#XF 88

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McDonnell XF-88B Voodoo Prototype with a nose-mounted Allison T38 turboprop running. Early 1950s

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Guess The Ep (06/07)

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Lockheed XF-90 prototype photographed in 1949

The Lockheed XF-90 was built in response to a United States Air Force requirement for a long-range penetration fighter and bomber escort. Lockheed's design proved under powered, it placed second to McDonnell's XF-88 Voodoo which won the production contract in September 1950, before the penetration fighter project was abandoned altogether. Only two aircraft were built and both were used non flying testing roles and were tested to destruction.

[baronessblixen]

Five Songs on Repeat

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rules: post 5 songs that you've had on repeat lately!

I Remember Everything - Zach Bryan feat. Kacey Musgraves

Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14: Marche au supplice (Allegro non troppo) - Hector Berlioz, Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra

Someone To You - BANNERS

Look at us now (Honeycomb) - Daisy Jones and the Six

Symphony No. 8 in G Major, Op. 88, B. 163: III. Allegretto grazioso - Molto vivace - Antonín Dvořák, Los Angeles Philharmonic

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20 October 1948. First flight of the McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo. American long-range, twin-engine jet fighter aircraft with swept wings prototype which was developed into the F-101.

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Yamaha MOXF8 Review: A Powerful Workstation Keyboard for Musicians

The Yamaha MOXF8 is a versatile and powerful music workstation keyboard that has gained a strong reputation among musicians and producers. With its impressive features, realistic sound engine, and intuitive interface, it's no wonder why this keyboard has become a go-to choice for professionals and enthusiasts alike. In this review, we'll dive deep into the Yamaha MOXF8 Review, exploring its key features, sound quality, build, and overall performance to help you decide if it's the right keyboard for your musical needs.

Key Features

88-Key Graded Hammer Action Keyboard: The MOXF8 features an 88-key, fully weighted Graded Hammer Standard (GHS) keyboard. This not only replicates the feel of an acoustic piano but also provides excellent control for pianists and keyboardists.

Advanced Sound Engine: One of the standout features of the MOXF8 is its sound engine. It inherits the AWM2 (Advanced Wave Memory 2) sound technology from Yamaha's flagship Motif series. With 741MB of high-quality instrument samples, you'll have access to a vast library of sounds, including realistic acoustic instruments, synth leads, pads, and more.

Motif XF Sound Library Compatibility: The MOXF8 is compatible with Yamaha's Motif XF sound library, giving you access to a wide range of premium sound content. This compatibility ensures that you have an extensive palette of sounds to work with, including some of the best in the industry.

Performance Mode: The MOXF8 excels in live performance situations. With its Performance mode, you can create complex multi-instrument setups, split and layer sounds, and control them in real-time using the assignable knobs and sliders.

Integrated Sequencer: This workstation keyboard comes equipped with a powerful 16-track sequencer, allowing you to compose, record, and edit your music directly on the instrument. The intuitive sequencer interface makes it easy for both beginners and experienced users to create music efficiently.

Built-in Effects: The MOXF8 boasts an extensive collection of high-quality onboard effects, including reverb, chorus, EQ, and more. These effects can be applied to individual sounds or entire performances, enhancing your sound and giving you more creative control.

Sound Quality

When it comes to sound quality, the Yamaha MOXF8 truly shines. The AWM2 sound engine delivers exceptional realism, whether you're playing acoustic instruments like pianos and strings or experimenting with cutting-edge synth sounds. The key to this quality lies in the detailed sampling and advanced signal processing that Yamaha is renowned for.

The piano sounds, in particular, are worth highlighting. Yamaha has a long history of crafting some of the finest acoustic pianos, and the MOXF8 does justice to this legacy. The Graded Hammer Standard keyboard adds to the authenticity of the piano-playing experience, with weighted keys that respond realistically to your touch.

