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QuoteT-38 Talon heritage plane on Dec. 10, 2019. The plane was designed to honor past visionaries and link current training to the 25th FTS flying heritage.

https://youtu.be/5TTaYlYm5dA

Quote from: Hog on January 11, 2020, 08:42:11 PM
It's Navy beer though.  All the saltpeter that they load into Navy beer, no thanks.  They are probably using that swill as fire retardant.

Seems it's been sent by the big brewery in Melbourne (but it reads like they still charged for it) that makes Fosters and other big brands like VB:

QuoteMallacoota Hotel Motel arranged a last-minute delivery of 3,000 litres of beer with Carlton & United Breweries, to be delivered on HMAS Choules.

[...]

Twenty kegs of Victoria Bitter and Carlton Draught, three pallets of VB stubbies, 36 slabs of Strongbow and Great Northern were loaded on Thursday.
CUB also threw in four kegs of beer on the house.

https://www.sbs.com.au/news/victoria-bushfires-australian-navy-comes-to-the-rescue-of-the-pub-with-almost-no-beer

Not a great selection, but VB is an icon. Before you ask - Fosters isn't drunk often in Australia, and that's likely why it wasn't included.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WA1h9h7-_Z4

Quote from: Juan on January 10, 2020, 03:39:10 PM
Neil Peart - 67

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/

Quote from: Walks_At_Night on January 09, 2020, 08:53:05 PM
Like........  The left wing is off.

Reading the second link, it caught fire too and:

QuoteAircraft damage:   Substantial
Aircraft fate:   Written off (damaged beyond repair)

In case Reuters deletes this gem of a headline/pictute combo:

QuoteSouth African military plane crash lands in Congo, no sign of major damage

https://twitter.com/Reuters/status/1215360690900303874

https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20200109-0

https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-support-trumps-tariffs-but-need-an-exemption-11578441310

QuoteThe body of the piece is a little more sophisticated, in that the author explains that industrial policy is good so long as it benefits the company he runs.

Radio stations pull potentially 'insensitive' songs amid bushfire crisis

QuoteBosses at the Hit Network, which broadcasts Sydney's 2DayFM and Melbourne's Fox FM along with a string of other stations, made the decision to censor any potentially "insensitive" material given the scale of the fires burning across Australia. Sister network Triple M, which focuses on sport and classic rock, has also pulled a number of songs from its playlists.

A spokeswoman for parent company Southern Cross Austereo said the policy was being implemented across the country.
"Out of respect for the devastation impacting so much of our community, we have removed any songs that could be considered insensitive or in poor taste across both the Hit and Triple M networks nationally," the spokeswoman said.
The spokeswoman did not elaborate on how songs would be temporarily black-listed. However, the Hit Network focuses on contemporary hits and a number of pop songs, such as Sia's Fire Meet Gasoline, have lyrics that mention fires, burning and being unable to breathe.

QuoteRing of Fire - Johnny Cash
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
We Didn't Start the Fire - Billy Joel
Light my Fire - The Doors
Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
Paper in Fire - John Mellencamp
Great Balls of Fire - Jerry Lee Lewis
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Girl on Fire - Alicia Keys
Burning Down The House - Talking Heads
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - The Platters
Fire - Jimi Hendrix
I’m burning up - Madonna
Burn for You by INXS
Flame Trees - Cold Chisel
Sex on Fire - Kings of Leon
Forest Fire - Lloyd Cole
Disco Inferno - the Trammps
Just Like Fire - Pink
I'm on fire - Bruce Springsteen
All fired up - Pat Benatar
Eternal flame - The Bangles
I Don't Want to set the World on Fire - The Inkspots
The Roof Is On Fire - Rock Master Scott and the Dynamic Three
Burn for You - John Farnham
FIRE - Justice
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown
Play with Fire - The Rolling Stones
Firestarter - The Prodigy
Through the Fire and Flames - Dragonforce
Earth Wind & Fire
Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head - Gorillaz
Burning Flies - Looper
Burn Bitch Burn - Kiss

https://www.smh.com.au/culture/tv-and-radio/radio-stations-pull-potentially-insensitive-songs-amid-bushfire-crisis-20200108-p53pt5.html

An interesting article, but not surprising:

Why North Korea’s state media has barely mentioned U.S. killing of Iran’s Soleimani

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/why-north-koreas-state-media-has-barely-mentioned-us-killing-of-irans-soleimani/2020/01/07/e53f7c28-30fb-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5zwJNT7xdY

Prototype Hawker Sea Fury:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7xOZVBAWtw

https://youtu.be/xtbT6IOKDsg

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-06/air-quality-melbourne-smoke-from-bushfires-gippsland-tasmania/11843320

Quote from: Kidnostad3 on January 04, 2020, 10:18:54 PM
Well, for one thing Hillary had Bill take out a "baby milk factory" in Iraq back in the day to divert attention from Travel Gate (or maybe it was BJ Gate.)  At least Iraqi babies won't be deprived of their formula under Trump. 

