Month: January 2006

What’s Up 2006 – 365 Days of Skywatching

What’s Up 2006 – 365 Days of Skywatching

This is a FREE 407-page downloadable book containing What’s Up material for every day in 2006. You can download the book to your local computer, go to the day you like and print off the page to take outside with you nicely formatted. It’s also got tons of other material including general skywatching advice, equipment selection, and hundreds of beautiful photographs

Princess Juliana Airport Landings- St. Marteen-

Princess Juliana International St. Marteen- ANTILLES Landing Pictures

In addition to that collection of photos, this is still the most infamous landing, as it took out the fence.

This video of what happens to cars behind a 747 will give you an idea of the power involved.

My Mother-in-law lives on the hill above the airport. After work, we swim at Sunset Beach, in the runway’s path. There is web cam at the Sunset Beach Bar, where the entertainment is watching the sun go down and watch tourists get blown into the ocean.. After you sign in, choose the Roof Cam, then choose PLIA Airport in the drop-down dialog box to see the action.

Here these videos shot from the Sunset Beach Bar gives you an idea as to just how close you are to the action.

And if you choose to stand on the beach in the flight path.

Hard Kill v Soft Kill in Iran

Flit(tm): Hard Kill v Soft Kill in Iran

We don’t have the intelligence to know if we have time for a Soft Kill.

The only way that we found out about, Iraq’s and Iran’s programs was from defectors not the IAEA. Likewise Libia revealed their nuclear program, only after a nuclear shipment,which was bound for Kadafi, was discovered when a French Warship intercepted a Korean vessel.