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For Thanksgiving week here in the U.S., we are pausing our usual schedule and instead rebroadcasting a listener favorite: the episode 072 interview from February 2020 about the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk with Robert "Robson" Donaldson.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations
The Century Series was the name given to the series of second-generation US Air Force fighters that took the USAF beyond the sound barrier and towards Mach 2. With the F-100 Super Sabre, F-101 Voodoo, F-102 Delta Dart, F-104 Starfighter, F-105 Thunderchief, F-106 Delta Dart and F-107A all on display at the Pima Air Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona, aircraft designer Joe Wilding shows us around the design of these early jet fighters.★Follow Joe on X(Twitter) at: https://twitter.com/joe_wildingGet the latest from the Pima Air and Space Museum through the links below:★Visit the Pima Air and Space Museum's website here: https://pimaair.org/ ★Learn more about the Titan Missile Museum here: https://titanmissilemuseum.org/ ★Find out who is in the Arizona Aviation Hall of Fame here: https://pimaair.org/about-us/arizona-aviation-hall-of-fame/ ★Want to know how the Tucson Military Vehicle Museum is progressing? Find out more here: https://www.tucsonmilitaryvehicle.org/ ★Become a Damcasteer today on Patreon! Join from just £3+VAT a month to get ad-free episodes, chat with Matt and grab some merch. Click here for more info: https://www.patreon.com/thedamcastersThe Damcasters © 2024 by Matt Bone is licensed under Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International00:00 Introduction01:03 Visit the Pima Air and Space Museum Ad01:26 Intro cont02:12 Joe Wilding on The Century Series04:47 North American Aviation F-100 Super Sabre11:11 Detour to the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star14:33 F-100 cont17:13 Convair F-102A Delta Dagger28:53 Lockheed F-104 Starfighter38:49 Convair F-106 Delta Dart39:59 Republic F-105 Thunderchief45:17 North American F-107A51:53 BONUS SR-71 and the D-2155:17 Conclusion and Become a Damcasteer! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The Daily Quiz - General Knowledge Today's Questions: Question 1: What word is used in the NATO Phonetic Alphabet for the letter A? Question 2: Which word is defined as 'a small quantity of something left over'? Question 3: Which word is defined as 'nonsense'? Question 4: The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Was The First Of Which Type Of Aircraft? Question 5: Which word is defined as 'shouting together with joy'? Question 6: Which word is defined as 'used in Edinburgh as a warning cry when it was customary to throw slops from the windows into the streets'? Question 7: Which word is defined as 'a bellyache'? Question 8: What did Wilhelm Roentgen discover in 1895? Question 9: What is the term for the part of a financial portfolio that can be turned into cash quickly? This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Welcome to the seventieth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast. This one is going to be a little different. For a long time I've contemplated doing TWO podcasts; the current Lessons from the Cockpit on aviation and another called On the Nation's DIME, looking at current events around the world analysed using The DIME. DIME is an acronymn for Diplomatic, Informational, Military and Economic... the elements of national power our government uses to analyse how powerful or weak a nation state or organization is absed on those four elements. Our government also uses the DIME as a format for creating operations and plans called Flexible Deterrent Options or FDOs to stop potential conflicts from happening or begin movement of troops and material to a region if and when war seems likely. This episode takes a look at current events in North Korea, Russia and Ukraine and potential flexible deterrent options to keep from going to war. This episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast is financially supported by the ook Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit found in all four formats on Amazon: hardback, softback, kindle, and audile. The softack version has the pictures in color and kindle and audible have a extra file which downloads with the 32 pictures. Aircraft involved in many of the Flexibble Deterrent Options are available at Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. These very detailed aircraft profile illustrations are printed in four, six, and eight foot long prints on vinyl you can peel off and stick to any flat surface. Wall Pilot also creates custom aircraft profiles with your name, unit emlems, tail codes, and weapons loads in the same sizes. These prints are so detailed the AIM-9 Sidewinders have the stenciling and arming T-Handles on the missiles. Go to Wall Pilot and order one or two prints for your walls as this keeps the podcast funded. US Air Force bombbers showing up in your region sends a very clear message to our potential adversaries, particularly when teamed with other nations airpower. This B-1B Lancer is from the 77th Weapons Squadron, part of the US Air Force Weapons School at Nellis AF Nevada. Low observable aircraft like the F-117 deployed to South Korea when Kim il Sung died in 1994 as a deterrent to his son Kim Jung il burying his Dad in Soeul. The F-117s flew missions in and around the Korean Peninsula for three weeks in the summer of 1994. The F-22 Raptor is the best, ar none, air superiority fighter in the world. A squadron of Raptors showing up in your area can e a big deterrent to our adversaries. This F-22 Raptor is from the Hawaii Air National Guard. Lockheed F-35s from the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AF Utah are now flying missions in the Middle East, and one of their tasks is defending our Reaper drones from the Russian Air Force SU-27s and Iranian F-4 Phantoms. This F-35 is from the 34th Fighter Squadron "Rude Rams", the first F-35 unit to deploy to the Middle East region. Thanks for downloading and listening to this and previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast found on my markhasara.com webbsite.
