Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne has died at the age of 76, his family has announced. Osbourne was a music icon, who rose to prominence as founding member and lead singer of Black Sabbath in 1968. The band were pioneers in the heavy metal genre of music, writing classic tracks like Paranoid, War Pigs and Iron Man. After leaving Black Sabbath in 1979 over rising tensions with its other members, Osbourne had a lengthy solo music career releasing more than a dozen albums. read more
The proposal depicts what "the day after" should look like in the scenario of the fall of Hamas. It entails economic reconstruction, building infrastructure and, as the authors of the study say, "uprooting a murderous ideology," also labelled as a process of "de-nazification". read more
California is expanding its domestic and international tourism campaigns in anticipation of a 2025 downturn. State officials are urging residents to travel locally to help offset expected losses from fewer international visitors. read more
"Warplanes almost never use transponders."
Warplanes always use transponders when conducting routine flights. Normally only the flight lead will squawk an IFF code, the wingmen will remain in standby. What the B-52 does not have, or didn't have the last time I flew one, was an RVSM-compliant transponder system.
And there is a radar there somewhere. It's controlled by RAPCON, which manages the approach and departure frequencies. I spent hundreds of hours as the Supervisor of flying in the MAFB tower, and we had a radar feed.