A Boeing 40C which crashed in 1928 has been restored and flown.
Ain’t she just gorgeous?
Did the United Kingdom commit an act of war upon the sovereign nation of Lichtenstein?
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In a recent interview (“When nature is one step ahead”, New Scientist, 2008 02 09) marine biologist Raphael Sagarin has little to say about security that a libertarian could disagree with:
He believes DHS should be broken up into a number of smaller organizations; that TSA carries out actions which are an incredible waste of resources and that some of the best work the government does is through small organizations like DARPA. It is a very interesting read if you can find it. March 1st, 2008 | 5 comments - (Comments are closed)
Dr. Murray Sabrin is running for the United States Senate in New Jersey and reportedly has devoted his career to promoting limited government and personal freedom. There will be an online fund raising event today (February 29) and Dr Sabrin hopes to raise $1.5M by getting 15,000 Americans to pledge a minimum of $100 each. If he succeeds, he will be the favorite to win the U.S. Senate seat against Frank Lautenberg. I do not personally know much about him but we can certainly do with all the real constitutionalists in DC that we can get. February 29th, 2008 | 7 comments - (Comments are closed)
I believe I mentioned this when the story about the World Trade Center steel first came out. I am sure most of our readers will appreciate the symbolism in this DOD press release:
And I will not. Not until the day the last Al Qaeda swings on a loose noose at Guantanamo or lies rotting in some forgotten mountain fastness with a precise hole drilled in the forehead of their sun-bleached skull. February 28th, 2008 | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
The EU has determined that passenger flights by DC-3’s flown by Air Atlantique Classic Flight or any one else must cease when new regulations come into effect on July 16th of this year. These rules are imposed upon and override UK regulations, so even though the UK CAA is on the side of Air Atlantique, it will make little difference. Brussells, not London, is the capital of the United Kingdom. The new rules require any aircraft with more than 19 passengers must have an armoured door to the crew cabin among numerous other modifications. They even demand an inflatable slide be added to the passenger door. There are no exceptions for classic aircraft and thus after July 16th the soulless gray men will make the European world that much more like themselves. The EU Federal State is a special case of the general truth whose promulgation is a primary raison d’etre of Samizdata: The State is Not Your Friend. Note: If you want to fly on a DC-3 before your betters prevent you for your own good, you had better hurry. You can reach AACF at 08703-304747 for reservations. February 23rd, 2008 | 22 comments - (Comments are closed)
It seems John McCain, of McCain-Feingold fame and little else, has been hoist on his own petard and run afoul of the anti-democratic, anti-free-speech and anti-liberty FEC regulations. This could not happen to a more deserving individual. February 23rd, 2008 | 11 comments - (Comments are closed)
Well known aviation adventurer Steve Fossett has been declared dead after months of searching for his Nevada crash site using every tool available in the modern search and rescue arsenal. Steve has joined that small, select group of aviation icons who flew off into the sunset, never to be seen again. Not a bad way for an aviator to go, actually. February 22nd, 2008 | 23 comments - (Comments are closed)
A successful interception of the falling NRO satellite by a US Navy SM-3 missile fired from the USS Lake Erie (CG-70) occurred at approximately 10:26 p.m. EST last night. It was hit over the Pacific and much of it will have re-entered and burned up by the time you read this. Remaining shrapnel is in a low orbit and will be down within a few weeks at most. Great shooting guys! February 21st, 2008 | 56 comments - (Comments are closed)
With the occurrence of yet another violent attack on a crowd of disarmed people in the news, Glenn Reynolds suggests we start sueing the universities. If a University or any other organization defines its facility as a ‘Gun-Free Zone’ it has an implied contract duty to protect you, and if it has failed to take measures to do so is in breach of that contract. Think of it this way: you have a constitutional Right of self defense. When a property owner or government makes entry onto that property contingent upon waiving that Right, they imply they will in return defend you against harm. This is not all that different from a situation I faced a decade ago as a C-level manager at a UK ISP. If our net news feeds were wide open, we were a common carrier; but if we put any sort of filtering into effect we were expressing editorial control of content and therefor liable for what we missed, be it child-porn or whatever. Let the fun begin! February 18th, 2008 | 26 comments - (Comments are closed)
I was rather surprised to find my own alma mater, CMU, listed at number five on the ugly list referenced by the previous article. So surprised in fact that I wonder if any of the list is valid. If the rest of the photos were as carefully selected to back up the story as his closeup of a small section of Wean Hall in the rain…  Wean Hall is far from the best looking building on the CMU campus but as you can see it is no where near as bad as the photo in the article made it look. I might add that my office was on the back side of this building, facing the parking lot and the old Bureau of Mines. Photo: copyright Dale Amon, All Rights Reserved I will let the campus speak for itself. It may not be in the top ten most beautiful, but it most certainly is not among the ten ugliest. February 15th, 2008 | 12 comments - (Comments are closed)
The US has decided to shoot down a failed satellite. I am sure you have heard over hyped stories about the expected March re-entry already. Personally I had pretty much written it off as a non-story until now. Satellites re-enter all the time. A few bits reach the ground now and again. T’ain’t no big deal. The DOD Press release is rather professional obfuscation of what is going on. It is indeed true that hydrazine is really nasty stuff. You do not want to play with it unless you are in a bunny suit. However… the chance the fuel tank containing it will survive re-entry is rather low. Fuel tanks on space hardware are sturdy enough to hold the fuel and not much more. You couldn’t play basketball with them, let alone ram them into a wall of stellar hot plasma at Mach 25. The real reason they are shooting it down is to keep top secret hardware from showing up on the market in clear plastic pyramids… which is what the enterprising Aussie’s did to the remnants of Skylab. But whatever the reason, this is going to be interesting and I hope they release the videos they are going to take of the kill. February 14th, 2008 | 18 comments - (Comments are closed)
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