Flight Data Recording F/D = Flight Deck PA = Public Announcement HF = High Frequency (radio) CAM-1 = First Officer CAM-2 = 3rd crewmember and PA CAM-3 = Cockpit Area Mike CAM-4 = Captain 26.18 18.20:28 TOKYO HF CAM-1,2,3,4 TOKYO ROGER. 27.38 18.21:48 F/D CAM-3 [ Sound: altitude alert ] 28.45 18.22:55 F/D CAM-4 [ … Continue reading
Category Archives: Politics
Bretton Woods
We’ve been talking a lot about the Bretton Woods System in my classes this week… 730 delegates from 44 Allied nations gathered in New Hampshire in July 1944 to chart the future course of the world monetary system. Consider the context: US, British & Canadian troops had just landed in France. Germany was bleeding on … Continue reading
Photos Of The Day: Fighters with the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND)
Taikonauts (China Reaches For The Stars — Again)
One issue I think being significantly under-reported and under-appreciated in the West are the stunning gains China is making in its space program. Now, many question the motives of the Chinese and their space ambitions by stating that they are a cover for military research. So what? At least someone is taking action and pursuing … Continue reading
Visiting The Site Of The JFK Assassination
As part of my Southern Exposure tour, I wanted to visit as many friends and family as feasible. My brother-in-law is an engineer and was hired on by a semiconductor company to work in Dallas. As Dallas is along the way back to California, I decided that visiting the Quade family – consisting of my … Continue reading
Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid
In the summer of 1962, U.S. defense officials detonated a hydrogen bomb buried deep beneath the desert of Frenchman Flat, Nevada. The blast was so robust that the land around it rose by some three hundred feet and burst open like a very bad boil, leaving a crater eight hundred feet across. Blast debris went … Continue reading
Europe’s Richest Man?
President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been likened to an African plutocrat after a controversial political scientist claimed that he had acquired control of £20 billion in energy assets – enough to make him Europe’s richest man. Stanislav Belkovsky, a colorful figure on the political scene, claimed that Mr Putin had made a multi-billion pound … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 