As part of their commemoration of the production of the 4,500th F-16 Fighting Falcon, Lockheed Martin has released a few videos. I posted one previously, and this one features LockMart employees talking about the legacy of the F-16:
Also, I’d added this video as an edit to my previous post, but as some of you may have already seen the post before it was added you may have missed it. In it test pilot Phil Oestricher relates the story of the unplanned first flight of the YF-16 – Flight Zero:
Airbus released this video of Thai Airways International’s first A380 being manufactured. When it is delivered later this year Thai Airways International will be the ninth A380 operator, flying it on routes between Bangkok and Europe. Given the video is suffixed “Episode 1″, and the aircraft isn’t complete at the end, I expect we’ll be seeing more in this series.
The F-22 Raptor may have only made it to 187 built, and the F-35 Lightning II program is struggling with delays and cost overruns, but Lockheed Martin has a reason to celebrate. Last month they delivered the 4,500th F-16 Fighting Falcon. The first YF-16 flew as part of the Light Weight Fighter competition in 1974. Of course, back then it was a General Dynamics product. It wasn’t until 1993 that Lockheed acquired GD’s aircraft business, including the F-16. To celebrate the delivery of the 4,500th F-16, Lockheed Martin released this video:
Lots of history there, but I still wish the F-16XL had gone into production. It is just a damn cool looking design.
EDIT: Lockheed released this video today, of test pilot Phil Oestricher telling the story of the unplanned first flight of the YF-16 – Flight Zero:
Well, I guess I have to eat my words. Last November when SlingPlayer for Connected Devices was first released for Boxee, I posted the following:
As for other streaming boxes – Popbox, Western Digital, etc. – no idea. None of the other devices really have much of a user base so it may not be worth the effort.
Well, according to a post today on Tech of the Hub, I was dead wrong. SlingPlayer for Connected Devices is coming to the Western Digital WD TV Live family. They posted a message from a tipster, apparently from the Sling Media Beta site:
If you have a WD TV Live or WD TV Live Hub, now would be a good time to list it in your TV & AV Equipment Test Platform. We may have a beta opportunity coming up real soon and we usually recruit testers based on their beta profile information.
Today SlingPlayer for Connected Devices is available for Boxee and the Logitech Revue Google TV – though it also works on Sony’s Google TV products. And now it looks like it is coming to the WD TV Live Hub 1TB Media Center (MSRP $229.99, Amazon $169.00) and WD TV Live Streaming Media Player (MSRP $129.99, Amazon $92.95), at least from that note. It isn’t clear if it will be coming to older models like the WD TV Live Plus (Amazon $149.84).
Today only, as Amazon’s Gold Box Deal of the Day, you can save big on SanDisk Ultra Memory Cards. The 16GB SDHC is $17.99 – 45% off the $32.99 MSRP, the 32GB SDHC is $29.99 – 54% the $64.99 MSRP, and the 64GB SDXC is $57.99 – 55% off the $128.99 MSRP. All three cards are Class 10, with 30MBps transfer speeds.
Remember, not all devices that use SD cards may support the later SDHC, or especially the SDXC, specifications. So before you buy a card to use in your device, make sure it will be supported.
