Navy Reverting DDGs Back to Physical Throttles, After Fleet Rejects Touchscreen Controls

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  1. Moonglow

    Moonglow Well-Known Member

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    So you are posting about the incredible danger of Silicon Valley via a machine created by the Silicon Valley?:roflol: FYI crap in a bucket and bury it...
     
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    It isn't PC to talk about PC.

    What President micromanages the training of his naval officers? Obama wasn't even in the service and how many Admirals know so much more about officer training than he does. What the hell would tRump know about the training of his naval officers?
     
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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Burying a bucket of crap is politically incorrect.

    Unless it's taxed first.
     
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    It's the F-16 all over again.
     
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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    One of the first words that the PC police went after around 1973 was the word "gook."

    The term gook is Marine Corps slang for anything that is strange or different and not American.

    It's believed that the phrase was first coined by U.S. Marines during the early 1800's during the Barbary Pirates War off of North Africa. Likely referring to that strange looking beast, the camel.
    (There were no Orientals in the Mediterranean Sea or in North Africa at the time.)

    During the Mexican-American War while Capt. Gillespie (USMC) was reporting to Commodore Stockton (USN) in San Diego, Capt.Gillespie reported that "they ran across some gooks last night"
    Present at the time was Joseph Walker who wrote down the conversation in his journal. He asked Capt. Gillespie what was a gook. Gillespie responded "Mexicans."
    Capt. Gillespie went on further explaining that a gook was anything strange or different and not American.

    During the Philippine Insurrection U.S. Army soldiers picked up on the phrase by U.S. Marines.

    During the Banana Wars U.S. Marines would use the phrase gook and was the first time printed in newspapers and magazines.

    During the early years of WW ll both Marines and soldiers would refer to the jungles of the Southwestern Pacific as gook.They were calling the jungles gook not the Japanese soldiers or Melanesian natives.
    The word fell out as use as the war moved into the coral atolls in the Central Pacific.

    At 00:41 in the trailer.



    The word gook was never or rarely used during the Korean War.

    1960:
    My father bought a VW bug from an Air Force officer who had the VW shipped over from Germany.
    When my father went to work on that VW he got out his Craftsman tool box and started cussing and "****ing gook"
    I asked my father what is a gook ?
    He replied, "This ****ing German car. Everything is metric on it. !!!"

    Back in the day Americans only had SAE (Society of Automotive Engineers) tools that were American in inches (1/4":, 3/8" 1/2") not European metric.

    During the Vietnam War both American soldiers and Marines and Korean Marines and soldiers would refer to the NVA, VC and the Vietnamese people as gooks. Yes, even the Koreans referred to the Vietnamese as gooks.

    In 1973 some white beard scratching PC liberal who never served his country decided that in the name of cultural-marxism the word gook referred to Orientals and was a derogatory term and was politically incorrect.

    Some words meanings get corrupted over time

    Dude:
    slang
    a pantywaist, fighting words.

    Awesome:
    slang
    Something you fear but respect.
     
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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    The F-16 can outperform the human body.

    The F-16 can make maneuvers with G forces that the human body can't withstand.
     
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    Sounds like another classic example of procuring an overly complex and excessively expensive system that benefits the contractors who designed and built the thing more than the people who have to operate it.
     
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    As for the 737 MAX, from what I read it is inherently unstable due to mounting bigger engines on an existing airframe rather than designed from the ground up. It needs a computer just to fly.
     
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    Reminds me of an old Calvin & Hobbes strip I keep hanging on the wall...

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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    They say because Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger who took over the controls from the computer that was flying the Airbus A-320 that wild Canadian geese are attracted to, it was his experience from flying a F-4 Phantom by the seat of his pants that he was able to land the Airbus into the Hudson River with no fatalities from the 155 who were aboard.

    If it were have been a pilot from a shithole country who was in the cockpit. the headlines would have been

    "Airbus A-320 crashes on the Hudson River killing all 155 aboard."

    "The world demands that all Airbus A-320's be grounded."

