GTMO845 US Navy Beech Huron heading to NAS Jax
0000000 Dornier C-146A departed Eglin AFB, FL se
R01052 US Army departed Huntsville Int'l ne after a ground stop and some fly-bys prior. This AC departed Ft. Leavenworth, KS earlier after an overnight
PHENOM06 USAF E-8C Joint Stars with some runs between Wilmington, NC (this a popular place for flyovers with USAF C-40's and C-32A's) and Greenville
The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, or Joint STARS, is an airborne battle management, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform. Its primary mission is to provide theater ground and air commanders with ground surveillance to support attack operations and targeting that contributes to the delay, disruption and destruction of enemy forces. The E-8C is a modified Boeing 707-300 series commercial airframe extensively remanufactured and modified with the radar, communications, operations and control subsystems required to perform its operational mission. The most prominent external feature is the 27-foot (8 meters) long, canoe-shaped radome under the forward fuselage that houses the 24-foot (7.3 meters) long, side-looking phased array antenna.
The radar and computer subsystems on the E-8C can gather and display detailed battlefield information on ground forces. The information is relayed in near-real time to the Army and Marine Corps common ground stations and to other ground command, control, communications, computers and intelligence, or C4I, nodes.
The antenna can be tilted to either side of the aircraft where it can develop a 120-degree field of view covering nearly 19,305 square miles (50,000 square kilometers) and is capable of detecting targets at more than 250 kilometers (more than 820,000 feet). The radar also has some limited capability to detect helicopters, rotating antennas and low, slow-moving fixed wing aircraft.
As a battle management and command and control asset, the E-8C can support the full spectrum of roles and missions from peacekeeping operations to major theater war.
https://www.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/104507/e-8c-joint-stars/
don't care.
you shits need to learn how to separate the product from the people who produce it.
obviously you can't
Controversial Trump Fed nominee Judy Shelton confirmed by Senate committee
A controversial Trump Federal Reserve nominee who has backed a gold standard is headed for a Senate vote after the Senate Banking Committee approved her nomination in a party-line vote. The nominee, Judy Shelton, has generated opposition for her pointed criticisms of the Fed and her advocacy for a return to the gold standard as a monetary system.
In the past few months, her nomination faced several challenges after multiple Republicans on the Senate Banking Committee indicated her views made her unusual and unsuitable for a seat on the Fed's board of governors. Shelton said in 2011 that the Fed is "almost a rogue agency" and asked whether it could be trusted in having oversight of the dollar. She has also called for a 0% inflation target, as opposed to the bank's current 2% target, and has raised the "fundamental question" of, "Why do we need a central bank?"
She has raised concerns on both sides of the aisle for her view that the Fed should have less power and independent discretion and instead have closer ties to the White House. Just before Tuesday’s vote, committee Chairman Mike Crapo of Idaho said Shelton had provided clear answers related to her opinions on the independence of the Fed, the right response to economic crises, and the gold standard.
“Many have tried to characterize Dr. Shelton’s views of the gold standard and monetary policy as outside of the mainstream thought and disqualifying for this position, and I strongly disagree with these characterizations,” Crapo said. After Shelton's confirmation hearing in February, Sen. Pat Toomey, a Pennsylvania Republican, said he was not confident Shelton could uphold the bank's independence. Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama said Shelton "could be an outlier" for the role. Both senators since backed Shelton.
All 12 of the Democrats on the panel have been strongly opposed to Shelton's nomination from the beginning. “When we have no leadership from our president and the Federal Reserve chair is one of the only leaders trying to guide our recovery, putting one of the president’s close advisers on the Fed board will only make things worse,” said Sen. Sherrod Brown, the top Democrat on the banking panel, before the vote.
In February, Sen. Elizabeth Warren penned a six-page letter questioning a “history of statements and actions” by Shelton and critiquing her “inability to make economic judgments divorced of political calculations.”
Before the Tuesday morning vote, Warren said, “Confirming Judy Shelton to the Federal Reserve is a mistake, and it will endanger our economy."
Shelton has been accused of abandoning her old positions in favor of views more aligned with President Trump. Shelton called for higher interest rates during the Great Recession of 2008 and as recently as 2016. Since Trump’s election, however, she has spoken in favor of cuts to the Fed's interest rate target, just as Trump has.
She has a master's and a doctorate in business administration from the University of Utah and was a fellow for many years at Stanford's Hoover Institution.
Shelton was on Bob Dole's 1996 presidential campaign and in 2016 was initially on Ben Carson's presidential campaign but joined the Trump campaign in August 2016 after writing a flattering Wall Street Journal opinion piece about Trump.
Trump appointed her to be executive director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development early in his presidency.
The Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday also approved the Fed board nomination of Christopher Waller, an economist affiliated with the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, in a bipartisan a 18-7 vote.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/controversial-trump-fed-nominee-judy-shelton-set-for-senate-vote
SAM072 USAF G5 departed Glacier Park Int'l Airport-Kalispell, MT after a ground stop.
inbound from Jackson Hole, WY after an overnight. This AC came from Anchorage, AK-Ted Stevens Int'l Airport and a fly by at Kodiak Island prior to arrival at Jackson Hole
never expected a straight gold standard ever.
They've already done this with the bonds-look how that worked out