Posted by redsatellite on May 13, 2008
Ahhh…time for a much needed VACATION. And it looks like South Beach…Miami will be the cure. Miami is one of those cities that I’ve been: near, through, over, and by- but never IN. Until today! Four hours from my house…and a temperature to my liking. HOT. Bee-you-tee-full beaches, babes, and beer. If I blog…it will be a miracle.
With apologies to my 3rd Grade English teacher…..
Ain’t life grand?
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Posted by redsatellite on February 24, 2008
A B2 Bomber has crashed….in Guam.
A B-2 stealth bomber plunged to the ground shortly after taking off from an air base in Guam on Saturday, the first time one crashed, but both pilots ejected safely, Air Force officials said.The aircraft was taking off with three others on their last flight out of Guam after a four-month deployment, part of a continuous U.S. bomber presence in the western Pacific. After the crash, the other three bombers were being kept on Guam, said Maj. Eric Hilliard at Hickham Air Force Base in Hawaii.
A board of officers will investigate what caused the aircraft to crash at 10:30 a.m., shortly after taking off from a runway. It was the first crash of a B-2 bomber, said Capt. Sheila Johnston, a spokeswoman for Air Combat Command at Langley Air Force Base in Virginia.All 21 stealth bombers are based at Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri, but the Air Force has been rotating several of them through Guam since 2004, along with B-1 and B-52 bombers.
I worked on the B2 Bomber program from 1985 to 1988…and then again from 1991 to 1999. So hearing this….came as a big shock. The B2 bomber is one VERY sophisticated airplane…so don’t be surprised- if the cause of the crash rests with the avionics or the onboard bank of computers.
I’ve sat in that cockpit….and stared at all those digital instruments. Call it…… a hunch.
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Posted by Mark on December 5, 2007
My Mother-in-Law went to be with her beloved husband around 8:30 AM Monday morning. A tough time for us, but a good time for her. She will be missed.
She is survived by 8 children, 26 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. I’ll miss the conversations we had about politics, what a die-hard Democrat she claimed to be, but how that was trumped by her commitment to right-to-life, up to and including voting for a Republican, George W. twice. Not sure she would have confessed to that had her beloved husband been alive. He was as committed a Republican as she was a Democrat. He would have never let her live it down…
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