    "U.S. Air Force F-15 intercepts and shoots down empty Airbus A-320 for flying over U.S. airspace."



     
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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    That my understanding.

    The Boeing 737 has evolved as far as it can.
     
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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    When I was in the Corps I have been deployed on the Essex class aircraft carriers USS. Valley Forge and the USS Princeton that were used as LPH's for Marine Corps Battalion Landing Teams (BLT) The USS Iwo Jima the first amphibious assault ship built from the keel up as a LPH.

    Been aboard the Gearing class DD USS Mansefield and two WW ll era LSD's.
    Found myself on the U.S. Navy hospital ship, USS Repose when an artillery round got a little to personal with me.

    When we were conducting a communication exercise on the Mole at Long Beach Naval Station the aircraft carrier USS Bennington was in it's homeport preparing to be decommissioned. I had a buddy who was a swabbie serving on the Bennington and decided to pay him a visit.

    As I walked up the gang way I stopped, turned facing the stern of the ship and saluted the colors then turned towards the Officer of the Deck and while saluting the OD requested permission to come aboard.

    Following proper protocol when a U.S. Marine visits a U.S. Navy warship when not on official business I was escorted to the ship's Marine squad bay and reported to the Marine Detachment 1st Sergeant.

    After exchanging a few sea stories he showed me the ships small arms armory where the bulkhead was lined with M-1 Garands, BAR's,Thompson sub machine guns and the Marines detachment pride and joy, a Browning M-1919 water cooled machine gun, Where you can pull the trigger and fire 100 round burst without overheating and jamming and burning up the barrel.
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    Then I hooked up with my swabbie buddy and he took me up to the ships bridge.
    When nobody was looking I sat in that big leather chair on the port side of the bridge thinking I was sitting in the Captain's chair.

    Now it seems that after 49 years thinking I had sat in the captain's chair of a U.S. Navy warship I might have actually sat in the XO's chair.

    The captains chair is located on the starboard side of the bridge ?
     
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    Aeroplanes were a good precursor to automobile automation because most of their flight time is a piece of piss. Point to 306 degrees. Maintain 550mph for 6 hours.
     
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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    In the maritime community it's known as "dead reckoning."

    But dead reckoning doesn't take into account the ocean currents.

    It would seem you would have the same problem in the air with cross winds and tail winds, etc.

    But there's always GPS that has dumbed down so many millennial's they don't even know how to read a road map today or make there way to marijuana dispensary without depending on GPS on their smartphones.

     
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    Using Google Maps not Apple Maps is a good start.

    I enjoy paper maps too, but if you know what you are doing a good digital maps program like HEMA and a good satellite map like Google Maps or several alternatives, some of them downloadable - you can go a lot more places.

    Maybe it's different in Australia, I dunno - but you can't have enough paper maps to chart outback tracks in detail.

    Satellite based GPS is essential, check your handset's specs.

    Not knowing where you are is one of the big problems when travelling cross country at night, as I often do - informed use of downloadable satellite based digital maps eliminates that problem entirely.
     
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    APACHERAT Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    I like playing around with Google Maps/Earth.

    Google Earth and maps was funded by the U.S. military's DARPA.

    Sometimes when using Google Earth you'll notice a blurr where an entire island has been blurred out.

    Look at Diego Garcia where we have B-2 bombers stationed. Move the cursor over the B-2 hangers and I bet those longitude and latitude grids aren't the true longitude and latitudes.

    Re: GPS.

    The latitudes are always right but the longitude is always off from just a few inches to over a hundred feet or more depending where you are in the world.
    Today's USGS topographical maps will give you the mathematical solution to get the true longitude readings.

    Not to long ago a U.S.submarine ran in to an underwater mountain by using today's high tech navigation systems.

    The old navigation charts clearly showed the underwater mountain but the submarine captain and navigation officer used today's high technology instead.

    Both destroyed their naval careers.
     
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    I use HEMA for waypoints and have that in dual screen with google maps satellite. My GPS always has me dead on the track within 3m.

    If it ain't broke don't fix it
     
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