Welcome to the seventieth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast. This one is going to be a little different. For a long time I've contemplated doing TWO podcasts; the current Lessons from the Cockpit on aviation and another called On the Nation's DIME, looking at current events around the world analysed using The DIME. DIME is an acronymn for Diplomatic, Informational, Military and Economic... the elements of national power our government uses to analyse how powerful or weak a nation state or organization is absed on those four elements. Our government also uses the DIME as a format for creating operations and plans called Flexible Deterrent Options or FDOs to stop potential conflicts from happening or begin movement of troops and material to a region if and when war seems likely. This episode takes a look at current events in North Korea, Russia and Ukraine and potential flexible deterrent options to keep from going to war. This episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast is financially supported by the ook Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit found in all four formats on Amazon: hardback, softback, kindle, and audile. The softack version has the pictures in color and kindle and audible have a extra file which downloads with the 32 pictures. Aircraft involved in many of the Flexibble Deterrent Options are available at Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. These very detailed aircraft profile illustrations are printed in four, six, and eight foot long prints on vinyl you can peel off and stick to any flat surface. Wall Pilot also creates custom aircraft profiles with your name, unit emlems, tail codes, and weapons loads in the same sizes. These prints are so detailed the AIM-9 Sidewinders have the stenciling and arming T-Handles on the missiles. Go to Wall Pilot and order one or two prints for your walls as this keeps the podcast funded. US Air Force bombbers showing up in your region sends a very clear message to our potential adversaries, particularly when teamed with other nations airpower. This B-1B Lancer is from the 77th Weapons Squadron, part of the US Air Force Weapons School at Nellis AF Nevada. Low observable aircraft like the F-117 deployed to South Korea when Kim il Sung died in 1994 as a deterrent to his son Kim Jung il burying his Dad in Soeul. The F-117s flew missions in and around the Korean Peninsula for three weeks in the summer of 1994. The F-22 Raptor is the best, ar none, air superiority fighter in the world. A squadron of Raptors showing up in your area can e a big deterrent to our adversaries. This F-22 Raptor is from the Hawaii Air National Guard. Lockheed F-35s from the 388th Fighter Wing at Hill AF Utah are now flying missions in the Middle East, and one of their tasks is defending our Reaper drones from the Russian Air Force SU-27s and Iranian F-4 Phantoms. This F-35 is from the 34th Fighter Squadron "Rude Rams", the first F-35 unit to deploy to the Middle East region. Thanks for downloading and listening to this and previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast found on my markhasara.com webbsite.
The Daily Quiz - Science and Nature Today's Questions: Question 1: Which Insect Can Infect Humans With Malaria? Question 2: What's another name for tetanus Question 3: What is the modern name for Plumbum? Question 4: What insect has a type of hair on it's eyes? Question 5: The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk Was The First Of Which Type Of Aircraft Question 6: What do the initials nasa of the us government agency for space flight represent Question 7: Which British Flower Is Known As The Lent Lily? Question 8: "Which creature, found in various types, can survive for a whole year without consuming any nourishment?" This podcast is produced by Klassic Studios Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Welcome to the fiftieth episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast, a new milestone for our show! All of you have heard of an airstrike or raid on something or someone in hiding who popped up in a valley, a downtown building, or a facility along a river. My Air Refueling Control Team planning and executing operations were involved in some of the highest profile attacks we call Time Sensitive Targets or just TSTs. This episode gives listeners a foundation on why and how they happen and a behind-the-scenes look at some of these very news-worthy TSTs. Most of these were extremely intense events and a few were unsuccessful. The Lessons from the Cockpit show is financed by Wall Pilot, custom aviation art for the walls of your home, office, or hanger. Please take a look and order one or two of these very detailed four, six, and eight-foot aircraft profile drawings printed on vinyl you can peel off and stick on any flat surface. Wall Pilot also does custom profiles of your favorite aircraft with your name, unit emblems, tail number, and weapons load. Go to www.wallpilot.com to see the Ready-to-Print and custom order forms. Prints of the B-1B Lancer bomber, involved with numerous TSTs during Operation Iraqi Freedom's Shock and Awe campaign is Ready-to-Print from Wall Pilot. in print of an F-15E with the Quick Reaction Strike or QRS Alert weapons load used during Operation Allied Force over Kosovo is also available Ready-to-Print from Wall Pilot. Prints of the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk involved in numerous TST events over Kosovo and Iraq are available from Wall Pilot's Ready-to-Print shopping cart in four/six, and eight-foot lengths also. Thanks for downloading and listening to the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast. This and all previous episodes of the Lessons from the Cockpit show can be found on my website at markhasara.com Happy Holidays to all our listeners. We will be back after the first week of January when we spend a few episodes on F-14 Tomcats.
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a retired American single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force. It was the first operational aircraft to be designed with stealth technology.
EPISODE 71 | The Starfighter & the Condor (World Is Weird 7) The story of the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter starts fine, but then takes a turn into comedy, then tragedy before veering into corporate malfeasance, corruption, far-right ultranationalism, secret agents, a modern kamikaze attack, a finance giant and a bag lady, MK-ULTRA Manchurian Candidates and South American state-sponsored terror. Because the world is weird. Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:18 - The Widowmaker - Nice plane, but... 03:32 - Bug, fixes & features 07:08 - Pay to Play - Lockheed bribes Germany 08:55 - Lockheed eyes Japan, taps ultranationalist criminal Yoshio Kodama 14:42 - I Vant to Suck Your Bank Account - Nicholas Deak (the James Bond of Money) hires a bagman, the scheme comes out 17:47 - Soft porn actor Mitsuyasu Maeno flies a plane 21:50 - Tanaka holds on, Nakasone sparks the Second Lockheed Election 23:20 - You've Got Yours! - Lois Lang shoots Deak, Kuhlmann has suspicions 25:40 - Lang's long path to NYC, Dr. Melges, SRI and MK-ULTRA 29:06 - 21 Years of the Condor - The Monroe Doctrine, the School of the Americas combats coup fever 32:11 - Pinochet starts Operation Condor, Argentina's Dirty War, assassinations & disappearances, Martín Almada & the Archives of Terror, Kissinger was a pig 37:57 - Europe considers their own Condor 38:50 - Manchurian Candidates, final thoughts Music by Fanette Ronjat MORE INFO Here's Why the Luftwaffe Dubber the Iconic F-104 Starfighter "Widow Maker" "Sale of the Century” - A reappraisal of the procurement of the F-104 Starfighter paper Lockheed's Defiance: A Right to Bribe? in Time Magazine The Rise and Spread