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The mount of heat required to raise 1 gram of water 1 degree C at standard atmospheric pressure, (29.92 inches at sea level at 59 degrees F). In food, it's the amount of energy producing potential that the food could release being oxidized by the body.

I have gone there a bunch of times, but have always done offshore charters, so it may not be of much value. I've done close to shore stuff as well as five trips to the Gulfstream for bigger stuff. If you read the Outer Banks fishing reports for a couple days before you fish, you'll get decent reports on who is getting what, and where. Keep in mind that these reports are funded by commercial operators like bait/tackle shops, so they are usually a little optimistic. If you go into one when you're there you can always find someone who will give you up to date info.

Embarrassing admission. I was a month off on Apollo 11. It was July 20. First sign of cognitive depreciation. Noted.

I was a Sherkston Quarry. Such a great place. "Houston.....Tranquility Base.....The Eagle has landed."

51 years ago today, Apollo 11 landed on the moon. Pretty good day.

The point I was making is that that isn't "modern day tactics," is is a more accurate way to place bombs on target that was well known two years prior, used in the Pacific and by the Germans. By the way, McClusky's strike group did not "lose their way." The Japanese carrier fleet had turned north because they had finally been alerted to a US carrier group, and were going up to engage, and there were far more than "two squads," as you call them. There were shore based Army Air Corps bombers and Marine airplanes, and carrier based fighter, dive bomber and torpedo bomber squadrons. Calm down.

This has nothing to do with radar, jets or anything other than simply choosing a far more accurate delivery tactic. Midway happened exactly two years earlier than D Day. In that battle, the US Army Air Force used level bombing tactics to strike the Japanese fleet and achieved exactly zero hits. The Navy dive bombing an hour or so later took out four Japanese carriers and changed the course of the war, so it absolutely wasn't a case of "not knowing." Hitting a moving ship is significantly more difficult than striking a fixed target, but the lessons were learned. They simply did things that way then, as they did for years of bombing Germany, with equally inefficient results. Ultimately successful, but woefully inefficient. The weather over coastal France that day was not bad enough to prevent a far more effective air campaign, but they settled for a Naval barrage and ineffective air support.

As a guy who did this for a living, and planned countless strikes against similar targets, I can't understand how these people, honorable as they were, did what they did. Level bombing is ridiculously inaccurate and foolish. What they should have done is come in low level, under the overcast, and dive bomb the German defenses. Same huge mistake made in the initial strikes on the Japanese fleet at Midway, until Navy guys dive bombed the Japanese carrier group. Having done this, and looking at what the "Army Air Force" did in WWII, I wonder why so many live were needlessly lost.

That's the speed required to maintain earth orbit. The Apollo lunar missions would do that until the trans lunar injection burn, which got them to escape velocity, about 25,000 mph, to exit earth orbit. After that burn, they would "coast" towards lunar orbit, losing velocity all the way, as earth's decreasing gravitational pull slowed them down, until entering the moon's gravity pull at about only 2000 mph. They would then accelerate and have to do another burn to slow down so they could land. Watching the ISS closely, if you get a night when it's visible for more than a minute or so, and especially three or so, you can actually tell the earth is rotating during the time you watch it, as it "drifts" due to not being in earth's atmosphere.

First landing a jet on an aircraft carrier, followed about five minutes later by first catapult launch. Actually the first time I'd ever seen an aircraft carrier. Simply incredible.

Are you talking about a regular soldier or Naval Aviator Wade McClusky? McClusky is famous for finding the Japanese carrier force in the Battle of Midway, and the annual award for the best strike squadron in the Navy is named after him. South Park High School guy I think.

Billy Shaw at the 1964 training camp. We parked our car and started walking to the field, and he was right beside us. I asked him a lot of stupid questions, as I was very young, but he was quite a gent. The better story of "what might have been...." We had two late flights from LA to Chicago. One was a 10PM flight on a 757, the other a "clean up the rest" MD80 flight at 11PM. I flew the 757 trip the night before OJ took the 11. If I had been one night later, and he one hour earlier, I would have had him on. I would have definitely gone back and talked to him, as a lifelong Bills fan. It is very likely I would have noticed any "scratches." Could have changed history, or at least I think.

Exterminate that "strange part of you."

