Wednesday, November 20, 2019

Sliced and Diced: Fate of the Golden Ray

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Almost three months ago the Ro/Ro car carrier M/V Golden Ray started to capsize soon after leaving the port of Brunswick, GA, with more tha...
Saturday, June 8, 2019

The Ring, Ten Years On

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It's been ten years since I took a single photo of what I call the Ring with a simple point-and-shoot digital camera. I blogged about i...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Tales of the Chopper: Firefight at Vinh Long, Easter Sunday, 1967 (Part 2)

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Continuing this reposting of a feature I wrote for Air&Space, published last December. It illustrates the risk and potential of battle...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Tales of the Chopper: Firefight at Vinh Long on Easter Sunday, 1967 (Part 1)

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Posting this from an article I wrote for Air&Space , available here , which has photographs taken by the men on the scene. I heard about...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Goals, Fears, and Peers: Reflections on Admiral Hyman Rickover

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This oped of mine first appeared in the National Board Bulletin , here . ==== Alongside a dock in Groton, Connecticut, is a floati...
Sunday, July 22, 2018

The Lecture I Never Gave

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I've probably given my last lecture on the subject matter of Inviting Disaster . But I can't complain: that totals over fifty talks ...
Monday, April 2, 2018

Felled by the Falcon: Harrison Ford's 2014 accident at Pinewood Studios

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Watching Blade Runner 2049 on DVD, with Harrison Ford's return to the Rick Deckard role, reminded me to check on the last word about th...