Flight 7 - Eagle Riddle Answer

Sorry I haven't been posting much lately guys, life has been keeping me kinda busy.
A couple posts back I put this picture on and I asked you what way the plane was flying.















For those of you who said it was flying towards the camera, you are right. Maybe it wasn't as hard to tell as I thought it was but I found it pretty hard to tell at first. I was convinced of both views at different times as were some of my family members so I thought I'd put in on here at see what you guys thought.
If you wondering how to tell for sure that its flying towards the camera, look at the pods on top of the tails, one is thicker and one is thinner. In the pictures lower down if the plane is flying towards the camera the thicker pod is on the right, as it is on this picture.

Remember Pearl Harbor!

I could have titled this either under flight since it was the first major naval attack using airplanes or I could have titled it under this day in history since it happened on December 7 but I decided to neither and title it Remember Pearl Harbor!, a slogan which quickly became popular immediately after the attacks. President Roosevelt's words the following day sum up quite simply and quite well (especially considering I am posting this on December 8) what happened that day "Yesterday, December 7th, 1941 -- a date which will live in infamy -- the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan." The Japanese had, completely unprovoked, a nation with which they said they were at peace. Early Sunday morning, December 7, 1941, the Japanese navy and air force attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii by launching over 400 planes from 5 aircraft carriers and using them to bomb and launch torpedoes. They sank 5 battleships and 4 other ships and damaged at least 14 other ships. 2,403 Americans were killed and 1,178 more wounded. 188 American aircraft were also destroyed. But why would Japan do such a thing, especially to a nation they were supposedly at peace with? The reason is this: they desperately needed oil and other raw materials for their war with China so to get these materials they decided to conquer many of the islands in the Pacific, on which these materials were readily available. They knew that their main opposition would come from the U.S.A. To prevent American interference they tried to wipe out American power in the Pacific in one blow, by attacking Pearl Harbor. They failed miserably. But why did they fail if they killed so many men and sank so many ships? Well first of all out of the five battleships they sunk, one was not being used anymore and two others were pulled back up and repaired. Second and more importantly, battleships were outdated at the time of Pearl Harbor. The most important ship was the aircraft carrier, not the battleship, and all the American carriers were at sea at the time and were unharmed. The U.S. then used these carriers to quickly strike back at the Japanese and take the islands back one at a time until after 3 years, 8 months and 24 days of war, the Japanese surrendered. The question then is why did the Japanese make such a suicidal and shortsighted attack? The answer to that question is that they did not understand the American ideology and philosophy. They believed that they could shatter American resolve and morale in one blow, but instead they strengthened American resolve so much that the U.S. decided they were going to defeat Japan no matter what the cost and no matter how long it took. As was said at the time "they awoke a sleeping giant".

These pictures are from top to bottom:

The USS Arizona burning.
A Japanese aerial photo of Pearl Harbor under attack.
The USS Maryland and the capsized USS Oklahoma.
An army airfield burning.
The USS Arizona exploding.
The USS Arizona burning.
Burning ships in Pearl Harbor dry docks.
USS Virginia burning.

Flight 6 - Eagles (cont.)

Ok one last post on eagles, this is the last one, I promise. It has been requested that I do a post on Golden Eagles so enjoy!

The Golden Eagle is North America's largest bird of prey, with a wingspan of over seven feet and a length of over three feet! They weigh between 5 and 15 pounds and can dive at 240 kilometers per hour! These eagles are so strong they have been known to attack caribou, wolves and even a bear cub! They are vicious hunters with sharp talons, a strong beak and very, very good eyesight. They mate for life and have approximately two chicks per year but usually only one survives. In the wild they live for about 30 years.

Here are some pictures:

This day in History - A great man was born

Ok I'm going to take a break from my series on flight to do a quick post on one of my favorite statesmen and politicians of all time. The reason that I am doing this today is because he was born on this day in 1874. Although as far as I know he was not a Christian, God certainly used him to protect his people. This man led his people through five and a half long years of war. This man was a courageous and fiery orator. This man was a very keen and witty politician. This man was Winston Churchill. In the late 1930s when Adolf Hitler was taking Europe for himself one country at a time, Winston Churchill was one of the few politicians in England, or the world for that matter, who realized just how bad Hitler was. At the time almost nobody would listen to him and he was a social and political outcast, but eventually he was proven right and was made Prime Minister. He also proved to be an excellent military leader. His ability to lead came mostly from his ability to inspire people to follow him by his speaches. Here are some of my favorite quotes from him, first political quotes and then wit.
(P.S. Sorry if this doesn't sound very well written, I usually kinda ramble on without much of a logical pattern)

Political/Inspirational:

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Wit:

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.


These are just a few of my many favorite Churchill quotes, here is a link with a whole bunch more:

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/w/winston_churchill.html

Oh and of course I should put some pictures on.

Flight 5 - Eagles (Cont.)

Alright before I leave eagles there is one more post I have to do. I found this picture of an F-15 on the internet and I couldn't figure out which way it was flying; is it flying towards the camera or away from it?
Look at it and see if you can figure it out.














P.S. I did eventually figure it out. If you can't figure it out try using the pictures below.

Flight 4 - Eagles (Cont.)

Ok now I'm moving on too mechanical flight. I'll start on the same subject that I left living flight on: Eagles. Specifically the F-15 Eagle. There is also a bomber version of this plane called the Strike Eagle, but this post will be dedicated to the fighter version. This plane boasts a record which no other fighter in history can claim: it has never been shot down.
Here are some pictures:

Flight 3 - Eagles

As some of you may have noticed the only bird included in both of the last two posts was the eagle, specifically the bald eagle. I did this intentionally because I planned to dedicate this post to this bird alone. So here you are. Enjoy!

Flight 2 - Living flight (cont.)

I decided one post on living flight wasn't enough, so here is another one:

Flight 1 - Living Flight

To those of you who still read this, I'm sorry I haven't posted in so long. I've been pretty busy with school and stuff so I haven't had much time. I have liked the idea of flight, both the living and mechanical kind, since I was young so I decided to do a series of posts on it. The first post will be dedicated to the living kind of flight.