Ach du lieber!
This guy made Snoopy's doghouse fly! pic.twitter.com/4idWqN51RO
— Physics & Astronomy Zone? (@ZonePhysics) October 7, 2018
Yes, yes, I know the video in the tweet is actually from 2015…
Anyhow, you all know what this means! An audio-video extravaganza of a dogfight between the leader of Jagdgeschwader 1 (JG 1), also known as Richtofen’s Flying Circus, and a dog!
Open thread!
Adam L Silverman
Oh look, they’ve already done the new Supreme Court picture now that Kavanaugh’s been sworn in.
TaMara (HFG)
OMG, my childhood just flashed before my ears.
waratah
I love snoopy.
My daughter is in LA and chose to go to the observatory tonight and is excited because she got to see a rocket launch that was not planned.
Adam L Silverman
@waratah: Excellent!
Adam L Silverman
@TaMara (HFG): You’re welcome.
dmsilev
Speaking of strange flying things, I got a decent view of SpaceX’s latest launch about 30 or so minutes ago. It was a bit too far away for good photography, though I kind of liked the way this shot came out:
https://i.imgur.com/VT9ag6y.jpg
This is right after stage separation; second stage is the bright flare on left, heading up and south. First stage is the flare on right, doing a boost-back maneuver to return north to Vandenberg AFB.
TaMara (HFG)
@waratah: That sounds awesome.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@waratah: The Space-X launch was planned. I was shooting from the suicide bridge in Pasadena.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev: Good shot, was an amazing show.
waratah
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I thought about you when she sent the photo and wondered where you were.
waratah
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know it was but they did not know it. They are having a great time there still have a few more days.
dmsilev
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It was pretty impressive.I was able to follow it for most of the way, and then fired up the webcast to see the landing.
Also, I think the government of Pasadena would take it as a special favor if you didn’t call the bridge that. They’re quite proud of their suicide-prevention barriers.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dmsilev:
Yeah, I noticed them; my god, they’re fugly. Here’s my shot of separation; keep in mind, I was shooting a timelapse of the sunset and couldn’t reframe.
M. Bouffant
@TaMara (HFG): That song was inexplicably popular & in heavy rotation on KJR in Seattle in my early adolescence.
BC in Illinois
@TaMara (HFG): @M. Bouffant:
In 1967, my HS buddy and I were talked into playing folksongs at what we thought was a coffeehouse at a youth center in the DC area. The group before us was doing acoustic covers of British Rock and were getting a bad reception from a crowd that wanted something heavier/more up-to-date/more soul. My friend and I looked at each other and said, “Those guys are good! What’s this crowd going to do with a couple of folk singers?”
The crowd reaction was as bad as we expected. After singing a few songs for the two tables up front (our friends) who appreciated us, we did a rendition of “Snoopy vs. the Red Baron” from our camp-counselor days and walked off the stage.
Ken
I could swear I remember seeing a flying doghouse at the St. Louis model airplane club over forty years ago.