish, but I figured, "Naturally, it's The Jewish State". There were a few minor inconveniences such as no ham and cheese sandwiches on rye, no activity on Saturdays, etc., but all in all, a layover in the Tel Aviv Hilton was considered a good one. The crews were given the same rooms each trip, so I got the same housekeeper, who I assumed was a nice Jewish lady. As is the custom, I brought her a small box of Chocolates each trip. She was very thankful. On one occasion, I got talking with her. It was Saturday, and she was working. I asked her if she was violating Jewish law by working. To my surprise, she told me she was not Jewish, but an Orthodox Christian. We spoke further about how things were for a Christian in The Jewish State. "Bad, real bad, Captain" was her reply. I questioned ..........

  5. Re:who needs pilots? on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 0

    Sure, BUT would the airlines get any passengers to board such an aircraft? I doubt it. Flying remotely piloted drones with no people aboard is quite a different matter than flying hundreds of people from one airport to another, safely. http://moregleny.com/captainedcartoon.gif

  6. No Fly Zones on Automagic No-Fly-Zone Enforcement · · Score: 0

    As a retired 20,00 hour pilot, and a retired Captgain, I find this dangerous. Let there first be a WARNING, never mind taking control of my aircraft. I recall once losing an engine out of DCA on a fully loaded B-727, and the procedure called for going straight ahead to 800', then cleaning up anfd getting speed before turning, while dumping fuel to get down to landing weight. This took me over the White House, or very nearly over it. I hate to think of what would have happened if my control was turned over to a computer. http://moregleny.com/captainedcartoon.gif

  7. Re:The internet? Very useful ... on Joining the Global Village · · Score: 0

    What they REALLY need is acces to TOILETS! Go to Bombay sometime, like I have. Pure FILTH! http://moregleny.com/captainedcartoon.gif

  8. Weird Presents on Weird Presents Anyone? · · Score: 0

    My wife gave me 3 sets of Senior Citizen Skivvies. Yellow in the fly area, Brown streaks in the seat. Handy.

  9. SUV on Personal SUV of the Sky · · Score: 0

    No way will this thing fly, I guarantee you. It is a trap for sucker investors.

  10. I have a ghost in my house on Haunted Houses Explained: Infrasound · · Score: 0

    I do hear what may be described as "Bass" sounds when the house is quiet, but my wife doesn't. It's sort of a low, rythmic "boom ---- boom". I have a ghost in my house I noticed a few things unexplained. First, boxes of tools, parts, etc. kept on a garage shelf ended up spilled on the floor. Then, large boxes, model airplane kits from a different shelf also ended up on the floor. I found what looked like a wax deposit on the garage floor. It was as if a large candle had melted, and left a pool of wax. I don't have a candle or anything like that in the garage. The outside light quit. before I could get around to changing it, it came back on. The same thing happened in the cellar. The kitchen lights in the ceiling consists of 2 circular flourescent bulbs. They quit suddenly, then after about 20 minutes, came back on. This was repeated several times. The latest was the dissapearance of my US Flag on a staff mounted in front of the garage. One morning, it simply was not there. I had kept it flying, day and night. Three days later, it re-appeared. I spread the word to several investigators, and an appointment was made for last night. A team of 2 women and 2 men arrived at 9PM from Gloster Co. NJ, and set up their instruments. These are purely hobbyists, and no money changed hands. They drove over an hour to get here. I was impressed. They had a huge array of camera's, recorders, etc.. They blackened out the house while Marlene and I sat outside in the dark for about 2.5 hours. I smoked a big stogie. We could see lights from the flashes of the special cameras through the windows. After about an hour, the team joined us in the backyard for a smoke break. They had indeed found eveidence of something supernatural. They asked us if we knew a deceased John. Yes. They also asked if I knew of a deceased Bob, who was a practical joker. Well, I remember Bob Kelly, one of my students at Pensacola who was a real joker, but I'm not sure if he is dead or alive. Then they returned to finish the assignment. When it was all over, we came back in and were briefed. They showed photo's on their digital cameras of white globes appearing in various rooms. Most were in the bedroom, and in the basement around a chess table here. (I have a portrait of The last Supper right next to it.) It will take about 2 month's to put it all together. All the data must be annalysed, and put to gether in a typed report, and a CD ROM. It certainly was an interesting experience. I'll keep you posted.

