Way nicer than I woulda been

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Dec 302021
 

It’s never good to steal stuff from people. It’s especially bad and stupid to steal from a popular YouTuber who knows how to use modern techmonologicamal equipment… like cameras and tracking devices.

I see no logical reason to not lay a legal smackdown on someone who steals that easily. Such a person has clearly stolen before, will do so again. They are a burden on society.

A suggestion for other tech-savvy types who think their stuff might be stolen: install tracking devices on something you’re reasonably sure will be stolen. That’s easy and obvious. But something else to add: a cell phone with a good loud speaker. A cell phone that you can call when the cops are nearby. A cell phone that will start screaming “help, help, I need the police.” Then all of a sudden you don’t need a search warrant and all the time that that takes.

 Posted by at 8:29 pm

J48 cutaway

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Dec 282021
 

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with getting high quality scans for yourself, please consider signing on either for the APR Patreon or the APR Monthly Historical Documents Program.



 Posted by at 8:50 pm

Not what you want to see from an aircraft structure

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Dec 272021
 

Something ain’t right with the spar…

 Posted by at 4:47 am

Virtual Titanic

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Dec 262021
 

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:

Titanic Honor and Glory

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.

 Posted by at 11:46 pm
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