Dayum, girl…
Mar 042020
Feb 282020
If you like the aircraft that applied atomic boot to Imperial Japanese ass – and who doesn’t – then the Smithsonian institution can hook you up. Not only do they have the famed Enola Gay on display, they also have a bunch of photos from 1945 up to more recent restorations available on their website in the form of a couple PDF collections. If you are building a B-29 model or are jsut interested in the B-29 in general or the Enola Gay in particular, this is a heck of a trove.
The first one is 419 pages (313 megabytes), with a lot of photos from what looks like the fifties to the nineties as the Enola Gay was trucked around and variously restored:
https://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/collections/full/A19500100000DOC20.pdf
The second is 318 pages (77 meg) and seems to be detail photos (mostly of pretty much individual components) from a restoration:
https://airandspace.si.edu/webimages/collections/full/A19500100000DOC06.pdf
A number of the photos can be viewed – thought not readily downloaded – here:
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Feb 262020
Biden Says Over 150 Million Americans Killed by Gun Violence Since 2007, Which Would Be Half of U.S. Population
Biden claims firearms have killed more than half of the U.S. population since 2007 pic.twitter.com/a679hcVbYg
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) February 26, 2020
None of the other Dems called him on it to tell him to stop exaggerating by three orders of magnitude.
As an aside, I *really* wanna get me one of these:
Komrad 12- Kalashnikov USA
Something a bit head-scratching about this weapon. It’s a 12 gauge shotgun with a 12.5 inch barrel… but it is *not* an NFA item. (How that can be, when any shotgun with a barrel shorter than 18 inches is supposed to be a “Short Barrel Shotgun” and thus an NFA item requiring a tax stamp and a lot of restrictions, I can’t explain by any logic other than government bureaucratic. It’s classified as a “Firearm” and not a “Shotgun.”) But I want one. And listening to the yammering yahoos the Dems want to install as gun-grabber-in-chief, I want one *more.* Anybody got a spare $1050 to toss my way? I promise to say nice things about you at the range.
Feb 252020
Old ordnance is not a specialty of mine, so I’m having trouble identifying a rather large aircraft-deliverable bomb. It appears in a number of late 1940’s aircraft diagrams, but none that I’ve seen have defined it. As you can see it bears considerable similarity in dimensions and tailfins to the M109 “Tallboy” bomb, but is notably thinner. At first I thought it might be simply a theoretical placeholder, but it appears in diagrams from at least two different aircraft manufacturers. Thoughts?
Feb 192020
Kinda cool, though the focus throws off what could have been epic.
Feb 102020
House Bill 753
AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI TO ENTER INTO AN INTERSTATE COMPACT WITH SOUTHERN STATES FOR THE PURPOSE OF OPERATING AS SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY STATES; TO ESTABLISH THE INTERSTATE COMMISSION ON SECOND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY AND PRESCRIBE ITS POWERS AND DUTIES; TO EXEMPT CERTAIN FIREARMS, FIREARM ACCESSORIES AND AMMUNITION IN THIS STATE FROM FEDERAL REGULATION; TO DECLARE CERTAIN FEDERAL STATUTES, REGULATIONS, RULES, AND ORDERS UNCONSTITUTIONAL UNDER THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES AND UNENFORCEABLE IN THIS COMPACT REGION; TO REQUIRE THE ATTORNEYS GENERAL OF COMPACT STATES TO FILE ANY LEGAL ACTION TO PREVENT IMPLEMENTATION OF A FEDERAL STATUTE, REGULATION, RULE OR ORDER THAT VIOLATES THE RIGHTS OF A RESIDENT OF A COMPACT STATE; AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES.
Huh.
I would have preferred it had they actually spelled “Sanctuary” correctly in the title…
Other than that, it seems like a good enough bill. Well, that and the specifically setting out “Southern states” and seemingly limiting the Compact from future growth. It would be best if *any* state could sign on.
Feb 092020
Here is a home made pump action five-shot revolver shotgun, made from 3D printed parts and bits from Home Depot. Does it look cool? Certainly. Does it work? Is it reliable? Is it safe? Ummm… dunno. One certainly hopes so. Truly functional and practical firearms that can be made with consumer-grade printers and easily modified hardware store parts, as opposed to guns requiring a decent shop and a lot of skill and knowledge, would be a great benefit. But tacticool 3d printed guns that blow up in your face? Ah, no. Not a good idea.
So, bring on the ten-thousand-shot testing videos.
Jan 312020
The USAF’s reference design for an operational space based laser missile defense platform, circa 1990. Details such as mass and dimensions remain elusive, although the fact that it was to be launched by a “Titan V” might be instructive.
Jan 182020
While I want this, there are two things I want more:
1: Enough money to actually *run* one of these things
2: A change in the ridiculous laws that prevent me from owning one of these things.
Jan 162020
YouTube threw a few random things at me that are… ummmm…
Devin Townsend Project’s “March of the Poozers.” So this is what happens when sci-fi meets metal:
“Guns Akimbo,” the most Aussie movie about Harry Potter with gun-hands you’ll see all week: