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Ail-Safe: Convinced that an umptheenth end of the world is coming, a group of maniacs bury themselves in a bunker designed during the Cold War, but soon some strange voices appear to them. Tai Chi Boer: An anonymous veteran returns from the Second Boer War, finds out how the farmers have become, and decides to change it all, starting with kicks. The OST Battalion: A legal conflict breaks out between musicians and producers. Who will win? Ttraction: The hard sentimental life of a stuttering man in the modern world.

Now confirmed by the same Tweeter account:

Just coming back from Playa'. The tree branch is free and the fledgling has returned to the nest. Also, totally unofficial, but the company has been renamed GraceX.

Still a really nice film! I could not even have a clear resolution like yours with my 4 years old Pana':

Some shots from Playalinda Beach, located at 5.7 km/3.6 miles North. The images are blurred as it was already 31 C/ 89 F outside.

If anybody is interested, here is a link to access some data from GOES-16, covering the Americas, and Himawari-8, covering Oceania and Western Pacific. http://rammb-slider.cira.colostate.edu/?sat=goes-16&sec=full_disk&x=10848&y=10848&z=0&im=12&ts=1&st=0&et=0&speed=130&motion=loop&map=1&lat=0&p[0]=16&opacity[0]=1&hidden[0]=0&pause=0&slider=-1&hide_controls=0&mouse_draw=0&s=rammb-slider You can easily select many different frequency options, such as I.R. or short-wave albedo. Really interesting to see the different path of the storm systems from the 2017 Atlantic & Pacific Season. Also, for the SKEW-T fanatics this web site is interesting: http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html I tended to always look at it on launch days, but the Cape Canaveral AFS is not available here anymore. Hopefully, it is still available here: http://weather.unisys.com/upper_air/skew/ua_sound.php?type=no&city=kxmr&region=se&t=cur&expanddiv=hide_bar https://www.weather.gov/smg/KSCSNDG

Nice! Which Cessna model did you have the chance to fly on? To me the little C and F150/152 were the best of the family (still, not as good as the PA-38). Light, under-powered for the hot conditions of the Caribbeans (hopefully we were at the sea level...), but really fun and tolerant. I will never forget my first long navigation solo flight (about 4 hours) on one of them. The aircraft was a Reims F150 with the standard 100 hp Lycoming engine, but the owner was absolutely... crazy. When he introduce me to his little offspring, I discovered that he has made a lot of illegal and not-so-useful modifications to his aircraft: he replaced the standard taxi and landing lights by two blue(!) LED landing lights... so the first consequence was that the aircraft was acting as a lighthouse at night, and so could blur anybody looking at it. Secondly, even if those were LED, their needs in power was so important that when both of the lights were turned on, the alternator had trouble to keep on working normally. Then, legally this time, the man found that instead of having a standard fixed-pitch propeller giving 50/50 performances in climb and cruise, it was more long-term economic to place a cruise-optimized propeller... so, the already under-powered tin can became a terrible climber! Despite the 3300 m of runway available, it took me about a thousand to accelerate, rotate, and pass the 50 ft of height The worst being that the man has placed a lot of crucifix everywhere in the cabin! There even was a small Mary model fixed on the right of the magnetic compass! At the end, it took me 47 minutes to reach the cruising altitude of 9500 ft, with an average climb rate of 200 ft/min only. I originally dropped a flight-plan announcing an expected cruise alt of 11500, but this F150 was so incompetent that I was not able to pass 9800. Really, it was not possible for me to keep on climbing without losing speed at this level. Then, the funniest part of this flight probably was when I saw the C172SP of the club passing me, about 4000 ft lower under my left wing. The guy departed 15 minutes later than me, but he arrived 15 minutes before me at our common destination.

The Fanastic Four: adoring their idol so much, four fans come up with a plan to murder him and make him memorable forever. The Big Ban: a student finds with horror the tendency of history to eternally recur, while decisions and rights granted to previous generations are violated and the world is returning to primary times. Talker: an aphasic person is guided through the Zone by a man known as the "Guide" in order to reach the legendary Wish Granter which should allow him to acquire speech. ... OK I admit it, the scenario is the same than the original. Killer Tomatoes Trike Back: horrible murders are committed in a small provincial town, but there are common points: the victims all died suffocating by forceful injections of tomatoes, and fine traces of tires are always present around their bodies.

Gogogogo, Madagascar

Their tug has left Port Canaveral. Seems like they are still targeting Monday.

They will probably raise her in the next hours, but the engines test will not be done until tomorrow...

At 18:25 UTC The Falcon 9 is emerging from its hangar at launch complex 39A. I should be on the way to Playalinda in 10 minutes, and will try to get some good pictures of it for the community.