of Japan's Black Dragon Secret Society The Murder of Empress Myeongseong of Korea Bagman in the Lockheed bribery scandal on Asia Times Story of Mitsuyasu Maeno – the Japanese porn actor who kamikazed a Yakuza don Japan rewind: 40 years since the porn star's kamikaze attack in Tokyo Lockheed Scandal 40 years on: The downfall of Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka James Bond and the killer bag lady on Salon.com Woman Accused of Shooting Deak Held Master's Degree The biggest CIA-drug money scandal you never read The CIA and the American Psychological Association: Partners in crime 200 years of Monroe Doctrine leave trail of US atrocities in Latin America Operation Condor: the cold war conspiracy that terrorised South America 30,000 People Were 'Disappeared' in Argentina's Dirty War. These Women Never Stopped Looking European spies sought lessons from dictators' brutal ‘Operation Condor' The Man Who Discovered the Archives of Terror on UNESCO Martín Almada on Right Livelihood How Paraguay's 'Archive of Terror' put Operation Condor in focus on BBC Archive of Terror document scans on Washington Research Library Consortium Digital Collections The Search for the Manchurian Candidate Manchurian Candidates on Shrine of Dreams Follow us on social for extra goodies: Facebook (including upcoming conspiracy-themed events) Twitter YouTube (extra videos on the topic, Old Time Radio shows, music playlists and more) Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists. PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it's going. It's Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER
Earlier this week there were many who anticipated that Turkey would stand by its veto over Sweden and Finland's NATO membership bids. Instead, on Tuesday night we saw the three countries reach an agreement that NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg said addressed Turkey's concerns, essentially paving the way for the Nordic countries to join NATO. After the deal was reached, we saw President Biden meet with Turkish President Erdogan, while the Biden administration reiterated its support for the potential sale of F-16 jets to Turkey. Howard Eissenstat, an Associate Professor of Middle East history at St. Lawrence University and a Turkey expert, joins Thanos Davelis to look at the deal that was reached on Tuesday, break down what Erdogan's real gains are here, and discuss the role the US played in getting Turkey to lift its veto.You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here:Erdoğan gains from lifting Sweden and Finland Nato veto with US fighter jet promiseBiden administration throws support behind potential F-16 sale to TurkeyTurkey pushes Finland and Sweden on extradition after dealAthens not worried about Turkey dealBiden and Erdogan discuss ‘importance of maintaining stability in Aegean'Greece to make formal request for F-35s from USGreece proceeds with purchase of 20 Lockheed F-35 fighter jets -PM
The twelfth episode of the Ukraine Daily Brief from the Deep State Radio Network.Stories cited in the podcast (full list available on website):Czech, Polish, Slovenian PMs Flying To Kyiv To Meet ZelenskiyTweet on Peace TalksRussian advances "remain stalled" in Ukraine, senior US defense official saysRussia's attack on a military base did not affect the flow of arms to Ukraine, a Pentagon official says.First convoy of civilians escapes besieged MariupolMore than 2.8 million refugees have fled Ukraine. Here's where they are going.The U.S. warns China not to give Russia military or economic aid.Bennett holds back-to-back phone calls with Putin, Zelensky on ceasefire effortsSchröder presses on with Ukraine peace bid after ‘intense' meeting with PutinGeorgian Leadership Squabbles Over UkraineGermany to buy 35 Lockheed F-35 fighter jets from U.S. amid Ukraine crisisIsrael will "not be a route to bypass" Russian sanctions, says minister of Foreign AffairsIn Poland, protesters demand a ban on road cargo traffic between the E.U. and Russia and Belarus.EU member states agree new package of sanctions against RussiaFactbox: What revoking Russia's 'most favoured nation' status meansJapan imposes sanctions on 17 more Russians, including billionaire See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
The Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk is a semi-retired American single-seat, twin-engine stealth attack aircraft that was developed by Lockheed's secretive Skunk Works division and operated by the United States Air Force. It was the first operational aircraft to be designed around stealth technology.
A classic 80's movie inspired this Air Force Pilot to become one of the few pilots that flew the stealthy F-117 Nighthawk. Steve Ankerstar shares his story of how he got into flight school, where he trained, and what makes an F-117 stealthy. After 500 hours of flying, Steve was able to fly the F-117. He had been flying for over a year when 9/11 happened. The US Air Force (USAF) semi-retired the F-117A Nighthawk back in 2008. It was developed by Lockheed and designed backwards. Started with making it stealthy, then made it fly. It was the first of its kind for stealth technology. It was known as the invisible man and also known as the wobbly goblin due to the wobbling during flight.
Flying the Lockheed F-104G/S Starfighter - Denny Jarvi (Part 4)Tip Jar: https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_...Discussion on Discord: https://discord.gg/9vJ3hPYFQh10PCT #24: Dennis Jarvi, Part 4.00:00:00 Introduction 00:02:20 Luke AFB & F-104 Fighter Weapons School 00:07:19 F-104 Fundamentals 00:10:55 F-104 Design Philosophy 00:14:01 F-104G Differences 00:15:27 F-104S Differences 00:17:02 AIM-7 Sparrow 00:18:36 A-Scope vs. B-Scope 00:21:07 Where'd you put the fuel? 00:24:59 F-104 Handling Qualities 00:28:52 Arizona's Blue Skies 00:30:45 Advanced Syllabus and the FWS 00:36:11 Slashing Attacks 00:37:52 Aggressor Roadshows 00:40:39 Pitch Up Training 00:42:51 Landing Fears 00:46:21 Frying Eggs 00:47:47 German Air Force Reflections 00:51:10 Nuclear ORI 00:55:37 Steve's Mic Falls Over: Acts Cool 00:56:12 F-104 Nuclear Role 01:03:47 Challenges of rhe Nuclear Strike Mission 01:08:06 Radar Interpretation 01:10:44 Nuclear Weapon Release Profile 01:13:46 Reflections on the Tour 01:15:51 All-Time Favourite?01:22:14 The End of a Career 01:29:10 Did/Do you miss Flying? 01:33:03 If you could Fly one Flight Again...Support the show (https://www.paypal.com/donate?hosted_button_id=GDJU6CM3GWZTN)
Welcome to this episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit show! Our conversation with Mike "Coma" Reed continues this week, telling us his story of integrating all the systems in the Lockheed F-22 Raptor, arguably the most lethal fighter jet in the world. Mike explains why the F-22 program and development performed so well and the F-35 program continues to have challenges. Age and treachery will always overcome youth and exuberance as Mike relates an event with a Russian TU-95 Bear Bomber off the coast of South Korea. Then-Vice President George H. W. Bush visited South Korea and F-4E Phantom IIs from Mike's 36th Tactical Fighter Squadron, The Flying Fiends, escorted the VP's plane into Osan Air Base Korea. Today the Flying Fiends continue to defend the Korean Peninsula from aggression from North Korea and China as a Cold War atmosphere increases in the Far East. Prints of Mike's two F-4E Phantoms for the walls of your home or office can be purchased from our sponsor Wall Pilot at the following links: https://wallpilot.com/product/f-4e-36th-tac-fighter-squadron-osan-korea/ https://wallpilot.com/product/3rd-tfs-f-4e-euro-ii-scheme/ To learn more about the Russian TU-95 Bear bomber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95 Enjoy the second hour of my interview with my boyhood buddy Mike Reed!
