Sometimes It’s Just Not Your Day: Military Edition
The B-2 “Spirit” Stealth Bomber is a rather cool looking piece of kit. Even with St. Crispin’s well known dislike of fly-boys you know that he’d still have one in the private airfield which we all know he has at the bottom of his garden if he was given half a chance.
He’s still only getting handkerchiefs for his birthday, though.
The crash on takeoff of a 509th Air Wing, USAF B-2 Spirit bomber, February 23 2008 operating at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, was caused by water in the aircraft’s sensors and has been immortalised on YouTube…which of course is fun for the crew (who all survived) and who are probably trying to hawk insurance or sub-prime mortgages in America to rednecks now due to that abrupt career readjustment opportunity.
The video also explains what technically what went wrong, but when you know that someone is trashing $1.4 billion of kit then you don’t really listen to those bits because you are too busy laughing.
That was their military pension screwed then.
TheEye had watched it before he began this blog, but was reminded by a recent post on Samizdata and thought it was worth another outing just for the fun of it.
Too modern by half much of this stuff. Just like the censors that keep going wrong in my fairly new car and the O rings that did for Apollo 13
Bet those climate-change subsidised wankers were pleased that their new NASA CO2 satellite fell out of the sky yesterday. One less chance to derail their agenda and show that they are full of crap but just riding a gravy train.
There are plenty of sites out there debunking the rubbish being spread, but especially take a look at http://www.climate-resistance.org/ every now and then (not updated every day) for a view of the realistic side of things.
It’s not a blog which can just be scan-read but if you have a bit of time then take a look.
For easier scanning material if you only have 5 mins at work then DK is normally carrying a good climate fisking rant and TheEye loves them.