Conservativa

(OODA loop info here). Well, maybe not yet - McCain hasn’t forced Obama into a mistake… but he has derailed the non-stop post-coronation chatter.

These, from Sigmund, Carl and Alfred.  More, from Snopes.

You are pretty old if you remember the following joke or have flown on some of these airlines:

Pilot: Tower, what time is it?

Tower: What airline are you with?

Pilot: What’s the difference? What time is it?

Tower: Well, if you’re Pan Am, it’s 1900 Greenwich Mean Time; if you’re Eastern airlines, it’s 2 p.m.; if you’re Ozark airlines, the little hand is on the 2….

The Douglas DC-3. This one is in the Smithsonian.

Photo details: Film - probably Fuji Pro400H. Canon EOS3? 135mm lens.

Everyone is linking to this piece by an SR-71 pilot, for good reason. Not unlike Tom Wolfe, if you first gave his prose a snark-ectomy.  The comments are good, too. Excerpt:

As my eyes adjusted to the view, I realized that the brilliance was the broad expanse of the Milky Way, now a gleaming stripe across the sky. Where dark spaces in the sky had usually existed, there were now dense clusters of sparkling stars. Shooting stars flashed across the canvas every few seconds. It was like a fireworks display with no sound. I knew I had to get my eyes back on the instruments, and reluctantly I brought my attention back inside. To my surprise, with the cockp lighting still off, I could see every gauge, lit by starlight. In the plane’s mirrors, I could see the eerie shine of my gold spacesuit incandescently illuminated in a celestial glow. I stole one last glance out the window. Despite our speed, we seemed still before the heavens, humbled in the radiance of a much greater power. For those few moments, I felt a part of something far more significant than anything we were doing in the plane. The sharp sound of Walt’s voice on the radio brought me back to the tasks at hand as I prepared for our descent.

Because there is no such thing as too many pictures of Navy aircraft. More info here.

Photo details: Canon Rebel XT, ISO 400, lens at 75mm, 1/60 at f/5.6. No flash. Lots and lots of Photoshop.