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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
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- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- Stratosfärplanet H.22 – del 2: Destination New York Hergé, transl B Wahlberg. Where are the FAI officials?
- Stratosfärplanet H.22 – del 1: Direktör Pumps testamente Hergé, transl B Wahlberg. No air intake, no exhaust—logical in a sense.
- Airliners at War British Civil Aviation 1939–1944 An Official History Air Ministry. Nice coverage of the logistics of war.
- Essential Test-Driven Development R Myers. More useful than not.
- B-25 Mitchell: The Magnificient Medium N L Avery. This is the book I’ve been looking for.
- Legends of Warfare Aviation: B-25 Mitchell, Vol.2—The G through J, F-10, and PBJ Models in World War II W Wolf. Don’t trust the captions. Or the title.
Places I keep track of
- IPMS Stockholm One of the best plastic modelling forums you'll find.
- Hyperscale More modelling stuff.
- Occasional kvetch Thnidu is a linguist and an old friend.
- Another CyborgManifesto Small and large, always with alarming skill.
- Aardvarchaeology What kind of archaeologist doesn't have a whip or even a fedora?
- Arkland Archaeology and random bits.
- Pharyngula Biology, politics and atheism. And eight-legged animals.
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
2 comments:
Reminds me of when Adrian Mole tries to sniff glue off his Airfix kit and manages to glue the plane to his nose.
CA isn't really good for sniffing.
But, for your enjoyment, here is a picture from an earlier occasion, when I managed to glue an Aeroclub Corsair to my fingers:
http://tinyurl.com/2dmadu
Furthermore, it turned out that the bottle with debonder was child-proof and couldn't be opened without the use of both hands, so I had to wait for someone to come home and free me…
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