Yakovlev UT-2

Yakovlev UT-2

From Vintage Aviation News:

On July 11, 1935, the Yakovlev UT-2 took to the skies for the first time, marking a pivotal moment in Soviet aviation history. Designed as a modern trainer for the Soviet Air Force, the UT-2 replaced outdated biplanes and became the backbone of pilot instruction during World War II. Though challenging to fly, more than 7,000 were built, and today, just one remains airworthy—preserving the legacy of this essential war-era trainer.

Яковлев УТ-2 RA-2724G 105 лет ВВС 2017
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10 Short Videos #6146

10 Short Videos #6146

Licorice Roots Digging

what qualifies as a horse-dragon? #LEGO

Professor Styropyro is in the building - green fire

THIS IS WHY I WORK ALONE - replacing gas oven ignitor

Supercharged four cylinder flathead engine with OHV cylinder heads

3:2 pulldown vs speed up for conforming film frame rates for TV

Would you like to experience life as a sailor

1925 Douglas Drilling Rig

FPVCOCKPIT VIEW! Flying A Massive Scale RC Jet With FPV Head-Tracking Goggles ✈️🎛️

East German footage - military air power demonstration

More Tehran

Iranians walk in front of a large anti-US billboard featuring US President Donald Trump and the Strait of Hormuz, at Valiasr Square in Tehran, Iran [File: Abedin Taherkenareh/EPA]

Funnies

King Crab

My niece with king crab

From Wikipedia:

King crabs or stone crabs . . . are found chiefly in deep waters and are adapted to cold environments. They are composed of two subfamilies: Lithodinae, which tend to inhabit deep waters, are globally distributed, and comprise the majority of the family's species diversity; and Hapalogastrinae, which are endemic to the North Pacific and inhabit exclusively shallow waters. 

King crabs superficially resemble true crabs but are generally understood to be closest to the pagurid hermit crabs. This placement of king crabs among the hermit crabs is supported by several anatomical peculiarities which are present only in king crabs and hermit crabs, making them a prominent example of carcinisation among decapods. Several species of king crabs, especially in Alaskan and southern South American waters, are targeted by commercial fisheries and have been subject to overfishing.

I liked this explanation of carcinisation:

Carcinisation is a form of convergent evolution in which non-crab crustaceans evolve a crab-like body plan. The term was introduced into evolutionary biology by Lancelot Alexander Borradaile, who described it in 1916 as "the many attempts of Nature to evolve a crab"

Overfishing can be a problem. From Google:

Alaska's commercial king crab harvest for the 2025/2026 season has a Total Allowable Catch (TAC) of 2.68 million pounds for Bristol Bay red king crab. For the Aleutian Islands golden king crab, the total quota is set at 4.19 million pounds.

Islamic Street Art

A woman in Tehran, Iran, walks past a mural featuring Iranian drones on May 26 [File: Majid Asgaripour/West Asia News Agency via Reuters]

I like this picture though I'm not sure why, possibly because we've been watching Tehran and I'm seeing everything through Trumpian glasses.

Caffeine

Caffeine is Very, Very Strange...
vlogbrothers

I've encountered most of the pieces of this video but I never connected them all together.