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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 [...]
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 [...]
Continue reading about Sully Lands Flight 1549 in Hudson – Convincing Animation
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 [...]
