Tigershark. Nice.

I saw the promotional video of that aircraft years ago.

Here's a summary retrospective:

 

Quite alot of big airplanes in this thread. Big's ok, I guess...


Saw this rather amusing rust repair yesterday:



I'm pretty sure that's ordinary galvanized sheet metal from the hardware store. Fortunately, nothing bad happens when you use a stick welder on galvanized steel.

Nice bead, too.

 

Just don't inhale, Joe.

 

https://www.facebook.com/kens5/videos/10159522662835045/

 

https://www.facebook.com/barstoolsports/videos/10155837613512502/

 

Working it hot... natural gas line repair:

click to play

 

^ Badass. I had no idea they did that ****.


And now, here is a clown singing very well:




This one did it for me. I've ordered better speakers for the office. These shitty little 2.1 logitechs ain't cutting it. I hate them, I regret buying them, and I don't know how I've tolerated them for nearly a whole month.

Coming soon: Alesis Elevate 5.

 

Also, this is an actual truck, which I actually saw, which is actually this color:

 

Former US Forest Service vehicle. There's a bunch around my area.

 

Yup, monkey **** green... the old USFS color. Years ago I had an ex-USFS Ramcharger that color... manual trans, as basic as it got. It would go anywhere, just very slowly!

I drove it to CA once, and had reason to be in Santa Ana. The local illegals thought it was a Border Patrol truck, and would literally run when I turned onto a street...


Ramcharger 1 by Rodan AZ, on Flickr

 

Back to pretty aeroplanes.

 

You guys are all wrong. There is only one plane that is the GOAT.

 

I've always had a soft spot for the Schneider Cup racers...

 

I also had no idea you could do that on a live gas line as well, mindblown.gif


I'll be curious to see how you like them. I was getting ready to buy the Klipsch 2.1 setup for my "office" at the house.

 

mmmm oblique.




mmmm dugong.

 

wtf is that last plane doing?

 

--Ian

 

With the gear down and flaps-full, and no visible exhaust smoke, it's probably landing

EC-18 ARIA Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft
https://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/ec-18.htm

Missions supported include worldwide telemetry gathering, international treaty verification, spacecraft launches, ballistic missile defense, electronic combat and vulnerability analysis, aircraft icing tests, and aerial refueling certification. The ARIA deploy throughout the world to obtain telemetry data from orbital and reentry vehicles as well as air-to-air and cruise missile tests. This includes support of tests conducted at Cape Canaveral AFS, Vandenberg AFB, Hill AFB, Eglin AFB, and from ships and submarines. Normally, the telemetry data is obtained in locations such as broad ocean areas and remote land areas which are outside the coverage of ground stations. Externally the most obvious difference in appearance from a standard C-135 or C-18 aircraft is the large, bulbous, "droop snoot" nose, a ten-foot radome which houses a seven-foot steerable dish antenna.

 

^^ Pfff, that's no goat.




This is a goat:

 

Judging by the position of the flaps and gear, I would say that it is landing.