#love the aviation one

[geekylled]

Ken Sato, outfielder for the Yomiuri Giants, comes clean about giant spending habits!

In a recent interview, All-Star player Kenji Sato confessed to spending absurd amounts of money on grossly large sports memorabilia— mostly his own.

“I have a good, totally plausible reason for it,” Sato had plead, unconvincingly.

Sato bat an average of .420 last season, which puts him among the best. “It’s— ugh. Hm. Erm. It’s.” Unfortunately, he struck out severely in attempting to explain his spending habits.

“Don’t knock it ‘til you try it!” Sato swore, but then refused to give exact numbers in terms of pricing for those who may want to “try it”.

For the readers not in the know, a 15-foot recreation of Sato’s jersey recently went viral when commission details were leaked to the public. Our interviewer asked for a comment concerning the jersey, to which Sato is quoted to have said: “Well. I guess you can say I have a pretty big fan.”

[hop-a-lot]

my liege may I ask for some jerry in these trying times

ask and thou shalt receive!

good ol Jerry!! there's something hysterical about him being Saxton's personal pilot

[zomerszee]

on the end of the boeing 747 and the humanity of innovation

ornithopter, richard siken / the first roll out (1968), boeing / youtube user bob devreeze / boeing 747 begins flight testing phase, the aviation week archives / youtube user blue sky country / i have seen the tops of clouds, quinn norton / the final roll out (2022), paul weatherman / ornithopter, richard siken

[deathianartworks]

'To the master of the eldritch, she's a growing bed of thorns'

[giddlygoat]

i’m my mind, mario’s casual fits are all checkered low-top vans, jorts and “eat sleep game repeat” or racing tour shirts and luigi looks like he puts granola in his yogurt. like visor caps and fanny packs. i’m talking socks with the sandals, people

[mx-myth]

Little thing I wrote because everyone was throwing prompts around on the discord and I got inspired.

When Laurence was young, it was disappointing to be markless. He was never content with not having a soulmate, even with the informal arrangement he had with Edith. He remembers conversations spent together, wondering how long they would have to wait before their soulmates would be born and for their mark to appear.

He cares much less about it now. Perhaps he had felt belated horror after the initial shock ran through his crew aboard the Reliant as Temeraire first spoke and as black scales bloomed across his face. Laurence had felt nothing at the time, no physical sensation to signify the appearance of his soulmark. It was only when Temeraire was eating that Riley had stepped up and quietly told him of what had occurred.

It had taken him a long time to come to terms with having a dragon as a soulmate. But now Laurence wears his mark with pride. Black scales cover his left cheek, reaching down his neck and over the majority of his chest, inked across three-quarters of his arm and stretching down to mid-thigh. It is a huge mark, which would be looked down upon in the polite society in which he was raised. But why wouldn't it be large, given that Temeraire has dominated his life since he entered it?

Laurence remembers being reassured upon meeting the other aviators. Harcourt has lilies blooming up and down her back, she's said, and at times he can glimpse the edges of petals peeking up out of her collar at her neck. Granby has an entire bicep encircled with fire, which became immediately self-explanatory when Iskierka hatched, and even more so when he lost part of his arm. Berkley, in contrast to how large Maximus is, has scales scattered across the backs of his hands in Regal Copper red. James has Volly's colours painted up and down his legs. The Rolands both have blue and orange and white over their cheekbones. Even Little, who Laurence counts as an acquaintance verging on friend, has Immortalis around his wrists. Very quickly he learned that it was more uncommon for an aviator and their dragon to not be soulmates; his large and prominent mark apparently did a lot of work smoothing his arrival in ways he was unconscious of in the beginning.

He had worried also in the beginning whether the rumor was true that dragons didn't have soulmarks. He was afraid of him and Temeraire being different, more so than they already were. But on that front so too were his concerns put to rest.