The extensive sound library, including voices from the Motif XF series, ensures that you'll never run out of inspiring sounds to work with. From lush orchestral strings to gritty synthesizers, the MOXF8 covers a wide sonic spectrum.

Build and Design

Yamaha has a reputation for building durable and reliable instruments, and the MOXF8 is no exception. The keyboard has a solid, professional-grade build that can withstand the rigors of live performances and studio use. Its sleek and streamlined design exudes a modern aesthetic that complements any stage or studio setup.

The control panel is logically organized, making it easy to access various functions and tweak settings on the fly. The backlit LCD screen provides clear visibility, even in dimly lit environments. Overall, the MOXF8 is designed with the user's convenience and comfort in mind.

Performance

The Yamaha MOXF8 excels in live performance scenarios. The Performance mode allows you to create complex setups with multiple sounds, splits, and layers, all easily accessible at your fingertips. The assignable knobs and sliders offer real-time control over various parameters, making it a versatile tool for expressive performances.

The 88-key keyboard is perfect for pianists who need a natural feel when playing piano parts, and it's equally adept at handling synth and organ sounds. The weighted keys provide the necessary resistance for pianistic expression, while the extensive sound palette lets you explore creative possibilities beyond traditional piano playing.

The built-in sequencer is a powerful tool for composers and arrangers. It provides 16 tracks to record and edit your music, and the integration with the sound engine ensures that your compositions sound as intended. Whether you're composing a film score, pop song, or electronic track, the MOXF8 has the flexibility and capability to meet your needs.

Conclusion

In conclusion, the Yamaha MOXF8 is a top-tier music workstation keyboard that offers a perfect blend of realistic sound quality, versatility, and performance capabilities. Its 88-key Graded Hammer Standard keyboard, advanced sound engine, and compatibility with the Motif XF sound library make it a valuable asset for pianists, keyboardists, composers, and live performers.

The MOXF8's robust build and intuitive design ensure a seamless and enjoyable playing experience, whether you're in the studio or on stage. With its extensive sound library and powerful sequencer, it's a comprehensive solution for musicians of all genres and skill levels.

If you're looking for a professional-grade music workstation keyboard that can meet the demands of your musical endeavors, the Yamaha MOXF8 should undoubtedly be on your shortlist. Its impressive features and exceptional sound quality make it a worthwhile investment for anyone passionate about creating music.

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Post #88: UXM issue 211, XF issue 10, and NM issue 46

We finally get our proper introduction to the Marauders, who greet the Morlocks and start slaughtering everyone they can find. The ones present are Scalphunter, a technomorph who uses his powers to make a bunch of fancy guns, Arclight, who controls shockwaves, Harpoon, who throws energy harpoons, Vertigo, who gives people the dizzies, Scrambler, who turns off mutant powers, and Riptide, who spins really fast. Some of those powers sound really lame but their brutality and teamwork with them make them deadly and terrifying. Oblivious to what's going on a few miles away, life seems back to normal for the X-Men, except for Logan, who after everything that's happened recently isn't healing properly, and Kurt, who collapses every time he teleports. But they all have to spring into action when one of the wounded Morlocks bursts out of the ground, begs them for help, and dies. They have Illyana port them all to the tunnels, where they come face to face with Vertigo, Riptide, and a pile of corpses. While Riptide hurls throwing stars at everyone, Kurt rapidly teleports Vertigo around until the strain knocks her out. But it expends all of his energy, and he's defenseless when Riptide comes for him. He leaves Kurt bleeding out on the ground and zooms off with Vertigo. Already a man down, Ororo, Logan, and Anna gather all the wounded and head for the mansion, while Peter and Kitty go off looking for more Morlocks. They find Scalphunter and Arclight killing Annalee, whose trying to protect her children. They fight off the villains and take the surviving kids to reunite with the rest of the team. Logan picks up X-Factor's scent, including Jean, which shouldn't be possible, but before he can investigate the Marauders catch up. When Harpoon throws an energy spear through Kitty's ghost form and she screams, something inside Peter snaps, and he grabs Riptide and breaks his neck. The others flee, and the X-Men find Kitty is stuck in her phasing state. Ororo, Peter, and Anna take the wounded X-Men and Morlocks home, but Ororo orders Logan to stay behind, take one Marauder for interrogation, and kill the rest. This issue was the most desperate and brutal the book has felt since the Brood Saga. Peter hasn't killed anyone since Proteus, and rather than a last resort, he does it here out of rage and vengeance. Ororo orders the death of the other Marauders without hesitation. The loss of Kurt, the heart of the team, and Kitty, the representation of their innocence, puts our heroes in a new, much darker place.