Welcome to this episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit show! Our conversation with Mike "Coma" Reed continues this week, telling us his story of integrating all the systems in the Lockheed F-22 Raptor, arguably the most lethal fighter jet in the world. Mike explains why the F-22 program and development performed so well and the F-35 program continues to have challenges. Age and treachery will always overcome youth and exuberance as Mike relates an event with a Russian TU-95 Bear Bomber off the coast of South Korea. Then-Vice President George H. W. Bush visited South Korea and F-4E Phantom IIs from Mike's 36th Tactical Fighter Squadron, The Flying Fiends, escorted the VP's plane into Osan Air Base Korea. Today the Flying Fiends continue to defend the Korean Peninsula from aggression from North Korea and China as a Cold War atmosphere increases in the Far East. Prints of Mike's two F-4E Phantoms for the walls of your home or office can be purchased from our sponsor Wall Pilot at the following links: https://wallpilot.com/product/f-4e-36th-tac-fighter-squadron-osan-korea/ https://wallpilot.com/product/3rd-tfs-f-4e-euro-ii-scheme/ To learn more about the Russian TU-95 Bear bomber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95 Enjoy the second hour of my interview with my boyhood buddy Mike Reed!
Welcome to this episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit show! Our conversation with Mike "Coma" Reed continues this week, telling us his story of integrating all the systems in the Lockheed F-22 Raptor, arguably the most lethal fighter jet in the world. Mike explains why the F-22 program and development performed so well and the F-35 program continues to have challenges. Age and treachery will always overcome youth and exuberance as Mike relates an event with a Russian TU-95 Bear Bomber off the coast of South Korea. It didn't go so well for him and his pilot! Then-Vice President George H. W. Bush visited South Korea and F-4E Phantom IIs from Mike's 36th Tactical Fighter Squadron, The Flying Fiends, escorted the VP's plane into Osan Air Base Korea. The air corridor and escort operation was called COPE BUSH. Today the Flying Fiends continue to defend the Korean Peninsula from aggression by North Korea and China as a Cold War atmosphere increases in the Far East. Prints of Mike's two F-4E Phantoms for the walls of your home or office can be purchased from our sponsor Wall Pilot at the following links: https://wallpilot.com/product/f-4e-36th-tac-fighter-squadron-osan-korea/ https://wallpilot.com/product/3rd-tfs-f-4e-euro-ii-scheme/ To learn more about the Russian TU-95 Bear bomber: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95 Enjoy the second hour of my interview with my boyhood buddy Mike Reed!
Here are all of the sources we reference in the episode:SOURCE [2:23] USB Drive Benchmarks - https://www.everythingusb.com/speed.htmlSOURCE [4:03] 0013 - Oil and Climate Change with the Rock Doctor - https://dysevidentia.transistor.fm/episodes/episode-13-oil-and-climate-change-with-the-rock-doctorSOURCE [4:25] Linus explains the Power efficiency rules - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU_jWooBxzIiaSPONSOR [4:38] ABK Kustomz - https://abk-kustomz.com/SOURCE [6:56] While at the same time others are fearmonger - https://wonderfulengineering.com/this-gaming-pc-has-been-banned-for-consuming-too-much-power/SOURCE [8:09] Sawbones episode on Vaccine Hesitancy - https://maximumfun.org/episodes/sawbones/how-to-talk-about-vaccine-hesitancy/SOURCE [9:27] republican leader in texas dies rejecting the vaccine - https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2021/8/19/2046996/-Greenville-County-Republican-leader-dieSOURCE [10:17] Tennesee legislature discusses ivermectin - https://www.rawstory.com/ivermectin-horse-paste-for-humans/SOURCE [11:20] Skepticrats dismantle ivermectin - https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-skepticrat/episode/156-skepticrat156-lindellible-marker-edition-86133160SOURCE [12:01] Jack Lawrence first identified problem with Ivermectin study - https://grftr.news/why-was-a-major-study-on-ivermectin-for-covid-19-just-retractedSOURCE [13:57] Vaccine effectiveness may be waning - https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/08/do-delta-breakthroughs-really-mean-vaccine-protection-waning-and-are-boosters-answerSOURCE [15:04] Flu vaccine rate 30% to 60% depending on age group - https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/coverage-1920estimates.htmlSOURCE [16:23] 5x What you say, But What I hear - https://m.imgur.com/gallery/2GDNw3rSOURCE [21:31} Biden not so liberal - https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/may/06/joe-biden/joe-biden-claims-he-was-staunch-liberal-senate-he-/SOURCE [22:04] 538 Podcast on the Politics of Afghanistan - https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/politics-podcast-americans-wanted-to-end-the-war-in-afghanistan-will-that-change/SOURCE [24:53] Biden Does some Whataboutism Non-sense - https://www.facebook.com/CBSNews/videos/2922139014766869/SOURCE [28:12] The reason why Biden is confident about an Afghanistan withdrawl - https://www.vox.com/2021/8/18/22629135/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-reasonsSOURCE [34:26] Wikipedia has the AUMF Text - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization_for_Use_of_Military_Force_of_2001SOURCE [36:09] The War on Terror cost 801,000 lives - https://www.brown.edu/news/2019-11-13/costsofwarSOURCE [42:05] The Importance of Scientific Transparency and Reproducibility - https://www.enago.com/academy/the-importance-of-scientific-transparency-and-reproducibility/SOURCE [42:30] Falsifiable is Philosophically Testable - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FalsifiabilitySOURCE [47:41] Russel's Teapot has its own website, it is simple and great - http://russellsteapot.net/SOURCE [48:55] Early Abduction Story From the Hills - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barney_and_Betty_HillSOURCE [52:10] Last Thursdayism - https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Last_ThursdayismSOURCE [54:20] Joel Baden on the metaphor and contradictions in the bible - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS7LgbMr1m4SOURCE [56:39] We discussed Doom speakers (Doomers) in Episode 0003 - Deep Space Deep Dive - https://dysevidentia.transistor.fm/episodes/deep-space-deep-diveSOURCE [58:17] Drake Equation calculator - https://calculator.academy/drake-equation-calculator/SOURCE [58:17] Science And Futurism with Isaac Arthur on the Drake Equation - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhPQRZJAbe0SOURCE [58:30] How many stars? - https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Herschel/How_many_stars_are_there_in_the_UniverseSOURCE [1:01:31] Pluto distance from Sun, 5,906,376,272 km is 328.35 light minutes - https://www.universetoday.com/44534/plutos-distance-from-the-sun/SOURCE [1:03:17] A few interesting speed, Light travels at mach 880,979.64 - https://newsjett.com/how-fast-is-the-speed-of-light-in-mach/SOURCE [1:05:01] Time to travel to nearby stars with real tech - https://futurism.com/long-take-travel-nearest-starSOURCE [1:07:45] Cognitive Dissonance Podcast, one of episodes 588~589 has their bag anecdote - https://dissonancepod.com/SOURCE [1:08:51] The F-117 is very triangular, and there is USA Flag paint job on one - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_F-117_NighthawkSOURCE [1:10:56] Isaac Arthur on UFOs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXYYSWG04gwSOURCE [1:12:30] Government Archives on Project BLUE BOOK - https://www.archives.gov/research/military/air-force/ufos ★ Support this podcast o...