  11. Re:Aeroplanes on Haunted Houses Explained: Infrasound · · Score: 0

    I doubt it. I've logged 20,000 hours over 34 years, and I was not affected.

  12. Re:As long as you vote for them on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 0

    http://www.infowars.com/patriotact2.htm TOTAL POLICE STATE TAKEOVER The Secret Patriot Act II Destroys What Is Left of American Liberty A Brief Analysis of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act 2003, Also Known as Patriot Act II By Alex Jones www.infowars.com (Posted Feb 10, 2003) Congressman Ron Paul (R-Tex) told the Washington Times that no member of Congress was allowed to read the first Patriot Act that was passed by the House on October 27, 2001. The first Patriot Act was universally decried by civil libertarians and Constitutional scholars from across the political spectrum. William Safire, while writing for the New York Times, described the first Patriot Act's powers by saying that President Bush was seizing dictatorial control. On February 7, 2003 the Center for Public Integrity, a non-partisan public interest think-tank in DC, revealed the full text of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003. The classified document had been leaked to them by an unnamed source inside the Federal government. The document consisted of a 33-page section by section analysis of the accompanying 87-page bill. *Note: On February 10, 2003 I discovered that not only was there a house version that had been covertly brought to Hastert, but that many provisions of the now public Patriot Act II had already been introduced as pork barrel riders on Senate Bill S. 22. Dozens of subsections and even the titles of the subsections are identical to those in the House version. This is very important because it catches the Justice Department in a bald-faced lie. The Justice Department claimed that the secret legislation brought into the House was only for study, and that at this time there was no intention to try and pass it. Now upon reading S. 22, it is clear that the leadership of the Senate is fully aware of the Patriot Act II, and have passed these riders out of their committees into the full bill. I spent two hours scanning through S. 22 and, let me tell you, it is a nightmare for anyone who loves liberty. It even contains the Our Lady of Peace Act that registers all gun owners. It bans the private sale of all firearms, creates a Federal ballistics database, and much more. There are other bills in the Senate that grant the Federal government sweeping powers. S.45 states in section one that the office for State and local government coordination for Homeland Security will no longer just oversee, but that now local cities critical functions will be headed by a Federal director. On Tuesday, February 11th, we noted a story in The Times-Picayune with the headline: Nagin announces major overhaul of City Hall --New Homeland Security office to oversee cops, firemen, emergency agency. The Federal power-grab taking place is widespread and all Americans must mobilize to resist it. Another interesting bill is S. 16. S. 16 is a smorgasbord of Federal funding and control over local police departments and needs to be examined closely. S. 89, The Universal National Service Act of 2003 is the hallmark of an authoritarian society. The description of the bill is, "To provide for the common defense by requiring that all young persons in the United States, including women, perform a period of military service of civilian service in furtherance of the national defense and homeland security, and for other purposes." We have looked at some of the programs that the Federal government has already been setting up for service here in the "homeland" and they include East German-style tattletale squads of every type, which are just basically a super TIPS program. The nightmare goes on and on. Check it out for yourself. The Patriot Act II bill itself is stamped "Confidential -Not for Distribution." Upon reading the analysis and bill, I was stunned by the scientifically crafted tyranny contained in the legislation. The Justice Department Office of Legislative Affairs admits that they had indeed covertly transmitted a copy of the legislation to Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, (R-Il) and the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney as well as the execu

  13. Re:Nice Legislation system you have there! on Anti-Patriot Act Movement Expands · · Score: 0

    What made me suspicious of this at first was the secrecy of it all. it shouldn't be kept secret, but most Congerssmen never read the original. They just signed it to be "patriotic". Nonsense.

    It is also insulting to me personally.

    My name is Ed and I'm a conservative.

