Airplanes

Flight Aware's weekly newsletter always includes a bunch of photos. Most of them are usually airliners which don't hold much interest for me, but occasionally there are other things in there as well and today we got a bunch.

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
The B-17 has been mentioned here before, once or twice.

C-17 at St Maarten
These kind of photos are fairly common on Flight Aware, though
 the target is usually an airliner, not a military cargo aircraft.
The C-17 has been here before.

De Havilland Canada Twin Otter at Svetlaya
Svetlaya is on east coast of Russia, equidistant from Red China & Japan

North American F-100 Super Sabre at Oshkosh
This one is a real blast from the past. I had toy model of one when I was a kid,
and it will always be my ideal of what a jet fighter should look like.

COVID-19 strikes again
Alaska airliners parked at PDX

SHINMAYWA US-2 at Iwakuni, Japan,
possibly flying in from its normal operating base in the middle of the ocean.
Iwakuni is on Honshu, the main island.

Wrench Jokes

Defend Your Home

Springtime Feedings

Buzz Buzz

Dewalt Multi-Tool with assortment of spare blades.The dusty looking blade in the center is a Bosch blade that is supposed to fit any tool, but it didn't fit this one until we hacked it up with an angle grinder, and then we had to loosen the Allen screw in the clamp and clamp it down.

Some people call it an Oscillating Tool, some people call it a Multi-Purpose Oscillating Tool, some call it an oscillating multi-tool, some call it an Orbiting Multi Tool. Multi-tool is a bad name. Ask amazon for a multi-tool and you get Leatherman-like combination pliers / knife / screwdriver things. Someone needs to come up with a better name.

I call it the buzz-buzz tool because of the very loud, high pitched buzzing noise it makes. I don't know when they first appeared on the market but it's probably been at least ten years. I wasn't aware of them before then. The noise is totally obnoxious, but they can get into places any normal kind of saw can't, which makes them kind of useful. Going by the variety of blades Amazon stocks, I would say their usefulness has made them very popular

We've been tearing out the subfloor in the new house. You can use a circular saw canted over at an angle to cut the old subflooring free along the walls, but there are a few inches in the corner that the circular saw (or skil-saw as we used to call them) can't reach. You could use a reciprocating saw in the corners, but the kids these days don't like that old time harsh vibration. They like this new, obnoxious buzz box. Go figure.

BSN Cast Saw

They use something very like this for cutting casts off of people's arms and legs. It looks like a circular saw, but it doesn't spin, it just vibrates and that's enough to cut through plaster and plastic. I seem to remember someone demonstrating that the saw wouldn't hurt you by applying it to their own bare arm.

And because I can't say Multi Tool without thinking Multi Pass, we have Corbin Dallas & Lelu:


The 5th Element - Multi Pass

Pic of the Day

SpaceX Raptor Engines

Via The Silicon Graybeard, who reports on the latest SpaceX test at Boca Chica Texas.

Coyote

Coyote in our backyard

My wife caught this critter traipsing across our backyard this morning. This is why we don't let the cat out at night.

Funnies

Mostly via dad's deadpool blog

Unauthorized Living

TRÁILER DE 'VIVIR SIN PERMISO'
We started watching Unauthorized Living, a Spanish crime TV series. On Netflix it shows up in Spanish with English subtitles, which is how we like our drama. Could not find that combination in a trailer on YouTube, so we've got spoken Spanish and no subtitles.

The story is pretty standard, we've got a drug lord running a small town in Europe. He's surrounded by crazy people, the cops are after him, there's dissension in the ranks and to top it off, he's been diagnosed with Alzheimers, so he has short window to wrap up his affairs and arrange to install one of his kids as new head of his organization.

We have a whole slew of colorful characters, some good, some bad, but the real villain is the traitor in his organization.

The series in set in Galicia, which is the northwest corner of Spain. The scenery is pretty spectacular.