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Quite the display of nerves on the Mustang pilot. Calmly tried to bring it back to level, couldn't do it then let it nose over in a field while bailing out.
Nice job. Hopefully the Skyraider pilot made it down ok.
Posted by: chris ||
07/12/2011 20:15 Comments ||
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#4
All hands safe. The Spad made it back for a emergency landing. Will need to replace the right wingtip before returning to la Ferté-Alais. I saw the Skyraider under restoration when I visited France in 1989.
Looks like the Elevator got knocked off and the rudder was damaged. If that was the case, the Mustang couldn't do up or down or yaw very easily. It looked like he tried to level it out the best he could only using the ailerons, but it was a lost cause. Looks like he leveled it out the best he could, cut the engine and let it plow into a empty field while he could bail out.
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The traditional airplane is designed to be nose heavy, so if you stall, the nose will point down toward relative wind the airplane sees, which lowers the wing angle of attack and the wing starts flying again as an airfoil.
The elevator helps the nose point down by elevator down control input. No elevator control, the plane points down. You have to leave. Nothing else to do but bail out.
If you ever get to the UK, go to the Imperial War Museum, air arm, located in Duxford. Five hangers of incredible aircraft!
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banks and big companies ... why don't they firewall properly?
Posted by: Water Modem ||
07/12/2011 8:55 Comments ||
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Because the decision makers at the top are old creatures who have no real grasp of tech. They're not the ones with i'whatevers but have had secretaries and assistants doing the interface with modern technologies enough to understand their implied requirements for privacy and anonymity.
#3
Also the concept of a front end and back end server arrangement along with some crypto between the two. You can keep out 99.999999% of hackers with just that. With proper permissions for users, you can even keep the spear phishing to minimum damage.
Mostly it comes to money. The upper management sees it as an acceptable risk. Do you spend 1 million on a lock tight solution against something that has a 2% chance of happening each year, or do you use that money for upgrades and R&D?
The other question I have is why the fuck are 90,000 military passwords kept in an area that has connectivity to the internet? Everything that is used for authentication is CAC card related for day to day use for non-secured stuff.
From TFA:
Right now if you go to newsweek.com, you'll see a basic magazine website, updated with content from the print version of the mag and a top navigation bar that directs you to content on its sister site, dailybeast.com. But starting July 19, we hear, newsweek.com will no longer exist. Instead that URL will redirect users to a channel on the Daily Beast site, like its current "politics," "entertainment," and "fashion" verticals.
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