Awesome stuff you see on the internet
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@Crucial My favourite WW2 plane. Awesome beast. Friend of mine flew the first restored one. Had a bit of fun when they first put it together and lost airspeed indication on maiden flight (not cool). His first thought was "only flying Mosquito on the planet and I'm going to crash it first time out".
Fortunately had a photography plane with them and got him to fly at required approach speeds and matched it wing tip to wing tip. Went into AKL intnl with the longer runway than Ardmore.
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@jegga Yeah, the whole design concept for the Mosssie and Hornet amuses me.
"What ho chaps, need a new plane. Quite like those Merlin things but think that 2 is better than one so lets do that. Power to weight ratio seems to work and this is already grossly overpowered but Merlins are heavy so how do we keep the weight down?"
Voice from back of room -"make it out of wood".
Gales of laughter.
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@Snowy Yeah I was very happy that the previous one made it to Wings in the 'rapa. I'd booked flights and hotels etc for a boys trip to AKL for the display, then wife had to fly to UK for funeral. Stuck at home with the kids! Then it came down for WIngs - very happy. What a sound when it wound up for take off
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@Snowy the conversation when they designed the f4u Corsair must have been interesting
“I want to put the biggest propeller ever put on a plane in front of that motor , how do we keep it off the ground?”
“ all good , we can bend the wings to lift the motor up”
12 months later
“ um, so the guys taking off in carriers say they can’t see shit when they are taking off and they are worried about ending up in the water”
“Fuck”
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20M views · 50K reactions | Take the red pill. Get the blue screen. |...
Take the red pill. Get the blue screen..
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Awesome because of the idiots diving in without reading and making absolute tools of themselves. Beautifully played
STOP DOING THIS SHIT! In your house its ok if you want or where no one sees them but not in a restaurant. It is a public place devoted to food consumption. The truth is I don't agree, I don't know...
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@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Awesome because of the idiots diving in without reading and making absolute tools of themselves. Beautifully played
STOP DOING THIS SHIT! In your house its ok if you want or where no one sees them but not in a restaurant. It is a public place devoted to food consumption. The truth is I don't agree, I don't know...
I don't know what's worse; twitter or facebook. I'll probably elect for Facebook because there's more users and any argument on facebook shows why we're unlikely to progress much further as a species.
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@mariner4life said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Awesome because of the idiots diving in without reading and making absolute tools of themselves. Beautifully played
STOP DOING THIS SHIT! In your house its ok if you want or where no one sees them but not in a restaurant. It is a public place devoted to food consumption. The truth is I don't agree, I don't know...
Fucking, fucking... "flip-flops". What next? Thongs?
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Snake on one end, spider on the other.
The Lure of the Spider-Tailed Horned Viper
Meet the spider-tailed horned viper, native to western Iran. As the name suggests, the snake has a tail that, when moved about in the right way, looks like a spider crawling on a rock. The crawling “spider” attracts small birds who eat insects
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@Machpants said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
@Snowy Yeah I was very happy that the previous one made it to Wings in the 'rapa. I'd booked flights and hotels etc for a boys trip to AKL for the display, then wife had to fly to UK for funeral. Stuck at home with the kids! Then it came down for WIngs - very happy. What a sound when it wound up for take off
I thought I had video and more pics myself from this but can't seem to find them (think I uploaded them somewhere). The couple I can find include one of the Mrs in the Mossie cockpit so it seems my memory of climbing in wasn't a fake one.
BTW: I hear a strong rumour of a very exciting first for Wanaka this year. Think big, very big. Think hairdo and 80s music.
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Patton Oswalt helps man who trolled him raise $30K for medical bills
A heated back-and-forth turned into an outpouring of compassion.
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@jegga said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Patton Oswalt helps man who trolled him raise $30K for medical bills
A heated back-and-forth turned into an outpouring of compassion.
That's nice. He still isn't funny.
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Worth clicking on for a laugh...
Anti-Vaxx Mom Asks How To Protect Her Unvaccinated 3-Year-Old From The Measles Outbreak, Internet Delivers
Having recently run a post about an enterprising 15-year-old looking to protect himself from preventable diseases after his parents let him down, now we have the other side of the coin. In the midst of a public health emergency in Washington state, in an area with a higher-than-average percentage...
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@taniwharugby that's gold. The school I work at if fucking awful for vax, as is most of Northland
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@taniwharugby said in Awesome stuff you see on the internet:
Worth clicking on for a laugh...
Anti-Vaxx Mom Asks How To Protect Her Unvaccinated 3-Year-Old From The Measles Outbreak, Internet Delivers
Having recently run a post about an enterprising 15-year-old looking to protect himself from preventable diseases after his parents let him down, now we have the other side of the coin. In the midst of a public health emergency in Washington state, in an area with a higher-than-average percentage...
Mrs Mariner was reading those to me on the drive to work this morning. Some were fucking gold.
It's almost too stupid to be real. Surely?
de Havilland Hornet - Wikipedia
