2012-04-14
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scanzen, from nationalmuseum.af.mil:
General Dynamics F-111A Aardvark. The F-111A could change the angle or “sweep” of its wings in flight. This image shows three different wing positions. With the wings swept forward, the F-111A had more lift to carry heavier loads, and it could land or take off at a slower speed. With the wings swept back, the F-111A could fly at very high speeds.
2012-03-29
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F-102 Delta Dagger. Images: Aerofiles, Life Magazine (via), 482nd F.I.S., A Plane A Day.
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F-102 Delta Dagger images, from Wikipedia, Life Magazine (via, via), and Jet Pilots Overseas. (The two Life images feature future astronauts.)
2012-03-11
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Jad Mouawad in the New York Times: Airlines Studying the Science of Better In-Flight Meals.
Hey, 61,000,000×$0.01 = $610,000! Good to know the New York Times is on it. (Seriously, though, the scale is kind of baffling, and the rest of the article, pointing out how much the environment of flying makes it to do good catering, is worth a read.)
2010-12-05
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A Pan Am stewardess posing in the engine nacelle of an Boeing 707 (via)
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David Noël in On This Day Today: 1966. (The whole thing is worth a read for the story of a Pan Am plane crash in East Germany.)
The lounge, on Budapester Straße 43 near Wittenbergplatz U-Bahn has a Flash site (which I didn’t bother looking at), but it’s also covered Ultraswank. It seems to be private, but they (used to) occasionally host jazz nights. Seems like it might be worth looking out for.
2010-08-29
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Photographs by Wing Shya/Simon Birch (warning: both Flash) (via ffffound) (via ulle69 / Ulrik Hogrebe, who says to “distribute, copy, steal, reproduce or pass on anything on this site - just give credit where credit is due”, which is ironic, given the utter lack of credits on anything in his Tumblr) (credit via TinEye)
2010-04-05
Get out of town
I finally found my stamp collection. Above is one of my favorites. Designed by Paulo Guilherme in 1963 for the 10th anniversary of TAP, Portuguese Airlines.
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