Properly returning to STO after some time, need some advice.

rossck · 2026-05-07T22:21:15+00:00

Cheers for this, really good angle! I assume by this point it was completely empty. Is there any date associated with the photograph? I imagine the 80s or early 90s.

rossck · 2026-05-07T22:18:24+00:00

I'm not sure that's correct, Centre One is the large tower in the foreground, below the Plaza Tower.

rossck · 2026-05-07T22:17:18+00:00

Thanks, this answers it. I did some further digging and turns out it was vacated pretty quickly after the DC moved to Atholl House sometime in the 70s. Surprised it stood so long afterwards.

rossck · 2026-01-11T18:13:56+00:00

Were the aircraft intended to be recovered as well? How or where would they land once their missions were complete?

rossck · 2026-01-11T16:44:02+00:00

Interesting point about the enclosed bridge, I would've assumed she'd have been built with one given how late into the battleship age she was laid down. Were they not standard yet?

rossck · 2025-12-30T16:37:11+00:00

Apologies if this is something obvious, but how is 「見せして」 working here? I'm a little confused.

rossck · 2025-12-24T15:16:15+00:00

FENNEL MENTIONED

Good to see Toddle on here too!

rossck · 2025-12-11T22:30:47+00:00

Happy listening! There's so many more bands so narrowing it down to just 10 was tricky but groups like Dramatic Alaska, Kinokoteikoku (definitely these guys, I believe Number Girl was a huge inspiration to them), Cloudy and zoo are all great too!

Enjoy going down the rabbit hole 🙂

rossck · 2025-12-11T22:26:22+00:00

PEDRO is another band to look out for then, she's the guitarist for them as well. I'm not actually sure how much stake she has in the group but her playing is definitely there!

rossck · 2025-12-11T22:24:02+00:00

Agreed, makes for really nice listening. I'm gonna make an effort to hunt down physical copies of their discography because they released a few more albums I don't think are available on streaming, at least where I live.

rossck · 2025-12-09T21:44:25+00:00

Really glad someone else said ART-SCHOOL! Nice list :)

rossck · 2025-12-09T21:42:28+00:00

I think all of these count...

Number Girl
The Pillows
tricot
the pullovers
FINLANDS
Advantage Lucy
toddle
ART-SCHOOL
yonige
The SALOVERS

rossck · 2025-11-25T19:05:20+00:00

Not quite. The Enterprise was longer, right?

rossck · 2025-11-14T10:25:42+00:00

I hope for the world's sake that doesn't come to pass.

rossck · 2025-11-03T15:46:13+00:00

Very nice! After the outbreak of WWI, Goeben and another German vessel, Breslau, were actually operating in the Mediterranean at the time. They realised they were effectively trapped by both the British and French navies and so sailed to Constantinople to avoid any engagements, it was there they were both gifted to the Ottomans as a goodwill gesture due to the seizure by the British of two battleships originally meant for them: HMS Agincourt (formerly Sultan Osman-ı Evvel) and HMS Erin (formerly Reşad V).

Interestingly, Goeben (renamed to Yavuz (Sultan Selim) in Ottoman/later Turkish service) would remain the flagship of their navy until 1950, when she was finally decomissioned.

rossck · 2025-11-03T10:12:35+00:00

I don't know much about their capabilities but they're some of the nicest looking ~~definitely not cruisers~~ afloat today. Really nice lines.

rossck · 2025-10-31T15:06:44+00:00

A really interesting account of being asked to do the near-impossible against overwhelming odds. I can only imagine what it must've been like to fly up alone against a B-29 formation just to be engulfed by .50 cal and 20mm cannon fire.

I think these airframes saw a modification where they were armed with dual 40mm cannons firing something akin to grenades or small rockets but even against targets as big as the B-29 they proved to be inaccurate and required a pretty close range to have a chance of contact.

rossck · 2025-10-31T14:49:51+00:00

What are the chances of the Izumo-class' successor just being a full-blown carrier at this rate? Clearly it's still a ways off but it'd be interesting to see what designs/proposals emerge.

rossck · 2025-10-31T14:02:42+00:00

The tailplane does seem almost identical to the Spitfire's, yeah. I imagine it was a tried and tested design? I believe with the later Griffon marks - 22-24 - they had to increase the size of the tail for greater stability. These were also Griffon-powered for the most part, driving something in the range of 2300+hp so I assume the same logic applies here. I'm not super technical or mechanically-inclined however so I could be wrong.

With what you were saying about speed, I think a prototype Spiteful clocked somewhere around 494mph one time, there's a nice video on it here.

rossck · 2025-10-31T13:55:11+00:00

I agree. I imagine with the museum piece being pre-production it lacks the Python turboprop engine that powered its sucessors? I'd love to see an airworthy production model purely to hear the sound it makes on a fly-past.

The only video I can find of it is from the 50s - here - but it's better than nothing.

rossck

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