Category Archives: Technology

NASCAR contender? USMC Pit Stop maneuver for E-2C Hawkeye

17 August 2016 (14:27 UTC-07 Tango 01) 27 Mordad 1395/13 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/15 Bing-Shen 4714

Grounds crews at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, conduct ‘pit stop’ on USN E-2C Hawkeye.  The electronics warfare aircraft was on its way to U.S. Naval Air Facility Atusgi.

U.S. TAX DOLLARS PAY RUSSIANS TO DELIVER C-130 SIMULATOR TO U.S. MARINES IN IWAKUNI

3rd self-drive crash for Tesla!

10 August 2016 /19:07 UTC-07 Tango 01 (21 Mordad 1395/07 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/09 Bing-Shen 4714)

For at least the third time a Tesla being operated on autopilot crashed, this time it was in China, and this time the driver lived.

The self-drive ‘Autosteer’ crash happened in Bejing, last week.  For some reason the Tesla sideswiped a car that pulled off the road.  Arrogant Tesla apparently blames the driver for not having his hands on the streering wheel.  However, the real reason for the crash is that the Autosteer did not identify the car on the side of the road.

Reuters reports that many people in China, including the driver involved in the latest crash, say Tesla sales staff are telling potential customers that the Autosteer is no longer experimental and is fully autonomous!

The main reason people who want an autopilot is so they can take their hands off the steering wheel, because they don’t really like driving a car!

Tesla caught directly importing illegal migrants to work in California!

Tesla will cut employee numbers in China by 30%, due to down sales

TESLAs spontaneously combust?

$$ TESLA $$ BITES THE ELECTRIC DUST ON RELIABILITY!

Vehicle I-D: 60 years, the KC-135 flies through the Cold War & beyond!

09 August 2016 (13:15 UTC-07 Tango 01) 19 Mordad 1395/05 Dhu I-Qa’da 1437/07 Bing-Shen 4714

60 years ago Boeing created the cargo hauler/airborne fueler for the U.S. Air Force, called the KC-135 (it is not a 707, its development was actually started before the 707).  

Here’s a USAF ‘remember when’ and current operations video about the KC-135:

45 YEARS OF C-130 MAFFS OPS. WHO WOULD’VE KNOWN WILDFIRES WOULD BECOME SUCH A PROBLEM?