Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Space-Age Debris: Aerospace Corporation's Log

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Starting up another story on space history -- and ran across this interesting website from Aerospace Corporation , which has been tracking s...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

What Directors Want: More about prime-time interviews

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After my "Call to Adventure" post  about what production companies look for when lining up commentators, this note arrived from...
Friday, November 22, 2013

Wrapping Up: Train Crashes into Parade Float, Midland, TX (2012)

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(Photo: Midland Police Department, reproduced in NTSB presentation) Setting : Grade crossing in Midland, TX. Time : 4:35 pm, Novemb...
Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Wrapping Up: Deadly CH-47 Crash in Afghanistan, 2011

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(Photo of typical Chinook: Sgt. Sean Casey,  Army Times ) Date and Incident : August 6, 2011. During a night-time combat mission to d...
Sunday, November 17, 2013

Filters for Digital Photos: The Chrome Effect

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More observations on merging cloud and ice imagery into a single photograph ... here's one assembled with Sketchbook Pro, then tweaked w...

Wrapping Up: In-Flight Skin Failure on Boeing 737, April 2011

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Incident : Portion of Boeing 737's upper fuselage skin (about eight by 60 inches) blew out at 34,000 feet during a scheduled flight on A...

Wrapping up: One57 Crane Mishap, October 2012

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In the next couple of months I'll be linking to final reports (if issued) on accidents, mishaps, and disasters mentioned in Disaster-Wis...