March 17, 2014

March 17, 2014 by yorksranter 2 comments

Real air forces own boring stuff

David Axe’s piece on the Brazilian air force did the rounds a while ago. The obvious points: they do their stuff, and for cheap! Less obvious: there’s something disturbing about a state that regularly puts 8x Mk82 Snake-eyes into targets on its own territory as a police measure, even if the Super Tucanos are an…

Police seize 6,000 illegal wild birds’ eggs as raids net largest haul in UK history | Illegal wildlife trade | The Guardian
For fuck's sake
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All I’m adding to this well-known pattern is to hypothesize that time runs out faster when the couch is in the living room rather than a spare bedroom // good point, and speaks to something that bothers me about a lot of schemes with tinyhouses/just whack up the sleepboxes/fiddly semi-shared, which is that they don't […]
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“If you removed him, yeah, absolutely that toxic stuff would all go,”
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Rudolfine Steindling – Wikipedia
Steindling pflegte einen extravaganten Lebensstil und hatte größere Vermögenswerte – wie ihre Villa in Döbling – bereits zu Lebzeiten auf ihre Tochter überschrieben.[15] Rudolfine Steindling verstarb am 27. Oktober 2012 in Tel Aviv...Später soll Steindling das Geld abgehoben und in Banksafes gelagert haben, wobei der endgültige Verbleib unbekannt ist
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funny huge delta that's really fast but shows out hugely in IR
19980148010.pdf
software changes to F-15 and MD-11 autoflight were enough to land them quite well with only differential thrust, at best through the FADECs but the ordinary autothrottle also worked. somewhat surprising this wasn't taken forwards more, although maybe in spooky delta wing things...
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