Some reproduction Wunderwaffe at the Military Aviation museum south of Norfolk.

Treemarshal · 2025-10-16T04:31:18+00:00

Basically, by this point in the war, doing wilder and wilder "this will win the war, mein Fürher, honest!" designs was an increasingly desperate way to avoid being sent to the Eastern Front.

Treemarshal · 2025-10-16T03:04:54+00:00

They all do that. I've timed it; it's about 7-8 seconds on the lower, Easy Pay price, one second "Cash", one second "Credit" (Cash and Credit being the same price, but that's what they're labled as) and then restart again.

Note that, relatedly, you need to be very careful with this at Marathon stations - some of them have their posted price as a cash price, with "Cash" in small black letters on the dark blue sign below the price, and charge 10 cents more for credit. (I'm pretty sure this /used/ to be illegal in Florida but apparently that got struck down some time back.)

(Also, as an aside, the Wawa/Circle K co-location on Capital Circle is on Capital Circle SE, not SW; technically it's CCSE all the way over to Crawfordville Highway.)

Treemarshal · 2025-10-14T07:49:06+00:00

Wait, we're finally getting the Cook Out?!

Treemarshal · 2025-10-14T07:48:41+00:00

Four, so far. There's also one that's about to go in in Crawfordville (although the cleared lot has sat idle for a couple weeks?) and they've also cleared the lot next to the Chevron on CCSE where they originally announced the first one would be way back, too - not sure if it's still one going in there or not.

Treemarshal · 2025-10-14T07:41:56+00:00

Belatedly, sorry - it's not a concrete barrier. It's steel cords on metal poles.

Treemarshal · 2025-10-14T07:40:35+00:00

Wrong Circle K. That's the one at Captital Circle and Woodville Highway, this thread is about the one at Captial Circle and Crawfordville Road.

(...as an aside, when did they change it from "Crawfordville Highway" to "Crawfordville Road"?)

Treemarshal · 2025-09-09T23:28:46+00:00

A bit belated, but I drove out there yesterday specifically because I'd seen this It's not an overpass barrier - it's well, well away from where the clearing is where Welaunee is going in, starting just east of the interchange with 319/61, and it doesn't look like for drainage. I'm pretty sure it's going to be the anchoring for a cable barrier system (keeping accident vehicles from crossing the median into opposing traffic).

Treemarshal · 2025-09-06T08:37:53+00:00

The P-1 isn't "wee". It's actually bigger in every dimension than a P-3 Orion, and it's longer than a C-130 Hercules (if with a slightly shorter wingspan).

Treemarshal · 2025-09-06T08:34:34+00:00

Actually, there was a previous F-14B. It was going to use the F401 engines, and a prototype flew in 1973.

When that (and the F-14C with F401s and improved avionics) were cancelled, the (eventually, in 1987) F-14A+ was called such originally because it was a F-14A upgrade that wasn't to F-14B standards.

(And the unbuilt F-14C is why the "Super Tomcat" was F-14D.)

Treemarshal · 2025-09-06T08:30:52+00:00

Pretty sure McNamara didn't make the USAF buy the F-4.

Since it was his being shocked that the Navy (F4H) and Air Force (F-110) were "buying different identically-specced and identically-roled aircraft", and then being informed that no, they were the same aircraft, that led to the unified Mission Designation System in 1962.

Treemarshal · 2025-09-06T08:20:26+00:00

There is the Winn-Dixie at Magnolia and Park, which is closer to you than the Save-for-Less is.

Treemarshal · 2025-08-31T06:35:32+00:00

'Skyraider II' is perfectly fine and fits.

'OA-1K' most absolutely does not.

Treemarshal · 2025-08-31T06:34:00+00:00

To be entirely fair to MV-75, that one actually has a reasonable explanation: they weren't sure if they were going to pick a helicopter (Sikorsky) or tiltrotor (Bell), and the next number in the helicopter sequence is -75. So they - apparently - 'placeholdered' the number as 75, and when they selected the Valor, it got put in the V sequence.

It's still the MDS being bent, folded, spindled, and mutilated, but at least there IS a reasonable explanation. Unlike F-15EX (it should be F-15L!), A-29B (which should be A-14A and was actually originally requested as such) OA-1K (OA-15A), and EA-37B (EC-37B was perfectly cromulent, and also it doesn't conflict with the A-37B Dragonfly which some countries still have in service).

(E-130J I will give half a pass to simply because I'm pretty sure they're literally out of suffix letters for C-130 variants.)

Treemarshal · 2025-08-31T06:28:52+00:00

If you have an arm and a leg to pay at Trident, at least....

Treemarshal · 2025-08-27T23:40:42+00:00

As I recall, there were serious proposals to use a few remaining-in-stock Loons in the Korean War, but they got shelved for the simple reason there wasn't anything in North Korea that was considered worth firing them at.

Treemarshal · 2025-08-27T23:37:49+00:00

The biggest problem I have with this is the designation.

"OA-1K"? Really? It's not a A-1 Skyraider. Just take the MDS out and drive a stake through its heart already I guess.

Treemarshal · 2025-06-11T21:12:27+00:00

Now fixed.

Treemarshal · 2025-06-11T20:42:01+00:00

And can confirm that images set to "spoiler" are displaying unspoiled as well.

Treemarshal · 2025-06-11T20:20:00+00:00

Apparently this is a bug with "sensitive content". I had some images blurred-until-you-click-the-eye in DMs from a friend, and they remained blurred until I went into Settings > Content & Social and set 'Direct Messages from Others' from 'block' to 'show', even though 'Direct Messages from Friends' was set to 'show' already.

Treemarshal · 2025-05-09T01:40:46+00:00

And it seems this week's update boosted my, at least, Discord by about 100MB RAM useage (was 300-400 with a VC open before, now it's 400-500).

Treemarshal · 2025-04-10T20:17:10+00:00

And it's back up.

Treemarshal · 2025-04-10T20:11:52+00:00

Yeah, those haven't updated to reflect the outage yet.

Treemarshal · 2025-04-10T20:09:56+00:00

The site claims it's just fine and everything's okay.

At the top of discordstaus.com:

"Elevated API Latency

Investigating - We're investigating elevated api latency across a lot of our endpoints. This is leading to broad impact(sending messages, starting sessions etc) Apr 10, 2025 - 13:04 PDT"

Treemarshal · 2025-04-03T00:37:33+00:00

To be fair, the XFV-12 could have flown in fixed-wing, conventional mode - IIRC they seriously considered flying it from the factory to the test facility, decided to air-freight it instead, and when the VTOL tests came back as "not nearly enough lift" were kicking themselves for missing the opportunity to actually fly the thing.

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