John JossNight traps: naval aviation’s ultimate testThe Pacific night off San Diego is moonless. No visible horizon. The USS Ranger, one of the fleet’s few surviving conventionally-powered…Sep 6, 2020Sep 6, 2020
John JossScoop: Flying the U-2 ‘Spy Plane’The world was stunned when Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Former Soviet Union flying the Lockheed U-2. In context, the U.S…Sep 3, 2020Sep 3, 2020
John JossThe Blue Angels: Dancing on the Rim of EternityDancing on the rim of eternitySep 2, 2020Sep 2, 2020
John JossSoul shaking: Ayers RockAbove: an achingly bright Southern-Hemisphere starscape, dominated by the Southern Cross. The inselberg is just becoming visible through…Sep 1, 2020Sep 1, 2020
John JossIntel’s founding: Noyce’s great coupThe computer and its associated worlds of IT, as we have come to know them, have evolved rapidly. By the mid to late 1950s IBM had…Sep 1, 2020Sep 1, 2020