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snoopyeast
snoopyeast

In a gesture of goodwill, Southwest named a row of seats after her.

lloyd christmas
lloyd christmas

Been doing this long enough now to see the slide from something I dreamed of doing all my life to something that is absolutely unbearable at times.  Dad flew for 28 years before me and both of my gran

Lord Ratner
Lord Ratner

Is it hand cranked?

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M2 Gray Beard

M2

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Can anybody explain these wierd blue light over Norway without aliens or conspiracies?

Yeah, another Russian "success"...

New Russian missile failure sparks UFO frenzy

by Stuart Williams Stuart Williams Thu Dec 10, 12:14 pm ET

MOSCOW (AFP) – Russia's new nuclear-capable missile suffered another failed test launch, the defence ministry said Thursday, solving the mystery of a spectacular plume of white light that appeared over Norway.

The Bulava missile was test-fired from the submarine Dmitry Donskoi in the White Sea early Wednesday but failed at the third stage, the defence ministry said in a statement.

The pre-dawn morning launch coincided with the appearance of an extraordinary light over northern Norway that captivated observers.

Images of the light that appeared in the sky above the Norwegian city of Tromso and elsewhere prompted explanations ranging from a meteor, northern lights, a failed missile or even a UFO.

Describing the latest failure of the Bulava as a major embarrassment for the military, leading Russian defence analyst Pavel Felgenhauer said the images were consistent with a missile failure.

"Such lights and clouds appear from time to time when a missile fails in the upper layers of the atmosphere and have been reported before," he told AFP.

"At least this failed test made some nice fireworks for the Norwegians," he joked.

The White Sea, which is the usual site for such missile tests by Russian submarines, lies close to Norway's own Arctic region.

This was the 12th test launch of the Bulava and the seventh time the firing has ended in failure, the Interfax news agency said.

The submarine-launched missile is central to Russia's plan to revamp its ageing weapons arsenal but is beset by development problems.

"The first two stages of the rocket worked but in the final and third stage there was a technical failure," the defence ministry said in a statement.

The statement said the problem was with the engine in the third stage, while in past launches the first stage had been faulty.

The problems with the Bulava have become an agonising issue for the defence ministry, which has ploughed a large proportion of its procurement budget into ensuring the missile becomes the key element of its rocket forces.

The previous failure in July forced the resignation of Yury Solomonov, the director of the Moscow Institute of Thermal Technology which is responsible for developing the missile.

Felgenhauer said that it had dealt a serious blow to Russia's bid to maintain a credible nuclear deterrent.

"By the year 2030, Russia could lose its position as a global nuclear power if the problems are not solved. And it could be that these missiles will never fly properly.

"The Russian defence industry has disintegrated to such an extent that it simply cannot make such a complicated system work. Technology and expertise have been lost," he said.

The problems are also a major political embarrassment, coming as Russia negotiates with the United States the parameters of a new arms reduction treaty to replace the 1991 START accord.

The treaty expired on December 5, and despite intense negotiations the two sides have yet to agree the text of a new deal.

In a separate development, a successful test-firing took place of Russia's intercontinental surface-to-surface ballistic missile Topol RS-12M, news agencies quoted a statement from the strategic rocket forces as saying.

The missile -- introduced to the rocket forces before the fall of the Soviet Union -- was fired from the southern Russian region of Astrakhan and hit its target at a testing range in neighbouring Kazakhstan.

The Bulava, which can be equipped with up to 10 individually targeted nuclear warheads, has a maximum range of 8,000 kilometres (5,000 miles).

It is the sea-based version of the Topol-M, Russia's new surface-to-surface intercontinental missile, and designed to be launched from Moscow's newest Borei class of submarines.

Defence analysts say that a further headache for the military is that the new submarines are designed to be compatible with Bulava and if the new missile fails to work the vessels will be virtually useless.

Or at least that's what they're claiming! :nob:

Cheers! M2

Stunna SNAP

Stunna

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This is certainly a tragic story, but the silver lining is we have possibly found a future C-130 loadmaster recruit? Watch the video at the link.

Drunk 4 year old steals Christmas presents, wearing a girl's dress, looking for his Daddy in Jail

Heh. I know a couple of Loads that may have acted like that at 4, they sure as hell could have done that now. Our country just gets stranger and stranger...

Guest CA

Guest CA

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Washington Times

December 22, 2009

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Con Man Fooled CIA, Playboy Says

A con artist convinced the CIA and other U.S. agencies in 2003 that he could decode secret messages sent by al Qaeda through Al Jazeera broadcasts, Playboy magazine reported.

Duped by claims that "bar codes" on Al Jazeera television contained targeting information for al Qaeda attacks, President George W. Bush's administration raised the terrorism alert and canceled several trans-Atlantic flights in December 2003, the report said, citing former CIA officials.

At the center of the scam was Dennis Montgomery, head of a small software company in Reno, Nev., the magazine said. He convinced the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Homeland Security that his technology could decipher messages with flight numbers and longitudes and latitudes meant for al Qaeda operatives.

With assistance from French intelligence, CIA officials eventually concluded there were no secret messages in Al Jazeera television broadcasts, said the report, published in the magazine's latest edition.

"A branch of the French intelligence services helped convince the Americans that the bar codes were fake," it said.

Lord B SNAP

Lord B

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I think this article made the WTF thread on two separate instances.

1. Ridiculous schemes people use to generate money / publicity.

2. Simply because the words "French" and "Intelligence" are so close together.

Guest CA

Guest CA

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I'm just trying to find out why this was in Playboy?? I didn't know Playboy had articles... Who's the :rainbow: who was reading the articles?? He was probably French too.

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Definitely a WTF, but upon closer review a hell yeah!

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The Department of Public Safety says 25-year-old Richard Anthony Flores Jr., 25, was arrested on two counts of reckless driving and one count of criminal speed stemming from three separate incidents. Flores was also served with seven civil speeding citations.

According to DPS, Flores was caught on camera November 11 around 6 p.m. traveling west on the U.S. 60 near Mesa drive at 79 mph while standing through his open sunroof. The posted speed in the area is 65 mph.

Just two minutes later, DPS says Flores was captured again standing through the open sunroof near Alma School Road traveling at 78 mph. Flores had also been caught on camera November 6 traveling 90 mph on the San Tan Loop 202 near Lindsay Drive, according to officials. DPS says between October 14 and November 18, Flores' vehicle activated photo enforcement cameras a total of 14 times. Investigators have been able to id the suspect in eight of the 14 violations at this point. Officials say Flores has a California license plate on his vehicle with a louvered plate cover in an attempt to obstruct its visibility. He apparently has a California driver's license but investigators discovered that Flores has a local address in Chandler. When investigators contacted a family member at that address they advised them Flores needed to contact DPS.

Flores apparently called the same day and turned himself in the next morning.

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