@mclothier.bsky.social
Hello! Dorset-based amateur, published photographer. I mainly take pictures of noisy mechanical stuff, so that’s mainly what you’ll get here, plus any random, cool bits I happen to see. All pictures are taken by me and are my © unless otherwise indicated.
He’s gone back down the plug hole. No use spraying water down there - they curl up and trap air bubbles between their legs to bob about and ride it out. Glooping a good dollop of shampoo down there, though…
Good. I hate winter.
One of the best looking Apaches I think I've seen! Not something you normally say about these little bruisers, but the RNLAF Display Apache AH-64D sported quite a paint job back in 2011
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Tactical voting for the Lib Dems in my constituency of West Dorset detoxed us after more than 180 years of being unremittingly Tory 🥳
Nice! 👌🏼
Ever wondered what all those buttons in a cockpit actually do? 🤯✈️
Here’s a pilot’s guide to the Airbus A350 cockpit — one of the most advanced flight decks in the sky.
Track A350 flights live with our app:
airnavradar.go.link/hNhsa
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Were they accompanied by ’The Ride of the Valkyries’ being played through a loudhailer?
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Consequences. 😂😂😂
Benny in Maintenance upgraded the screens on a Garuda Indonesia plane and the pilot's just been going livid. Says they've lost all cockpit data because of turbulence. No idea how that can happen.
Apparently, Iran is run by religious fanatics 👀
I loved my #aiwa personal stereo - it was a thing of beauty. I would’ve gone back into a burning building for it. It was the absolute pinnacle of tech back then - feathertouch logic controls, autoreverse, Dolby NR, rechargeable battery and in-line remote. Hard to think I bought it 36! 😱 years ago.
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You need to sort the prop out on your AI picture 😂
Is Sunak ‘at the top levels of the political class’? He was just one of several unelected, over-privileged and extremely shit PMs foisted on us over the last decade
Because it has a strategic position close to the world’s greatest region of both unceasing aggro and unparalleled natural resources, for the last 80 years?
The Hawker Siddeley #Hawk T.1 is 50 years old this year. Here’s the #RAF 2010 display jet sporting one of the best liveries of recent years, which itself was celebrating 50 years of the 4 Sqn Flight Training School.
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With the news that #RoyalNavy #Wildcat helicopters are being deployed to Cyprus on anti-drone duties, here’s a couple on display in happier times. I live quite close to #RNAS #Yeovilton and these fly over my house daily.
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No, definitely not as loud as the Old Lady! 😂
You'll know when you do see one - they're really, REALLY noisy!
Ospreys are difficult buggers to photograph well. The rotors are really slow, needing long 1/100 shutter speeds to produce attractive prop blur, then airframe vibrations become an issue. This is a reasonable job from a few years ago.
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When they said WW3 would only last a week, we all thought a couple of nukes would mean 'game over' - not because both sides would literally run out of munitions to chuck at one another
Frankly I’m surprised it’s taken this long. We all have a unique MAC address.
Ah yes, good point, well made
They do have two, but vertical, not canted. In the video you can see that the F-15 is missing one and three quarters
No vertical stabiliser. Result: flat spin.
Surely it would be quicker and easier to fly east of Iran?
I don't know - I guess you have another one allocated to you. They must have spares, wouldn't you think?