    1. I admit that I am powerless as a result of thinking responsibly and
    being accountable for my own actions -- my life has become unmanageable as a
    result of such thinking, given the context of modern America and the
    interdependence of its citizens.
    2. I have come to believe that a Power greater than myself can restore me
    to sanity. As an individual, I am incapable of the sort of clear thinking
    which takes account of the greater good of all of us. I have failed
    miserably to see the wisdom inherent to sending my job to China. I have
    wretchedly refused to learn Spanish so as to make the migration of so many
    to America an easier task.

    3. I have made a decision to turn my will and my life over to the care of
    Government as I understand it. I will apply for food stamps and welfare at
    the earliest opportunity.

    4. I have made a searching and fearless moral inventory of myself. I have
    found myself to be untrusting of my Leaders and uncomfortable with the
    position into which They have placed my family and myself. I have not
    believed in the necessity for invading Middle Eastern countries and
    liberating children by killing their parents. I have doubted the existence
    of Weapons of Mass Destruction. I have refused to believe that some raghead
    in an Afghanistan cave masterminded 17 other ragheads with partial training
    in flying Cessnas into the single greatest exhibition of precision flying in
    the history of aviation. I have believed it was not necessary to kill all
    those babies at Waco. This must change.

    5. I admit to my Government, to myself and to another human being (you) the
    exact nature of my wrongs: I have failed in the past to place my fate
    entirely in the hands of Bureaucrats; I have spoken out against illegal
    immigration, the growing welfare state and foreign entanglements; I have
    made provision for my old age without resort to public weal; I have turned
    from major media and to Internet sources outside America for daily news; I
    have failed to refinance my home and use the proceeds to buy a big-screen
    TV. I am not in debt for everything that I own.
    6. I am entirely ready to have Government remove all my defects of
    character. I want to be just like everybody else: blissfully unaware and
    absorbed only by the contents of my refrigerator and what's on TV tonight.
    I want my children to attend public schools and learn the mysteries of
    homosexuality and the wonders of "fisting."

    7. I humbly ask Government to remove my shortcomings. Enable me to accept
    people of color as my betters, to look upon "hate Whitey" as constructive
    criticism and to offer my blonde-haired daughter willingly to those of other
    cultures.
    8. I have made a list of all persons I have harmed, and am willing to make
    amends to them all: the welfare mothers, the street gang members and those
    unable to compete with me due to the grossly inappropriate and unearned
    advantage provided by my background. Slave reparations, in particular,
    should be paid by myself to compensate those whose relationship to past
    slaves is proven by their skin color, because my skin color clearly brands
    me their oppressor.

    9. I have made and stand ready to make direct amends to such people
    wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others. I
    stand ready to have the Chosen bankers take my every worldly possession when
    the dollar inflates to the stratosphere. I confess that I was a holocaust
    camp guard who ground up jewish babies for soap and should therefore
    underwrite reparations to the millions of holocaust survivors today,
    especially through the purchase of all the consumer good

  14. Re:For what that Setup Costs on Flight Simulator 2002 With 13 Monitors And 9 PCs · · Score: 0

    Gnarly - I was stationed @NAS Moffett 1955-57. Great duty for a Queens boy! I flew the F2H-3 Banshee in VF-152 a night and all weather interceptor squadron, and we deployed aboard the USS WASP for about 8 months. That was a real experience. Everything in life seemed tame and simple after that.

  15. Re:For what that Setup Costs on Flight Simulator 2002 With 13 Monitors And 9 PCs · · Score: 0

    I'm a 20,000 hour pilot, and I've seen Simulators go from the old Link Trainer of the 1950's, to these modern marvels. To keep proficiency, airline pilots attend simulators every six months, for a 4 hour session. Generally, I hated them, and I think I speak for most. No "G" sensation at all, and the check pilot can produce emergency's at the flip of a switch. Landings are not at all realistic. They are good for approaches, and training. I remember one evening in Kansas City in the B-747 simulator, where both of we checked pilots had done very well in the first period, and the check pilot was a real old gentleman. At break time, he took us to a bar around the corner, and we had 2 beers each, then back to the box. We flew the same program for the last 2 hours as we did for the first, and then compared the readouts. No question about it, the two beers had a profound negative effect on our flying.

