sloth unleashed

"DC-10 arrives at the Falls fire.” (via the Corona Fire Department ‘s Facebook page)

“Ejection escape system for a passenger airplane US 6695257 B2 ABSTRACT An ejection escape system for passenger airplane that there is a locking mechanism at the connection of the left top cabin cover, the right top cabin cover with the airplane body, there is also a locking mechanism at the connection of the left top cabin cover and the right top cabin cover, the passenger seat is an ejection escape seat, the switches for the locking mechanism and the ejection escape seat are installed in the cockpit, where the pilot can turn on the locking mechanism switch to open the left and right top cabin covers and turn on the ejection escape switch to eject the seat out of the airplane through the opening of the left and right top cabin covers." (via)

that should work smoothly...

“Blackhawk door gunner,Tikrit,Iraq”. photo by Russell Klika

Flight Decks :: By Ben Cooper

“These rare photos capture the Flight Deck (cockpit) of the Space Shuttle Endeavour, fully powered for one of the final times. Just a few weeks later, at 9:58am EDT on May 11, Endeavour was powered down for the final time in history. It was the last of the three space shuttles to have power. Below, other views show the mid-deck, gutted of its lockers and storage areas, and three final photos show the white room entrance in the Orbiter Processing Facility, signed by thousands over the years.”

(thanks to Paul Dunlop for this)

“MAK-UL” infra-red Missile Approach Warning System mounted on a Tupolev Tu-95M S6 (via)

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