18 tháng 6 là ngày gì? Mời các bạn cùng xem nhé: SỰ KIỆN 1767 – Đại úy Samuel Wallis chỉ huy đổ bộ lên đảo Tahiti tại Thái Bình Dương, ông được cho là người châu Âu đầu tiên đến đảo này. 1858 – Charles Darwin nhận được bản thảo từ người bạn là nhà tự nhiên học Alfred Russel Wallace về chọn lọc tự nhiên, điều này thúc đẩy Darwin công bố thuyết tiến hóa của ông. 1908 – Đại học Philippines được thành lập, hiện là đại học quốc gia duy nhất tại Philippines. 1908 - 781 người di dân Nhật Bản đã đến Brazil khi con tàu Kasato-Maru cập bến thành phố Santos. 1919 – Nguyễn Ái Quốc gửi bản "Yêu sách của nhân dân An Nam" cho Hội nghị Versailles 1928 – Phi công Amelia Earhart trở thành người phụ nữ đầu tiên bay qua Đại Tây Dương 1981 – Máy bay tàng hình đầu tiên trên thế giới Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk bay thử nghiệm lần đầu. 1983 – Trên tàu con thoi Challenger, nhà du hành vũ trụ Sally Ride trở thành người phụ nữ Hoa Kỳ đầu tiên trong không gian, và là người phụ nữ thứ ba sau hai nhà du hành Liên Xô Valentina Tereshkova và Svetlana Savitskaya. Ngày lễ và kỷ niệm Ngày tự hào về người tự kỷ ( Quốc tế ) Sinh 1907 – Võ An Ninh, tên thật là Vũ An Tuyết, là một nghệ sĩ nhiếp ảnh nổi tiếng của Việt Nam. Ông sở hữu nhiều bộ ảnh có giá trị của lịch sử Việt Nam. (m. 2009) 1942 – Paul McCartney, ca sĩ người Anh, thành viên tứ quái The Beatles. Ông cũng là giọng ca chính và là tay guitar bass của ban nhạc The Beatles. Ông cùng với John Lennon là bộ đôi sáng tác vĩ đại. 1946 – Fabio Capello, huấn luyện viên Ý 1952 - Lee Soo-man ,là một nhà sản xuất âm nhạc người Hàn Quốc, thường được biết là người sáng lập nên công ty giải trí SM Entertainment của Hàn Quốc. 1971 - Nathan Morris , ca sĩ nhạc soul, doanh nhân người Mỹ và là thành viên sáng lập của ban nhạc Mỹ Boyz II Men 1976 - Blake Shelton , ca sĩ, nhạc sĩ nổi tiếng dòng nhạc đồng quê của Hoa Kỳ 1979 - Vương Uyển Chi (Ivana Wong) , ca sĩ kiêm nhạc sĩ kiêm diễn viên Hong Kong 1989 – Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, là một cầu thủ bóng đá chuyên nghiệp người Gabon đang chơi cho câu lạc bộ Arsenal của Anh và Đội tuyển bóng đá quốc gia Gabon 2001 - Yabuki Nako, nữ ca sĩ người Nhật, thành viên nhóm nhạc Hàn Quốc IZ*ONE và nhóm nhạc Nhật Bản HTK48 Mất 1930 – Cô Giang, hay Nguyễn Thị Giang, nhà cách mạng người Việt chống thực dân Pháp (s. 1906) #aweektv #homnayngaygi #28thang6 Bạn có thể theo dõi chương trình Hôm nay ngày gì tại các nền tảng: Facebook, Youtube, Spotify trên channel A Week TV. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/aweek-tv/message
Em março de 1999, um míssil de defesa antiaérea iugoslavo, munido com projétil soviético, atingiu um Lockheed F-117 da Força Aérea dos Estados Unidos. Foi o único Nighthawk abatido em confronto. Na cabine, o Tenente-Coronel Dale Zelko conseguiu se ejetar e ser resgatado. Mais de uma década depois, Dale obteve uma façanha ainda maior: se tornou amigo do seu próprio atirador, o coronel sérvio Zoltan Dani. Neste episódio, o Comandante Lito conta detalhes dessa surpreendente história e divide a cabine com AD Junior - outro aficionado por aviação. Frequentador assíduo de aeroportos, o influenciador digital revela suas experiências em voos pelo mundo, apresenta Gladys West, a mulher que desenvolveu o GPS, e reflete sobre a falta de profissionais negros nas companhias aéreas brasileiras.
