...i'm designing an egress facility right now, so i'm familiar with the subtleties of sizing rocket motors for pilot mass to keep the ejection system within survivable limits of acceleration, but that sort of low-altitude deployment is pretty impressive to see in real life; i expect each of those airmen gladly accepts back trauma in lieu of the alternative...

...damn, that's some sunbow-grade ejection; i'm impressed...

(make that four times; shouldn't post while flying aerobatics)

...a conservative party and a reactionary party...

...which direction do your legs bend?..face-forward full-astraddle puts your feet in the urinals at either side...

...i think if yitzhak rabin hadn't been assassinated, the trajectory of twenty-first-century globalism would have been very different, potentially sustaining the progressive momentum mustered in the early nineties...

(not that he was personally responsible for that trajectory, but the butterfly-effect tendrils of his assassination run deep and wide)

(hi matt damon.)

...five f*ckin' blades, man...

https://hannahats.com/collections/hats

...remember: if the ladies don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy...

(the day i bought my hat)

(three years later)*

*and it's not even the same hat!