David Burke

@OfSelina Love them

Might do more brutalistesque collage weird art and give the movie posters a rest for a bit If that’s okay with everyone?

In 2019, Wales were the number one rugby team in the world. Five years later, they were on an 18-match, 2-year losing streak with no hope in sight. This is the story of how negligence, incompetence, and austerity tore apart one of rugby's proudest nations- youtu.be/SGEvOQws_g8?si…

Dear Twitter. Please, unless I’m missing something in your fancy new ‘Watch the video and read the comments at the same time’ system - why can’t I swipe left to go back to the main screen like you can on text-only posts???

@MCCCANM My bro had a model of the F-111 and I loved the whole crew compartment detachment on that

The “wavy” lines in the canopy glass (plastic) are not antennas…they are explosive cords. In the movies, an ejection is preceded by the jet’s canopy being blown off. “Goose” got killed in Top Gun because it didn’t happen fast enough & the seat hit the canopy. Some jets took a different approach, though. Rather than jettison the canopy, which is complicated & can fail, why not just blow it up? Shatter it into a thousand pieces that won’t hurt the pilot. This can shorten the ejection sequence, too, as you don’t need to allow as much time for the canopy to clear the ejection path (we’re talking fractions of a second, but still…). Anyway, this is the design they came up with. It’s known as a “Canopy Fracturing System”. It’s automatically triggered when you pull the ejection handle, but can be manually triggered as well without ejecting. I suppose that might be useful if smoke is accumulating in the cockpit. Now, jets that blow the whole canopy off instead of blowing it up have a somewhat complicated system to accomplish this. The system has to release the hooks locking the canopy onto the jet; it often does this by pushing hot gas from an explosive through tubes that push the hooks back (there are several methods, though). Kind of like firing a gun. Both systems can fail, though the explosive cord is considered very reliable…they put it in the F-35 (and I had it on the T-6). As a backup, the top of the ejection seat has a little pointy end on it. In theory, this point should hit the canopy before your head does if the canopy is still there in an ejection, shattering it before the canopy shatters your spine. I’d guess that has happened before, but I can’t recall any examples. Older jets sometimes got around all of this by just ejecting you downward. A hole would open up in the floor & the seat departs that way. The disadvantage here is obvious…you’ll have a higher minimum safe ejection altitude. This system still exists in the B-52. The seats back then were not quite as sophisticated as they are now… Today’s seats detect your orientation. If you eject while inverted, the seat will fire just enough to get you out of the jet, then right itself to point upward & fire again. When the seat has done its job, it automatically cuts the belts & straps that held you in & departs. The seat itself contains the parachute…so when you strap in, you’re strapping on the parachute…obviously, the seat doesn’t cut that, it’s the parting gift. The parachute has a barometric sensor that automatically deploys it if below a set altitude. If flying over high terrain (higher than the standard set altitude), you can rig it to immediately deploy the parachute on seat separation. The parachute also has an emergency oxygen bottle. This is not automatic, but pulling a cord will start the short flow of oxygen (I think it’s like 4 or 5 minutes, can’t remember). The hose for your oxygen mask is connected to the jet but is designed to break-away from the jet at the connection in an ejection; a smaller hose connects to a point on the parachute harness that will provide the emergency oxygen. The seat also contains a small survival kit & may be fitted with an automatically inflating raft for water landings. These will dangle underneath you as you descend. Ok, that’s about all I can recall off the top of my head. The ejection sequence is very, very short…pull the handle & you’ll be gone before you know it. In two-seat jets, the back seat goes first to prevent them from being burned by the rocket on the front seat. There is a sequencing lever in the jet that allows pilots to select if both seats will fire if any ejection handle is pulled, though…so you can select that each seat must pull its own handle. Useful if doing orientation rides for non-pilots…you don’t want them ejecting you, too.

@ConfessionsPete Urm…..yes

@DavidMBurke By the Murderous Marathon headline?

Something for Eastenders historians …

@ConfessionsPete Didn’t even spot yours in the corner, was distracted 😂

@DavidMBurke At least one of them is mine!

@Charlesrylands7 @mjgclutch They tried that and got rid of it

@mjgclutch I understand that but when you’ve got such a big moment incorrect something has to be done imo, wouldn’t mind seeing a review system like cricket 2/3 for each team

Only in rugby does a big moment like that not get reviewed by the TMO, never a yellow for Pollock

The #M25 in #Kent is currently closed anti-clockwise between J5 #Chipstead and J4 #Orpington due to a major diesel spill. Our crews are on site carrying out emergency resurfacing. There are currently 10 minute delays on the approach. For more info: nationalhighways.co.uk/travel-updates…

@EmmelineWyndham @AmazonUK Every time I’ve had stuff delivered from Amazon they knock the door 🤷‍♂️

What's with @AmazonUK just leaving stuff outside your front door? Can't you guys at least KNOCK?

@Grant_Colgate I had that. Strange light streaks when moving my eye. Seems to have gone now

@pgaskell13 Have watched it about 5 times and recently rewatched BCS. Both incredible

started rewatching Breaking Bad, last watched it about 12 years ago, you forget what an absolute fucking masterpiece it is

@NoContextBrits You’ve heard the rest now hear the best - Dave Best, mobile disco. Hopefully Beverley Macca isn’t around though

DJ Dave in da house.

@TakeThatClouds @Ericdun19416783 Their ass

@Ericdun19416783 The photos were taken 19 seconds apart. Where are you getting 12 hours from? 😂

Africa by day and night, 12 hours later and the clouds are in the same exact position Science innit 😜

@existdaybyday @irh0108 @therugbycoach10 That wasn’t what they wanted checked. But I do agree at a certain point he should’ve just stopped

@irh0108 @therugbycoach10 He dropped it, we can all see he dropped it from replay, the TMO on background can see he's dropped it. Even the player knows he dropped it. Ref was right. That was dissent and disrespectful and we will see it creeping in more and more at junior and club level unless checked

I don’t care how upset you are, you do not do this. The ref has made his decision. It might be wrong (in your eyes) but this is crap. Having seen it in Welsh junior teams it’s obviously creeping through the game. We need to call it out. Cardiff fans won’t of course.

@dragonsrfc From a Cardiff fan - well done Dragons!!!! We need all the regions strong

C'est magnifique! What. A. Win!!! #WeAreGwentRugby

Cinematographers - I know you like realism, but if we can’t actually see what’s going on because it’s pitch black, why bother turning the cameras on 😂

That’s it then. Cant have Ulster losing at home

Bullshit decision #ospreys

That’s it now, refs made his mind up