June 2005 « Neptunus Lex

Rhythms, Part IV

(Previously)

Well below him, down in the bowels of the ship in Combat, the operations specialist third class races his trackball’s cursor across the radar display to a glowing slice of target video. He checks IFF modes, airspeed and altitude. Nodding slightly, he updates the HAFU (hostile – assumed hostile – friendly – unknown) symbology covering [...]

Rhythms, Part III

(Previously)

0630 – The alarm goes off in the squadron commander’s stateroom. His hand flails around in the darkness, trying to find it, trying to silence it. It is absurdly early for a carrier pilot at sea to wake up – he landed at 2330 last night, finished debriefing at 0100, wrote a brief email home [...]

Several months ago I wrote a rather long, somewhat overwrought response to a question about the War on Terror that had been asked of me by a liberal friend: Can we win?

In essence, I concluded that we could win, and that we would, as soon as the enemy realized that we would not be defeated.

But [...]

Could we lose?

Several months ago I wrote a rather long, somewhat overwrought response to a question about the War on Terror that had been asked of me by a liberal friend: Can we win?

In essence, I concluded that we could win, and that we would, as soon as the enemy realized that we would not be defeated.

But [...]

Rhythms, Part II

(Previously)

0540 – The Officer of the Deck checks his watch again. He’s been looking at it ever 90 seconds or so for the last half hour. Within the last 5 minutes, this rate has increased to every 15 to 20 seconds. He scans the Captain’s night orders by the binnacle light once more. He watches [...]

Rhythms, part I

A day in the life aboard an aircraft carrier at sea.

0330 – the alarm goes off in a coffin rack in the Ops berthing. A hand gropes in the darkness behind the rack curtains to silence the alarm. The curtains serve as a demarcation line – they mark this space as the owners. This space [...]

Plane pr0n

Transonic shock wave build up. Helps to visualize the transonic drag rise . Which, for all of those at home, has nothing whatsoever to do with new age music, or cross-dressing fashion. Just in case that wasn’t clear.

All the airflow in front of the shock wave is supersonic, while all behind is [...]

Wacko

I was thinking the other day about how much of the interest in militaria tends to accrue to the gear, rather than the gear-er. For my part, I

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