Micro-Blog: Indoc – Day 2

By lex, on August 20th, 2011

Down to the real meat: Aircraft systems; aircraft structure, man-machine interfaces, engine, electrical, fuel.

Perceptive readers whose interest lies that way will know that the airframe is nearly identical to the Mirage F5, a low wing, sharply swept delta design made for speed more than endurance. After the 1967 French embargo on arm sales to Israel, some “150,000 drawings of press tools, jigs and piece parts; 400 main airframe drawings; 50,000 instrumentation drawings; and 4000 engines drawings, in addition to some 50,000 documents covering testing and service specifications” somehow found their way from France to Israel. With US sales of F-4 Phantoms, F-16 Fighting Falcons, and F-15 Eagles, the aircraft quickly became obsolescent, and in a reverse lend-lease, some number were sent to the US to equip Navy and Marine Corps adversary squadrons.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex