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Charlie StrossRE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/116251902227579771
OMG!
(Radio-controlled planes are one thing, but here's a radio-controlled plane dropping a radio-controlled GI Joe paratroop with steerable chute!)
Jon Hancock@cstross I can feel the jealousy from my old Action Man Red Devil.
Krahabors
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Guillotine Jones, Flâneur@cstross
America, fuck yeah!
(I'm saying this ironically, but that remote-control GI Joe parachuting from a radio-controlled plane IS unironically kewl.)
America, fuck yeah!
(I'm saying this ironically, but that remote-control GI Joe parachuting from a radio-controlled plane IS unironically kewl.)
Jaime Robertson@cstross That’s neat, but IMO not as cool as the RC Buran on its Antonov carrier.
This is a bit long.
Antonov AN225 with Buran Spaceship Radio Controlled Midair separation Hausen
Gunnar Bergfalke@JamesPadraicR @cstross I'm impressed that the Buran was built heavy enough to behave about like the full scale in flight.
PersonneWWWAAAANNNTTTT
@cstross
After posting this I decided to do something I’ve been meaning to do.
Cadbury MooseIt flew over Fort Dunlop (in Birmingham UK) when I was working there, but unfortunately there was 10/10ths low cloud and all we got to see was a vague shadow. 3:O((>
KnitronomiconI saw it at Stansted airport, the only one in the UK with a spare runway long enough for it. (Years before Stansted became a major international airport! It didn't even have a railway line, we had to take a bus from whatever the nearest station was!) It got slightly held up due to fog in the Channel (or something), but came past for a near fly-over before landing anyway. A friend watching cricket at Lord's saw it fly up the Thames...
Steve Bellovin@JamesPadraicR @cstross And here's my picture of the Enterprise being flown to JFK airport in New York, in April 2012, on its way to the USS Intrepid, an old aircraft carrier that's been turned into a museum.
olderThere's a documentary about Antonov AN225 "Mriya" at @arte:
https://www.arte.tv/en/videos/110654-000-A/antonov/
Antonov - The World's Largest Aircraft - Watch the full documentary | ARTE in English
The Antonov AN-225 Mriya, the world's largest cargo plane and the pride of Ukraine, was destroyed in a Russian attack on Hostomel airport near Kyiv at the beginning of the invasion in 2022. With exclusive images and never-before-seen film footage, test pilots and engineers of the aviatio giant tell its legendary story.
Robee? Na! 🌈@cstross This is going to revolutionise stunt work on the next Mission Impossible movie
Random Walsh
Patrick Gerken
Brie Mmm