Took some digging to find out just what kind of airplane this was. The only thing included with the photo was the registration number and all Google turns up for that turn up is 2015 MM AVIATION LLC PATRIOT V-150, and the only MM AVIATION I found a company that makes weather instruments. Obviously I am not their target audience.
BLACK CRAB Trailer (2022) Noomi Rapace, Thriller Movie
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War movie between unidentified parties, fought in the mostly frozen north, on ice skates. Looks like it could be Ukraine or Eastern Europe, but it's probably Scandinavia. All them countries have beaucoup d'islands in waters that freeze in the winter. In any case, the war is brutal and vicious.
Roger Ebert has a decent review, though he somehow confuses a capsized lifeboat with global warming. I mean, how many middle eastern refugees have drowned in the mediterranean, and I'm pretty sure global warming doesn't have anything to do with that.
Then there is the bit about the two packets our crew is carrying that could end the war. Turns out they each contain a vial of deadly pathogens. At one point our hero (Noomi) tapes these two packets to a grenade and then pulls the pin. Would the fireball destroy the pathogens, or would the blast just disperse them? Either option would fit the story.
Then there's the moral dilemma of what do you do with a couple of vials of deadly pathogens? Do you turn them over to the authorities, who are almost certainly going to unleash them on someone? Will they just kill the enemy, or will they kill everyone? Or do you destroy them?
And what's going on in those biological research laboratories in Ukraine? Are they just doing research on microbes and virii, or are they trying to make nastier diseases that can be used as a weapon? Even it we knew exactly what they were doing it might be hard to tell. Whether you are trying to find a way to combat a disease or a way to make the disease more deadly, you are going to want to learn more about the pathogen that causes it, i.e. research. About the only way to judge these things is to see if they are trying to keep it secret and who is running the show. Since everyone who is denying that these facilities exist is a fully paid up member of wolf pack that is running our Empire of Lies [tm], I suspect the worst.
This was directed by Adam Berg. He hasn't directed many movies, but he has directed a bunch of music videos. I guess that's one way to get into the movie business. I checked out a few of them but the most of the tunes didn't do anything for me, but there were a couple that I have posted.
The Beaver is known these days for being a workhorse of the Alaskan bush, but the U.S. Air Force helped put them on the map:
The United States Army purchased several hundred aircraft; nine DHC-2s are still in service with the U.S. Air Force Auxiliary (Civil Air Patrol) for search and rescue. - Wikipedia
This particular airplane is kind of special:
N682AF was built in 1954 and is owned by Bill Anders’ Apogee Flight. It was restored by Col Frank Borman, Apollo 8 Commander. It is regularly displayed at shows with museum aircraft and was winner of the 2001 EAA Arlington “Best L Bird” award. Though Beavers are usually seen on floats, this wheeled Beaver is painted in USAF rescue colors like the Beaver Bill Anders flew occasionally in Iceland. - Heritage Flight Museum
Huh, when you are finished with your career of piloting moon rockets you can retire to a quiet life of restoring antique aircraft.
One of the first records set by a Bellanca CH-300 series aircraft occurred on July 28–30, 1931, when two guys flew from Floyd Bennett Field on western Long Island to Istanbul, Turkey aboard a CH-300 making it safely to Istanbul nonstop in 49:20 hours, establishing a distance record of 5,011 miles, the first known nonstop record flight in aviation history whose distance surpassed either the 5,000 mile mark. - extracted from Wikipedia
5,000 miles in just under 50 hours means they were traveling at the sedate pace of 100 miles per hour. Still, quite an accomplishment to be locked in a small box for 50 hours and keep the airplane on course.
Bellanca went bankrupt in 1980. There have been a couple of attempts to keep it going, but they seem to have collapsed.
Don't think the tune was ever used in any of Clint's movies, but the essence of the story certainly fits.
Update June 2022 replaced the video at the top. Somehow the wrong video got there. I don't know how it happened. It's very weird. Anyway, the wrong video was this one, which is another parody of another old Marty Robbins tune.
I don't understand my wife. She claims she doesn't like science fiction, but she watched all four of the Matrix movies with me when the new one came out a few months ago. As you may have heard there is a new Top Gun movie out and she is all pumped up to see it, so we watched the old one to refresh our memories? Or maybe to get pumped up, in the groove so to speak, so as to best appreciate the new Top Gun movie.
The old one came out in 1986, which is like 36 years ago. We went to see it when we were newlyweds. That was a while ago.
We watched the original last night, it's still pretty great. I remember hearing that it costs a million dollars a day to operate an aircraft carrier. Looking at how complex the whole system is, machines and people, it's pretty amazing that it works at all. And good grief, what a headache for the commander. Don't lose any zillion dollar aircraft and try and keep your crew safe. I suspect they lose a few people on every voyage, somebody falls overboard or gets wacked in the head by big piece of steel. That's the price we pay to keep our spear sharp. You need to be very careful when working with big machines.
I looking at the map and I'm thinking the oil is probably being transported by tanker across the Black Sea, through downtown Istanbul, which prompted me to wonder what that looks like, and wouldn't you know it, YouTube has a video.