Vietnam was before my time, but as a newly minted Naval Aviator in my first squadron on my first carrier cruise, the CO/XO and all four department heads were all flying strikes from carriers during that war. During the transit to the Western Pacific after you leave Pearl Harbor there are days and nights that flight operations are pretty slow, and it gave us new guys a chance to hear their stories, usually late in the evening in our ready room. Some of them were really interesting, but how they hated how that war was managed on so many levels. Such a waste. Very little NFL information during those pre internet days during "blue water" ops when you are very far from land. We'd just get the scores in the Monday morning message traffic.

Visited Colleville-sur-Mer, the Normandy cemetery mad famous by Private Ryan a few years ago. One of the cool things they do is allow veterans to fold the flag after Taps is played each evening. My wife and I are both Vets, her a Navy nurse and me a Naval Aviator, and we got to fold the flag after it was retired at the end of the day. Such a great visit on such hallowed ground.

Those who died in service to the country.

Are you certain that any documentation wasn't created? Simply because a legal complaint wasn't made, or law enforcement wasn't asked to be involved means little regarding what occurred or what was done. The airlines have their own internal processes for this kind of thing, knowing that a lot of passengers are going to pursue legal action. Here's an example. I was flying an all nighter from LA to Chicago in the mid 90's. Get to cruise altitude and get a call from the flight attendants that some guy has likely had a heart attack and being tended to on the floor in 1st class. Turns out there is a UCLA Medical Center MD tending to him, assisted by an ophthalmologist surgeon. UCLA guy gets on the phone and tells me the guy is basically dead. Little hope for survival. I divert into Phoenix. Takes about 15 minutes to get from cruise altitude to a gate in Phoenix where emergency medical folks are at the gate and on the guy as soon as the door opens. MD tells me that there is now way the guy would have survived except for the immediate medical attention and equipment on board, and the extremely rapid divert. Necessary reports filed. Four months later I find out the guy, who lived, is suing the company. Company wants to know if I have anything more to add to the report I filed the next day. Case never makes it to court because of statement the MD made. None of that stuff was public. The point is that there is no way, given the information the sole source of which is the plaintiff's attorney what was done, how it was responded to or how it was documented. People finding a lawyer to file a lawsuit well after the event are not unusual.

No. You missed the point. The point is that you have no idea what really happened, let alone how it was reported or responded to. Until those things are addressed, judgement is a waste of time. Silly lawsuits happen all the time.

My "position" is that you have no idea what really happened, how it was presented to the folks with their jobs on the line or anything else,other that the plaintiff's attorney statement. The best policy is to refrain from a "position," until you know both sides, or in this case three.

Having been on the other side of the door, there are very specific protocols regarding passenger behavior that start with a mere discussion with the passenger and escalate to a diversion and unscheduled landing with full law enforcement armed boarding based on the situation. If the issue seemed to be resolved with nobody suggesting legal action against the woman while on board, that would be the end of it. It happens, If there was thought that there was a chance that a sexual assault had occurred, there certainly would have been reports and follow ups. Again, there is no effort whatsoever to provide the other side of the story, but it may be that there wasn't any thought that anything serious happened and the issue was resolved by separation. Happens often enough. What also happens often enough is the chatting among folks starts after the event and a lawyer is found who is willing to roll the dice with a lawsuit. Airlines deal with lawsuits like that all the time. Rarely do they ever make it to court, and are often dismissed without any settlement.

We have invisible planes? Really? Your link refers to cloaking devices which are not at all applicable to an airplane. There is nothing in it that relates to airplanes at all. Not to give this silly thread life, but there is no real justifiable reason to make airplanes invisible. Undetectable, yes. Invisible, no. The reason is that the goal is to get the kill shot off beyond visual range. It is incredibly undesirable to ever get into some kind of visual fight anymore. The F-22 and F-35 address that issue, but they are not and never were designed or operated tactically in a manner that invisibility would be important. There are some optical anti air defenses, but that is a very rare option. This isn't Vietnam, and it isn't how this work is done.

The fine for knowingly allowing an obviously intoxicated person to board and fly is $20,000. Its taken quite seriously.

I have heard and used the phrase "cannot see" hundreds of times in talking about these things., and I sure as hell know what it means.

In aviation parlance, the phrase "cannot see" is used as a substitute for "cannot detect." The F-22 and F-35 are "low observable" designs, as they address the three ways aircraft detect other aircraft. I think this is a silly thread over nothing.

I don't think for a second that any kind of passenger misconduct is evaluated on the basis of gender. The other side needs to be heard before concluding anything.