User:Jets.hunt

We experimented a low-cost ADS-B (Automated Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast, an FAA's concept of NextGen) for individuals on the move or in the air. It is useful for public air safety and drone management. Working with an In-Flight WiFi, the Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 wouldn't have to be the worst aviation mystery if any passenger had been using the app, free downloadable from trackview.net, with a user on land. Several tests were conducted on-board international and domestic flights, and the results were presented in GPS/aviation conferences. It will be fully operational if the regulatory agency permits. Readers are welcomed to verify the functions with his/her smartphones. No need to wait for your next air travel, it is even easier to use it on land with your phone company's data service. It will cover general aviation when a regional or global Internet access is available from above with balloons or Leo sats (Low Earth Orbit satellites). The new approach to air safety is waiting for the authorities and service providers to catch up if they can in the next few years. This smartphone-based ADS-B tracking/viewing apps were also tested on Collings Foundation's WW2 Bombers B-17 and B-25, good below 1,000 ft. with T-Mobile's data service around Silicon Valley.

Working with USwhitebox.com virtual reality VR flight and amusement emulators, we are designing VR rides such as a cockpit view of the Blue Angels' Air Show, SBD dive bomber run in the Battle of Midway and VR aerial tours over attractions, e.g. flying under Golden Gate Bridge, thru Google/NASA's Hangar One, and landed on USS Hornet...

I did research at USS Hornet and NASA/Moffett Field Museums. My focus areas were military Aviation, GPS (Global Positioning System) and WW2 code-breaking, proximity fuse. My greatest mystery of the 20th-century was that why Nimitz refused to write a memoir? I found some clues in the Museum documents. WW2 leaders' books are all best-sellers, and Churchill won the Nobel prize. Without Admiral Nimitz all the others wouldn't be so admirable. Unexpected visitors were the military experts from all over. One can also learn the latest defense trends and technologies from personal touches with these visitors, like Japanese Mitsubishi engineers from Dallas/Fort Worth developing F-35, a British Royal Navy guy explaining the past and future of RN’s carrier fleets. There were also PLA (People’s Liberation Army) veterans and Chinese historians. I learned more about my former adversary from them. These visitors were curious with the U.S. military for they wondered how could Imperial Japan be beaten so quick in the Pacific during WW2, after all these years of propaganda claiming the American as a paper tiger. A very special encounter was the family of a retired theater commander, equivalent to an European field Marshall.

"The very best military operation plan is only good until the first shot" as Patton said. After that everything could be out of the window, for example, American's Doolittle Raid and Japan's Midway operations. The development would rarely be according to the plans. Commanders have to deal with the situations in real time. Luck is an uncertain factor. Nevertheless, planning and simulation (with brainstorming, sand boxes or computers) are still necessary for better contingency chances. The first shot in a future conflict won’t be heard. It will be a Cyber space shot.

People are likely to be prisoners of their past because the experiences are correct most of the times. Only once in a while, there will be a paradigm shift and the experience, culture or tradition would become roadblocks. For example, Japan had never been intruded by foreign invaders, even though ROCAF had done so with leaflets, until the Doolittle Raid with bombs. The psychological impact confused the high commands of the Imperial General Headquarter, caused a stress disorder and poor command decisions for the rest of WW2.

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI or Star War) director Gen. James A. Abrahamson was our adviser for NextGen Air system after his retirement. He is a gentleman like Admiral Nimitz. I was glad that he was not a Rickover.

“Rocket Man” can cause regional damages in a conventional conflict. Kim’s rocket behavior is to consolidate his power and prestige within. Dancing with it is doing him a favor. North Korea is not a direct threat to the U. S. yet. The ballistic missiles can be intercepted before re-entry. The technologies had been developed since the Reagan Administration's SDI. Space power and Cyber power will be the decisive elements. Sea and air power as in Pearl Harbor or Midway is a way of the past. The necessary information is already in public domain. Hopefully, it needs not to be proven in the next war. Putin unveils 'invincible' nuclear weapons. Pentagon said the Defense Department was not surprised by the claim, and U.S. missile defenses are not a threat to Russia.

I served as an ordnance officer in the same infantry unit during Justin Yifu Lin's defection, and investigated the incident. The shoreline beaches were heavily mined as Normandy, there were also strong undercurrents in the waterways. Acting alone would be nuts. Lin was aided by the PLA Special Forces. Knowing the facts, one can’t help admiring Lin and his wife for their courage, maverick vision and PLA's well-coordinated military operations. Lin is the mentor and architect of China's economic achievements. It was another surprise to learn that he is one of the PRC's leaders of the State, and the story is not to be discussed.

People’s Liberation Army (PLA) had, and still has, battle field "supervisory forces" behind human wave tactics as in Korean War. The supervisory forces were equipped with the best weapons and run by party commissars to execute soldiers in mass for hesitation or cowardice. The system was inherited from Russian Red Army, and was as effective as in Stalingrad. MacArthur was ousted for his failure with PLA. The same commissar system was also used in 1979 Sino-Vietnamese war. PLA soldiers’ ash boxes came back in white were executed. Ash boxes in red were killed by the enemy. There was no official report of the casualties. For some of those who went through it, their accounts were roughly equal numbers of red and white ash boxes. The system and tactics will be used again after all these years. Anti-government movements would be dealt with as the 1989 Tiananmen Square. PLA’s core value, or doctrine is Mission above Life. It is very different from that of American’s Country, Honor and Duty. PLA must be absolutely loyal to the Party. U.S. armed forces are for the country. If PLA was to become the armed forces of the country, the fate of the regime could be similar to Soviet Union.

There are interaction, cooperation, bullying or vandalism in human societies, so is in Wiki community. Like it or not, it can be a driving force.