Emmanuel
banner
emmanuelmpeg.bsky.social
Emmanuel
@emmanuelmpeg.bsky.social
370 followers 600 following 770 posts
Scientist. (Aviation) History nerd. Belgian. https://flying-guns.com
Posts Media Videos Starter Packs
Reposted by Emmanuel
Deep cut here from theophite, but he's correct. If you're not familiar with the history of the Kingdom of Heavenly Peace (and how it was, crazily and rampagingly, anything but) prepare for a wild historical ride.
the fourth most deaths ever associated with an armed conflict were due to one man's failure to get an email job
Reposted by Emmanuel
this is honestly my main argument against AGI hype
Have some respect for the dancer — as jobs go, this is a lot more dignified than being Trump’s Attorney General.
Obviously _this_ is the Albatros Mk.1 😲
TL Lockheed TO-1 (hints of NAVY on the fuselage)
TR Albatros D.I
BL Martin JM-1
BR Spitfire Mk.III
The last one, a unique prototype, is the odd one out.
“o homines ad servitutem paratos”, as Tiberius put it.
Zeno’s paradox of trains says that you can never really get home, because there always remains half of the journey to do — in the opposite direction.
Reposted by Emmanuel
You may be wondering, "what do you mean area ruled for Mach 1.5 or 1.2?". Well, if you're familiar only with R. T. Whitcomb's "transonic area rule", in which the sectional area distribution is calculated with plane intercepts at 90° to the velocity vector, then fair point.
Reposted by Emmanuel
MiG-21 supersonic inlet design🧵
Small Nose vs. Big Nose
Fun bit was that the issue of clearing the rear propeller if the pilot had to bail out was unsolved. So the (very athletic) test pilot was provided with a hand rail down the right side of the fuselage, along which he would have to climb down before falling free!
There was also the issue of the Walter Sagitta being a Czech engine. But X-4 was a D.23 technology demonstrator more than a prototype. A production model would have had liquid-cooled engines and a new (thinner) wing.
I was getting close ;-) I think you are almost certainly right. The XIX fuselage code makes me think that TL might also be a Russian-built Lebed / Deperdussin D…
That entirely depends on how gullible you appeared to be!
Obviously Bolton should have kept the documents in his spare bathroom; then it doesn’t count.
Reposted by Emmanuel
This is the life-saving work that the Trump Regime is doing its best to destroy.
The Ancient Greek principle of the Trierarchy — I’m all for it. Let every billionaire pay for an aircraft carrier and its crew.
And then bring back “Euthyna” as well — bringing all exiting elected officials to court to account for themselves.
Reposted by Emmanuel
To mark the 959th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings here are four Sussex scenes from the Bayeux Tapestry:
1. Bosham Church.
2. The Norman invasion fleet sail into Pevensey.
3. Castle built at Hastings
4. Norman cavalry runs into the 'Malfosse', (yet to be located natural or defensive ditch) 🏺
Reposted by Emmanuel
Holy crap. This is terrible.

The article states it's "not related to the current U.S. government shutdown". But of course it is: they are both connected by the GOP destroying everything good about this country from the top down and the bottom up.
Reposted by Emmanuel
One of my favorite medieval dudes is a guy named Sir Hugh Eland, a knight who started his career by pillaging his neighbors and ended it as a noble advocate for prison reform (from behind the bars of Nottingham jail).

Medieval story time!
just found out that about a week ago, while george santos has been in solitary confinement, that he wrote that due to the inhuman conditions he is facing he is now pro prison reform. just unreal stuff honestly
I don’t think so! Though in part it was a matter of mass production making the Liberator available for alternate roles.
Clive James was of course old enough to know the epigram of Martialis —
“Versiculos in me narratur scribere Cinna.
Non scribit, cuius carmina nemo legit.”