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Freescale RF has launched a major initiative dedicated to serving the RF power needs of the U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) sector, and has established a team of specialists dedicated to supporting defense customers. Freescale's commercial products can meet the requirements of applications such as: Battlefield communications Avionics HF through L- and S-Band radar Missile guidance Electronic warfare Identification, friend or foe (IFF)
Well I was getting there. I pointed to this yesterday.
onehuman
So with all this talk about radar you guys are referring too, and 20 guys on a plane headed for china, that work for a company that can do this:
Freescale RF has launched a major initiative dedicated to serving the RF power needs of the U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) sector, and has established a team of specialists dedicated to supporting defense customers. Freescale's commercial products can meet the requirements of applications such as: Battlefield communications Avionics HF through L- and S-Band radar Missile guidance Electronic warfare Identification, friend or foe (IFF)
a plane "disappears, and you dont find this a least bit curious also considering the ties this company has to blackwater and such?
AUSTIN, Texas — Twenty employees of an Austin-based technology company on board the missing Malaysia Airlines flight were en route to a business meeting in China, a spokeswoman for the tech firm said Sunday.
The employees — 12 from Malaysia and eight from China —work at facilities in their respective countries that manufacture semiconductor chips, said Freescale Semiconductor spokeswoman Jacey Zuniga.
"We have several manufacturing sites in Kuala Lumpur and Tianjin, China. Those 20 employees were with those teams," she said.
Freescale Semiconductor has been developing microprocessors, sensors and other technology for the past 50 years. The technology it creates is commonly referred to as embedded processors, which according to the firm are "stand-alone semiconductors that perform dedicated computing functions in electronic systems."
The technology is used in a variety of things, including smartphones, appliances and automobiles.
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But nothing identifying the plane? My guess is there are a lot of unidentified blobs in that airspace over the China Sea. So if this one was flying without a transponder active, it would appear possibly as a military craft to anyone who saw it on radar. As long as they were in international airspace, it would not draw any attention.
Zaphod58
reply to post by Bilk22
You could get course and rough airspeed and altitudes. It wouldn't be super accurate though.
Your link says:
onehuman
reply to post by roadgravel
If you look over the links I provided last page, you will see they werent exactly minions.
The companies I've worked for had rules against too many top management getting on the same plane, because it was a risk management issue that one plane crash should wipe out too many top execs. I never saw any rules though about lower tiers, either minions or as you put it, not minions but not top management.
.. the people who may have died were not top management
Well the reports were on the net that it landed. They came from somewhere then disappeared. They had enough fuel to get to Beijing via the original flight plan. However the reports said they landed in Nanming which is farther south, so the fuel may not be an issue.
Zaphod58
reply to post by Bilk22
Fuel becomes a very real concern with that theory. They had a couple hour reserve by flying a straight line to Beijing, and going over Vietnam. By swinging out and around far enough to avoid radar you run into the very real possibility of running out before getting there.
Bilk22
Well I was getting there. I pointed to this yesterday.
onehuman
So with all this talk about radar you guys are referring too, and 20 guys on a plane headed for china, that work for a company that can do this:
Freescale RF has launched a major initiative dedicated to serving the RF power needs of the U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) sector, and has established a team of specialists dedicated to supporting defense customers. Freescale's commercial products can meet the requirements of applications such as: Battlefield communications Avionics HF through L- and S-Band radar Missile guidance Electronic warfare Identification, friend or foe (IFF)
a plane "disappears, and you dont find this a least bit curious also considering the ties this company has to blackwater and such?
There were initial reports it landed safely in China then those reports were either 404d or appended to say they were incorrect. Seems like it would take a pretty huge leap of faith for a news outlet to take if they couldn't verify it, so why would any news outlet make such a leap of faith? Or did they? That type of information would have come from a verifiable source for a news outlet to go with in an incident such as this, or how could they go with that story? If it's incorrect, where did it originate from? It didn't come out of thin air. It originated from some source.
So we move forward and find that the plane made a turn and then disappeared. Looking at a map of the region, one can see that if they turned ESE, they could have flown over the South China Sea all the way to mainland China without entering another countries airspace. Now the flight was already headed to China, so why would this event happen that way? That's the $64,000 question.
Then believe no news at all. This excuse about rushing to get it out first is getting old don't you think?
ManiShuck
Bilk22
Well I was getting there. I pointed to this yesterday.
onehuman
So with all this talk about radar you guys are referring too, and 20 guys on a plane headed for china, that work for a company that can do this:
Freescale RF has launched a major initiative dedicated to serving the RF power needs of the U.S. aerospace and defense (A&D) sector, and has established a team of specialists dedicated to supporting defense customers. Freescale's commercial products can meet the requirements of applications such as: Battlefield communications Avionics HF through L- and S-Band radar Missile guidance Electronic warfare Identification, friend or foe (IFF)
a plane "disappears, and you dont find this a least bit curious also considering the ties this company has to blackwater and such?
There were initial reports it landed safely in China then those reports were either 404d or appended to say they were incorrect. Seems like it would take a pretty huge leap of faith for a news outlet to take if they couldn't verify it, so why would any news outlet make such a leap of faith? Or did they? That type of information would have come from a verifiable source for a news outlet to go with in an incident such as this, or how could they go with that story? If it's incorrect, where did it originate from? It didn't come out of thin air. It originated from some source.
So we move forward and find that the plane made a turn and then disappeared. Looking at a map of the region, one can see that if they turned ESE, they could have flown over the South China Sea all the way to mainland China without entering another countries airspace. Now the flight was already headed to China, so why would this event happen that way? That's the $64,000 question.
You're acting like news agencies take the time to actually verify their sources, especially when it's a major story. Remember the fake Asiana Flight 214 names? That station took a huge leap of faith there without being able to verify it. News sites today rarely take time to check facts and prefer to say something and then if it's wrong, just ignore it. Multiple sites reported on college football's Joe Paterno dying before he died. There are also countless instances where major news sites pick up stories from the likes of the Onion and other satire sites.