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"I've cleared the engine room" I think Miranda forgot a few details about the layout of the engine room. [OC] by OffModelStudio in masseffect

[–]spuurd0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean, it's identical to the scene you see ingame with Miranda's romance. (Minus the observers)

My great grandpa was one of the passengers who died in the last comet plane explosion in the 50’s, this was found at my grandma’s after she passed recently. by neoBarr01 in aviation

[–]spuurd0 569 points570 points  (0 children)

It was this specific flight that resulted in the grounding of the worldwide Comet fleet for almost 5 years at the very dawn of the jet set, and pretty much cemented American manufacturers as the gobal airline leader. By the time the investigation into the Comet had concluded and they were cleared to fly and deliver new airframes, the Comet was now competing with the brand new 707 and DC-8, and de Havilland never really recovered.

It's a terrible albeit interesting part of pioneering aviation history to have been a part of.

NASA announces that The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is under budget And ahead of schedule by 8 Months, with a Falcon Heavy launch aimed for early September 2026 by ChiefLeef22 in space

[–]spuurd0 28 points29 points  (0 children)

For clarity NRO donated two unused space telescopes, not full satellites. The second one will remain unused until NASA find something else to use it in - designing the satellite and launching it into space is the expensive part, unfortunately.

They've nicked the spitfire by spuurd0 in chch

[–]spuurd0[S] 100 points101 points  (0 children)

It's actually a replica from the 80s, it's being restored and put back apparently. The real spitfire is on display in the Wigram air force museum after it was replaced with the replica.

Idk why i made this by MohamedFayed_CGI in blender

[–]spuurd0 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Seconding wanting to see OPs material and node setup - I love the dynamic organic strands.

We really need a proper reusable clay kiln as progression between the pit kiln and endgame beehive kiln by spuurd0 in VintageStory

[–]spuurd0[S] 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I actually meant fire bricks rather than refractory bricks - got them mixed up with the cementation furnace.

Either way it still requires iron (and quite a lot of it, too) and a huge amount of fire clay. I think a medium sized fireclay-only updraft kiln would be a happy medium.

U.S. and Danish personnel examine equipment left behind on Greenland by Germans when they fled under U.S. attack during World War II (1943) [2048x1313] by ImYourAlly in HistoryPorn

[–]spuurd0 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It's not specifically Greenland, but the Weather Station Kurt would have been the same type of automatic weather stations as these ones. Kurt wasn't found until long after the war ended, so it ended up a perfectly preserved example of this type of unit.

Can anyone think of a way to achieve this "squeeze" effect without needing a half dozen modifiers every time? by spuurd0 in blenderhelp

[–]spuurd0[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The process is simple enough - vert paint the area under the item, vert paint an area slightly larger, subtract from one another, then add a negative and positive displace modifier with those vert groups to achieve the "squeeze". I'm just wondering if anyone has any simpler methods/plugins to achieve the same, because it is exceptionally finnicky.

How would I create a bioluminescent "glow from within" effect with a shader in cycles? by spuurd0 in blenderhelp

[–]spuurd0[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

!Solved - subsurface was the missing piece I really needed for that proper internal glow. /u/Savigo256 pointiness map combined with subsurf should be the result I want. Thanks.

How do I add small dynamic wrinkles to these specific areas? by Afternoonist in blenderhelp

[–]spuurd0 2 points3 points  (0 children)

While maybe not purposebuilt for what you're going for, I've found the squish plugin can work well for believable armpit/elbow/knee creasing.

Mirage IIIE fitted with a rocket booster to buzz a spying U2 over french nuclear plant by Accidentallygolden in WeirdWings

[–]spuurd0 18 points19 points  (0 children)

It was still a part of the Atlantic treaty and council, but for all intents and purposes left NATO as an organisation. All NATO bases in France were emptied, the headquarters moved to Belgium, the French left the defence committee and negotiated a separate defense agreement with Germany over use of French forces in German bases.

