Could they pave the flight deck with concrete pavers?

Seventy years later...

I choose to read the ship's name as the Ferris Beuller.

I was expecting them to be standing closer and vodka/implausible heights be involved..

Wang! Stop looking out the window and pay attention!

why the hell doesn't Sukhoi up and shift it's factories to China. They may as well. It looks like more Sukhois are being built there than anywhere else.

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.