Dziban303

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WikiProject Military history.

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This user is interested in the history of the Cold War.

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WikiProject Tropical cyclones.

Greetings

I prefer anonymity and random edits of pages I find interesting yet lacking in some small regard.

IPAc-en

The IPAc-en template is great for those non-linguists among us who do not have the IPA alphabet memorized. It should be used wherever possible!

Diacritics

It's a shame that diacritical marks like ö, è, é are harder to reach on a keyboard.

Digraphs to graphemes

I þink þorn (Þ þ) should be brought back to represent the voiceless dental fricative /θ/ ("thick," "thin" → "þick," "þin"), and eð (Ð ð) for the voiced dental fricative /ð/ ("this," "father" → "ðis," "faðer"). Insular g, Ᵹ ᵹ, might be worþ using to distinguish between hard (/ɡ/) and soft (/dʒ/) variants of the phoneme. All right, maybe not. I'm not completely crazy, ðough, so you won't find me advocating for a return of wynn (Ƿ ƿ) for /w/, or suggesting the ȝse of ȝogh (Ȝ ȝ) for /j/.

Ligatures

Ligatures like æ and œ are okay with me, too.

Something I want to keep handy

Chen Rong's handscroll from ca. 1244, Nine Dragons, ink and some red on paper. The entire scroll is 46.3 by 1,096.4 centimetres (1.52 ft × 35.97 ft)! Located in the Museum of Fine Art in Boston, Mass.

Full handscroll Nine Dragons

Projects

Someday I'll get around to working on this timeline of American cruiser classes: User:Dziban303/Timeline of cruisers of the United States Navy

I did a lot of maintenance on the GOES satellite articles.

I largely rewrote the article on MPAR, and I want to write an article on its successor radar, ATD. I uploaded some images of the installation of ATD:

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  ATD installation
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  ATD antenna panel, devoid of antenna elements
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  Lowering the radome
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  ~ Fin ~
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  ATD antenna panel, with radiating elements installed
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  Reverse angle. 76 square panels, each with 64 elements: 4864 antennas in total

See also:

• Timeline of battleships of the United States Navy
• Timeline of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy
• Timeline of aircraft carriers of the United States Navy with names — an alternate version which displays the ship's name as well as her hull number. Needs work to move text off the bars. I'm not sure how to do that.
• Timeline of aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
• Timeline of battleships of the Royal Navy — Needs to be made!
• Timeline of battleships of the Imperial Japanese Navy — Needs to be made! Sources:
  • Imperial Japanese Navy
  • Imperial Japanese Navy in World War II
  • Imperial Japanese Navy ship classifications
  • Imperial Japanese Navy order of battle 1941
  • List of Japanese Navy ships and war vessels in World War II
  • List of ships of the Imperial Japanese Navy
• Attackers – Kind of pointless

My Contributions

• Contributions in all Wiki projects

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Homemade

Timeline of USAF fighter jets

↓First operational American jet P-59 Airacomet F-86 Sabre F-15 Eagle P-80 Shooting Star F-101 Voodoo F-16 Fighting Falcon F-84 Thunderjet F-111 Aardvark F-22 Raptor F-89 Scorpion F-4 Phantom II F-35 Lightning II F-94 Starfire F-106 Delta Dart F-100 Super Sabre F-117 Nighthawk F-102 Delta Dagger F-104 Starfighter F-105 Thunderchief │ 1942 │ 1958 │ 1974 │ 1990 │ 2006 Introduction to retirement (approximate). Table only reflects USAF usage, not Air National Guard usage.

Timeline of USN fighter jets
↓First American naval jet FJ-1 Fury F3D Skyknight F-14 Tomcat F2H Banshee F-4 Phantom II F9F Panther F-8 Crusader F/A-18 A/B/C/D Hornet F7U Cutlass F/A-18 E/F Super Hornet FJ-2/-3 Fury F-35 Lightning II F-9 Cougar FJ-4 Fury F-11 Tiger F-11 Tiger (training only) F3H Demon F4D Skyray │ 1945 │ 1960 │ 1975 │ 1990 │ 2005 │ 2020 Introduction to retirement (approximate).