If you’re short of things to do in Norman, you must not be into museums, festivals, parades, restaurants, or big-time college athletics.
https://www.movoto.com/guide/norman-ok/moving-to-norman/
30 June 2022
29 June 2022
First Americans Museum, OKC
Fifty Years Ago This Month (June 1972)
J-79 Engine
In the 1970s, the J-79 engine was my baby for test software maintenance and development of fuel control tests via the Automated Test System for Jet Engine Accessories, ATSJEA. BIG fun!
J-79 Engine Test with Afterburner
The big roar of higher power settings starts at about 6:00, and the afterburner (Brit. “reheater”) lights up shortly after 7:00. It’s not quite as impressive as the F-111’s TF-30 zoned afterburner, but it’ll get your attention!
Fuel Control Test Stand, similar to ATSJEA
Old home week!
Can you say bombshell?
Colbert describes Cassidy Hutchinson’s smoking gun testimony.
Tell your (grand)kids to remember this one so they can tell *their* grandkids. It’s beginning to look a lot like 1973 (Nixon).
Big as Texas!
28 June 2022
27 June 2022
Listening
I’m sitting under the self-pruning sweet gum tree out back (looking for a football helmet to wear?) listening.
• Wind rustling leaves in the trees
• Locust-like insect chirping away
• Traffic roaring on I-35
• Small reciprocating engined aircraft approaching Westheimer Airport (KOUN)
• Wind chime announcing small puffs of wind
• TV audio of Florence, Italy travel guide playing
• Dogs almost silently stalking squirrels atop stockade fence
• Low-bypass turbofan engine on military aircraft approaching Tinker AFB (KTIK), whistling as only supersonic engines at low power settings (flight idle?) do
• High-bypass turbofan engines at low power setting whistling as an airliner approaches Will Rogers World Airport (KOKC)
• Male and female cardinals almost silently scouting the freezer-burned ice that wound up under the sweet gum tree with me (are the thinking about throwing a party later?)
• Heavy multi-engined propeller-equipped aircraft approaching Westheimer (good grief, are we fighting WW II again?)
• Blackbirds yelling raucously at each other
• Motorcycle roaring down section line road with loud muffler
• Cardinals battling in a tree near the back fence, exchanging loud unpleasantries
• Two squirrels in a small mulberry tree, cussing their canine tormentors, below
(Crepe myrtle that barely escaped the great sub-zero freeze of winter of 2020-‘21)
The self-pruning sweet gum tree
The big, dead branch in the sweet gum tree came crashing down this morning. I was glad it chose a time when neither the dogs nor their humans were under it!
—Chuck, 5 July 2022
Thunder in the Canyon
Lightning flashes over the walls of Palo Duro Canyon State Park south of Amarillo, Texas …
26 June 2022
25 June 2022
Unbelievable
Now approaching the United States.
Please set your clocks back 100 years
Listen to the liars at their confirmation hearings.
24 June 2022
Border Collies
This kind of thing, done this early (3.5 months) gives you some idea of how quickly BCs learn:
There’s so much more to it than that, though. BCs are more than just smart. They seem to be mind readers at times.
22 June 2022
21 June 2022
20 June 2022
From a Staunch, Conservative Republican …
This needs to be heard and heeded:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/americasworstgovernor/permalink/3344974469066439/
18 June 2022
16 June 2022
14 June 2022
SpaceX Improves Landing Videos
SpaceX landing videos improve with Starlink connection.
https://fb.watch/dETvjyi3x_/?fs=e&s=cl
Enjoy the new SpaceX views!
13 June 2022
12 June 2022
If I had only known …
What would I tell my 18 year old self?
Take speech and drama courses! You’re gonna spend 17 years teaching computer science, engineering, and math (OU 1 year, OCCC 16 years).
Sorry, Mom.
Brilliant Maps Website
If you like to browse maps, here's your place!
Brilliant Maps
Here's one sample from the dozens available:
11 June 2022
Where’d all the teachers go?
They’re leaving in droves or just never entering the profession at all.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218686292948506&set=a.3491284300859&type=3&mibextid=7ovdaX
I wonder why.
