Sounds like some sort of crafting formula in Minecraft.
What it accomplishes is that you don’t get thrown in Chinese prison.
Your pony should check out the health care thread.
For context: Chemnitz had been renamed Karl-Marx-Stadt (Karl-Marx-City) while it was part of the German Democratic Republic.
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They have a giant Marx bust, featured on a heavily used stamp back in the day.
Still there:
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“Heavily used?”
I thought a stamp could only be used once?
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I remember it being on almost every letter we got from our eastern relatives.
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fun fact, i recently learned that L’viv is informally Banderstadt.
bah, i forgot that thread existed
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I approve.
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Is it just me or have these air show disasters been happening a lot the last few years? Probably just seems that way because of social media.
This is one of the reasons the death rate of pilots is so high, air show crashes.
Isn’t the potential for a collision or crash one of the reasons to watch an air show?
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-explosion-istanbul-istiklal-street
likely suicide bomber
I wouldn’t say so - not in the same way as watching F1/Nascar/Touring/Rallying whatever.
There’s an element of thrill with the purposeful near misses in aerobatic displays - Red Arrows etc - but most of an air display is just seeing different types of aircraft doing aircrafty things.
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Terrible. As someone who has been to and participated in several airshows, Stuff like this is actually rare. I did see one shocking angle of this that showed several aircraft not really flying in formation but just kind of zooming around the airspace…which is highly problematic and not common at all.
It is admittedly hard to judge separation distances between aircraft. The human brain isn’t really built for it, which is why modern aircraft have so many collision detection systems. The trouble with these older planes (especially the P-63) is they have gigantic blind spots where the view is blocked by the instrument panels, etc. This happened because the B-17 was in the blind spot of the P-63’s turn.
I haven’t seen an update on how many people were in the B-17, but it probably wasn’t close to the full crew complement (thankfully). Also, the crash seemed to happen over a clear part of the airfield. To add to the tragedy, this was one of only 3 remaining airworthy/operational B-17s left.
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