According to SpaceFlightNow.com: The doors to SpaceX's hangar at pad 39A are now opening (was an hour ago now) http://spaceflightnow.com/2018/05/03/falcon-9-bangabandhu-1-launch-preps/

Super Xpress 109: strange but interesting "train" movie like only the Japaneses are making. The Ofence: docufiction about the fall of standard aurthografic knowledge. Office Pace: the adventures of a civil servant trying to kill the time at work. Murder in Pace: the civil servant is fired after a budget cut and decided to get revenge. Followed by Hell Comes to Fogtown.

I... I don't have any word for this. --- (Stairway to Heaven?) (Worthy of horror movies) 100% Human Factor

Some pictures taken in January 2015, during another day passed on Ushant. A closer view, and you could have noticed all the rust trying to be covered by the fresh paint Port of Stiff, the most common arrival site on the island. Beautiful sky. Pretty surprising during that season. --- And some photos took on the coast of Brittany, during two of the traditional winter storms.

Agree

Ross of Iron: a fool named Ross accidentally discovers an economic flaw and becomes more than rich; he remains a fool and will pay the price. Lien Resurrection: desperate citizens elect with great hope a new head of state, however their hopes are short-lived... The Bast: toxic fibers invade the atmosphere and kill all humans. As in On the Beach, and still less stupid than the films from M. Knight Shralalayan's (never can remember his real name). Peed 2 - Cruise Control: experimental film of a man trapped in the cabin of a low-cost carrier's aircraft, and where the restrooms have been removed for more seats. The Boy with Green Air: documentary on the new legal recreational drug abuse.

Literally haunting my minds since the morning...

Wait... no trip to St. Kitts?!?!?!? Come on, Robert L. Bradshaw is waiting for you (really, the traffic is dying here). Edit: Mea culpa, I just checked the airport data, and Winair is not going there anymore. Idem, since 2014... It's a terribly expensive luxury. From what I can remember, a single hour was costing: 180 euros on the Cessna 172S (one coin per hp...) 180 on the Diamond DA40-180 150 on the Piper PA-28-161 140 on the Diamond DA40NG 120 on the Robin DR400-120 100 on the Aerodynamic WT9 95 on the Piper J-3C (which was unusable most of the time due to the local weather, and so we continuously have to go over the legal 2 months certification...) Even my favorite of all, the WT9, quickly became unaffordable to me. The best being that where I'm currently "studying", the "flight students" (most being nice daddy's sons) are literally booby-trapped with a 180 dollars/hour price to fly on PA-28-161s... for this price they could go on better airplanes.

I was a bit confused at first when I read the "540 .50 cal tracers", then I realized it was from Aug. 1945.

Aaaaw... TFFJ is not hard, just a bit surprising at first Having learned to fly here, the sole and only rule is "Going around is always an option", or as my instructor told me about 11 years ago "Never forgot that we are not coming to land, but for a missed approach. However, if all the bad factors are together, we should be able to land" It's also here that I "won" my first (and sole to this day) AIRMISS incident... hopefully the traffic agents were nice and supported that the fault was due to the commercial flight crew. The funniest being that a spotter sent me some pictures took that day, one before the incident, and one after: Hard to see, but I was about to collapse under the stress and emotions... Also, the runway length is "not" only 646 m as described, but 796 m. Why is "not" under marks? Because due to a crazy (and commercial) story, the threshold was placed right down the La Tourmente hill... so nobody, excepted if you are a Harrier or a helicopter pilot, is able to "touch" here. To be more precise, 796 m are available to take-off (runway 10 only, as the hill is blocking you on the opposite way), 796 m if you are landing RWY 28 (by the sea, but there is a limited go-around option, still due to the cliff), or approximately 650 m to land RWY 10. Now the crazy reason mentioned before is that in the early 90's, Air Guadeloupe started to operate some Dornier 228 between the islands, followed by Air Saint Martin with the same aircraft, but a problem was preventing them to land at TFFJ: the threshold was displaced at the time, because nobody was stupid enough to try to land at the feet of the cliff, but due to it the runway length was around 670 m, so legally talking it was not enough for the Dorniers to operate from there (even if they absolutely had the performances to). Eventually, a genius found the solution: displace the threshold back to the cliff... simple, legal, and absolutely crazy, but then the Do 228 were authorized to fly to and from St. Barth. The perfect example of how the aviation administrative world is This is the airfield I would love to go by myself one day! Alas, some years ago they somewhat unofficially closed Saba to private flights. Now if you are not flying for Winair and with their DHC-6, your request will probably be refused... In the 90's there also was a Dornier 28 serving here, pretty awesome and even more STOL-able then the Twin Otter, but the aircraft was lost during a night flight. Then, another pilot found a way to get slammed against the relief by a wind burst while attempting to land RWY 12 (at the time 11). The poor Cessna 150 was totally destroyed, but the man surprisingly survived without even a broken arm. Have you tried Les Saintes (TFFS) in FSX? It's the best airfield I ever landed at in reality, 544 x 15 m of concrete available with wind burst shaking you in the last seconds, and overflying the houses of Terre-de-Haut about 20 feet only. To give you a preview (terrible quality as those are screenshots from VLC):