Grumpy Badger

@Classicbritcom He was a guest at a Steampunk festival a few years back. He had no idea how popular he'd be, and how genuinely loved his work was. Really nice guy. So he shot the audience with a hat with a cannon on it. It's what they would have wanted.

Remembering the late Inventor and Television Presenter, Wilf Lunn (20 March 1942 – 13 December 2023)

@qikipedia Or you could spend your life learning PostScript and then AWK in order to rotate it yourself.

In the 1980s, if you wanted to print a document in landscape rather than portrait mode, you had to buy a separate computer programme costing up to $100.

@bendreyfuss Or else, a 20+ year old HP LaserJet. Just not a newer one.

Everyone’s printer needs are different but if you are like me and only printout text documents in B&W, Brother laser printers are a revelation. They will keep printing through a nuclear war.

@GeorgeCochrane1 "Bof"

How do you say it in French? #FrenchCarFriday

@TheMonologist If you don't release a film, that does tend to limit the box office. It was also nominated for a bunch of awards about its production. In Britain and Europe, it won them. America? The Academy members were afraid to be seen voting for it. Nada.

TERRY GILLIAM’s fantasy adventure was a box office disaster making only $8m back from its $46m budget. THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN (1988) But it has a fantastic Cast & is way better than 99% of the shit in Cinemas today.

@ChungTzuW Late in the war, a PVC 'mackintosh' was produced, but this tended to delaminate in the fabric and T-stoff also destroyed the stitching, causing holes to appear on the seams.

@ChungTzuW Pilots had high quality sealskin flightsuits, made from Japanese leather. These protected against (some) T-stoff exposure. Ground crew had cheap German chrome-tanned leather suits. The metal residue in the leather acted as a catalyst.

Dissolved alive by T-stoff

@Heccles94 He's hoping for some friendlier coverage thejc.com/news

Why is Starmer so desperate to drag the UK into Trumps ilegal war?

@OnDisasters Tell us more of early Japanese turboprop designs!

Saunders Roe - "We´ll built the Princess, the world´s largest ever jet seaplane" Kawanishi - hold my beer "The Kawanishi KX-03 flying boat: a 1943 study of an enormous 500-ton transport capable of carrying 900 fully equipped troops over distances of 11,509 miles. It was powered by 12 turboprops and 6 jet engines and manned by a crew of 24" (Note how it completely dwarves the "Spruce Goose") ℹ️ Cancelled Aircraft

@HansCastorp1234 @OnDisasters Kawanishi - they were noted for their seaplanes and flying boats. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawanishi…

@OnDisasters Isn’t it Kawasaki, not Kawanishi?

@GMScherr @aviationarchive The turret was too big. They carried 2 MG, but they had to point on the same bearing. Also the turret bearing was big enough to jam easily. The similar (sic) Austin had two turrets. Russian Austins put these 'en echelon', giving each turret a wider field of fire.

@aviationarchive Foxhole made me love early armoured cars with goofy turrets, this one definitely fits the bill. Looks like a big toy.

The "interesting" looking Italy's Lancia 1ZM armored car rolled out in 1918 as an upgraded WWI scout vehicle. Built on a tough Lancia truck chassis with a 35 hp engine, it could hit about 37 mph on good roads, weighed around 8,200 lbs(3.7 tonnes curb, up to 9,300 pounds combat loaded), and packed three machine guns in a single turret for solid firepower. Over 110 were produced (after just 10 of the earlier double-turret 1Z version), seeing action in WWI, the interwar years, the Spanish Civil War, and even limited WWII use by Italy and others like Czechoslovakia.

@aviationarchive Another Lancia of this era were the 111 armoured lorries of them left by the British departing Ireland. These were used by the new Free State into the 1950s, but had similar problems of heavy bodies overloading the chassis.

@10DowningStreet But instead of condemning Israel or trump, you've joined us with them in another illegal, unjustified and pointless war.

Together with our allies, we condemn in the strongest terms recent attacks by Iran on unarmed commercial vessels in the Gulf, attacks on civilian infrastructure including oil and gas installations, and the de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iranian forces.

@GrayWolf448 @aviationarchive Barbed wire cutter. It lifted the wire clear of the wheels, over the top, then snapped it.

@aviationarchive Whats the bar on front over the hood for?

@Jc62Matildamog He's not capitulating to trump. He's capitulating to Netanyahu. Bastard.

Bit by bit Keir Starmer is capitulating to the orange despot and in doing so is putting a target on all our backs.

@aviationarchive Its drawback was in having almost no off-road ability. Single driven axle, negligible suspension and an overloaded chassis. They were defeated easily in Spain and Abyssinia by blocking roads with small logs or rocks, then attacking when they stopped to clear it.

Happy 20th birthday to Barron Trump.

@narindertweets For eyebrows like mine, I get these ladies to do it

@hotmess95277161 @mechanical_4u That's what the smouldering paper is for.

@mechanical_4u Glowplug

One of my favorite vehicles