Equine Don posted:

Unfortunately they are still very expensive. Not everyone can afford these prosthetics when they cost them an arm and a leg.

duckmaster posted:

The Lockheed U-2



There are plenty of planes introduced in the 50s and 60s which are still in use today (the MiG-27 by India for example) but few which are still in operation by the country that actually made them. The U-2 went operational in 1957 and is still in use by the US today. It's not particularly fast but flies at an altitude of 70,000 feet - that's 13 miles above the ground and almost twice as high as a 747.

When I was an air cadet in the UK I went to an air force base the U-2 was operating out of and we got a (brief) look round their preparation rooms and watched the two American sergeants dressing the pilot in a spacesuit and doing all sorts of tests to make sure he'd survive the flight. We were told, slightly tongue-in-cheek, not to salute the pilot because he "officially wasn't there". Then we each got a peek in the cockpit which was a mix of ancient looking instruments with computers strapped onto various bits and barely enough room to fit a cat, let alone a pilot in a spacesuit. The sergeants wouldn't let us look in it for more than five seconds because presumably any longer and we'd be able to steal state secrets or something. Maybe if we were American we'd have got ten seconds.

To reach that sort of altitude the aircraft jettisons its landing gear just after take off and lands later on little wheels or something. It was a busy airfield (this being the height of the Iraq War) so the gear had to be removed quickly, so we piled into a Subaru Impreza and a Fiat Panda (!) and shot up behind it as it took off. When the wheels fell to earth the sergeants jumped out and threw them into the back seat over our legs. I still remember them being, well, pretty drat hot.

For rather obvious reasons we weren't allowed to take photos so obviously absolutely nobody has ever believed me when I tell them this. But it definitely happened!!

The plane itself looks tough as hell up close. Like an old grizzled war veteran who could still kick your rear end.

Sulla-Marius 88 posted:

Actually while we're on the topic of flags, which flag do you guys think is sexiest? I want to bang the Thai flag so hard but there's something about the Georgian (the country not the state lol) flag that makes me a little curious, like I don't swing that way but sometimes I wonder what it'd be like, you know? Fwiw the French flag does absolutely nothing for me, people go on and on about how much they jerk off to it but I really just don't see the appeal. What do you guys reckon

Solice Kirsk posted:

A blue sky on Mars?

amityville anus posted:

Successful Jewish sports maneuvers:

Arrath posted:

Sooooo what's the story here? What'd he do to piss old no-chin off?

Grey Fox posted:

http://i.imgur.com/MV7tHB3.gifv

Creed Reunion Tour posted:

Mods please rename me to Deer Teeth, tia

Pigsfeet on Rye posted:

SO, WHEN YOU FILLED OUT YOUR INSURANCE FORMS, YOU WEREN’T THINKING ABOUT MY TAN, MUSCULAR ARMS OR MY rear end IN THE COMBAT-FIRING STANCE?

Dick Trauma posted:

Rare photo of Wilford Cutlery enjoying his work/life ratio.



EDIT:

Even with one arm Wilford is not someone to mess with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gX2pK1mioU&t=164s

Literally Esoteric posted:

https://i.imgur.com/cd9rCdv.mp4

Gripweed posted:

Lady Disdain posted:

Can someone explain the coins ? Where are they from and where were they found ?

Admiralty Flag posted:

Or maybe the protestors gave the contractors blueprints for 18 foot models but wrote the measurement down as 18"? I've seen a documentary about exactly the same mistake

Mr. Bad Guy posted:

Smoothe like yor brane lol

Cable Guy posted:

Security monitors are 3D,

Snowy posted:

I love this

Bobby Digital posted:

https://twitter.com/rexchapman/status/1285293647068618752?s=21