Even a broken clock is right twice a day

[nigel99 574]

I’ve been thinking about the Trump comment on only 2 dolls or 5 pencils. While I’m sure he’s not an environmentalist, I believe excessive consumption is a problem. 

It used to be that we had a couple of treasured possessions and would save for them. What we did have was often much higher quality than is available now on the shelves of Kmart etc. 

The cheap junk toys, cookware and other items don’t last and contribute to landfill and pollution.

While it will be a shock and change to the expectations of so many in the west, and arguably goes against capitalist ideals fed by consumerism, I think Trump has accidentally become a champion for one aspect of the environmental movement.

Maybe it’s naive nostalgia, but it would be nice to see the rise of a few quality toy brands again, and model making. 

[JoeWeber 2,840]

48 minutes ago, nigel99 said:

I’ve been thinking about the Trump comment on only 2 dolls or 5 pencils. While I’m sure he’s not an environmentalist, I believe excessive consumption is a problem. 

It used to be that we had a couple of treasured possessions and would save for them. What we did have was often much higher quality than is available now on the shelves of Kmart etc. 

The cheap junk toys, cookware and other items don’t last and contribute to landfill and pollution.

While it will be a shock and change to the expectations of so many in the west, and arguably goes against capitalist ideals fed by consumerism, I think Trump has accidentally become a champion for one aspect of the environmental movement.

Maybe it’s naive nostalgia, but it would be nice to see the rise of a few quality toy brands again, and model making. 

I knew there was MAGA in your soul: Trump was right about everything!

[billvon 3,080]

3 hours ago, nigel99 said:

The cheap junk toys, cookware and other items don’t last and contribute to landfill and pollution.

Yep.  Unfortunately they are in demand.  So most likely we will simply see even cheaper junk toys, cookware etc made in America and sold to Americans - because there won't be much in the way of choice.

[kallend 2,112]

On 5/5/2025 at 6:20 PM, nigel99 said:

 

Maybe it’s naive nostalgia, but it would be nice to see the rise of a few quality toy brands again, and model making. 

I fly R/C models, I've been doing it for over 60 years.   Quite a lot of work involved in getting, say, an F-14, F-22 or B-1B to fly.

It's an old man's hobby, very few young people are interested.

[BIGUN 1,424]

6 minutes ago, kallend said:

It's an old man's hobby, very few young people are interested.

 

That's because it's easier and less expensive to buy Call of Duty, Wings of War, watch porn and sit around ordering Door Dash. Any wonder why hooters is declaring bankruptcy. 

[normiss 860]

28 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

That's because it's easier and less expensive to buy Call of Duty, Wings of War, watch porn and sit around ordering Door Dash. Any wonder why hooters is declaring bankruptcy. 

I want to think we've matured from breastaurants. Hot Wings bars are just as good without the cheap pantyhose and too much makeup.

Hooters was by no means a good hot wings breastaurant IMO. 

Twin Peaks had interesting shift changes reminiscent of strip joints, which I also never cared for.

[kallend 2,112]

49 minutes ago, BIGUN said:

That's because it's easier and less expensive to buy Call of Duty, Wings of War, watch porn and sit around ordering Door Dash. Any wonder why hooters is declaring bankruptcy. 

I hope you like my Twotter with the jump door!

[wmw999 2,550]

6 minutes ago, kallend said:

I hope you like my Twotter with the jump door!

Personally I loved it. Can you shut it after the GI Joe jumpers exit? 

Wendy P. 

[BIGUN 1,424]

7 hours ago, kallend said:

I hope you like my Twotter with the jump door!

I do. Is that a Supermarine Bomber?

[nigel99 574]

8 hours ago, kallend said:

I fly R/C models, I've been doing it for over 60 years.   Quite a lot of work involved in getting, say, an F-14, F-22 or B-1B to fly.

It's an old man's hobby, very few young people are interested.

Awesome planes! My uncle flies model planes and it’s essentially a retirement village at the club.

[David Wang 69]

This reminds me of a lab experiment where we did wind tunnel testing on a F-14 model to study the effect of wing sweep on lift and drag. Very classy aircraft. 

p.s. planes are boring. Rockets are cooler

[jakee 1,564]

7 hours ago, BIGUN said:

I do. Is that a Supermarine Bomber?

Supermarine didn’t make any bombers. You’ve got an Avro Lancaster there and a Supermarine Spitfire. A Mk IX I think?

4 hours ago, David Wang said:

This reminds me of a lab experiment where we did wind tunnel testing on a F-14 model to study the effect of wing sweep on lift and drag. Very classy aircraft. 

Reminds me of  video of a scale model Eurofighter Typhoon taking off, it immediately pitches into a vertical climb before flicking into a dive and crashing…. Which is ironically exactly how the real plane would behave without the flight control computer making millisecond by millisecond adjustments.

[kallend 2,112]

3 hours ago, jakee said:

Supermarine didn’t make any bombers. You’ve got an Avro Lancaster there and a Supermarine Spitfire. A Mk IX I think?

 

 

Correct on both counts.  Here are a few more for you to identify.

[jakee 1,564]

Goddamn dude that’s some collection. Are you running real miniature gas turbines in any of them?

You’ve got a Typhoon, B1B, display Typhoon ‘Blackjack’ (there’s a funny story about why 29 SQN’s logo is XXX) alongside a Rafale (though I had to cheat on that one - I wanted to say a Gripen because the colour looked Swedish). Then you’re onto a Phantom II, F16 (I don’t know the different versions / blocks) and rounding out with the truly terrifying F104 Starfighter. 
 

There’s a cockpit video from an Italian who flies an F104 and they’re using over 90% dry power on final because of the insane induced drag from those stubby wings at low speed. Doesn’t give you much get out of jail if you drop low and slow!

Edited Thursday at 12:13 PM by jakee

[BIGUN 1,424]

5 hours ago, kallend said:

Supermarine didn’t make any bombers.

They made one - I thought you may have built that as a tribute.

https://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.php?aircraft_id=1524

Edited Thursday at 03:50 PM by BIGUN

[kallend 2,112]

4 hours ago, jakee said:

Goddamn dude that’s some collection. Are you running real miniature gas turbines in any of them?

 

I have some 50 in my basement (I've been at this for a very long time).  No actual gas turbines - they are very cool but a real PITA to operate.

[kallend 2,112]

Here's my B-1B taking off:

And my F-14 landing:

 

 

[jakee 1,564]

58 minutes ago, kallend said:

Here's my B-1B taking off:

 

Nice! When RIAT was at Cottesmore plane spotters used to be allowed into the farmer’s field just off the arrival end of the runway. Until one day the B1B display bird held on the brakes as it ran up the reheat for a performance takeoff, and the gathered crowd found out what 4 of the biggest afterburners ever made felt like from less than a hundred meters away. They cracked down on access to the surroundings after that.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iVdUi-8F8P0