Пожалуй будет неожиданно начинать с относительно немаленькой статьи в качестве первой своей записи, но в принципе почему бы и нет? Сегодня я расскажу вам о том самом, кривом и неказистом F-117 STEALTH Fighter или, проще говоря, F-117 Nighthawk. Вообще я был удивлен, что, после поиска, я нигде не увидел материалов по этому самолету в группе. С одной стороны, этот факт объясняется тем, что самолет обладает невиданной славой, и представлять его почти никому не надо, однако с другой стороны я даже среди людей, имеющих определенный опыт в сфере авиации, наблюдаю поразительное количество мифов в голове про эту фундерфавлю (не опечатка). Текстовая версия: https://vk.com/wall-162479647_295021 Автор: https://vk.com/scernefhaal Чтец: https://vk.com/figing Наш паблик в ВК: https://vk.com/catx2 Поддержать нас по можно следующим реквизитам: Сбербанк: 4817 7602 5281 8947 Яндекс: 4100 1623 736 3870 с пометкой "на подкасты" Также вы можете слушать нас на Яндексе и в Гугле: https://music.yandex.ru/album/10753357 https://podcasts.google.com/search/Cat_Cat
The 'Century Series' speeds by with a discussion on the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter ( https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/history/f-104.html ) , a mach 2-capable interceptor designed by the legendary Kelly Johnson ( https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/news/features/history/johnson.html ). Former Canadian Armed Forces Captain Rob "Flecko" Fleck joins us to explore this distinctly shaped Cold War fighter with guest cohost Bruce Gordon ( https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1491846038/ref=as_li_tl?camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1491846038&ie=UTF8&linkCode=as2&linkId=61dc8496f5603c8358ae0b8dd058a045&tag=ftrpltpdcst18-20 ) adding his usual color to the discussion. Listener questions answered on this episode include whether downing an unmanned aircraft constitutes an "aerial victory," why medical requirements differ between the U.S. Air Force ( https://www.af.mil/ ) and Navy ( https://www.navy.mil/ ) , whether prior military experience is required to become an Air National Guard ( https://www.ang.af.mil/ ) pilot, if technology renders obsolete second crew members in fighter jets, and more. Bumper music by Jaime Lopez / announcements by Clint Bell ( https://www.clintbellproductions.com/ ). This episode was produced by our friends at the MuscleCar Place Podcast Network ( https://www.themusclecarplace.com/ ). Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
The Lockheed F-35 Lightning II is going to be more or less what the F-16 and F-18 are today: the backbone of the US and NATO land and sea-based air forces. It is a multi-role fighter, and one of its versions has the capability to take off with a very short roll and land vertically. Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton is a test pilot who has flown all three versions of the jet. In this episode we talk about flying this fifth-gen fighter and about some aspects of the testing program. For more F-35 and Cinco check out episode 78 of the Fighter Pilot Podcast.
The Lockheed F-35 Lightning II is going to be more or less what the F-16 and F-18 are today: the backbone of the US and NATO land and sea-based air forces. It is a multi-role fighter, and one of its versions has the capability to take off with a very short roll and land vertically. Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton is a test pilot who has flown all three versions of the jet. In this episode we talk about flying this fifth-gen fighter and about some aspects of the testing program.
Überschallschnelle Kampfjets stehen an der Spitze des technischen Fortschritts. Karl Schwarz, stellvertretender Chefredakteur der FLUG REVUE, erzählt, warum besonders die MiG-21 so erfolgreich war und was die McDonell Douglas F-4 Phantom zum erfolgreichsten westlichen Muster macht. Auch die MiG-23, die Lockheed F-104 Starfighter ebenso wie die Lockheed Martin F-16 und F-35 haben sich einen Platz auf der Bestenliste erkämpft.
The Green Dot crew sat down with Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk pilots Col. Al Whitley, Col. Ralph Getchell, and Col. Greg Gonyea to talk about their aviation journeys and their experiences flying one of history’s most secretive aircraft.
A true space exploration legend tells us what it was like to orbit the moon and why he's never stopped wanting to fly higher. Show Notes (1:24) Apollo 10 (1:40) Gemini 6A (11:15) Skunk Works (15:00) Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (17:00) Gemini 9A (19:42) Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk (25:00) B-2 Stealth Bomber (32:30) Omega Speedmaster Moonwatch (42:00) Omega X33
Today Joe Walsh, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee and multi GRAMMY Award recipient, announced his first annual concert to support VetsAid, his new 501(C)(3) certified national non-profit to help veterans and their families. Zac Brown Band, Gary Clark Jr. and four time GRAMMY Award recipient Keith Urban will be joining Joe on the bill September 20, 2017 at the EagleBank Arena in Fairfax, VA, with more artists to be announced soon. Veterans and their wellbeing have always been important to Walsh, a Gold Star family member himself. His father was a flight instructor for the first US operational jet powered aircraft, the Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star, and died while stationed, and on active duty on Okinawa when Joe was just 20 months old. Joe has been involved with veterans’ related causes for years, supporting various charities, visiting the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center and offering free guitar lessons to the wounded veterans there. He has campaigned for his good friend, Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, an Iraq War veteran and double amputee. Joe aims to use this platform to raise funds and awareness for the still urgent and significant needs of our returning soldiers. Through the establishment of VetsAid and its annual benefit concert, he wants to give back to those who have given so much in sacrifice for our country. Consider these devastating statistics: In addition to the nearly 7,000 American Military Casualties of War from the wars in the Middle East since 2001, there are nearly 51,000 who made it home wounded.[1] Returning veterans have a 50% higher suicide rate than other civilians.[2] VetsAid plans to directly support a variety of established and tested veterans-based charities, namely those with a proven track-record that take care to provide complete and holistic care for veterans and their families, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. “War is hell for everyone involved,” Joe Walsh explains. “I lost my father when I was a baby, before I could even make a memory of him. I stopped counting the number of friends I lost in the Vietnam War or that came home forever scarred mentally or physically or both. We’ve only just begun to appreciate the long-term impacts on our troops home from Iraq. And in Afghanistan, the longest war in American history continues to drag on with no end in sight and just last month this administration committed to send thousands more of our young men and women into the conflict with no defined goal or strategy.[3]” “I had to do something and seeing as though rock-and-roll seems to be what I do best,” Walsh continues, “it’s also the least I could do for those who have served and continue to serve our country. We’re all in this together as Americans and seems to me lately that people are forgetting that. I asked my buddies Zac, Gary and Keith to step up and I’m so grateful that they did. Let’s put on a show, raise some money and celebrate our vets… and let’s do it every year!” Support the show.
