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[carolen]

OK, it's a promo for a tourist company (or the regime - your call) but this is still well put together...

[Portland]

Had to put this up after it was murdered on strictly. Gene Wilder actually has better timing.

[Firefox]

Marvellous lunacy, and it is British!



Bonus points for flying it in his undercrackers.

[F-ZeroOne]

[Portland]

[Firefox]

A nice look at the recently-restored second YF-23 prototype, with one of its test pilots laying some interesting info on us.

[F-ZeroOne]

If the ATF competition had been judged on cool factor alone, the YF-23 would have won by a country mile.

Think I've posted this before but seems like a suitable follow-on:

[Portland]

Jimmy Cauty's contribution to Dismaland is The Aftermath Dislocation Principle.

Amazing! The attention to detail is superb especially the lighting.



Jimmy Cauty is the artist who became half of KLF.

Prior to which he painted this popular Lord of the Rings work - my parents had it on the wall in the 70s.

Still got my wooden one...

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Jimmy Cauty's contribution to Dismaland is The Aftermath Dislocation Principle.

Amazing! The attention to detail is superb especially the lighting.



Jimmy Cauty is the artist who became half of KLF.

Prior to which he painted this popular Lord of the Rings work - my parents had it on the wall in the 70s.

Still got my wooden one...

[Firefox]

If the ATF competition had been judged on cool factor alone, the YF-23 would have won by a country mile.

I think it's tacitly acknowledged that the YF-23 did win by a country mile, but, American politics: Lockheed were golden bollocks because of the F-117 and its part in the then-recent Gulf War, whereas Northrop already had the B-2 bomber contract.

[kel]

legends

[F-ZeroOne]

If the ATF competition had been judged on cool factor alone, the YF-23 would have won by a country mile.

I think it's tacitly acknowledged that the YF-23 did win by a country mile, but, American politics: Lockheed were golden bollocks because of the F-117 and its part in the then-recent Gulf War, whereas Northrop already had the B-2 bomber contract.

Designer forgets that proton torpedoes are powered. Also, the second Death Star was supposed to have lots of tiny ventilation ports for exactly this reason. Of course, still doesn't explain how, according to some sources, the torpedo reached the reactor in the first place as they're only supposed to a have a range of a couple of kilometres...

The "official" reason for the YF-22 selection was that apparently the cost was cheaper and that it could have been produced "as was" (which isn't quite true as the F-22 is a bit different to the YF-22), whereas the YF-23 had avionics that were very much development-type, i..e. grabbed from whatever other aircraft happened to be lying around. Theres also a suspicion that the F-22 was closer to what the USAF actually wanted, a stealthy agile F-15 rather than a magic rocketship from the future... I must admit I've never considered the "Well, they have this so they'll have to have this... " angle before.

[F-ZeroOne]

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Vinyl grooves via electron microscope:

https://youtu.be/GuCdsyCWmt8?t=296

[F-ZeroOne]