At the other end of the Morlock Alley, Scott, Bobby, and Hank run into some Morlocks and save them from Harpoon and Arclight. Elsewhere, Caliban tries to take Artie and Leech to safety, but is attacked and heavily wounded by another Marauder, Sabretooth, in his first appearance in an X-book. The kids manage to get Caliban's unconscious body into a narrow drain pipe that Sabretooth can't fit in and hide there. Across the country, another threat to X-Factor is scheming- Mystique. She recognized Warren as an X-Terminator and after some digging realized that his company was backing X-Factor, information she's released to the press. When Candy hears about this, she heads to New York to warn Warren, although why she still cares about him after he took off to hang out with his high school crush I can't say. Warren sees his exposure on the news and takes comfort in Jean, just as Candy walks in and dumps him on the spot for his obvious feelings for her. Good for her, Warren's a terrible boyfriend. Rather than face the mess his life has become, Warren heads off into the tunnels with Jean to find their friends. Somewhere else in the tunnels, a Morlock named Plague, who makes people sick, is fighting off Sabretooth when Apocalypse pops up, tells her he has a job for her, and teleports off with her. Meanwhile, Jean and Warren find the rest of X-Factor and some Morlocks just in time to save them from a group of Marauders, including a new guy named Prism, who's made of glass and zaps light around. Jean shatters him, which is weirdly not commented on by anyone. Jean takes the wounded, which is everyone, back to HQ, while Warren heads out alone to find Artie. As he gets carried off on a telekinetic stretcher, Scott is overcome with even more guilt, this time for how he's treated Warren lately. He promises himself he won't stand in the way if Jean wants to be with Warren, but it may already be too late for that. Warren finds Artie, who's been looking for X-Factor to come help Leech and Caliban, but Vertigo, Harpoon, and Blockbuster, who's just big and strong, find Warren first. He tells Artie to run and tell Jean that he's sorry while he holds off the villains. But the Marauders torture him and pin his wings to the wall with harpoons, crucifying him. As he loses consciousness, he remembers Artie can't talk, and his last wish will go unfulfilled. This issue was quite as pulse-pounding as the Uncanny one, but the last scene was the most intense and painful in the event. This was the first issue with Walt Simonson as penciller, and you can tell the difference in the fight scenes.

