The Flight Deck

It’s time to return some sanity to the way ships are named. Why? Because the silliness is upon us once again: 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. CON. RES. 83 Expressing the sense of Congress that a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier of the Navy, either the aircraft carrier designated as CVN-79 or the aircraft carrier designated as [...]

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The week of Memorial Day over 500 WWII veterans gathered at Willow Run Airport to participate in a photo shoot for a new documentary, “Detroit: Our Greatest Generation.” My mother, who is 88 and served in the Pacific Theater, says it was a wonderful event. She was one of the few women WWII vets present, [...]

are in order for Commander Josee Kurtz.  Cdr Kurtz took command of the HMCS Halifax on Tuesday.  In doing so, she becomes the first woman to command a major Canadian Warship. BZ, Commander. More details here. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

Tomorrow, February 23, 2009, is the 100th year anniversary of the first flight of the Silver Dart, the first powered aircraft flight in Canada. As I wrote about earlier, in October, 1907, Alexander Graham Bell invited three men (one British subject, one Canadian and one American) to his estate in Baddeck, Nova Scotia, to begin working on [...]

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We had no right to win, but we did. My wife and I will be dining-out with 250 of our close personal friends this Saturday. A dozen or so Batttle of Midway Vets will serve as Guests-of-Honor. I hope you all get out to do the same. BATTLE OF MIDWAY The Incredible Victory Norfolk Virginian-Pilot 6/4/87 June [...]

My first contribution to the Flight Deck. I didn’t see any reference to this in the archives here, so hopefully it’s an interesting surprise to you as well. I heard about this story listening to The World’s Tech Podcast on the train today. A gent in England has been posting his grandfather’s letters from the [...]

I went over to the Midway Museum early on Friday for the Vets for Freedom event and found one of the best parts of a visit to the old girl–a docent who served on Midway when she was active. And this one was an aviator. Bookmark to: Hide Sites

“…everybody’s going to make it.” – Thomas K. Jones, 1982 Counterveil vs. Countervalue… Decapitating strikes… Winning a protracted nuclear war… Nuclear calculus… These, and other topics were points of not just mere discussion, but deep, serious study and analysis in the early 1980′s by, among others, a small cohort of graduate students at the Naval [...]