Civilian Workers Strike Continues at Vance AFB

Rick Boardman can say all he wants to a reporter for the Enid (Okla.) News & Eagle — as he does in this video — in an attempt to justify the decision to strike that garnered support of 94 percent of the union members for whom he serves as president.  What he...

Things Are ‘Stormy’ When Labor Strikes Hit Enid

Lightning strikes are unpredictable.  Labor union strikes…not so much.  Both, however, can be damaging. When I was growing up in Enid, Okla., a small northwest Oklahoma town of 47,000, lightning was a...

Airplane Water Landing and Ditching Statistics: Rates of Survival

Commercial aircraft rarely make water landings, but it does happen.  A US Airways flight landed in the Hudson River today, and it is believed that no passengers were seriously hurt.  The plane, and Airbus...

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