  16. Re:Sales? on Boeing Moves Towards New Planes · · Score: 0

    This is not progress, IMO. I'm a retired Captain. Back in the 1970's I flew B-707's, 727's, 747's and L-1011's with 3 man crews that cruised at M.85. All these new aircraft have 2 man crews, and cruise at M.78 to M.80. You fly more cramped, longer. Don't let anyone kid you, a flight engineer is a handy man to have in any of these aircraft. The workload has increased to the point that I think it is dangerous. The last SST has been retired, and what did Boeing come up with? A new, slower, cheaper airplane with gimmicks aboard. Wunnaful. Composite construction - Remember the Airbus that fell apart departing JFK when it;s rudder came off? That's composites at work. What we need is a new SST. The technology exists to silence the sonic boom, which was the major drawback to the Concorde.

  17. Re:For geeks like us... on Computers and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Studied · · Score: 0

    I was diagnosed with this, and operated on for it.
    The operation was messy and botched. Recovery was long and painful.

    Before I let them do my right wrist, I saw another Doc. It turned out that all I really needed was a shot of some anti-inflamatory medicing, and it was cleared up.

  18. Wind Tunnel on NASA Ames Research To Close Largest Windtunnels · · Score: 0

    I am suspicious about this. I was stationed at NAS Moffett in 1955-57, flying F2H-3 Banshee's. It is in Mt. View, and is probably the last prime real estate tract in the area, and the developers would love to have it. Think $500,000 Condo's.

  19. Re:blogs.google.com? on Google To Create "Blog" Search; Potentially Remove From Main · · Score: 0

    I came across an interesting one: http://www.indymedia.org/fish.php3?file=www.indyme dia.newswire IndyMedia

  20. Digital DNA Citcuits on Digital DNA Circuits · · Score: 0

    http://www.eugenics.net/papers/gw002.html REPRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY FOR A NEW EUGENICS Paper for The Galton Institute conference "Man and Society in the New Millennium" 16 - 17 September 1999 at The Zoological Society of London Regents Park, London NW1 4RY Published as: Whitney, G. (1999). Reproduction technology for a new eugenics. The Mankind Quarterly, XL, #2, 179-192. Introduction The first century or two of the new millennium will almost certainly be a golden age for eugenics. Through application of new genetic knowledge and reproductive technologies the Galtonian Revolution will come to fruition. This new revolution in the new millennium, which I call the Galtonian Revolution (Whitney, 1995; 1997a) will be more momentous for the future of mankind than was the Copernican Revolution or the Darwinian Revolution. For with the Galtonian Revolution, for the first time, the major changes will not be to ideas alone, but rather the major change will be to mankind itself. In order to briefly discuss some of the reproductive technology ...........

  21. Re:Interesting, but... on Wireless Electricity Set to Power Village · · Score: 0

    Tesla had accomplished this around 1908. He made too many enemies.

  22. Re:Neal's speaking this week. on Jeff Bezos' Shot At Space · · Score: 0

    Rutan had a lot to do with the design and development of this. He's a genius.

