Vehicle I-D: F-8 Super-Critical-Crusader, father of modern airliner wing design

“This thing is so different from anything that we’ve ever done before that nobody’s going to touch it with a ten foot pole without somebody going out and flying it.”-Larry Loftin, NASA’s Langley Research Center

NASA photo, 1971.

F-8A Bureau Number 141353/NASA tail number 810 with SuperCritical Wing (SCW) flies in its […] Continue Reading…

NASA’s Russian Tupolev 144 SST, more money spent on the U.S. airliner industry

Before conversion to NASA’s ‘LL’ configuration. NASA photo, 1995.

17MAR1996 rollout of Tu-144LL at Zhukovsky Air Development Center near Moscow, Russia.  A joint project between Russian Aeronautics Establishment, NASA, Boeing, McDonnell-Douglas, Rockwell, and others.

NASA photo, 17MAR1996.

LL stands for Letayuschaya Laboratoriya, which means Flying Laboratory.  The intent was […] Continue Reading…

1:1 scale Wind Tunnel models?

National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)’s first wind tunnel, at Langley Field, Virginia, was an open-circuit wind tunnel completed in 1920. It was not ‘full scale’ and was a copy of a wind tunnel used in the United Kingdom.  It was considered a failure because it could not replicate ‘scaled down wind’ due to […] Continue Reading…

Vehicle I-D: BTR-3DA

BroneTransporteR=Armored Transporter

Kharkiv Morozov Machine Building Design Bureau’s BTR-3DA, upgraded BTR-3, entering service with Ukraine National Guard in 2017.

Ukraine, September 2017

One 30mm ZTM-1 cannon, a 7.62mm machine gun, fully automated anti-personnel grenade launcher and smoke grenade launchers, two anti-tank missiles.

Carries a commander, a gunner, a driver, and six infantry troops.

Quick video:

 

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Vehicle I-D: Iraqi Armor, after the invasion

On 13JUN2019, the Iraqi army unveiled a new tank; the al-Kafeel-1.  Note that it uses an M2 .50 caliber machine gun in a remote controlled mount.  Russian news sources say the tank is based on Iraq’s experience fighting Islamic extremists, and Iraq’s use of the M1A1M.   It is strange that most ‘western’ news sources […] Continue Reading…

Vehicle I-D: Ukrainian Armor

Tennessee Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Timothy Massey, 05APR2019.

BRDM-2

Tennessee Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Timothy Massey.

T-84 during Independence Day, 24AUG2018.

Video, T-84 platoon Grafenwoehr, Germany, 2018 (no shooting until the end of the video):

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Pandemic reveals U.S. dependence upon foreign food!

One of the jobs of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is to inspect foreign grown produce coming into the United States.

The CoViD-19 (CoronaVirus Disease-2019) response has revealed just how much U.S. grocery stores rely on foreign grown food.  One reason for shortages of some food items in your local grocery store is the […] Continue Reading…

Pandemic Oddities: If you’re sick you’re now a terrorist! Veggie panic buying! Animals being slaughtered, but not for food!

CoViD-19=CoronaVirus Disease-2019

More proof this is actually covert-martial-law!

Pandemics reveal the strangest things about how humans act.

Incomplete list of links to ‘real’ news media articles.

Remember the scene in Twelve Monkeys when the zoo animals were released in New York City? Now it seems the World Economic Forum is actually worried about animals taking over metro areas! 

The […] Continue Reading…

NATO’s MiG-21

During the Cold War it was known as Mikoyan & Gurevich, hence MiG.

MiG 21, NATO reporting name Fishbed/Lancer.

BULGARIA:

New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015. New Jersey Air National Guard photo by Master Sergeant Andrew J. Moseley, 16JUL2015.

New […] Continue Reading…

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