I’m always amazed by the extremely lightweight, very large indoor RC airplanes that seem to be popular in Germany. I bet a light breeze would trash these planes, but indoors, they’re masters of the skies.
Jan 052022
Jan 052022
Professor Tosspot finally got around to reviewing the year 2020. Star Wars, Star Trek, Rice Rabies, Orange Man Bad vs. Dementia Patient Sad and cities going up in Mostly Peaceful Firestorms all get touched on.
Jan 052022
This seems a dubious situation… a guy was flying along in his 1940’s Taylorcraft plane when the engine stopped… so within seconds he bailed out. The plane glided to a crash in the California mountains, fortunately missing humans and structures and not starting any fires. Interestingly, the guy had a *lot* of GoPro cameras on his plane. Lots of footage. It sure looks like he did this on purpose.
if he did this intentionally, I gotta believe he’s on the hook for *lot* of charges. If he did this honestly, I gotta believe the FAA and NTSB are gonna jump all over him for being rather incompetent. Bailing out that fast from an aircraft that seems to be flying well and at reasonably high altitude? He barely had time to register what was going on before jumping out.
Jan 042022
Woo!
This is it: we’ve just wrapped up one of the most challenging steps of our journey to #UnfoldTheUniverse.
With all five layers of sunshield tensioning complete, about 75% of our 344 single-point failures have been retired! pic.twitter.com/P9jJhu7bJX
— NASA Webb Telescope (@NASAWebb) January 4, 2022
Sunshield Successfully Deploys on NASA’s Next Flagship Telescope
Jan 042022
More photos needed.
Four years after first unveiling its hypersonic airliner concept at #AIAASciTech 2018 @Boeing has revealed a refined, more realistic Mach 5 reusable air-breathing design targeting military and space launch roles at @aiaa San Diego event pic.twitter.com/CtpxA5OJGn
— Guy Norris (@AvWeekGuy) January 4, 2022
Jan 042022
Weep, people, for the fact that nothing in your life will ever make you as happy as Prodigy’s “Firestarter” makes Lex:
Jan 042022
The Lockheed Skunk Works A-12 was the immediate predecessor of the SR-71, a single seat recon vehicle in some ways a bit superior to the SR-71, in others not as good. One of the odder ideas put forward was to use the A-12 to carry a modified Polaris missile with a recon satellite on a once-around mission… a way to turn the Mach 3+ A-12 into a global range hypersonic, nearly orbit-capable recon platform. It was bonkers, but the math checked out; nevertheless it was not built. It is described in greater detail in:
Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird – Origins & Evolution
Available either directly through the publisher or through Amazon.
Jan 032022
Is it any wonder that much of the fandom is PO’ed about the direction Star Wars has gone under Disney?
The High Republic Adventures: Galactic Bake-Off Spectacular
Torban “Buckets of Blood” Buck and Kantam Sy face off in a brutal, intense, ruthless… bake-off!
Lightsabers and Jedi robes are put aside in favor of whisks and aprons as the two competitors bake Master Yoda’s special pastry recipe. But the recipe requires one extra special ingredient: a story! “Buckets of Blood” and Kantam recount the tale of an epic battle as they whisk away, both hoping to win the prize of Padawan approval.
Daniel José Older and Vita Ayala team up in this heart-warming one-shot. Plus, bake Master Yoda’s pastries yourself, with the recipe included in the back!
In Shops: Jan 19, 2022
For ᚠᚪᛣᚳᛋ sake. Who is this *for*?????
Jan 022022
It comes complete with a partial reading of a Chuck Tingle-esque bit of fan fiction *and* by far the superiorest rendition of “Diamonds are Forever” that will ever drip into your ears.
Jan 012022
A scene from the 2019 Japanese movie “The Great War of Archimedes” showing the battleship Yamato getting sent to the bottom. The added subtitles really help to sell it.
US Navy nods in Arizonan.