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

Friday, May 31, 2013

What the Air Force dumps, the Navy buys.

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Global Hawk.  A humungous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)  with a take off weight of 16 tons.  That's DC3 kind of weight.   Will stay up a...
Thursday, May 30, 2013

Dandelions, Part Deux

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The grass and the dandelions had a whole week to grow while I was away.  In fact, due to the rain storm that followed me home, they got an e...

Microsoft, cyber espionage enabler

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The TV news has been full of stories about hostile Chinese hackers stealing plans, programming, codes, and whatever for things like the F-35...
Wednesday, May 29, 2013

787 batteries in hand, now to fix APU overheating

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APU, Auxiliary power unit, a little turbine powered generator located  in the tail  to furnish electrical power on the ground when the main ...

Journalist Shield Law

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Heh,  I blog, that makes me a journalist too.  I want to get shielded.  Obama has been trying to dodge the flak from the snooping of a Fox ...

Vacation is over.

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Visited daughter in DC.  Memorial day we went up to visit boyfriend's parents in Pennsylvania farm country.  Not much farm left in that ...
Thursday, May 23, 2013

Off shore tax shelters and Apple Computer

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Congress was holding an Apple Roast yesterday.  Apparently (at least this is what NPR thinks) Apple has an overseas subsidiary in Bermuda, t...
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