Perhaps he should have known better. After all, he had known as soon as he looked into Temeraire's blue eyes and seen the storming, crashing waters of the sea within them, no shore in sight as the sky wheeled overhead. It was the sight that made him fall in love with the sea the first time and, he thinks fondly, scratching Temeraire under his closed eye, the sight that made him fall in love with Temeraire too.

(I have a fountain pen and so it doesn't dry up I try and write a little bit every couple of days. Most of it is temeraire-related; I'm thinking the ones small enough to not be fics technically I might post)

[thatsrightice]

F-14 FUN FACT OF THE DAY #67

Each F-14 Tomcat squadron was allowed to paint two aircraft in color. One of them would be the “CAG bird”, the aircraft that featured the name of the Commanding Officer of the Carrier Air Wing (also known as CAG) on the side just below the canopy. These aircraft typically designated by Modex x00 (ie 100, 200, 300, etc), but that is not always the case.

In the image below, aircraft Modex 213 of VF-213 Black Lions was designated as one of the two aircraft they painted.

[themissingmango]

[compacflt]

THE p-51D. THE mustang. THE jacket. okay. (Thanks to @sassenach082 for letting me know how close i was to planes of fame!!)

[aviatrix-ash]

Absolutely in love with how we apply bird terminology to simplify complex stuff in aviation. Like when our propellers move with their leading edge pointed forward (helps keep the prop from vibrating to hell and/or tearing off an engine in the event the engine fails) we all it "feathering." Or when someone makes a radio call and/or a mechanic finds an issue we call it a "squawk."

The little control surfaces on the ends of wings planes use to increase lift on landing are "flaps" and they..sorta do just that 😆 and the vertical and horizontal "little wings" on the tail of a plane are often referred to together as the plane's "tailfeathers"

I love how we've applied a little whimsy to the silly machines we originally made purely just to experience what birds do. I think it's cute :3

(That one post of whimsy and cute things ppl do is ringing thru my head as I wrote this post. )

[aphidoideart]

#006: Fluffree

Floating whimsically through the wind with their fluffy caps, these little seeds are free to explore the whole world! They store the DNA of all the creatures they meet, and after years of travelling, they will plant themselves and grow into any creature of their choosing! With the potential to be whatever they want to be, they have immense lifespans to be able to live as all the lifeforms their heart desires! Able to revert into seed form & grow into a different creature every 50 years! If you spot one fluttering about, it's likely they've travelled a very long way to get there, make sure to say hi! They might've never met someone like you before!

Inspired by Thistle Seed Pappus, Aviation! & the idea to be free to live different kinds of lives!

This is a redesign of one of my first Nimalings! Who used to be called Windsid, super happy with this glow-up! This is what they used to look like!

[boymoding]

late 1960's continental airlines poster

[kokorozasumono]

the coroika madness has consumed me

[trammellesstangent-planes]

747747747747747747747747747747

747!

AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaAaa

[supurman]

this is here i rp if you guys were wondering.

[ellie-tarts]

georgie georgie georgie

because i absolutely cannot be stopped i've made a temeraire oc

born to aviator parents, georgie probably would've been slated for an egg if she'd been a boy, but she and her sister were girls, and while there aren't many women in the corps, there also aren't many dragons who absolutely require a female captain

but she loves being an aviator and loves dragons, and is on good track to be a lieutenant in some years

of course the dragon plague upends things, and there is a lot of reshuffling and many many aviators are grounded

she sneaks in to watch the egg hatching of an uncertain breed. and the dragon rejects all the potential captains offered to her and instead seeks out the teen girl hidden away, refusing everyone else

the dragonet hatched quite small, and despite a rapid growth period and everyone's best efforts, she ended up even smaller than the average winchester

and thus the two learned to be couriers

which is probably good. since her dragon mostly views other people on a range from disinterest to dislike. she would not have taken well to a crew

and this personality is juxtaposed with georgie's attempts to be confident and easy going due to her new duties, which are more public than she was trained up for

good luck out there you two

also if you got this far, the flowers in the middle are st john's wort, for her last name

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