Letting the days go by!
Let the water all dry up
Letting the days go by!
Water flowing underground?!
Into the alfalfa, until the money's gone
Once in a lifetime! Lake Mead's looking more like ground.
Salt = preservative, sugar counters the taste.
I'd comment lots on reddit, but rarely post. On Lemmy, I post! Even started a community!
Twelve Grumman S-2 Trackers ready to depart HMCS Bonaventure for Shearwater
Photo by Bob Stevenson [1500x1187]
Mmmmm remember that time Elon offered 1m dogecoin to whoever could prove he owned an emerald mine? And then his dad was all like "can I play too I have the paperwork here!". Elon tries not to.
Great shot!
First of all, thank you for the content you've been posting on /c/WarplanePorn, you've been helpful in getting that ball rolling and I'll do what I can to help you out here - my OC warship content is really lacking right now, but I know what you're looking for. Also, if it's alright with you I'll link your community in WPP's sidebar, since our userbase probably has some overlap.
Now, my thoughts on getting started on Lemmy: it's going to be slow. Obviously it's smaller than that other site, but it's also lacking karma or any account based score (for now?). This means there will be less farmers & bots trying to build up a score to sell an account to advertisers, and for all their flaws, those bots (re)post content to milporn communities like, well, like bots. Passion is the key - as long as you can keep that (and not burn yourself out), the community will grow, and other passionate people will start adding content too!
Bruntingthorpe Lightnings - The very last fast taxi
From YouTube: The Lightning preservation group's annual event of the year, starring their three English Electric Lightnings, a pair of F.6s and an F.3.
The F.6s being working examples performed a static reheat and fast taxi for the crowd.
in 2020 the land the airfield sits on was leased to Cox Automotive, who decided to stop the Cold War jet shows from taking place in Favour of storing used Cars on the runway. All the aircraft shown here are now on Static display, but where possible kept in serviceable condition to reduce corrosion.
This subsequently means that this video shows the last ever fast taxi of the definitive lightning mark, the F.6, and leaves just T.5 XS458 at Cranfield Airport the only lightning in the UK potentially capable of fast taxi.
Avro Vulcan performing an engine test July 2021
The Avro Vulcan's four Rolls Royce Olympus engines fired into life at Wellesbourne for a test following maintenance work.
Photo: Mark Williamson
A-29 Super Tucano just doing Super Tucano things
Complete with gun pods, GBUs and nose art, on a dirt runway.
Republic XF-12 Rainbow reconnaissance aircraft.
Built in 1946, it reached a speed of 720km/h at 45,000ft and was one of the fastest prop powered planes ever built. It was made redundant by mass produced high altitude bombers, such as the B-36, and the arrival of the jet engine. Sexy silver cigar.
Allegedly, they sort of just let it happen:
Do take what I say with a grain of salt, but my late night napkin math says that (assuming a now rectangular human that's 16 inches wide and 72 inches tall) a person should have a frontal surface area of 1100 inches, under 6000psi, that'd be about 6,800,000 pounds of pressure on them - instant death.
These are styrofoam cups that've been crushed by the pressure at the bottom of the ocean. The water isn't looking for your nose, it'd just crush your outsides into your insides until you hit a relative density, like the cup, but not as pretty. The air in your lungs would instantly compress and heat to several thousand degrees C, turning your insides back into your outsides. I think.
