#red tails

[nocternalrandomness]

Tuskegee Airmen from the 332nd FG photographed in Aug 1944 at Ramitelli Airfield , Italy

[blackros78]

[usafphantom2]

RED TAILS near Dannelly Field at Montgomery AL. 2024. ( w. frye / ANG)

@kadonkey via X

[topgunreacts]

Playnes

[middlingmay]

Last Line Tag

Thanks @swifty-fox for the tag!

We all know what this is from by now. I am ploughing through the next chapter. I can't wait until you see what's coming with that update, and I'm not talking about the actual writing <3

At one point, Eli loudly and confidently took credit for teaching Gale to drive. It was a fool's move. He had to hunker down outta view behind Gale as Smokey carried John off, who’d sunk several more bottles since Gale had been swept away. He swore and thrashed, “Fucking say that to my face, Eli! You no good short-stacked little shit! I'll chase you down 'til ya run out of gas! Lemme - Smokey!”

Tagging @joeyalohadream @hogans-heroes and @rangerelizabeth

[cantsayidont]

Some more dubious TV:

GRISELDA: Griselda Blanco, la padrina de cocaína in early '80s Miami, gets the #girlboss treatment in this six-part miniseries starring Sofía Vergara. Writers Doug Miro and Ingrid Escajeda seem to have made a close study of the 2007 film AMERICAN GANGSTER, about Frank Lucas, which is similarly structured and has a similar abundance of period detail that never feels organic or authentic. If you know anything at all about the real Griselda Blanco, it also feels pretty sanitized, and of course prettified. For contrast, there's also a 2017 Lifetime movie called COCAINE GODMOTHER, starring, improbably, Catherine-Zeta Jones, which is much more tabloid-lurid, although calling Jones' performance and accent "a broad caricature" would be giving it more credit than it deserves. Curiously, the Lifetime version is much more upfront about presenting Griselda as bisexual: Both it and the new mini indicate that Blanco's bestie, who eventually died of a drug overdose (called Carolina in the 2017 version, Carmen in the new one), was in love with her, but the new version is weirdly noncommittal about Griselda herself. Pondering the behind-the-scenes politics of that is honestly more interesting than much of what's onscreen.

MASTERS OF THE AIR: Lugubrious Apple TV+ miniseries about the USAAF 100th Bomb Group of WW2, based on the nonfiction book by Donald L. Miller and produced by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman, obviously keen to recapture the success of BAND OF BROTHERS. A heavy-handed and often tedious propaganda piece, MASTERS is basically a long-form modern version of WW2 movies like AIR FORCE or THIRTY SECONDS OVER TOKYO, full of contrived patriotic uplift (inevitably underlined by obnoxiously syrupy orchestral scoring), lots of CGI (most of which looks like a video game), and a few more naughty words than the 1940s Production Code would have allowed. The promos suggested the show would deal with the experience of Black fighter escort pilots, which could have had some interest (especially since the 2012 movie RED TAILS did such a disastrous job of it), but the handful of Black characters don't appear until the eighth episode, and they're much more thinly drawn than the white officers who comprise the core cast. Most of the main characters are theoretically based on real people (who are shown in a brief coda in the final episode), but the show's dramatization is much less effective than a decent documentary treatment would have been, particularly since it's already reliant on sleepy voiceover narration to hold together its disparate story threads. The main consolation is that there’s a refreshing lack of distracting stunt casting; I didn’t recognize anyone in the cast, which is for the best with this kind of thing. A show for your dad or grandpa who only watches WW2 documentaries.

STAR TREK: PRODIGY: I only barely struggled through the first four five episodes of this animated STAR TREK spinoff, and the kindest thing I can say about it is that I'm not even remotely adjacent to the target audience. The animation and character designs caused me physical pain, and overall it feels like what we would get all the time if STAR TREK became another of the many properties absorbed by the evil power of the Mouse. One shudders to think.

[cidraman]

Happy birthday, Uncle George!

[whatnext10]

Colorful Red Tailed Hawks are Very Adaptive and Can Live Almost Anywhere

Poised to Go The most common raptor in North America also happens to be a bird that I am extremely fond of. That bird is the red tailed hawk (Buteo jamaicensis) sometimes also simply known as the red tail or in some circles as a “chicken hawk” despite the fact that it rarely preys on adult chickens. They are also one of the largest birds of the Buteo genus in North America and can have a highly…

[todaysbird]

it’s crazy how much diversity there can be in one species…these are all pictures of the same bird species (red-tailed hawk)

[heartwarminganimals]

Tail inspection

Source on twitter

[luckydeuce]

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Red tail angels ❤️

[goodgarbs]

Fashion| The Brooklyn Circus Teams with Randolph to Pay Homage to Tuskegee Airmen in Special Capsule Collection

New York’s fashion and design powerhouse, The Brooklyn Circus, teams up with Maine’s premier aviator-glasses designer Randolph, for a special capsule collection. The limited series is a homage to the amazing history of the Tuskegee Airmen who infamously wore aviator glasses as if it was a part of the uniform. The Tuskegee Airmen, a group of Black pilots from the US Air Force, also known as the…

[kriegsnet]

Leucistic Red-Tailed Hawk. We've named her Lucy for short. Sony A7IV, 200-600mm G

[amazingdeadfish]

It's the Spookie Month

[cephalosaur]

Sonic Unleashed x Turning Red & Knuckles

[tornado1992]

A lot of Tails’ stuff being blue, most of Sonic’s belongings having a hint of yellow.