Warships, Warplanes and Other Stuff As Well

Listen, I am fucking loath to trust a Netflix documentary, but something has definitely happened to Boeing over the years.

The very same shit that had us all saying shit like “Airbus? More like Scarebus! If it ain’t Boeing, I ain’t going” is literally all the shit Boeing gets up to these days, if the 737 MAX shit is any indication

What happened to Boeing is very easy - when it merged with McDonnell Douglas, the entire McD management was immediately transferred to rule over the "new" Boeing. A lot of experts basically said the merger was more like McDonnell Douglas buying Boeing with Boeing's money.

And what had McDonnell Douglas been doing for decades at that point? Simple - putting out aircraft with catastrophic design flaws baked into them due to greed (DC-10 with the cargo door, the entire DC-9/MD-80 family with the horizontal stabilizer jackscrew, and the MD-11 with its dangerous landing characteristics). So their taking over Boeing meant that those same flaws would manifest themselves sooner or later. And sadly, they did.

1st SS Panzer Division "Leibstandarte Sharon Carter" on the prowl again it seems.

Go fuck yourself, cunt.

So when are we getting the onboard cam of Fernando's restart? Haven't seen it yet but I'm positive it's the sexiest thing of the race

Confirmed: Mount Fuji is an aircraft magnet. 

Not always for good, however, as the story of BOAC Flight 911 illustrates.

simu liu being cast as shang-chi is so surreal

can you imagine finding out that the guy in the stock photo cover of your accounting book is the new marvel hero??

He'll always be the "Narita Air Traffic Controller" from Mayday/Air Crash Investigation for me...

Jason Isaacs as Georgy Zhukov | THE DEATH OF STALIN (2017)

The important thing to remember is that in real life this person wore more medals than that.  They toned it down slightly for the movie because the reality was implausible.

He was wearing HALF of his medals!

Łazienki Palace, Warsaw, Poland

Hayley Atwell

State Ship Series: USS Iowa

So far, there are only three ships commissioned, named for the state of Iowa of the US Navy.

USS Iowa (1864), a steam frigate, she was originally named Ammonoosuc but was renamed in 1869.

USS Iowa (BB-4) was the first sea going battleship designed for the US Navy. Commissioned from 1897 to 1919.

USS Iowa (BB-53), a South Dakota class (1920) battleship, but she was never completed due to the Washington Naval Treaty.

USS Iowa (BB-61), the most famous of them. The lead ship of her class, she was commissioned on February 22, 1943. Finally Decommissioned on October 26, 1990.

The newest, USS Iowa (SSN-797), Virginia Class. She was laid down on April 28, 2019 and currently under construction.

Bonus: size comparison of BB-4 and BB-61. Their designs were less than 50 years apart.

source, source, source, source, source, source

NARA: 6409113, 45512727

New official trailer for Marvel Studios’ Black Widow (2021)

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So they’re showing her death scene in the trailer for the movie that takes place before her death.

Sure, makes as much sense an anything else Marvel has done with this flick.

Mmmmmmmmmmhm. Like really what even is the point of this movie in a post-Endgame world? There’s not really anything it can do to seriously affect the world of the MCU other than set up a replacement for Nat as the Black Widow.

Why does it need to affect the world of the MCU? Why can’t we have a standalone movie that finally goes into Nat’s backstory that’s been hinted at so much, but they never took time to really explain? There’s the TV shows and I’m sure there’s more movies coming that will deal with the broader universe/multiverse/post Blip stuff.

I’m not saying having her backstory is bad or anything. Just that by having this come out after she’s died is kinda like lowering the warning lights on a train track after the train is already gone. It’s a kind of moot point cause while that backstory would’ve enhanced the audiences’ feelings and investment in Natasha in Infinity War and Endgame, it’s kind of a “meh” feeling. The writing is also limited in what it can and cannot do because there’s already like three or so movies that take place after this so they can’t do anything that would rock the boat too much and contradict anything.

The main idea of “Black Widow” as a movie is clear and connected to the whole idea of Phase 4 - passing the torch.

The entire thing is clearly set up for Natasha to pass on her mantle to Yelena and set her up as Natasha’s successor for the “new” Avengers.

We can already see that theme in F&TWS with Steve, and will probably keep seeing it in the upcoming movies, which, alongside establishing new characters like Shang Chi will feature similar motifs (Thor: Love&Thunder will most likely feature Thor passing his mantle onto Jane Foster, Black Panther II is pretty obvious, Hawkeye with Clint passing the torch to Kate Bishop...)

Me: Regnets heute? Transgender friend: Nee, brauchst keinen Schirm. Me: *geht raus und wird nass* Me:

Me, a transgender food enthusiast: 

*shows off muscles*

*gets bitten by a radioactive spider*

Me, a trans person - *puts on his glasses* :

Trans person I used to date (who is cool):

THE BOYS S2E06 “THE BLOODY DOORS OFF”