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I just randomly stumbled on this (okay it's old but I've certainly never seen it before) - what does anyone else think? The majority of it is clearly accidental but the bit about the salami and having a sticker to pour soup do actually sound like they might have been put in on purpose:
 
Perun said:

This heavy metal thing really seems to be dangerous. We should keep away from it.
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This is a fake news pattern, 30 years ago. But it was targeted against metal and metalheads so people didn't care.
 
Black Abyss Babe said:
I just randomly stumbled on this (okay it's old but I've certainly never seen it before) - what does anyone else think? The majority of it is clearly accidental but the bit about the salami and having a sticker to pour soup do actually sound like they might have been put in on purpose:
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When I was a kid a mate used to old school spin the record backwards during the first verse of hallowed and swear it had the message "in the wrath he must pass the stars, he is evil, he is it"
 
srfc said:
When I was a kid a mate used to old school spin the record backwards during the first verse of hallowed and swear it had the message "in the wrath he must pass the stars, he is evil, he is it"
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A plausible Maiden lyric in any direction ;)
 
First lesson of the aerobatics program done! Mostly a recap of steep turns, slow flight and stalls - stuff I know from before - but with some new elements added. Like, for example, initiating a stall directly from a steep turn. This will, unless the turn is perfectly coordinated, lead to the plane flicking to either side. Also did the "deep stall" exercise where you will keep the airplane stalled and try to use rudder to keep it level. This is pretty difficult and not easy on the stomach, because if you get "behind" in that exercise, you will flick - and it's easy to overcompensate and flick in the opposite direction. With plenty of altitude to recover, it's not really dangerous, but it's not the exercise you do on a full stomach.

Finished the lesson with a pretty decent landing, which is always nice.

Next time we will practice spins!
 
Today marks the one year anniversary of going to the Czech Republic for my Erasmus exchange study. Approximately 9 PM on February 4th 2020 I arrived in Zlin, completely alone and unaware of what was going to happen. On one hand, it is hard to believe that already a year has passed - where did all this time go? Then again, much of Zlin seems more like a distant dream than reality. It was a time of amazing highs and horrible lows. I saw Dream Theater live for the first time, I travelled alone in a country where English is not widely spoken, I sat in cafes and tried to flirt with Czech waitresses, I drank beer every single night, got my heart broken, climbed up a hill to the dorm every day...Most importantly, I met many amazing people, thanks to whom it was all worth the effort. I regret that I couldn’t befriend every single person there - partly because of the mental instability I was experiencing, partly because it’s just impossible to be friends with everyone. Nevertheless, the contacts I made prove to me that I really was there, and for a brief time belonged to a group that I had been longing for so much.

Today, one year later, I want to share a little story, a coincidence not to be taken too seriously. When I was in my last year of high school, a girl entered my school, and because I considered her somewhat attractive, I decided to look at her pictures on Facebook. On one image, there was her with a group of girls, one of whom in particular caught my attention for being unbelievably beautiful. I took a look at her profile and was instantly infatuated. The girl’s name was Danka, and she had a thing for horses and old movie stars. I kept visiting her profile every now and then to remind myself of her beauty and revive my heartache, until one time I noticed that her education said something about “Zlin Multimedia Faculty”. I looked up this faculty’s homepage, which was almost entirely in Czech, and found that one of their partner schools is Tallinn University, where I study. After a year or so, I started preparing for Erasmus, and ended up applying to Tomas Bata University in Zlin, Czechia. By this point, my infatuation with Danka had cooled but I still had her in the back of my head. So when I finally went on my exchange, I kept thinking about the possibility to meet her in person, in case she still lived in that little town. This possibility became reality one day when I was waiting for the green light at a crosswalk. On the other side of the crosswalk stood Danka in the flesh. It wasn’t hard to recognise her. The second time I met her was in a classroom at the uni. I had come early and was waiting in the classroom, when I saw a girl talking to the professor. I realised that it was her, and wanted to say something to her so badly but couldn’t seize an opportunity. So that’s the story. If you ever wonder how people in movies goes to a town in the middle of nowhere and find the exact person they’re looking for - it’s possible. I wonder how she would have reacted if I had told her about the silly Facebook thing.
 
Some time ago a south american bloke was in the daily paper, he came all the way to find some girl he met/saw. He rented an apartment in newly built expensive development in the city center. The paper article was half about love, and half about irregularties and corruption in construction enterprise - this 150kg man got literally stuck in some part of the floor's walkway because it was too narrow. He didn't find the girl either.
 
2nd aerobatics flight done! To begin with, I made a smoother takeoff this time. The Cap 10 needs precise use of rudder during takeoff or it will swerve. And nobody wants that.

The main focus for today's class was spins. We started with a so called "max performance steep turn" though, which is when you pull as much G as the aircraft is capable of without losing airspeed or altitude (i.e. the tightest turn it can do while level and with stabilized airspeed).

Then on to spins, where we did mostly half turn and one turn spins. Due to some cloud around us, obscuring the horizon from time to time, I wasn't at competition level of precision with regards to heading upon recovery, but the recovery itself was good every time.

We also tried some "lazy eights", which in an aerobatics setting is flown with 90 degrees bank on the top. But it's a surprisingly comfortable maneuver considering how much you actually change the attitude of the aircraft.

Speaking of attitudes, we did some "unusual attitude recovery" as well, where the instructor put us in some weird attitude while I had my eyes closed, and my task was to return the aircraft to straight and level in the correct manner. The last one saw us more or less inverted, so the recovery was simply a half roll.

Finished off with a decent landing. Once again. When will my luck run out with those?
 
Dr. Eddies Wingman said:
2nd aerobatics flight done! To begin with, I made a smoother takeoff this time. The Cap 10 needs precise use of rudder during takeoff or it will swerve. And nobody wants that.

The main focus for today's class was spins. We started with a so called "max performance steep turn" though, which is when you pull as much G as the aircraft is capable of without losing airspeed or altitude (i.e. the tightest turn it can do while level and with stabilized airspeed).

Then on to spins, where we did mostly half turn and one turn spins. Due to some cloud around us, obscuring the horizon from time to time, I wasn't at competition level of precision with regards to heading upon recovery, but the recovery itself was good every time.

We also tried some "lazy eights", which in an aerobatics setting is flown with 90 degrees bank on the top. But it's a surprisingly comfortable maneuver considering how much you actually change the attitude of the aircraft.

Speaking of attitudes, we did some "unusual attitude recovery" as well, where the instructor put us in some weird attitude while I had my eyes closed, and my task was to return the aircraft to straight and level in the correct manner. The last one saw us more or less inverted, so the recovery was simply a half roll.

Finished off with a decent landing. Once again. When will my luck run out with those?
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How do you keep the aircraft from falling down under the weight of your balls?
 
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