Hoi Hoi U Embleer Hrair!
- She/her
This blog regularly chosts Weird Kinky Furry Shit, mostly related to TF, rubber, supervillains, and obscene amounts of love and snuggling. If you’re under 18, or not cool with that, please leave me alone.
It’s gonna get weird.
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That said… irl, I’m just a simple lass who’s not very good at making computers do things but bosses them around for a living anyway.
I luv me gf, me furries, me bunnies, 'n me pokemon.
I 'ate me TERFS, me cops, 'n me capitalism.
Simple as.
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🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈 🇨🇦
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i think what i like about this little airplane, the Thurston Teal, in particular is the way it sits low in the water with its little black nose poking just above the surface. exact same energy as this:
I am aware that this is a 6 month old chost
But I am begging you to share this gallery.
look at this Creature
I have two personal favourites:
First, on the left, the Lisa Akoya. An absolutely drop-dead gorgeous composite light sport aircraft that would make Rutan proud. Hydrofoils and a discreet pair of snow-capable conventional landing gear give her a perfectly smooth underbelly, and that tailplane with its winglets and tail-mounted engine just screams “unrealistic beauty standard.” If I had to be a plane, she would be it. Maybe refitted with an electric motor, regenerative fuel cells, and solar panels on her folding wings.
Then there’s the Consolidated PBY Catalina, or the Canso, for those built in Nova Scotia. Probably one of the few warplanes that’s saved more people than it’s killed, in both search and rescue and in firefighting roles, in both war- and peacetime, and it’s a member of the exclusive club of aircraft that have outlasted all of their intended direct replacements. Not to mention, look at them! They’re chunky, and have all of that lovely, strutty, interwar jankiness to them, but they’re clearly an important historical step towards modern aircraft, with luxuries like an auxiliary electrical generator, retractable floats, a small galley with a stove, and a full-time flight engineer/mechanic.
If you read all of this, I highly recommend Greg’s video on the PBY. He’s a full-time commercial pilot and DCS flight simmer (usually P-47 or FW-190D), so you’re pretty much guaranteed to learn something:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iOi0o91Sw7U
And this whole thing reminds me: I need to chost about the incredibly weird, whacky, and eccentric world of speed-record-breaking sailboats. All conventional shipbuilding logic goes out the window, and you wind up asking yourself: at what point do you start to call these crazy things planes? Stay tuned,