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10 Short Videos #6150

10 Short Videos #6150

Military’s Hidden Oxygen Supply

🎻 CUANDO LOS GENIOS TAMBIÉN SE RELAJAN Incluso en la música clásica hay espacio para el humor. Ver…- WHEN GENIUSES ALSO RELAX Even in classical music there's room for humor.

Puppy Warming Up for the Ultimate Battle

When The Threaded Rod Is Too Long

Fall Prevention with Anti Roll Back!

Cycloramic — an app that made your iPhone spin itself using nothing but vibrations, capturing 360° photos hands-free.

This Recruit is an absolute walking Military Encyclopedia!

Crazy Cats

BASEMENT FLOODING - Elephant steals the show

Creating a Giant Freak Wave

Ilyushin DB-3

Ilyushin DB-3

The Ilyushin DB-3 is a WW2 Soviet long-range bomber aircraft. It first flew in 1935. 1,528 were built. 

From Wikipedia:

The DB-3 was not a simple or easy aircraft to manufacture as Ilyushin had pushed the limits of the available construction technology to make it as light as possible. For example, the spar in each wing panel had four parts which had to be riveted together and there were numerous welds that each had to be inspected by an X-ray machine, with many failures. In addition the internal riveting of small-diameter tubing was also a difficult and time-consuming process.

In 1939, 30 DB-3s were supplied to the Republic of China Air Force during the Second Sino-Japanese War and they saw heavy action against Japanese targets in the Wuhan region from their bases in Sichuan (mostly used by the 8th Group), before being replaced by B-24 Liberators in 1943.

Two DB-3s were responsible for shooting down the neutral Finnish civilian Junkers Ju 52 passenger and transport plane Kaleva on June 14, 1940.

The Finns captured five force-landed DB-3Ms during the Winter War and during 1941 they purchased a further six DB-3Ms and four DB-3F/Il-4s from German surplus stocks.

On the night of August 7–8, 1941, fifteen DB-3T torpedo bombers of the Baltic Fleet dropped the first Soviet bombs on Berlin. From August 11, DB-3Fs of the VVS resumed bombing.

DB-3 torpedo bombers attacking a naval convoy in the Baltic
Skyfire

Ilyushin DB-3 & DB-3F(IL-4). WWII
Yolkhere

Cooling Air Intake Restrictor

Finnish Air Force Swastika

The Finnish Swastika is not connected to the Nazis.

A Foggy Tale - Netflix Movie

A Foggy Tale - official trailer
Mandarin Vision

Apparently we didn't get our quota of repression from binge watching Tehran so now we're in Taiwan watching another repressive regime in action. The story starts slowly but after laying out the ground work it picks up speed and becomes engrossing. The epilog makes it look like it is a true story, but I found nothing on the net to confirm this.

Netflix summary:

After losing her brother to a government execution, a young girl takes a dangerous journey to reclaim his body and raise the money for a proper burial.

Midgard Times review:

A Foggy Tale is set during the period of White Terror—a nearly four-decade era of martial law, political repression, and authoritarian rule by the Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) under Chiang Kai-shek—and, for most of its runtime, Chen Yu-hsun films those oppressive years as though they were distant memories recalled decades later. The result is a mostly detached and unsentimental tale told with the observational restraint of a documentary. Through the eyes of a young Taiwanese girl named Yue (Caitlin Fang), Yu-hsun captures the ordinary lives of citizens living during the White Terror. By keeping a child at the center, Yu-hsun refuses to sugarcoat her proximity to physical harm and dangers posed by predatory men and the police officers. After arriving in Taipei from Chiayi, Yue is abducted by a child trafficker, and when she angrily accuses a cop of killing her brother, another officer kicks her and violently beats her. Yet when Yue blames the police for her brother's death, she isn't accusing a single individual so much as the entire repressive system.

A Foggy Tale opens with Yue and her brother, Yun (Tseng Jing-hua), discussing what they hope to become in the future. From there, Yu-hsun cuts to one year later and takes us to the moment when the news of Yun's execution by firing squad arrives at Yue's residence. The implication is clear: under oppressive rule, dreams, ambitions, and futures are abruptly cut short by a regressive, close-minded system. There are other sentimental touches, like Yue finding a brother-from-another-mother in Chao Kung-tao (Will Or) and reuniting with her elder sister, Hsu (9m88), who was given up for adoption years earlier. Yet Yu-hsun never exploits these moments for melodramatic effect. He remains curiously level-headed throughout. Scenes that might have turned cloying or excessively brutal in the hands of a lesser filmmaker are presented in a matter-of-fact manner.

When Yue is taken to a room at Paradise Funeral Home to identify her brother's body, what stands out in the foreground is the employee's casual lack of empathy in the face of her discomfort. Even then, Yu-hsun shows little interest in launching direct attacks against any particular person. Cruelty is not sensationalized, and acts of kindness arrive without sentimental fanfare. Such a style of filmmaking often results in impersonal work, yet there is something about A Foggy Tale that prevents you from dismissing Yu-hsun's efforts. He casually introduces elements like a Robin Hood-style figure or Kung-tao making a deal to murder someone in ways that initially leave you taken aback. Is Yu-hsun assembling different varieties of vignettes to depict a particular moment in history? Does the key to the puzzle lie in the titular tale that Hsu tells her sister?

Wikipedia page about the White Terror.

Train from Chiayi to Taipei

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10 Short Videos #6149

10 Short Videos #6149

The Densest Metal on Earth

Scientists Turned Dead Spiders Into Robotic Grippers Using Their Hydraulic Legs 🤯🕷️🤖

This is exactly what it looks like when you create my dream life 😌 - king of the dog walkers

Lidé vs pluh 😳 Utáhnou ho? - People vs. the plow. Can they pull it?

Why Chinese Factories Staple Real Cash to Cables 🤯

Heavy equipment operators

You never know when you gonna come across a house like this - Connecting electrical service

Based on a true story. - Candy in the movie E.T.

First time disassembling an air conditioning compressor

Loggers DESTROY John Deere Dozer Blade...Gonna Be Expensive!

Etrich Taube Monoplane

Etrich Taube Monoplane -  Russell Smith

From Wikipedia:

First flight in 1910.

The Etrich Taube, also known by the names of the various later manufacturers who built versions of the type, such as the Rumpler Taube, was a pre-World War I monoplane aircraft. It was the first military aeroplane to be mass-produced in Germany.

The Taube was very popular prior to the First World War, and it was also used by the air forces of Italy and Austria-Hungary. Even the Royal Naval Air Service operated at least one Taube in 1912. On 1 November 1911, Giulio Gavotti, an Italian aviator, dropped the world's first aerial bomb from his Taube monoplane over the Ain Zara oasis in Libya. Once the war began, it quickly proved inadequate as a warplane and was soon replaced by other designs. 

Etrich Taube: The World’s First Plane to Launch an Aerial Bomb
Retro Transport