As of today… 150 diagrams completed for the book. Woo.
Oddly, and rather perversely, productivity while I’ve been stuck at home due to Winnie the Flu has actually decreased slightly. Some of this, though, is due to a lot of the earlier diagrams being of the “low hanging fruit” variety, while a good number of the diagrams as yet incomplete are of the much more intricate and complex variety.
Bill Maher on the Chinese Wuhan Kung Flu, and what to call it:
Not screeching insanely at the camera or engaging in massive self indulgence, but… dping actually interesting stuff. Take, for example actor Henry Cavill (link to a worthy instagram post):
Sure, it’s a single photo. But it’s a single photo of the guy who gets paid millions of dollars to play Superman holding and painting a tiny little Warhammer 40K figure. Not my hobby, but it’s a worthy one, and orders of magnitude more respectable than anything Madonna is up to these days.
Ello, ello…
If you think that by going for a picnic in a rural location no one will find you, don’t be surprised if an officer appears from the shadows! We are covering the whole county #urbanandrural #StayHomeSaveLifes #ProtectTheNHS 2813 7702 pic.twitter.com/hieQ86dM9R
— Central Community Team (@CentralBedsCPT) April 11, 2020
A picnic? That’s done it for you, guvna!
Police officer Tells Children Not To Play In Their Front Garden
Right or Wrong? #COVIDー19 pic.twitter.com/glWjYmGbjD
— UK Street Crime 🇬🇧 (@UKStreetCrime1) April 9, 2020
Oy.
Don’t give American governors ideas, mate.
If’n the above tweets don’t appear, read about ’em here:
If, like me, you saw that headline and went “Marina who?” then be forewarned: she takes “weirdo” to a whole new weird level. She’s a “performance artist,” which often enough means less about any actual artistic talent and more about the ability to ᛒᚢᛚᛚᛋᚺᛁᛏ and self-promote and convince the vacuous that she is “deep.”
A concept circa 1968 for a Sikorsky “Advancing Blade Concept” troop transport. The ABC rotor system theoretically permits notably higher forward speed than is normal for helicopter, since the lift generator at high forward speeds is balanced (not the case for conventional choppers). The ABC rotor system was tested extensively in the 70’s with the Sikorsky S-69, but the design and materials of the time were not quite up to the challenge and the craft suffered from excessive vibration. In recent years the tech seems to have been more or less perfected with the S-97 Raider, which hopefully will go into production and finally fulfill the promise of the ABC rotor system.
This is going to end up being *really* expensive for someone…
Short form: a French company boss who had never expressed any interest in such a thing was given a surprise gift of a flight in a Rafale fighter jet. He apparently freaked out and hit the “ejector seat button.” He was booted from the plane and landed under a parachute; the pilot safely landed the fighter.
The investigation seems to have found that the passenger is not at fault. I don’t know what the ejection system is like in a Rafale, but if it is a simple button (and it almost certainly isn’t), then it would seem to be a design flaw. Typically the ejection system requires a bit more effort than pushing a button. The ejector seat for the Rafale seems to be the Martin-Baker Mk16. The ejection system for that looks like it’s the yellow and black striped “loop” between the pilots legs… give that a good strong pull and out you go. Rather more involved than pushing a button… but for someone with minimal training and a heart in tachycardia, that would seem to be an obvious thing to grab onto and pull real hard. Maybe they should disable ejection for passengers in such flights, I dunno.
See, THIS is how you advertise in a post-woke world…