Yeah, there's no comeback for that when you're six. The other kid simply owned him.

Foxtrot Alpha has one of the best aviation photographers in the business attending, so stay tuned for some fantastic images and updates.

When you've got children choosing toys based of a logistical support and maintenance package, something is really, really wrong.

I read the writing aft of the cockpit as "Pick Me!" and I thought "That's a brave strategy for weapons sales".

Can someone please explain to me just what is so hard about building steam catapaults? They're fifties technology but the Russians, the Chinese and the Indians don't have them. Why? Don't the indians have a catapault on their other carriers (or at least one of them)?

This was a well-written, thought-provoking article about a topic which I had never considered.

i regularly work elections here in Australia and I am dismayed/disgusted at how US elections are run. It really has reached the point where you can no longer say that the US is a democracy as the number of imprediments to vote continue to grow and deliberately exclude groups from having a say. Where I live, the…

That is a flat-out awesome thing to do. They will cop something for it but it's soooo worth it.

"US Marines..."

My grandfather was a cold-blooded killer and he had one of these next to his rocking chair for fifty years. I have absolutely not doubt that he would have used it to take someone's head off if he thought they were a threat to his family.

Oh, I'm sorry...

Do it with milk (and a bit of sugar or honey) and you can have an awesome rice pudding.

There have also been a number of cases where production has over-run licensed numbers for bootleg sales. I think it was an Audi manufacturer (to sell cars in China, they have to have a local partner) who put on an extra shift that Audi knew nothing about to crank out cars after hours. They just put a different logo on…

I think I'm gonna start turning the sound down on these - the Allahu ackbar!!!s get grating after a while.

they may be a POS, butthey are a gorgeous POS.

The Kri Klewang was also built in a shed and launched with a bobcat (mini excavator) towing it down to the beach. Designed for construction with very limited ship-building facilities, you could also free up military shipyards by contracting the construction to yards along the Mississippi.

Did not know that. Makes me wonder if they've ever been used for covert insertion somewhere that Hinds may be seen but an American chopper would be noticed.

yep, no nose wheel. Looks like they're changing it but an odd spot to set up a camera shot. You'd think a minder would have guided them o the next bay.