Just so your friend understands,  I'm for droning every Iranian terrorist out there who is trying to kill Americans until we run out of terrorists or missiles.   If that doesn't solve the problem then we need to turn Tehran and a few other key cities into sheets of glass. 

PEACE AND LOVE

Don't forget that Libya was Hillary's baby, which is still a complete mess that's been getting a lot worse lately.


https://twitter.com/bjoernstritzel/status/1212980832576712705

Apparently A-10s have art on the inside of their hatches:





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=335GdTqtyLs

Quote from: Uncle Duke on January 03, 2020, 10:07:19 PM
I'd like to think there is a chance the Iranians will see this as a wake up call, much like Libya/Gaddafi after El Dorado Canyon.  Hopefully the Ayatollahs and other fanatics realize they could just as easily be taken out if we opted to do so and, as a result, start throttling back their provocations, if not their rhetoric. Not counting on it, but.....

I wonder whether Iran's victory in the Iran-Iraq War and the Iranian Hostage Crisis emboldened them in a similar way to how the Japanese were with their successes at the end of the 1800s/early 1900s.

*blocks your Tawaf*

Quote from: Uncle Duke on January 03, 2020, 08:56:29 AM
I knew they launched U-2s from carriers, but I thought they flew their missions then continued on to land bases for specialized film and data processing.

This reminded me of the C-130's carrier career, such as it was.


https://youtu.be/uM5AI3YSV3M

There was also this, which is a modified Caribou:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_eDutgh4IU

Japanese tv asks the important questions that others don't.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L85o1JBWmeQ

(press cc for subtitles)

This is the live emergency map for the state where most of the fires are happening at the moment (they're also north across the border in NSW):

https://www.emergency.vic.gov.au/respond/

Some geography context for those who don't know - Melbourne is the big city in this area and has a population of ~5mil, Canberra is the capital of Australia but is basically an oversized town, the east of the state is 'alps' (where it snows in winter) and a lot of bushland but relatively not much population.

Air quality monitor: https://www.epa.vic.gov.au/EPAAirWatch
Govt meteorology agency: bom.gov.au

Quote from: aldousburbank on January 02, 2020, 08:38:13 PM

I miss Ansett, but there are still some reminders out there. 






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QcYhJqN_6c

Also, CASA is still using poorly photocopied Ansett 727 manuals for their ATP exams to this day.

Quote from: Juan on January 02, 2020, 04:33:59 PM
Has anyone decided if this is climate catastrophe or weather? My prayers to the people.

The Australian media and opposition parties have decided it's climate change and that the current PM (who has been in office for slightly over 12months) is very very evil and personally responsible.

It's not like bushfires are a yearly thing with preparations seemingly underfunded and/or not having been carried out properly or anything...

Quote from: Jackstar on January 02, 2020, 05:16:16 PM
Put me down for twenty on arson.

This and lightning strikes.

Quote from: Uncle Duke on December 28, 2019, 10:51:17 PM
I always liked the IL-28, roughly the Soviet equivalent of the Canberra/B-57.  There were several thousand of them made in the USSR (and Chinese copies), probably at least 3-4 times the number of Canberras, but unlike the Canberra, they were seldom used in combat.  I think the Egyptians were the only operator to fly them in combat against another nation.

I think that article I linked mentioned them being used in Afghanistan, but that might count as a civil war. They're apparently still in service with the North Koreans though:

https://thebaseleg.blogspot.com/2013/04/north-koreas-1940s-vintage-bombers-seen.html

QuoteAs 1987 came to a close, the Afghan government began losing its grip over some military units. In October, two DRAAF Mi-8 helicopter crews defected to Pakistan; weeks later, a DRAAF Su-22 attempted to bomb the Presidential Palace in Kabul. In response, the Soviets deployed the 115th Guards Independent Fighter Squadron, flying Mikoyan MiG-29 Fulcrums, to Termez Airbase with the explicit purpose of protecting Kabul’s airspace. Weeks later, at least four DRAAF Su-22s made another attempt to attack the Presidential Palace; All were shot down by Soviet MiG-29s.

https://www.thefuldagap.com/2019/12/28/air-power-in-afghanistan-1979-2001/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rzoo4gu9rk

Quote from: Asuka Langley on December 27, 2019, 05:28:39 PM
Hayao Miyazaki is not wrong

Yeah

https://twitter.com/scullyxf/status/1203733684127436801

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2zTVm4e2J0

https://twitter.com/Combat_learjet/status/1208884389662191616