Watering the desert with fog nets
Video: https://youtu.be/Mv6qZAtwKZM
How ‘bout some low tech high tech?!? Lots of dry places could use this!
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Below is a a much longer, but very interesting, video about one man’s efforts to spread the word about actions for greening deserts.
Longer video: https://youtu.be/IDgDWbQtlKI
09 June 2022
08 June 2022
James Webb Space Telescope Images Coming Soon
JWST On-station, Artist's Concept
Images from NASA's see-into-the-deep-past infra-red telescope are coming July 14, 2020. Stay tuned!
O.U. Engineering School Shirt
What results when one wakes up in the middle of the night and thinks, "Gee, I'd better make a photo of this shirt before it falls completely to pieces."
O.U. Engineering School Shirt
Late Night Version
From my expression, maybe I should take action before I fall to pieces! :^)
05 June 2022
Weather Entertainment Coming in from Kansas
This evening's entertainment (Sunday), on its way in from Kansas and the Oklahoma Panhandle. Big fun, the forecasters say. This is the map from radar.weather.gov.
See radar.weather.gov .
Weekend Warrior
 The Lopper-ator (I'll be back!)  One of the presents from this week's wind storms |
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| The field of battle |
03 June 2022
Early Texas: the Comanches, Folsom Museum
An interesting Old West site on Facebook is the Folsom Museum. Try it, you'll like it.
For an interesting article on the Comanche people, scroll down to "The Comanche – Horsemen of the Plains".
For an interesting article on the Comanche people, scroll down to "The Comanche – Horsemen of the Plains".
Enjoy!
Chuck
Chuck
P.S. The White option on the text background color made a mess of this posting when it's viewed on a cell phone. Sorry. I'm still re-learning the blogger features and foibles. --CLO
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Chuck Oates
Norman, OK, USA
03 June 2022
Early Texas: the Comanches, Folsom Museum
02 June 2022
Did You See the Flyover / Flypast at the QE II Celebration?
The flyover for the celebration of British Queen Elizabeth II's 70th year on the throne included the mandatory flyover / flypast of military aircraft with their modern supersonic design, jet engines, and flashy red-white-blue smoke displays. The aircraft that caught my eye, though, were the World War II aircraft flying in a formation similar to this one:
Were it not for the Royal Air Force's Spitfires and Hurricanes and the diverse group of pilots who flew them against Hitler's Luftwaffe in the 1940 Battle of Britain, it's hard to see how Hitler and his thugs would ever have been expelled from continental Europe. The bravery, tenacity, and expertise of the RAF and Polish fliers prompted British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to make his famous remark, “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
If you'd like more information on the Battle of Britain, there's plenty available here: Battle of Britain.
If you're interested in the doings of the Queen's 70th anniversary on the British throne, this article has good coverage of the on-going event: Forbes Article, QE II 70th Anniversary.
Enjoy!
Chuck
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Chuck Oates
Norman, Oklahoma, USA
02 June 2022
Did You See the Flyover / Flypast at the QE II Celebration?
02 June 2022
Did You See the Flyover / Flypast at the QE II Celebration?
It's the Nordic Hammer Guy Again
Once again, it's been a fairly noisy night in Norman and on south.
Chuck
P.S. My back yard now has several downed tree branches, thanks to the last several days of storms. How can the trees still have any branches at all? --CLO 02 June 2022
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Chuck Oates
Norman, Oklahoma USA
02 June 2022
It's the Nordic Hammer Guy Again
01 June 2022
_From Sentinel Ridge_ Returns!
After a layoff of several years, From Sentinel Ridge is coming back to life so that I can continue in the blogging realm free of the oversight of the delightful management at Facebook.
We (the Oateses) spent the end of May attending end-of-school festivities around town. Here are a couple of pictures from our auxiliary granddaughter's graduation.
That's all for now. I'll figure out how to post videos and post some more stuff later. Gotta figure out how to turn on comments, too.
Chuck
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Chuck Oates
Norman, Oklahoma USA
01 June 2022, Rev. 02 June 2022
_From Sentinel Ridge_ Returns!
_From Sentinel Ridge_ Returns!
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