SR71_v_c_o_AKP (orig. M.O.D. (P.E.) R.A.F. Farnborough photo, neg. no. B2460-15, 2-9-74) by Mike Acs Via Flickr: “On September 1, 1974 Major James V. Sullivan, 37 (pilot) and Major Noel F. Widdifield, 33 (Reconnaissance Systems Officer), flashed across the starting line (radar gates in New York) at approximately 80,000 feet and speed in excess of 2,000 miles per hour. Exactly 1 hour 54 minutes and 56.4 seconds later, they had set a new world speed record from New York to London, England. The average speed was 1,807 statute mph over the 3,461 statute mile course, slowing to refuel one time from a specially modified KC-135 refueling tanker. The aircraft was placed on static display at the Farnborough Air Show for one week. It marked the first time the secret plane had been on public display outside of the United States. Clarence L. "Kelly" Johnson, the aircraft’s designer, was on hand for the event. He remarked, "It (the SR-71) has exceeded all my expectations." The above is much better than anything I could’ve come up with. At: sr71.com/srspee~1.htm See also: sr71.com/image2~1.htm Both above credit: "SR-71 Blackbirds" website New York to London: - 1 hour - 54 minutes - 56.4 seconds Excellent, with additional wonderful photos: www.key.aero/article/mach-3-men One of those wonderful photos. From a different viewpoint, and a moment before my posted photo. Fantastic: fullfatthings-keyaero.b-cdn.net/sites/keyaero/files/impor... Credit: "KEY.AERO" website Mind boggling. A striking photograph of probably the most brutally stunning, drop-dead gorgeous operational aircraft - EVER. Doesn’t that look like a Harrier - on the tarmac? - in the background to the right? Maybe the other aircraft that are also visible? So, if the above is correct, then the aircraft basically had a ‘running start’. Then was the ‘finish line’ analogous, thus ‘running’ through such radar gates IVO Farnborough? London Heathrow? The aircraft resides at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center.

shoutout to everyone who wants to infodump but cant string together coherent thoughts to form sentences and instead just look at you like this

i cant stop thinking about a post by @possamble so i made this

inspired by this

based on a fanart by BugsGay on twitter

theyre in a polycule

the 'what if you played it a little risky' post literally Changed my life but i cant fujkign find it in my blog because its. a tiktok screenshot

hate when you find a character whose so infuriatingly Your Type that its embarrassing like yeahg no one is gonna be surprised when i announce this is my new Guy Of The Month

You guys rlly don't realise how much knowledge is still not committed to the internet. I find books all the time with stuff that is impossible to find through a search engine- most people do not put their magnum opus research online for free and the more niche a skill is the less likely you are to have people who will leak those books online. (Nevermind all the books written prior to the internet that have knowledge that is not considered "relevant" enough to digitise).

Whenever people say that we r growing up with all the world's knowledge at our fingertips...it's not necessarily true. Is the amount of knowledge online potentially infinite? Yes. Is it all knowledge? No. You will be surprised at the niche things you can discover at a local archive or library.

This Friday's meme is: the perfect being

I am genuinely so worried for all the young horny dykes going into adulthood thinking there's something "problematic" / "wrong" with them for being horny because fucking tiktok lesbians think any horny dyke content is "male gaze fetishitic"

people are calling what happened today in gaza “the flour massacre”

the flour massacre

these people just wanted to get food for their families, something as basic as flour, one of the things that the very core of humanity is built on, and israel used it as a trap to murder them in cold blood

evil is not enough of a word. there is not a word to describe what they are doing to palestine. they are bleeding her out, they are torturing her and crushing her and hoping that nothing is left to remember her by when they are done. how can anyone stand and watch what is being done with indifference? how can you watch this level of human suffering, this crime against life and feel nothing, do nothing

ai generated images make me increasingly sad and tired the more i see them in more and more casual contexts. i dont know how to explain, but it just fills the world with a bunch of nothing. no matter how visually stunning the pictures might be, there's nothing behind it for me. no dedication, no emotions, no feelings, no hard work or creativity, nothing i can truly think about, admire or enjoy. i dont think thats how art is supposed to be

me when the disability disables me: oh what the fuck? this sucks. what the hell man!

text conversation from my dream that i desperately wish was real

yes trans people can be hot and sexy and cute but most importantly they're normal. yes fat people can be hot and sexy and cute but most importantly they're normal.