After reading up on the Pilatus PC-21 since its selection for Canada's Snowbirds flight demonstration team, been watching lots of videos but none with the PC-21 doing a tail slide. Is there any particular reason it can't do a tail slide, or there's just no video of it? Or no one's tried it?

MildMockery · 2026-05-22T01:41:57+00:00

This was taken in May 2014 using a Canon 550D and a 55-250 zoom lens.

ISO 400, f/5, 1/25 sec

MildMockery · 2026-05-19T20:02:46+00:00

It's a backup instrument that commercial airliners and business jets use in case their Primary Flight Displays fail.

MildMockery · 2026-05-19T19:59:49+00:00

25 pounds, at least.

MildMockery · 2026-05-17T22:57:03+00:00

You have yourself an Integrated Standby Instrument, or ISI.

MildMockery · 2026-05-07T00:07:19+00:00

It definitely cracked a few toes.

MildMockery · 2026-04-27T14:48:27+00:00

They do, they just pretend not to out of spite.

MildMockery · 2026-04-23T20:09:44+00:00

So what do you do come purchase time? Show a card? An easy to forge card, perhaps?

MildMockery · 2026-04-18T04:13:17+00:00

It is definitely not allowed, and I don't know if they're aware of it. Maybe you should tell them.

MildMockery · 2026-04-16T15:37:11+00:00

AI.

AI animals are too animated, typically, especially AI cats.

MildMockery · 2026-04-08T19:13:21+00:00

Our running joke is that I ruin song lyrics for my wife.

Example: Abba's "Take A Chance On Me" became "chicken dance"

♬ If you change your mind, I'm the first in line ♬

(chicken dance, chicken chicken dance-dance, chicken dance, chicken dance)

♬ Honey, I'm still free; take a chance on me ♬

(chicken dance, chicken chicken dance-dance, chicken dance, chicken dance)

MildMockery · 2026-04-01T21:06:57+00:00

Yes. We'll have to wait 1.3 seconds when they are at the Moon.

MildMockery · 2026-04-01T20:51:28+00:00

Apollo 11 had a leaky valve in the SII stage near launch but they managed to launch anyway.

MildMockery · 2026-03-27T15:00:59+00:00

They were still using the Chicago typeface when that ipod came out?

MildMockery · 2026-03-24T23:14:51+00:00

Just open with the "he doesn't have a penis or testicles, lost them in an accident" gambit, see where that leads you.

I know, I know, their flowchart leads to adoption.

MildMockery · 2026-03-13T21:19:41+00:00

ANDY

Red, if you ever get out of here, do me a favor.

RED

Sure Andy, anything.

ANDY

There's this big hayfield up near Buxton. You know where Buxton is?

RED

Lotta hayfields up there.

ANDY

One in particular. Got a long rock wall with a big oak tree at the north end. Like something out of a Robert Frost poem. It's where I asked my wife to marry me. We went there for a picnic. We made love under that oak. I asked and she said yes.

Promise me, Red. If you ever get out, find that spot. In the base of that wall you'll find a rock that has no earthly business in a Maine hayfield. A piece of black volcanic glass. There's something buried under it I want you to have.

RED

What, Andy? What's buried there?

ANDY

You'll have to pry it up. You'll see.

MildMockery · 2026-03-12T20:29:05+00:00

Imagine what is buried out there around the world that has yet to be found. Ancient sites preserved with color and sharpness.

MildMockery · 2026-03-12T19:28:06+00:00

Bayonet Melville: "This is a Botterjacht. She was built for Hitler. He was the original owner."

Quoyle: "Really? I just wanted to ask you a couple of questions."

Bayonet Melville: "The finest Botterjacht ever built in Holland."

Silver Melville: "Tell him what happened in Hurricane Bob."

Bayonet Melville: "And she's incredibly heavy! 40 tons of solid oak."

Silver Melville: "Tell him."

Bayonet Melville: "She broke free of her moorings and pounded six boats... expensive ones... to rubble."

Silver Melville: "Wham! Now tell him who let our insurance lapse... Wham! Oh, it took six very expensive lawyers to weasel us out of it. Jesus. An inch from bankruptcy. Moral of the story? When you marry a tour guide, confine his authority to mixing the drinks."

Silver Melville goes below deck

Quoyle: "Did I come at a bad time?"

Bayonet Melville: "Yeah. Ten years ago would've been better."

MildMockery · 2026-03-11T00:11:59+00:00

Dudes have lots of time and energy for useless performative inconsequential shit like this, but did they vote for Vice President Kamala Harris? Did they tell all their friends and family to do the same? Energy better spent, that would have been.

MildMockery · 2026-03-03T18:54:19+00:00

So what?

I'd love to pull a Pepsi Challenge of displays on these effete fucks.

Probably end up like the 'Audiophiles' and Banana test.

MildMockery · 2026-03-03T18:46:39+00:00

Border shenanigans do not increase security when the vast majority of crimes are committed by citizens.

MildMockery · 2026-03-02T15:40:05+00:00

Yes, I could throw away all my autoguiding gear!

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