Chad 🇿🇦

South African.

[Christopher Wipper @SGTWipper1Each]

Mid-air collisions are often tragic. The most recent one was a miracle that all 4 aviators escaped unharmed.

The one pictured below, however, did not end so well.

On 12 NOV 2022, a Boeing B-17G Flying Fortress and a Bell P-63F Kingcobra collided and crashed during "Wings Over Dallas" sadly taking the lives of all six crew members aboard.

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Two EA-18G Growlers crashed today following a midair collision at the Gunfighter Skies Airshow at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho. All pilots appear to have ejected safely.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Onboard footage from a Ukrainian FP-2 strike drone as it strafes a Russian naval base in Crimea with air-to-ground rockets.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Footage of the mid air collision between a pair of Navy Super Hornets/Growlers during the Gunfighter Skies Air Show at Mountain Home Air Force Base moments ago.

[caio temer @canalCCore2]

O Kamov Ka-26 é o único helicóptero do mundo que parece ter sido montado com peças de trator e motor de tanque. O HA-HSF ficou tanto tempo parado na Hungria que a partida a frio pareceu mais um incêndio controlado do que um voo.
Pura engenharia soviética raiz.

[Turbine Traveller @Turbinetraveler]

MD-11 stall test footage with the horizontal stabilizers hanging on for dear life, set to that classic 1980s corporate synthesizer soundtrack… absolute perfection.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Russian Su-30SM jets are now firing air-to-air missiles to intercept Ukrainian drones, using fighter aviation to supplement air defenses against large-scale UAV attacks.

[Damn Nature You Scary @AmazingSights]

When he zoomed in 100× he spotted the leopard only to realize it had been watching him the whole time.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

When you start a chess game, you have 20 possible moves available. After the first full move (White then Black), there are already over 400 possible positions. By the third move, that number jumps to around 8,900, and after the fourth it reaches nearly 200,000.

By the time you get to move #40, the total number of possible games explodes to roughly 10⁴⁰, a number comparable to the total number of atoms in the observable universe.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

USAF B-1B Lancer taking off from RAF Fairford on a training mission today.

The fleet of heavy bombers remains forward deployed in England as tensions with Iran continue.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Footage of the catastrophic damage caused to Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery by multiple successful Ukrainian drone raids over the past week.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The sheer size of this bulk cargo: those are not toys

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

The main refinery complex is now burning.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Russia’s Tuapse oil refinery is now burning out of control this morning after an overnight Ukrainian drone raid.

Locals report that additional oil storage tanks exploded.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Flaming crude oil from Russia’s Tuapse Oil Refinery is spilling into nearby city streets.

The refinery, hit by Ukrainian drones overnight, continues to burn out of control.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

Ancient romans used lewis tools

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Sun has only 22 galactic orbits left.

Earth races around the Sun at ~67,000 mph (107,000 km/h), giving us our familiar 365.25-day year and changing seasons.

But the Sun is in motion too—hurtling through the Milky Way at ~514,000 mph (828,000 km/h) on a grand orbit around the galactic center. One complete lap, known as a cosmic year, takes roughly 225–230 million years.

When the Sun finished its most recent galactic orbit, the earliest dinosaurs were just beginning to roam Earth.

Since its birth ~4.6 billion years ago, our star has completed about 20 such orbits.

Stellar models predict the Sun will keep fusing hydrogen in its core for another ~5 billion years before it swells into a red giant and eventually fades into a white dwarf. At its current orbital speed, that leaves roughly 22 more laps around the Milky Way.

Each cosmic year sweeps the entire Solar System tens of thousands of light-years across the galaxy—through dense spiral arms rich with star-forming regions, past ancient globular clusters, and amid countless other stars.

Continents drift, mountains rise and erode, entire species evolve and vanish—all within a tiny fraction of one galactic circuit.

Human civilization, from the first cities to today’s digital age, has existed for less than 0.001% of a single cosmic year.

We are passengers on a star halfway through its ~10-billion-year galactic journey across a 100,000-light-year-wide disk—witnessing just the briefest sliver of one ongoing lap in an unimaginably vast cosmic dance.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The world’s largest floating dry dock was towed across the Atlantic to Bermuda in 1869.

When Britain needed a solution for ship repairs in the Atlantic, engineers in the 1860s built the largest floating dry dock ever attempted, a 380-foot iron structure weighing over 8,000 tons.

[Open Source Intel @Osint613]

Footage from an airplane captures a tornado striking Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma.

@benlevine_