Back at the mansion, the New Mutants are anxiously awaiting news about the Morlocks. When Dani steps outside, she's horrified to see a vision of a huge reaper looming over the entire mansion. A moment later, the X-Men return, and the place becomes a war camp. With the few remaining X-Men on guard duty, Illyana ports over to Scotland to grab Moira, who immediately deputizes the New Mutants in her efforts to save wounded Morlocks. Berto's solar power eventually runs out and he drops some equipment, causing Max to chew him out and Berto to go destroy the kitchen. Dani feels especially helpless, since her Valkyrie powers to influence the reaper are useless in a slaughter of this magnitude. There's another problem brewing- when Xuân calls her apartment to check on her younger siblings, they aren't there. Illyana offers to port her there to check on them, and when they arrive, they find an empty apartment that blows up in their face. Doug, who saw them leave, goes to warn the others, who decide to go check on them. They ask Warlock to fly them, but he's acting very weird and refusing requests, so they go through the Morlock tunnels. Luckily, they don't run into any Marauders, but they see plenty of corpses on their way. When they finally exit the sewer, they're all traumatized yet again, especially Berto, who breaks down again and vows to kill the Marauders. They find Xuân's apartment building on fire and their friends wounded but alive. Suddenly Warlock goes crazy, grabbing everyone and running back into the sewer. They New Mutants are then face to face with the reason for Warlock's weird behavior- his scanners have been picking up Magus, who's returned for his son. Illyana teleports everyone into Limbo as Magus declares he'll kill them all to get to Warlock. This issue actually didn't really have much to do with the Massacre storyline. The scenes of the kids dealing with all this death were good, but not really anything we haven't seen them feeling before. I'm glad the book didn't get hijacked completely for the crossover, since it's not the New Mutants' story. It was still a good issue and a good breather in the middle of the Uncanny arc.

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[dronescapesvideos]

Aviation Wonders, Lesser Known Aircraft And Engineering Marvels

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McDonnell XF-88 (S/N 46-525). (U.S. Air Force photo)

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McDonnell XF-88 Voodoo by Willard Womack Via Flickr: The basic design was to be reborn in the McDonald F-101 Voodoo, and RF-101 which served until 1982.

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29 Sep 1954 – First flight McDonnell F-101 Voodoo flown by test pilot Robert C. Little. An advanced design of the XF-88, the Voodoo goes supersonic on its first flight.

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Vision datacrunching 1

So, I'm working on how much of the slurry default should be biased towards having vision problems.  The relevant gene is 2 letters long, and is any combination of the following: {XxAaFfNn}.  X for normal, A for astigmatism, F for farsighted, N for nearsighted.

According to google, about 75% of adult humans use some kind of vision correction.  I'm going to guess it's slightly less common in trolls, due to what I will broadly refer to as selection pressure, so I'll aim for 40%.  I made 10,000 sets of peepers, and narrowed it down to look only at this gene, and here's what my first try produced.

First, the very clearcut cases.  3930 or 39% had the XX gene, meaning perfect vision with no defects.  Next, there were 119 NN, 2 Nn, 127 AA, and 51 FF -- or around 30% having a strong and definitive type of vision impairment.  Now, I either need to find ways to interpret the remaining data in the way I want, or I need to change what data gets produced.

There were only 2 cases that contained a capital X and a capital vision-impairment, so I'll ignore those for now.  The next biggest category is capital X followed by a different lowercase letter (Xa, Xf, Xn) -- there are 4864 of these, or 49%.  Next, a lowercase letter followed by capital X -- there are only 589 of those, or 6%.  Next, the mixed group -- with two vision impairment genes, where at leastone is lowercase.  There's only 313 / 3% of those.

If X+lowercase produces perfect or near-perfect vision, that gives us 88% of the population having perfect vision.  If we go lowercase+X doing that, we'll have 45% perfect vision.  I want to keep the mixed cases as examples of bad eyesight, so I'm going to take that first option, and tweak the incidence of lowercase first letters up a bit. I'm also going to scatter lowercase X around, and see if that helps.  Ready for second test.  

As long as I'm here, I'll also check out how the mutant eye placement is going.

Looks like there's 54 or 5% of the group that have one or more spare eyes during grubhood, that they grow out of with their first pupation.  Mostly on the back, a few on the front or tail, one on the head.  I think around 50 of them will pass the cut, which seems fair for Alternia.

Of those with permanent extra eyes, I see 33 with one or more stray eyes on the face, three with specifically a forehead eye, and 8 with eyes on the back of the head.  Those will probably make it just fine, as long as they can find partners during the season -- and as long as their hair doesn't bother their eyes too much.  There's another 14 with stray eyes along their back or spine, which is more inconvenient, less immediately obvious, and potentially more useful. Being able to see behind you has advantages, and at least some of them will be able to find shirts that accentuate the eye in a good way.  On a similar note, there's 4 with eyes on the chest / front of torso, which is less useful and slightly more offputting I think.  Still, only a little awkward.

