"Calling tower, this is an emergency," the patrol leader said in a worried voice. "We seem to be off course. We cannot see land ... repeat ... we cannot see land."
"What is your position?" the tower radioed back.
"We are not sure of our position," came the reply. "We can't be sure where we are. We seem to be lost."
Startled, the tower operators looked at one another. With ideal flight conditions, how could five planes manned by experienced crews be lost?
"Assume bearing due west," the tower instructed.
There was unmistakalbe alarm in the flight leader's voice when he answered. "We don't know which way is west. Everything is wrong ... strange. We can't be sure of any direction. <i>Even the ocean doesn't look as it should</i>."
Let's suppose that the patrol had run into a magnetic storm that caused deviations in their compasses. The sun was still above the western horizon. The flyers could have ignored their compasses and flown west by observation of the sun.
Apparently not only the sea looked strange, but the sun was invisible.
During the next few minutes, the tower operators listened in as the pilots talked to one another. The conversation progressed from bewilderment to fear, verging on hysteria.
Shortly after four p.m., the flight leader suddenly turned over flight command to another pilot.
At four twenty-five p.m., the new flight leader contacted the tower
"We can't tell where we are ... everything is wrong ... can't make out anything. We think we may be about 225 miles northeast of base." For a few moments the pilot rambles incoherently before uttering the last words ever heard from Flight 19
"It looks like we are entering white water ..."
― moonship journey to baja, Monday, 26 November 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago)
Abstract
The Panoptic model of surveillance, which enables a small number of observers to control large num-
bers of people, is usually considered a modern (18th century AD) invention and a conceptual corner-
stone of modern surveillance and disciplinary systems. On the basis of two case studies encountered in
a survey near the southwestern edge of the Dead Sea, this study suggests that the concept of surveillance
is much older. The first case deals with a quarry from the Roman period, and the second concentrates
on an ascent from the Early Bronze Age II–III periods (3000–2400 ).
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 26 November 2007 22:53 (seventeen years ago)
Holborn, Greater London
7 March 1913 in England, Globe, Greater London, Holborn, Multiple witness, Night, Visual | No comments
An airship was seen by a crowd of people in the evening, consisting of a moving light and possibly the white gas envelope itself.
Globe, 8 March 1913, p. 2.
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Monday, 26 November 2007 22:54 (seventeen years ago)
Served Lorsta Targabarun, Turkey 70-71. ET2 JJ Powers CO. Had bad accident coming back from log run to Istanbul. Killed a Turk on Highway. Held over 3 extra months. Otherwise great tour. Also on Cutter Androscoggin 68-69.
PAT RUGGIRELLO
11/15/2007 9:22:39 PM
Stood up the New Solid State Transmitter (NSSX) at LORSTA George. Maintained the largest tube type transmitter for a few years, while I watched the new breed replace it. I think the old transmitter got a little jealous at the end there, and threw a little tantrum. But the youth (NSSX) had enough energy too fight back and win out.
Ross McDermott, ET2
10/25/2007 4:18:21 PM
― Catsupppppppppppppp dude 茄蕃, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 17:58 (seventeen years ago)