I recently stumbled across an old turbojet maintenance manual. Included within the manual was a rather nice cutaway illustration, colored in the way that only early 1950’s technical manuals were.
A 300 dpi scan of the diagram has been made available to above-$10 patrons/subscribers. 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with getting high quality scans for yourself, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.
So, you’re a Finnish guy with a 2013 Tesla Model S with a bad battery. Tesla tells you replacing the battery will cost $22,000. What do? Well, wire that sucker up with dynamite and turn it into confetti, that’s what.
Footage showing the accident of an Embraer EMB-202A, #Brazil registration PT-UZI (C/N 20001133), that took place earlier today, at a farm near Lagoa da Confusão, in Tocantins. According to witnesses, the pilot survived. pic.twitter.com/9IUuAa2KjV
— The Latin American Aviation Historical Society (@The_LAAHS) December 10, 2021
A video of a guy messing about with a demo version of a “virtual Titanic” that let’s you wander around something like a quarter of the ship (the rest of the vessel coming later). Seems like a *spectacular* way to blow a bunch of hours.
This project dates back to at least 2016 (I posted a link to a YouTube video of theirs showing a real-time sinking of the ship back in early 2016, a lot of the website doesn’t seem to have been updated since 2017). The demo is downloadable here:
Those of you old enough to remember when James Cameron’s “Titanic” was released in 1997 (yeesh, nearly a quarter century ago) will doubtless recall how a good fraction of the public went bonkers, to the point that at least two efforts were made to produce a “Titanic II” ship designed to replicate the look and opulence of the original… but with a better hull and more lifeboats. Sadly these didn’t come to pass, but I’m pretty sure that if someone were to build a faithful replica of the Titanic, even as a land-locked hotel, people would line up around the block. Shoot, people throw money at Disney for their half-assed “Star Cruiser” Star Wars knockoff, so a Titanic “experience?” A license to print money.
As an aside, a story idea: turns out that the iceberg impact did not produce enough damage to sink the vessel. What caused it to sink was the sudden increase in weight on the ship as tens of thousands of time travellers arrived to witness the sinking.
Who knows for how long, but Amazon has my SR-71 bookazine in stock again with free shipping and for low cost. Buy now! Buy often! Consume in mass quantities!!!
