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Photo: Space Shuttle Endeavour and Space Station together for last time
"The space shuttle Endeavour and International Space Station shine front and center in this amazing (and historic) photo of the two vehicles docked together as seen from a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. Astronaut Paolo Nespoli snapped this view and others during the first-ever photo session of a shuttle docked at the space station".
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Flight Training Journal for June 4
The FAA’s Airplane Flying Handbook instructs pilots to spend about 80 percent of their sight-time out of the cockpit, observing air traffic and flight characteristics. Accordingly, only 20 percent of time should be spent observing instruments. Today, while practicing this I began to feel the awe of flight, how beautiful it is to see the…
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Virginia
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Flight Training Journal for May 22
A very large part of strengthening one’s airmanship is rooted in decision-making. Decisions are often made long before a pilot enters an aircraft. I was scheduled in the 172 this morning for two hours of stall training and spin- and stall-recovery. I left home this morning at 8am and had a bad gut feeling when…
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Flight Training Journal for May 15
On Saturday I met George at Atlantic at 430pm, where we chatted for about a half hour while waiting for our Cessna 172 to arrive from a training flight. We went over some of the training books I purchased. The older, bound copy of Jeppesen’s Private Pilot Manual is perfectly adequate, except for the Charts…
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Apple offering free repairs for iPod touches, iPhones, and Macs damaged in the Japan quake and tsunamia
Impressive.
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Google I/O Extended
I spent a good part of the day attending Google I/O Extended in Austin. Attendees saw some interesting talks from app developers like Spanning Backup and BoozeHound. We watched remote video feeds of the Google I/O keynotes in San Francisco. Google offices are just what you expect — colorful and vibrant.
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Tim O’Reilly on digital rights management and e-books
Via Forbes: People who don’t pay you generally wouldn’t have paid you anyway. We’re delighted when people who can’t afford our books don’t pay us for them, if they go out and do something useful with that information … There’s a bakery in Berkeley that every day dumps a lot of fresh bread into a…
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