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Try to use: 767-400 search, (subscrip), GE38/T700-701D, Ottawa delays payments (CH-148), new delay for interim CH-148, A160 FI search, MMA Approved, Boeing lands MMA, P-8 on DID, 737 Goes to War, G222 on JAU, C-17 last USAF orders, Iraqi ARH, airlines reject Sonic Cruiser, Does Comanche.. -Fnlayson (talk)

Learning something every day

I didn't know about WP:AC/PC; now I do. Thanks. PRRfan (talk) 19:42, 16 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Good deal. Keep up the good work. -Fnlayson (talk) 03:48, 18 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Season's tidings!

FWiW Bzuk (talk) 03:07, 25 December 2011 (UTC).[reply]

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For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which is Christ the Lord."

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Thanks Bzuk and Dave. Merr Christmas to you and yours! -Fnlayson (talk) 04:14, 25 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Boeing 767 FAC

Greetings Fnlayson, and thanks for your great help so far on aviation articles and the FAC review of Boeing 767! In anticipation of the source spotcheck, I have gone through the bibliography and checked page numbers for the Birtles, Davies, Eden, Haenggi, Kane, all Norris & Wagner, Shaw, Smil, Sutter, and Wells books. The Birtles book was a challenge since only the Google books limited preview version is available to me.

Anyhow, I saw in your reference list that you have copies of Donald's The Complete Encyclopedia of World Aircraft, and Frawley's The International Directory of Civil Aircraft (albeit a different year); plus you may have access to Becher's Boeing 757 and 767 as well? Just in case they ask for source verification. Besides those books, there are 3 citations using Taylor's Jane's All the World's Aircraft and Wilson's Rise and Fall of Ansett which I don't have access to. Anyhow, the other book references, plus the supplementary online references, should cover the vast majority and entirety of the article.

Hopefully there will be more contributors in the coming days to help the FAC move along. Thanks again for your help, and I wish you a Happy New Year!. Best regards, SynergyStar (talk) 05:35, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, I have those. I can check the current electronic copy of Jane's also. I do not have the Rise and Fall book, though. -Fnlayson (talk) 12:48, 29 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Sounds good! For the Jane's citations (which are for the Airborne Surveillance Testbed), I already put in place some supporting references from different sources to verify details. The Ansett book is only cited once (for the 3-person cockpit), and a Google search already turned up several books and articles that can be used as backup refs. Anyhow, it seems that aside from the Ansett minor reference, we should have some access to all the book sources. Thanks again for your help! Best regards, SynergyStar (talk) 05:38, 30 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I added another footnote for the use by Ansett using the 3-person crew config. United received some early 767s configured for 3-crew, but these were retrofitted to 2-crew config. soon afterward. A reviewer is asking for a source review now. Not sure what to do for that. -Fnlayson (talk) 22:48, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for adding that reference! I have responded asking for guidance on finding a reviewer to do spotchecks; the message was from a FAC coordinator. There appears to be a more stringent standard now which may involve showing scans or copies of references; I have already prepared several. Regards, SynergyStar (talk) 23:20, 1 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

WikiThanks

Thank you for your help throughout the improvement and review process; looks like the further ref checks were unnecessary. Thanks again! SynergyStar (talk) 01:23, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks. Moved my reply to Talk:Boeing 767#Successful_result. -Fnlayson (talk) 17:16, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Ka-50 edit

Hi, Just a quick question regarding your recent edit of the article... Don't you think that you were a bit heavy handed, ie. "Kamov was forced to consider foreign analogues as a temporary replacement for a domestically designed and built system, due to a slow development of the indigenous systems." VS "Kamov was forced to consider foreign analogues as a temporary replacement for domestic systems."? It is my personal belief that the edit significantly altered the state and intent of the sentence, rendering it incomplete, ie. Why was Kamov forced to consider foreign systems? What was the purpose of a temporary introduction of those systems? What was wrong with domestic systems? I would like to hear your opinion on this matter, before taking any further action. Regards, Ltr,ftw (talk) 11:07, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

My edit diff. The slow development part is already covered in previous sentences, e.g. lack of funding, was late. No need to summarize at the end, imo. Use the article's talk page in the future as the Notes here request. Thanks. -Fnlayson (talk) 14:42, 4 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I would love to use the Article Talk page; if only people would visit those from time to time- I was the last one to contribute to it on the 6 Sept 2011! Getting back to the point... You are not quite right- the previous sentence was in regards to LLTV, whereas the sentence in question is FLIR. Different systems. Different design. Different development. Different sentence requiring explanation. Ltr,ftw (talk) 08:40, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your understanding and the quick action. I am quite happy with the end result and I belive the article will benefit as well. P.S. In the next couple of days I will be adding info on "Samsheet-5" system and extra info on Ka-50Sh. Be on a look-out. Regards, Ltr,ftw (talk) 12:06, 5 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Interested in expanding Navy article for a DYK?

Fnlayson, I wanted to see if you could expand Elliott Loughlin at all to go in on a joint DYK nomination. I'm a college basketball editor who found you via some Navy-related article's history page (you were a consistent editor on one of them). I know nothing about the Navy or its jargon, nor do I pretend to. I created the article because he was a consensus All-American basketball player at the Naval Academy in 1933 and needed an article. I've given the article my best shot (and hope that I was correct with what I wrote about his naval career), but I could really use a knowledgeable person's input and expansion on this. I'd like to make it at least 1,500 characters tor DYK eligibility. What do you say? (btw I pinged User:Neovu79 about this as well) Jrcla2 (talk) 04:08, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

I don't have any sources to help with this. But I will look at it... -Fnlayson (talk) 18:14, 9 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for your intent to help, but User:JMOprof has assisted me with this and a revised version will be made soon. Again, thanks! Jrcla2 (talk) 20:12, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Hopefully you two can fill in gaps in his history. I'll check in on it later. -Fnlayson (talk) 20:18, 10 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Multirole combat aircraft

Hi Fnlayson! I appreciate most of your modifications, but I don't understand why you have deleted the examples I've just added ? AirCraft (talk) 19:52, 12 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]