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Fixed.

An embed, courtesy of YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icfVsql38oc Initial word seems to be that the aircraft was carrying a load of vehicles which somehow broke loose and rolled rear, creating an extreme aft CG which led to a stall. As others have said, horrifying. Whatever one may think of the war over there, this was seven guys just trying to make a living. Terrible... sad.

Of course, what future wars may look like is anyone's guess (Remember when we built a bunch of supersonic B-58 nuclear bombers that were as expensive as their own weight in gold, and then a few years years later were trying to figure out how to get them to drop iron bombs on peasants armed with AK-47s?), and wasting billions of dollars that we borrowed from countries who don't like us very much on weapons that don't work very well at a time when even the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff says that the greatest threat to our national security is the national debt, is a policy that's questio

Wow - I haven't seen a scissorfest like that since the last time I was at Lilith Fair!

Yeah, sorry, I really should have caught that little euphemism.

A report in US News and World Report this Friday says that the Osprey will soon get its first foreign customer, as Israel buys an undisclosed number of V-22s for an undisclosed price: http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/04/19/hagel-to-ink-first-foreign-v-22-transport-sale-with-israel?s_cid=related-links:TOP

Today: Road closed - MiGs coming through: http://englishrussia.com/2013/04/18/road-is-closed-jets-are-landing/

There are a lot of decal makers for commercial aircraft. The best place to shop may be Airline Hobby Supplies: http://www.airline-hobby.com/shop/ They have a huge catalog, and I've dealt with them before and found them to have good service.

All too true, unfortunately. From Oklahoma City to Columbine to 9/11 to Newtown to this, incidents of mass violence have become canvases onto which people on all sides of the political fence project their political agendas and confirmation biases. Because of this, instead of thinking of the victims, our first reactions are now often to worry what the political fallout will be - about what the talking heads on the TV or radio will say; about what laws this will push through Congress; about how much longer the line to get through airport security will be and how invasive the inspections will be;

Did you go see Kiek in de Kok?

Today: Building the Sukhoi Superjet: http://englishrussia.com/2013/03/27/how-the-sukhoi-superjets-are-being-built/

I thought they were going with a new low-viz grey scheme.

Today: Retired Soviet VVS Colonel, now cleaning tables at McDonalds: http://englishrussia.com/2013/03/15/ex-air-force-colonel-goes-to-mcdonalds/

A-10s do that better now. And if your guess is the one that's wrong, we end up having borrowed billions of dollars from countries that hate us and wasting it on completely unnecessary items at a time when budgets are shrinking and every dollar counts. Sorry, but the burden of proof is on you to prove that that money needs to be spent. "If you can think of a cheaper way to buy these dresses, I'm all ears". No, my idea is to not buy crap we can't afford and doesn't work to face a threat that there's no real reason to think is coming, and that wouldn't really help even if it did. After

Did you even read what I said? No, I can't. But again, we can't spend astronomical amounts of money on every conceivable contingency. If we're going to spend an astronomical amount of money on an air-superiority fighter at a time when having one hasn't been a pressing need for decades, then the burden of proof is on those who want it to prove that us needing lots of them is a highly likely scenario in the foreseeable future. Sorry, but that case just isn't there. I meant the F-22. We have as many air-superiority fighters in this class as we need. The nearly 200 F-22s we have could take out

Because the damn thing doesn't work. Because it's a bottomless money hole at a time of shrinking budgets. Because it was designed to fight an enemy that went out of business over twenty years ago. Because it isn't necessary when we already have as many as we need of a perfectly fine airplane that does more or less the same thing, which is, by the way, a mission that hasn't been important in forty years or critical in sixty years. Because the aerial MVP of the past dozen years of war has been a cheap, slow, prop-powered drone the size of a Cessna and not a supersonic air-superiority fighter. Be

No vibration, no problem. Except when it is. Then... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTXr1QR3rbQ

Aaaaaaaaaand, they're grounded: http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2013/02/22/u-s-military-grounds-f-35-fighter-jets/?hpt=hp_t3

Today: Not quite aviation, but military-related - unfinished Soviet submarines, never to be completed: http://englishrussia.com/2013/02/20/unfinished-submarines/

Introducing the AirGo seat, brainchild of a Malaysian engineer, that includes its own storage pod and entertainment center: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2281186/The-revolutionary-new-design-airline-seats-make-economy-just-luxurious-class.html Looks strange, but why not?

The Squadron books are old, but good. The Mutza and Drendel books should help you out a lot.

So says Esquire Magazine: http://www.esquire.com/features/man-who-shot-osama-bin-laden-0313?click=pp Pretty crappy, if true.

This is the voice of the Mysterons. We know that you can hear us, ARCmen. This build will be slow, but nonetheless effective. It will mean the assembly of a toylike plastic model kit from Imai. We will assemble this old kit from Imai!!!

Today: The Su-30SM: http://englishrussia.com/2013/02/07/russian-multi-purpose-fighter-su-30sm/