One down, 27 to go …
That seemed to take forever …
Squeeked into SMO
IMC all over the place. Requested the Special VFR at SMO – made us do 360s over UCLA for 15 mins while they got a bunch of IFR jets out. Then he moves us over to the highway intersection – “I’m going to need you to get down quickly when I have space for you”. From circling at 2000′ at 100 kts, it took full prop, 2/3 flaps and a slip to intercept the glideslope. I was very glad that I regularly practice short approaches at HAF – with solid IMC over the coast a VFR go-around was not going to happen.
RAF Hendon …
Supermarine !
No really, it’s a BMW …
Film killed the video stars …
“The palette has been diminished” … Grant Gee.
“All film prints carry their images on an emulsion made of organic gelatin – that is, crushed animal bones (selected breeds and herds are used for the purpose; in this respect, vegetarians should have switched from cinema to digital long ago). These remains are turned into a photographic layer, the semi-transparent skin of the film. Time leaves its traces on it: the emulsion eventually shrinks, fades, peels off, exudes humidity; dirt, blotches and scratches become part of its identity, just like human flesh. The very thought that our beloved may have a perfect, surgically clean and odourless body is an awful, icy nightmare of the soul. I want the sweat, I want the smell, and don’t mind bites and scratches every now and then.” … Paolo Cherchi Usai.
