News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Monday, May 31, 2010

A little bit of American Exceptionalism

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Was reading John Keegan's book The Second World War . Keegan states that the only place where Japanese conquerors encountered resistanc...

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Saturday, May 29, 2010

Deepwater Horizon poorly organized

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Friday's Wall St Journal described the chaos and lack of organization aboard Deepwater Horizon when the well blew. A young technician r...

Friday, May 28, 2010

Wall St Journal on the BP oil spill

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The Thursday Wall St Journal had a very good article about what went wrong. Looks like it really is BP's fault. The well was behind sc...

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Wall St Banks cook the books

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According to a front page story in the Wall St Journal, the big banks reduce their short term borrowing at the end of each quarter to make t...

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Russians make first test flight of their new Air Force 1

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The Russians need a presidential aircraft to keep up with the Americans. They just test flew a Tupolev twin engine TU-214 destined for the ...

NASA man rates the Russian Soyuz capsule

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Ever cautious NASA requires any space craft carrying live astronauts to be "man rated", by which they mean the maker has filled ou...

Monday, May 24, 2010

Sunday Pundits

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David Gregory's Meet the Press topic was "What can Washington do about the Gulf oil spill". Real answer. Nothing. The men an...

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