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

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Military Budget, Military Procurement

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We are beginning to hear calls for more spending one the military. The "sequester" ,a deal Congress set by law a couple of years ...

Wednesday, September 28, 2016

My Colleges made the WSJ top 500

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The Wall St Journal ran a section about colleges worth going to. They had a list of the top 500 colleges in the country. I was pleased to ...

What loopholes did Trump use?

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Hillary claimed that The Donald managed to pay zip for taxes a few years ago. The Donald did not deny it, in fact he said "That's ...

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Things said and not said last night.

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Hillary got going big on solar panels last night. She claimed that solar panels were going to pull the country out of Great Depression 2.0 ...

Monday, September 26, 2016

So I survived the first presidential debate.

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Nobody made a fatal gaffe. Both of them did OK. Hillary stood up straight, didn't cough, didn't suffer a medical emergency. The D...

Flying on a wing and a tube

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Going back nearly to the beginning of flight, airplanes have been a tubular fuselage help up by a center mounted wing. Empennage at the tai...

Saturday, September 24, 2016

Mount Washington Cog Railway

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Mt. Washington, at 6288 feet, is the highest mountain in the East. Way back in 1869 an enterpreneur raised the money to run a steam railroa...

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