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On Beginning the Second Decade
Dec 31st
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Roger (Kent) Beatty is a blogger, writer, adventurer, traveler, father, war vet, retired Air Force Officer, sometime photographer and student of life who seeks to see the big picture and keep a large radar scope. He is fascinated with twitter and social media. He also blogs at TweetValley and tweets as KentBeatty, L5, KBonTECH, and GRAINtech. Email him at kentbeatty @ gmail.com.
This is day #365 in 2009 and the last day of the aughts.
Tomorrow begins the second decade of More >
Sully Lands Flight 1549 in Hudson – Convincing Animation
Mar 11th
2 Minutes from Bird Strike to Splashdown
via: Erick Schonfeld at techcrunch
The computer animation in this video recreates the flight path and Hudson river landing of US Airways Flight 1549. Although the details of the story are by now familiar to nearly everyone—the plane hit a flock of geese, which took out the engines, forcing the pilot to make an emergency landing on the Hudson, saving the lives of everyone on board—the animation captures the sequence of events in an extremely precise way. The animation is timed to the audio track from the traffic control towers,which really shows how little time there More >
Losing a National Treasure
Oct 23rd
Many of those who fought for us in WWII are gone, most of those still with us are in their eighties. In this era of self-indulgence and expectation of entitlement along with an increasing lack of respect for the commitments and contributions of those who came before us the stories of those men and women who left hearth and home and went into harm’s way to protect their way of life for themselves, their families and all Americans need to be told. Of those who went, many did not return. Those who came home have carried their experiences and their stories More >
