. PACIFIC OCEAN (July 6, 2008) The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Regan (CVN 76) and Carrier Air Wing 14 (CVW 14) begin their transit into Agana Harbor for a port call on Guam after working off the coast of the Philippines in the wake of Typhoon Fengshen. The Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Group is on [...]...

The Science Channel is running a series this week called "Moon Machines", a look at how the Apollo program created the hardware and software that got us to the moon in 1969. The show I'm watching now is "Navigation", the story of how MIT created the inertial navigation and computer systems. Such details as "task [...]...

Another guy tries the balloon and lawn chair trick. This guy survived. Looks like he prepared pretty well, including parachute. . Story at the Telegraph. . . Coincidentally, the body of the "Flying Priest" that was lost at sea trying the same trick in April was found this weekend....

Fox News has this story about a "pushed in nose", below. It doesn't give the aircraft type. A 757 perhaps? Doesn't look like a 737 or Airbus to me. . . The article speculates that it was a bird strike. Assuming the nose is composite, a bird strike should have shattered it, not just pushed it in. Composites [...]...

. CAMP SHELBY, Miss. (June 25, 2008) Chief Boatswain's Mate Cecil Watt, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 7, signals a MEDAVAC to land at the logistical support area (LSA) landing zone during the battalion's unit field exercise (FEX). NMCB-7 is conducting FEX to test its deployment readiness. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication [...]...