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Bob was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1926 and graduated from The Webb School in Bell Buckle, Tennessee in 1944. At age 17, Bob volunteered for the US Navy and was training to go into submarines when he was accepted into the US Naval Academy at the war’s end. As a midshipman he served on various warships, including a heavy cruiser, destroyer, carrier, and the battleship USS North Carolina in which his GQ station was the 16 inch gun turret. Bob graduated from the US Naval Academy in 1949. He took his commission in the Air Force where he could go immediately to flight school. He went on to fly the Republic F-84 ThunderJet in combat against MIGS in Korea and was then selected after the war for the elite Air Force Research and Development team where he flew virtually every aircraft in the USAF inventory including “expanding the envelope” in the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter. As a Lockhead F-104 instructor pilot, Bob taught some of the world’s leading pilots how to fly the Starfighter. Some of his students included WW2 Luftwaffe fighter aces Gunther Rall, and Johannes Steinhoff as well as Canada’s Wing Commander Kenneth Lett and USAF General John Dunning. Remarkably, Bob has made 5 successful “dead stick” landings in the F-104 – an amazing accomplishment given that the F-104 glides like a “toolbox” and is extremely unforgiving of pilot errors. Bob was also involved with fellow Lockheed test pilot Darryl Greenamyer in breaking the FAI world restricted altitude speed record of 988.26 mph in a highly modified F-104 on October 24, 1978. Bob Gilliland has logged more test flight hours at Mach 3 than any other pilot in the world. He has been recognized and honored for his work many times. In the Smithsonian’s Air and Space Museum, he is honored for making one of the greatest contributions to aviation in his time as a test pilot/astronaut joining the 7 Mercury astronauts, Charles Lindberg and Howard Hughes in the same honor. Bob is a fellow in the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and a recipient of the “Lifetime Achievement Award” by the Flight Test Historical Foundation for his distinguished aviation career. Bob was awarded the prestigious Ivan C. Kincheloe Award in 1964 for his work on the Blackbird program. He was named an Eagle by the Air Force Flight Test Historical Foundation in 1998 and received the Godfrey L. Cabot Award in 2001. Among his many honors, the one which he seems to have enjoyed the most, was the “Legends of Aerospace Tour” to Europe and the Middle East in March of 2010. As one of America’s five Legends, along with astronauts Neil Armstrong, Gene Cernan, Jim Lovell, and Vietnam fighter ace Steve Ritchie, the Tour stopped at many “down range” US military bases and hospitals. Former Good Morning America host David Hartman served as the moderator for the Tour. The Legends spoke daily to thousands of our servicemen defending our interests abroad, reminding Bob, he said with a smile, of how much he had enjoyed seeing Bob Hope and Betty Grable visit his airbase when he was flying combat in Korea.
John and Dan talk about absent whistling, living a rule-based life, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, magical reality, and gnomes.
John and Dan talk about absent whistling, living a rule-based life, the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, magical reality, and gnomes.
Chuck Yeager, one of the most famous test pilots in US aviation history, takes listeners though the development of the rocket-propelled Bell XS-1 / X-1 in which he became the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound in level flight, including taking us through the test flights and politics of the X-1 flight programme. Yeager also discusses the flight tests of the X-1a, Northrop X-4 Bantam and McDonnell F-4 Phantom, then discusses some of his contemporaries in the test pilot seat, including working with Neville Duke on the Hawker Hunter. Yeager finishes off by talking about the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter altitude record and training astronauts to fly the machine. The interview took place in 1979 and was conducted by Rodney Giesler and was edited by Mike Stanberry MRAeS.
Today we revel in the Landoness of Don Glover, ESA Mars lander augers in, absurd Martian landing techniques, Macgyvering a makeshift lathe with our hands and a power drill, giving it the beans, Samsung continues to blow up, fun pranks with Chromebooks, the REAL Captain Kirk, a Roman coin found in a Japanese castle, forgotten cross cultural exchanges, Wonderwoman vs UN staffers, Julian Assange has been cut off, and order your 2017 DMC 12 today!Links from this episode:- Donald Glover Is Your New Lando Calrissian - Dark Spot in Mars Photo Is Probably Wreckage of European Spacecraft- Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover- Mars Exploration Rovers - Spacecraft: Airbags- Inspect Element: How to Temporarily Edit Any Webpage- nCage- Cenafy- Navy Launches Largest Destroyer, With Captain Kirk at the Helm- Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk- Coins From The Roman Empire Found In Ruins Of Japanese Castle - Tucson artifacts - Muslims and Jews in the 16th century- Wonder Woman appointed UN ambassador amid staff protest- Ecuador cuts off Internet access for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange- 2017 DeLorean Pre-Order Interest Application
Fiveofthebest.podomatic.com The Munich air disaster occurred on 6 February 1958, when British European AirwaysFlight 609 crashed on its third attempt to take off from a slush-covered runway atMunich-Riem Airport in Munich, West Germany. On board the plane was theManchester United football team, nicknamed the "Busby Babes", along with a number of supporters and journalists.[1] Twenty of the 44 people on board the aircraft died in the crash The new wing design was extremely thin, with a thickness-to-chord ratio of only 3.36% and an aspect ratio of 2.45. The wing's leading-edges were so thin (0.016 in/0.41 mm) and sharp that they presented a hazard to ground crews, and protective guards had to be installed during ground operations. The safety record of the F-104 Starfighter became high-profile news, especially in Germany, in the mid-1960s. In West Germany it came to be nicknamed Witwenmacher ("The Widowmaker"). Some operators lost a large proportion of their aircraft through accidents, although the accident rate varied widely depending on the user and operating conditions; the German Air Force lost about 30% of aircraft in accidents over its operating career,[38] and Canada lost over 50% of its F-104s.[39] The Spanish Air Force, however, lost none.