User talk:Dabarkey

Hi, and welcome to Wikipedia! Thanks for your contributions to the coolest online encyclopedia I know of =). I sure hope you stick around; we're always in need of more people to create new articles and improve the ones we already have.  You'll probably find it easiest to start with a tutorial of how the wikipedia works, and you can test stuff for yourself in the sandbox.  When you're contributing, you'll probably find the manual of style to be helpful, and you'll also want to remember a couple important guidelines.  First, write from a neutral point of view, second, be bold in editing pages, and third, use wikiquette.  Those are probably the most important ones, and you can take a look at some others at the policies and guidelines page. You might also be interested in how to write a great article and possibly adding some images to your articles.

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Again, welcome! It's great to have you. Happy editing! --Spangineer (háblame)  04:32, Jun 26, 2005 (UTC)

RfC on Wiarthurhu
I have filed a Request for Comment on Wiarthurhu Requests_for_comment/Wiarthurhu. as the next step to resolving the issues on the F-14 Tomcat page. Your input is requested. --Mmx1 05:39, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Do you know what Mmx1 was doing to the F-14? He was even erasing it from Air superiority fighter even though it used the term before the F-15. He constructed "F-14 was not designed as a dogfighter" from the lack of mention from two open source articles, even though I provided several sources showing Grumman's designers intent that he dismissed as "biased" or "I don't believe you".  Do you support his style of WP editing??


 * I neither support nor oppose a "style of WP editing". I simply seek to make each article as concise and factual as possible. Dabarkey 05:08, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

Welcome.
I always appreciate having someone with actual knowledge on a subject. :) Wikibofh(talk) 03:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Fighter Mafia
Haven't spent any time on this, but I did recently expand the Light Weight Fighter article; there is significant overlap with the Fighter Mafia article and all of the sources for LWF also provide citations for "fighter mafia" --Mmx1 20:14, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

Reverting vandalism
Thanks, I know how to fix vandalism. The problem was that there were several anonymous vandal edits in a row, and I missed one of them when reverting. Thanks very much for catching that! -- FP (talk)(edits) 08:06, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

Photograph size
In reference to your insight to why I was resizing the photographs, if you haven't noticed--practically all Wiki pages are given a specific size. That is my rationale. --Signaleer 14:56, 10 January 2007 (UTC)

Aviation Newsletter delivery
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X-30
Hi, you removed my edit. I was trying to be a bit cute, but you noticed. I didn't actually write anything that was technically OR.

I did actually read a published letter from the UK aerospace company, and they said something along the lines of (paraphrasing) 'The americans announced the X-30. We thought it was a complete waste of time, there was no way it could work... but then we wondered if we had missed something... So we went halves with the UK government on the Hotol project which looked like it was the next best thing we could manage to do, not having the inside track on scramjets  And then we found out that the X-30 was just a ruse to try to get the Russians to keel over, it was associated with the SDI iniative, why didn't the bastards tell us? How dumb were we! Doh!'

Anyway, I can't find an online reference to it, it was in a published magazine I read in a library; but the timing of the original announcement of the project is very significant. And it wasn't a total feint, there was some chance it could have worked. But like the SDI it was an over-aggressive move that wasn't very likely to work out, but looked good.

The ironic thing is that son of Hotol- Skylon actually looks like it might have legs, but scramjets still don't have any obvious usefulness- they get way too hot, and they totally lack stealth, and they're outperformed by rockets in terms of speed (still.)WolfKeeper 07:40, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

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