  23. The study of eugenics on Indian Scientist's Tool To Map Genes In Demand · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The study of eugenics has its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow, pathologist and politician, began a study of national ethnic statistics in 1871, convinced that the majority of Germans would prove to be of relatively pure Nordic descent. The results of his studies proved otherwise. According to Virchow, the obvious solution was to set about Nordicizing the debased German stock. The popularity of eugenics theories was given a jumpstart in England by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. In 1869 Galton published his book "Hereditary Genius", that Cornell University anthropology professor Davydd Greenwood has called "an impassioned brief for hereditary aristocracy that became the first modern document of the modern eugenics movement". Galton was the man who launched the "nature vs. nurture" debate that quietly rages today, arguing for the domination of innate rather than acquired human abilities. It was Galton's opinion that the human race could be improved by selective breeding and the extermination of the unfit. Galton once said that he hope that eugenics would become "the religion of the future". In the latter part of the century, with endeavors like the Human Genome Project that seeks to map the entirety of human DNA, his hope seems to be moving toward fulfillment. Galton's theories were influenced in part by his examination of the family trees of eminent stuffed shirts in England. He noted that most persons of accomplishment were related to each other - an aristocratic theory of intelligence thus theoretically putting the aristocracy on a genetic pedestal and rationalising a stratified society, or caste system, in Britain and the world. Even the name of the subject betrays something of its orientation. Galton derived the word eugenics from the Greek "eugenes" meaning "well born". This aggrandizement of the privileged class was one of the reasons why eugenics research found ready support from the monied in both America and Europe; it justified their disdain for and parasitism of "the masses". Chairs in Eugenics and Eugenics in Working Society were established at the University College in London in 1904, with the Galton Laboratory for National Eugenics founded in 1907. In 1905, in the United States, the Rockefellers and Carnegies constructed the Eugenics Records Office at Cold Springs Harbor, New York, where genetic research (none dare call it eugenics) is still being done in 1999. In 1912 the first International Congress of Eugenics was convened at the University of London, presided over by its president, who also happened to be Charles Darwin's son. Vice Presidents of the Congress included the First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill; M. von Gruber, Professor of Hygiene at Munich University; Dr. Alfred Ploetz, President of the International Society for Race Hygiene; Charles W. Eliot, President Emeritus of Harvard, and the inventor of the telephone, Alexander Graham Bell. The second International Congress of Eugenics was held in 1921, sponsored by U. S. Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and the presidents of Clark University, Smith College, and the Carnegie Institution. Other prominent support the history of control to follow -included many members of the American Eastern establishment, particularly of the Eastern Establishment Dulles and Harriman families. From 1907 to 1960 more than 100,000 persons were eugenically sterilized in over thirty states in the United States. It is unlikely that the well-known and horrific Nazi approach to eugenics, brutally carried out in laboratories and concentration camps during World War II and reportedly claiming hundreds of thousands of victims, would have taken place without eugenics theory having been earlier popularized by British and American scientists and media, and funded by American and British money interests. German eugenics studies were organized and bankrolled by the family-run Rockefeller Foundation and its allies in medicine, industry, and politics,

  24. Re:Going up? on Life As An African Web Developer · · Score: 1

    http://web.archive.org/web/20010111094200/...Infer iority.htm

    Africa has to get new breed of humans (Opinion)
    The Monitor (Kampala)
    January 4, 2000
    By Ssekitooleko Deo

  25. Re:offtopic on Nuke-Lobbing · · Score: 1

    Nuke Lobbing really a Half Cuban 8. I was a Banshee pilot (F2H-3) in VF-152 in 1955-56. We had the same nuclear capability as the AD-5 Spads. We deployed aboard the USS WASP in 1956, and cruised West Pac. It was a great experience. VF-152 was originally designated as the night and all weather intercept squadron, but became a dual-mission squadron before we deployed. The reason was that the USAF had come up with the B-36 for Nuke delivery, but the Navy had nothing at that time. The USAF and some idiot in Gubmint declared the Navy obsolete, so we had to do something. Our aircraft had been all black, but were re-painted light grey. Black would absorb too much heat from the blast. NOTE - THIS WAS NOT A SUICIDE MANEUVER. Done properly, the aircraft would escape the blast from the MK-7 nuke. We also carried the MK-8, a penetrating nuke to go after underground targets. There was no real danger to the pilot in this one. It was to be used on runways. It would penetrate, then explode underground, and leave a huge radioactive anthill behind. This was the favorite of the Spad drivers, as they were a bit marginal on the MK-7. It could also be dropped from altitude. Go high, evter a 70 degree dive, and pickle at 20,000'. The loft maneuver was entered at low altitude, about 25-50' above ground, and high speed, around 400kt. if I recall. Fly directly over ground zero, pull up into a loop maneuver at a specified G-Force, pickle when vertical, continue the loop until the 270 point, then roll out a la half Cuban 8, get down to the deck again, and run like Hell! Then you had to find the ship to land. I was a 25 year old LTjg at the time. It gave me a real big head.