Every now and then I and up reading crash reports in some detail. I am not quite sure what attracts me, ghoulishness or the sobering descriptions of how seemingly trivial things end up ending the lives of hundreds of people. Chekhov’s missing bolt, as it were. An excellent online collection of analyses of aviation accidents is being produced by Admiral Cloudberg. I will never have the time to read them all, but it is good to know they are there.
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Rambling recollections of an aging engineer
About Me
- kai
- Back in academia after a decade in industry, with a new generation of students.
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- Profile Publications 189: The Short Sunderland G Norris. Somehow I feel too little was covered.
- Profile Publications 168: The Avro York D Hannah. They’re so wrinkly!
- Profile Publications 98: The Gloster Gladiator F K Mason. I think the Norwegians got short shrift.
- Profile Publications 85: The R.E.8 J M Bruce. And this was an improvement on the B.E.2…
- Profile Publications 65: The Avro Lancaster I B Goulding & M Garbett. I would have liked colour keys for the profiles.
- Profile Publications 41: The Supermarine Spitfire I & II P J R Moyes. Somehow they managed to cram useful information into these small leaflets.
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.
- Piled Higher and Deeper Mike Slackenerny, that's me. Free food, anyone?
- Something positive Magical realism in a very cynical way.
- Chicken Wings It's about birds…that fly…
- xkcd Don't miss the mouse-overs.
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