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Flying Camelot
Flying Camelot brings us back
to the post-Vietnam era, when the US Air Force launched two new,
state-of-the art fighter aircraft: the F-15 Eagle and the F-16
Fighting Falcon. It was an era when debates about aircraft
superiority went public-and these were not uncontested discussions.
Michael W. Hankins delves deep into the fighter pilot culture that
gave rise to both designs, showing how a small but vocal group of
pilots, engineers, and analysts in the Department of Defense
weaponized their own culture to affect technological development
and larger political change.
The design and advancement of the F-15 and F-16 reflected this
group's nostalgic desire to recapture the best of World War I air
combat. Known as the \"Fighter Mafia,\" and later growing into the
media savvy political powerhouse \"Reform Movement,\" it believed
that American weapons systems were too complicated and expensive,
and thus vulnerable. The group's leader was Colonel John Boyd, a
contentious former fighter pilot heralded as a messianic figure by
many in its ranks. He and his group advocated for a shift in focus
from the multi-role interceptors the Air Force had designed in the
early Cold War towards specialized air-to-air combat dogfighters.
Their influence stretched beyond design and into larger politicized
debates about US national security, debates that still resonate
today.
A biography of fighter pilot culture and the nostalgia that
drove decision-making, Flying Camelot deftly engages both
popular culture and archives to animate the movement that shook the
foundations of the Pentagon and Congress.
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Harpy eagle
\"Introduces facts about harpy eagles, including physical features, habitat, life cycle, food, and threats to these rainforest creatures. Photos, captions, and keywords supplement the narrative of this informational text.\"-- Provided by publisher.
Book
Saving the bald eagle
In this book, early fluent readers will learn how the bald eagle came back from the brink of extinction.
Book
Novel meta-heuristic bald eagle search optimisation algorithm
This study proposes a bald eagle search (BES) algorithm, which is a novel, nature-inspired meta-heuristic optimisation algorithm that mimics the hunting strategy or intelligent social behaviour of bald eagles as they search for fish. Hunting by BES is divided into three stages. In the first stage (selecting space), an eagle selects the space with the most number of prey. In the second stage (searching in space), the eagle moves inside the selected space to search for prey. In the third stage (swooping), the eagle swings from the best position identified in the second stage and determines the best point to hunt. Swooping starts from the best point and all other movements are directed towards this point. BES is tested by adopting a three-part evaluation methodology that (1) describes the benchmarking of the optimisation problem to evaluate the algorithm performance, (2) compares the algorithm performance with that of other intelligent computation techniques and parameter settings and (3) evaluates the algorithm based on mean, standard deviation, best point and Wilcoxon signed-rank test statistic of the function values. Optimisation results and discussion confirm that the BES algorithm competes well with advanced meta-heuristic algorithms and conventional methods.
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Video shows destruction of bald eagle nest
Video shows the aftermath of developer Hughston Homes cutting down a pine tree that housed a bald eagle nest, on Nov. 15, 2024.
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