[40][41] 15,000 metres (49,000 ft) in 131.1 seconds 20,000 metres (66,000 ft) in 222.99 seconds 25,000 metres (82,000 ft) in 266.03 seconds Zenith engineer, Eugene Polley created the "Flash-matic" the first wireless TV remote in 1955. The Flash-matic operated by means of four photocells, one in each corner of the TV screen. The viewer used a directional flashlight to activate the four control functions, which turned the picture and sound on and off, and turned the channel tuner dial clockwise and counter-clockwise. By definition the integrated circuit aka microchip is a set of interconnected electronic components such as transistors and resistors, that are etched or imprinted on a onto a tiny chip of a semiconducting material, such as silicon or germanium. Jack Kilby, an engineer with a background in ceramic-based silk screen circuit boards and transistor-based hearing aids, started working for Texas Instrumentsin 1958. A year earlier, research engineer Robert Noyce had co-founded the Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation. From 1958 to 1959, both electrical engineers were working on an answer to the same dilemma: how to make more of less. jack kilby's first integrated curcuit The traitorous eight are eight men who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957, due to a conflict withWilliam Shockley, to form Fairchild Semiconductor. Fairchild Bill robert noyce 15 min video about traitorous eight http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLNh4UY5ohw In 1958 and 1961, the American Air Force lost nuclear weapons over the skies of South and North Carolina, respectively, raining potential apocalypse on the folks below. In both incidents, complete catastrophe was avoided thanks to that ever-potent combination of foresight and unmitigated dumb luck. And in the former incident, the bomb fell square on some unsuspecting children's playhouse. Unlike the 1958 mishap, the Goldsboro crash could have had dire consequences for the Tar Heel State. As the bombs' deactivator Dr. Jack Revelle later admitted, "How close was it to exploding? My opinion is damn close. In 1957, a B-36 accidentally salvoed a hydrogen bomb though it's bay doors while on approach to Kirtland AFB. The core was installed but didn't detonate, the conventional explosives did set off, scattering radioactive debris over a large swath of scrub land. In the early 90's the area was still restricted due to radiation concerns.
Events of 1988 Tyson made his professional debut as an 18-year-old on March 6, 1985, in Albany, New York. He defeated Hector Mercedes via a first round knockout.[8] He had 15 bouts in his first year as a professional. Fighting frequently, Tyson won 26 of his first 28 fights by KO or TKO; 16 of those came in the first round.[19] The quality of his opponents gradually increased to journeyman fighters and borderline contenders,[19] like James Tillis, David Jaco, Jesse Ferguson Events of 1988 In 1943, Reichsmarschall Göring issued a request for design proposals to produce a bomber that was capable of carrying a 1,000 kilograms (2,200 lb) load over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) at 1,000 kilometres per hour (620 mph); the so-called "3 X 1000 project". Conventional German bombers could reach Allied command centers in Great Britain, but were suffering devastating losses from Allied fighters. At the time, there was no way to meet these goals — the new Junkers Jumo 004B turbojets could provide the required speed, but had excessive fuel consumption. The Hortens concluded that the low-drag flying wing design could meet all of the goals: by reducing the drag, cruise power could be lowered to the point where the range requirement could be met. They put forward their private project, the H.IX, as the basis for the bomber. The Government Air Ministry (Reichsluftfahrtministerium) approved the Horten proposal, but ordered the addition of two 30 mm cannons, as they felt the aircraft would also be useful as a fighter due to its estimated top speed being significantly higher than that of any Allied aircraft. The Northrop XB-35 and YB-35 were experimental heavy bomber aircraft developed by the Northrop Corporation for the United States Army Air Forcesduring and shortly after World War II. The airplane used the radical and potentially very efficient flying wing design, in which the tail section and fuselage are eliminated and all payload is carried in a thick wing. Only prototype and pre-production aircraft were built, although interest remained strong enough to warrant further development of the design as a jet bomber, under the designation YB-49. During early 1950, the remaining YB-35Bs airframes being converted to YRB-49As were scrapped. Flight testing of the sole remaining YB-49 prototype ended 14 March 1950. On 15 March 1950, that program was canceled, and coincidentally, that last YB-49 prototype suffered a high-speed taxiing accident and, as previously noted, was totally destroyed in the ensuing fire. But only two months later, all Flying Wing contracts were canceled abruptly without explanation by order of Stuart Symington,Secretary of the Air Force. Shortly thereafter, also without explanation, Symington turned down a request from the Smithsonian for the Air Force to donate one of these big wings to its collection of pioneering Northrop aircraft.[4] In contrast to the flat surfaces of the earlier F-117 Nighthawk, the B-2 is composed of many curved and rounded surfaces across its exposed airframe to deflect radar beams. Additional reduction in its radar signature was achieved by the use of various radar-absorbent materials(RAM) to absorb and neutralize radar beams. The B-2's clean, low-drag flying wingconfiguration not only gives it exceptional range but is also beneficial to reducing its radar profile.[56][85] The shroud is rectangular, measuring approximately 4.4 × 1.1 m (14.3 × 3.7 ft). The cloth is woven in a three-to-one herringbone twill composed of flax fibrils. Its most distinctive characteristic is the faint, brownish image of a front and back view of a naked man with his hands folded across his groin. The two views are aligned along the midplane of the body and point in opposite directions. The front and back views of the head nearly meet at the middle of the cloth.[16] Reddish brown stains that have been said to include whole blood are found on the cloth, showing various wounds that, according to proponents, correlate with the yellowish image Alain Prost vs. Ayrton Senna, the legendary feud between two of the greatest F1 drivers ever, began in earnest in 1988 when Alain Prost convinced Team McLaren to sign a young Ayrton Senna as his teammate. Their personalities clashed from the start, with Senna being a brash risktaker, pushing the car to its limits every lap, compared to Prost's more cautious and calculating style, preferring to save tires and fuel for a strong finish . At the end of the 1988 season, the McLaren duo would win 15 of the 16 races on the F1 schedule (Senna with 8 wins, Prost with 7).