#L-29

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1930 Cord L-29 Cabriolet - ACD Museum, August 2023

The Cord L-29 was the first successful mass-produced front-wheel-drive American automobile. But it was much more than that. Look at the styling of this automotive masterpiece. It was styled by Alan Leamy and was conceived as a single unit with the symmetry of the interior reflecting the external lines. Automotive styling had come into its own with this design. No longer was it an afterthought. Leamy incorporated the mechanical features of the front drive unit into the subtle style of the Cord. Cloaking the most technologically advanced automobile of its day in beauty, Leamy ensured the L-29 was superior both mechanically and aesthetically.

SPECIFICATIONS Model: Cabriolet Wheelbase: 137.5 inches Engine: Lycoming in-line eight-cylinder Transmission: Three speed manual Displacement: 299 cubic inches Horsepower: 125 at 3,400 rpm Weight: 4,500 lbs. Price When New: $3,195

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Aero L-39 Albatros arriving at Wanaka Airport for the 2024 Warbirds over Wanaka International Airshow

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Two training aircraft from the late sixties. An MiG-21F 'Fishbed-B' (or very early MiG-21F-13) and a Czechoslovakian-made L-29 Delfin. In the Soviet flight schools, the first two years flew in L-29s, then the third and fourth years in MiG-21s.

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1930 Cord L-29 Town Car Open/Closed Sedan by Murphy & Co.

Issued by Great Lighting Models (GLM). It is 1:43 scale and crafted in resin. A Limited Edition, # 230 of 299. The model is finished in black and features black wall tires. GLM-43108102

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jópofaság, via Gábor Hadron / Katonai repülés fb.

EZEK A FOTÓK SOSEM LÉTEZTEK.

Ezért megcsináltam őket. Két okból is, egyrészt mert érdekel a magyar katonai repülés, másrészt mert a 60-as, 70-es években nem készültek jó minőségű, éles HD-nek mondható fotók az akkori magyar vadászgépekről. (Főleg a levegőben repülés közben) Próbáltam keresni az interneten jó fotókat, de csak néhány lepukkant kiállított gépről találtam nagyfelbontású fotót ezekről a típusokról. Ezeket használtam fel.

Először is alaposan le kellett takarítanom a repcsiket, majd el kellett távolítanom a futóműveket, mivel ezek a földön álltak. Ezek után "magyarosítanom" kellett őket, azaz magyar felségjelzés, oldalszám....stb, minden egyéb apró részlet, ami megtalálható volt az akkori magyar gépeken. (Archív fotókról lestem le a pontos részleteket, amik természetesen nem voltak jó minőségűek.)

Majd pilótákat varázsoltam a gépekbe, ügyelve arra, hogy olyan orosz sisak legyen rajtuk, amiket akkor használtak a magyar pilóták. Miután mindez megvolt, hátteret kellet raknom mögéjük. Ezek a hátterek nagyrészt grafikák, saját készítésű felhőkkel.

Az volt a cél, mintha már lettek volna akkoriban ezek a mai digitális fényképezőgépek, vagy mint pl a GoPro, és ezekkel készültek volna repülés közben ezek a fotók.

Szóval itt van néhány sosem létezett fotó (grafika), ezekről az egykori magyar ezüst madarakról. (MiG-21 PF, IL-28, MiG-19 PF, L-29 Delfin, és MiG-15UTI.)

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1930 L-29 Cord

Once-abandoned 1930 L-29 Cord, Before and after restoration.

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1408 (2007) dir. Mikael Håfström

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29 for ven/ortega and 10 for ven/argent?

Thank you for the questions~ <33 I've gonna answer them a bit in reverse, because 29 got long. And questions are from here. <3

10 (for Ven/Argent): Who remembers what the other one always orders at a restaurant?

Vendetta. u__u; Ne is too much of a paranoid perfectionist not to take notice and file it away under clues and leverage, instead of, you know, admitting ne cares to some degree. Getting nem to admit ne knows or just use that knowledge willing tho? Ah, it’s only happening when Argent has bad days and her favorites are still getting buried in between a dozen or so neutral items and left at the door.

