There is a *lot* that can be said about this video, very little of it complimentary. A lot of it would suggest that stockholders should be POed.
"work". This is adult day care. No value is being exchanged here. https://t.co/yzBawNdd6C
— MEME THE LEFT (@memetheleft) July 2, 2022
The woman who is the subject of this video is *hilarious.* Her basic premise is silly enough, but they way she tries to come off as commanding and threatening, presuming that she has some authority over people who are not her, is knee-slapping.
Even people who are on her side on the Roe issue gotta listen to her and think…
Seems they’ve stopped doing business with a small firearm-parts dealer… and might have done so with Brownell’s as well.
I’ve fully expected the usual shipping firms will sooner or later decide to stop shipping ammunition.
Ha.
Holy shit this is what we’re up against? 🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/MnXxGhpDuZ
— Luke 🇨🇦🍁 (@scotchypoli) July 1, 2022
So some guy makes an animation of a cartoonish aircraft. Fine, great, wonderful. But it’s getting an unreasonable amount of press from mainstream media who think that this is actually a serious “design” rather than what it is… just a cartoon.
It may or may not be good from a modeling and animation point of view, but it is clearly not something to be taken even remotely seriously from an engineering point of view. You might as well debate the merits of a spaceship that showed up in a “Far Side” comic.
This is modern “journalism.” The same trade that’s telling us that Trump “lunged” from the back of a limo and tried to yoink the steering wheel. Same people told us to believe without evidence “Russia collusion” and “Jan 6 was worse than 9-11.”
Recently APR Patrons/Subscribers and I were able to successfully crowdfund the purchase of a lot off ebay that included a few folders of vintage lifting body work. The chief prize from the lot was a *giant* blueprint of a “GTV Structure,” a manned Model 176/ FDL-7 lifting body test vehicle (“GTV” was not explained, but I suspect it means something like “Glide Test Vehicle,” designed to be dropped from an NB-52). Scanning of the lot is underway; the crowdfunders now have access to the blueprint in several forms (full size, halfsize; full color, grayscale).
If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
I’ve just made the June 2022 rewards available for APR Patrons and Subscribers. This latest package includes:
Large format diagram: “X-15 Access Doors.” A North American Aviation diagram from 1956 showing all the openable panels on the port (left) side of the fuselage
Document: “Harpoon Coastal Defense System:” McDonnell Douglas brochure on a truck-launched anti-ship missile
Document: “Harpoon for Fast Patrol Boats:” McDonnell Douglas brochure on anti-ship missiles for small ships
Document: “Shorts Skyvan:” small brochure about the boxy cargo aircraft
Document: “VTOL Design – Turbojet Configurations” Northrop paper on VTOL fighters, mostly a historical review but with basic layouts for designs up to Mach 3
Document: Turbofan propaganda. A number of brochures and data sheets and such on turbofans and turbojets… PW4000, F100, JT9D-7R4, J57.
CAD diagram ($5 and up): IM-99B BOMARC surface to air missile general arrangement
If you would like to help fund the acquisition and preservation of such things, along with getting high quality scans for yourself, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program. Back issues are available for purchase by patrons and subscribers.
There’s no part of this that doesn’t impress me.
Honestly, this would be an absolute win for *everybody.*
Hmmm…