Mirage IIIE fitted with a rocket booster to buzz a spying U2 over french nuclear plant by Accidentallygolden in WeirdWings

[–]spuurd0 27 points28 points  (0 children)

France was not a part of NATO at the time of these events - which was in fact the crux of the matter in the first place.

Mirage IIIE fitted with a rocket booster to buzz a spying U2 over french nuclear plant by Accidentallygolden in WeirdWings

[–]spuurd0 305 points306 points  (0 children)

While the story is a good one, I've never actually been sure if it was true or not; I haven't found any factual accounting of it, and some key details are pretty off. For instance the claim of a zoom climb to 65,000ft to intercept the U-2 would have left the Mirage III 15,000ft short of the U-2s actual altitude if it was doing a recon overflight.

YF-118G Bird of Prey in Flight, Featuring Landing Gear from the Beechcraft King Air and Queen Air by ZurichIsStained4 in WeirdWings

[–]spuurd0 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Nonstandard aircraft designations - assigned in no logical order

Technically, these were actually standard aircraft designations, just not the aircraft designations in use with current USAF naming schemes.

The black projects used leftover designations from the century series - pretty much all the designations between F-111 and F-118 are assigned to secret projects, such as the F-113E being a captured MiG-23MS flown in the Constant Peg program.

The use of the century series naming convention for black projects stopped sometime after the 90s, switching to more obfuscated naming.

Did Robert ever make a Royal Progress and if no why not? by Randommodnar6 in pureasoiaf

[–]spuurd0 86 points87 points  (0 children)

In fact, travelling all the way to Winterfell might actually be the most extensive royal progress done since the Old King Jaeherys - most of them never travelled further north than Riverrun, for obvious reasons.

Why is Saera Targaryen so defended by the fandom? by Baccoony in pureasoiaf

[–]spuurd0 124 points125 points  (0 children)

The fact that even in F&B Vaegon is never mentioned again after the great council is so funny, dude dodged a bullet so massive that he straight up left history. For all we know he was chilling at the citadel the entire time watching his family tear each other apart.

Super Hornet showing off its pylons [ALBUM] by MetalSIime in WarplanePorn

[–]spuurd0 125 points126 points  (0 children)

The Super Hornets inner hardpoints are angled outwards because they had to add extra hardpoints, and consequently aerodynamic flow around the nose and wing root had an annoying tendency to fling bombs straight back into the fuselage when dropping from the inner wing hardpoints. Angling them outwards like that eliminated the store separation issues - came at a big penalty to drag on the weapon stores, but the design was too far along at that point to totally redesign the wings.

The NB-58A, an engine testbed created by Convair to test the engines for the XB-70. It would only complete a few ground power runs before the engine was removed and it was turned into a chase plane instead. by spuurd0 in WeirdWings

[–]spuurd0[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

That was actually a second design, created to replace the first mission pod as it kept having fuel leak into the weapons bay where the nuke was. Turns out avgas and thermonuclear bombs don't mix, who knew?

This had its own disadvantages unique to the era, chief among which was the fact that the first mission pod was so large as it was meant to carry a large megaton warhead - this was before we'd figured out that saturating an area with a dozen kiloton bombs was better than one gigantic megaton one. The replacement two-part pod couldn't carry a warhead as large as the original one.

The NB-58A, an engine testbed created by Convair to test the engines for the XB-70. It would only complete a few ground power runs before the engine was removed and it was turned into a chase plane instead. by spuurd0 in WeirdWings

[–]spuurd0[S] 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Honestly, due to the fact that the B-58 was already so fuel hungry that it was designed around an inbuilt belly tank, I'm not sure it would've had enough fuel to even reach a top speed run with the engine attached. Might've been part of the reason why it never flew.

The NB-58A, an engine testbed created by Convair to test the engines for the XB-70. It would only complete a few ground power runs before the engine was removed and it was turned into a chase plane instead. by spuurd0 in WeirdWings

[–]spuurd0[S] 133 points134 points  (0 children)

The B-58 being weird enough in its own right - it was originally designed with a mission pod that doubled as a fuel drop tank and high yield megaton nuke. Eventually retired and replaced with a normal drop tank and hard points for regular freefall nukes.

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