Slightly more awkward are the ones that have eyes on hands or other extremities.  There's 4 "extremity" trolls, which could have them on tails or wings if they have any, or possibly on hands or feet.  There's three with eyes on the back of the hands, which is probably passable and fine.  

..but... now we're getting to the less viable zone.  There's one with an eye on the palms, who will probably have a hard time holding weapons or other tools firmly.  There's one with eyes on their fingertips, who will have a hard time using their hands for much of anything -- I think that one Could make it on some Beforuses, but definitely not Alternia.  There's another four who have eyes at the tips of their grublegs, which will go away after first pupation -- if they make it that long.  There's also six individuals that will have a malformation or loss of their primary two eyes during a pupation, so they'll have to deal with blindness either as a wriggler or an adult.

So... for stray eyes like this, out of a random sample of 10,000 trolls, we have 65 passable extra-eye mutations (0.65%), and 12 (0.12%) who will have significant problems.  That seems pretty good.  I'll compare which mutations came up how often in the next batch, as well.

Raw data below. ----------------------------------------------------- {XX:3930}

{XF:2}

{Xa:1904} {Xf:399} {Xn:2561}

{aX:223} {fX:163} {nX:203}

{an:113} {fa:1} {fn:79} {na:1} {Nf:3} {Af:3} {Fa:60} {Na:53}

{NN:119} {Nn:2} {AA:127} {FF:51} ----------------------------------------------------- {one stray on the back of the grub form}x40 {one stray on the face}x30 {one stray on the back of the body}x8 {one stray on the back of the head}x7 {one stray on the front of the grub form}x4 {one stray on the grubleg tips}x4 {one stray on the spine}x4 {one stray on the tail-grub form}x4 {one stray on the extremity}x3 {several strays on the face}x3 {several strays on the forehead}x2 {one stray on the back of the hands}x2 {one stray on the chest/ribcage}x2 {one stray on the front of the body}x2 {one stray on the fingertips} {one stray on the forehead} {one stray on the head in grub form} {one stray on the palms} {one stray on the torso/back} {several strays on the back of the hands} {several strays on the back of the head} {several strays on the extremities} {several strays on the front of the body} {several strays on the front of the grub form} {several strays on the torso/back} {"--which will be lost after first pupation"}x6 -----------------------------------------------------

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✖️✖️✖️✖️✖️ 1x08 Ice

The one with... the ice worms in Alaska.

Best: The tension... the storage closet... the touching...

Worst: Nothing.

✔️ Flashlights

❌ Woods

❌ Slideshow

❌ Autopsy

✔️ Evidence Disappears

✔️ Scully Misses It

❌ Mulder Ditch

❌ Sunflower Seeds

❌ Voiceover

❌ Catch Phrase

❌ Scully is a Medical Doctor

❌ Mulder is Spooky

✔️ Scuuullllaaaaayy! Muullllderrrr!

❌ Fox/Dana

✔️ Inappropriate Touching (that I am here for)

✔️ Casual Scully

✔️ Casual Mulder

❌ Trench Coats (but there are parkas!)

❌ Bad Tie Watch

❌ Glasses Watch

50 States: Alaska (7/50)

Investigate: Together

Solve Rate: 88%

✔️ Bechdel Test: Barely

MSR: 🐝🐝🐝🐝

Goriness: 👽👽👽

Creepiness: 👽👽👽👽

Humor: 👽

Rewatch thoughts:

One of my favorite episodes. They want to trust each other!

XF Marathon 2020 thoughts:

Scully is ON EDGE this whole episode - GA really decided to go for it and I applaud her.

This is the perfect moment in the series for this episode - they’ve just been working with each other for a few months and they’re just learning to trust each other.