(Argent could easily guess at ordering something Vendetta enjoys too, but kid orders food like ne is playing four-dimensional chess so ‘always’ negates her here. Sorry, Angie, the downsides of dating Vendetta especially in the early days.)

29 (for Ven/Ortega): one headcanon about this OTP that breaks your heart

What a question. :')!

So. Ven has two Heartbreak scars technically speaking: suicidal and outside. And while I understand why this happens in the gameplay sense, I also have a little headcanon for it instead.

Ven's memories from that time are too jumbled and/or flat-out missing to truly make sense of it all, and that has kinda fused nir two scars together into an entangled mess as a result. But Heartbreak triggered the Suicidal one, given all the civilian deaths, Anathema's, and then Vendetta's own self-inflicted defenestration. The outside scar tho? That's on Ortega, at least in that 'last drop of watch that ultimately broke that particularly dam' type of way.

Because Vendetta had absolute and unwavering faith and conviction in Ortega post-Heartbreak. She was going to find nem and she would rescue nem from the Farm. It wasn’t an if, it was a when because that's what they did: rescued each other from Hell itself. Vendetta just had to survive enough for Ortega to put the pieces together and stage an absurd rescue.

(Then, ne would deal with all the other fallouts that would follow. Ven was very 'Not Gonna Dwell On Those Headache Right Now, Thanks'.)

Was this faith irrational too? Absolutely. But Vendetta was beyond terrified and in pain and not sleeping and being tortured/experimented on, so ne grabbed the one singular piece of hope ne had and held on as long as ne could. Ortega would come, she had to, because what was the alternative? What else did Vendetta have?

And when ne finally, finally, accepted that no, Ortega wasn’t coming (she was happy she moved on she forgot), it’s the closest anything has gotten to actually breaking Vendetta beyond repair. Ne threw up every wall, cut every thread ne could find, to keep everyone and everything out.

Because if Ortega can't be trusted, nothing can be trusted.

And to be fair, Ortega isn't the sole cause. If the Farm wasn't being, you know, the Farm, Vendetta would've been thinking more rationally and not clinging to that delusional piece of hope and the reality of the situation wouldn't have shattered nem so thoroughly. It was a joint effect, in that sense.

I also just like the idea of Ven's severing the part of nem that Intensely Craves connection and belonging because of Ortega, the person that dragged nem into being a person in the first place. It feels fitting? So, that's just now my personal headcanon for them now~ c:

(Sorry, Ortega.)

and, bonus. the section that inspired this headcanon.

This is your enemy sitting here, whistling softly to herself, looking happier than she has in years. This is the woman whose ass you put in the hospital. Who you've cursed so many times over the last seven years. Cursed her for not stopping you. For not saving you. For forgetting about you. Were any of the things you accused her of true, or did they just put them into your head? Taunting you with the fact that your friends didn't care. That you were stupid to think you could have a life. Could be a person. Could have a future. Abandoned. Tossed away. Forgotten as easily as one of her many one-night stands. Was it an accident that they had left that paper in the office, the front page showing everything you feared? It felt like forever. Maybe you went a little crazy. Maybe you lost yourself along the way. You got through it. That's all that matters. Not caring whether you live or die is a power they never understood. A power they couldn't predict. Ironically it saved your life. Enabled you to move on. Move beyond. You got through it, and you burned every part of you that cared because that's how they could get to you. Can't threaten what you don't care about. Can't miss what you don't love. Step outside the world. They can't touch you then.

(i do love the visuals of 'step outside of the world' and hopefully i'll get to draw them out something in the upcoming year. c:<!)

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pics from the first readthrough of summer stock

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L-29 jet trainer in Russian markings seen at Oshkosh

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hockey withdrawals so bad I drove thirty minutes to my southern school’s acha league game with a whopping fifty other people in attendance

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Cord L-29 roadster

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So that was a surprise, Mig-29 at a western airshow. Oshkosh 2022

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Frank Loyd Wright's 1930 Cord L-29 Cabriolet