Chris Hadfield on Space Movies (new)

[Dave Hadfield]

If plastic is permissible, I still see Siren 17s around. They sell for very little, and are quite functional, though not eye-candy.

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[Dave Hadfield]

Brilliant!

[Dave Hadfield]

The floats add drag, but they also add lift. The type-certificate of the airplane usually adds an extra hundred pounds or two on the max gross weight...

[Dave Hadfield]

He is one of the instructors on Masterclass.

But you’re right. He’s a good guy to have a beer with....

[Dave Hadfield]

You may be right, Ian. Seems to me there was some interview in which he critiqued Gravity pretty heavily....

[Dave Hadfield]

I'm totally impartial, of course...

His perspective is unique -- he's been there, but also is a very successful writer of fiction, and...

[Dave Hadfield]

I had a super day yesterday. Much fun on the water.

We do this sort of thing best-in-the-world in Canada... although Alaska might have grounds...

[Dave Hadfield]

Biden has been solidly on both sides of every issue for the last 45 years.

It's actually wonderful to see such constancy.

You...

[Dave Hadfield]

Who cares? He was an actor.

Not a doer.

[Dave Hadfield]

It was a ten-second google search. Or if using Wikipedia: maybe 11 seconds.

Nothing Could Be Simpler! Waffen SS!

Information...

[Dave Hadfield]

Excellent.

Thread Drift: Can't wait to go to Siberia to see a Wooly Mammoth, on a mammal-influenced steppe.

Pleistocene Park...

[Dave Hadfield]

No lawyers should be given any more respect than plumbers.

Ever.

And if they are really, really, really effective lawyers, --...

[Dave Hadfield]

Excellent.

Almost no Canadians know that we had 11 squadrons of Spitfires -- Spitfires alone! -- in the RCAF at the end of WW2....

[Dave Hadfield]

A helmet-cam clip from Sunday's flying at AeroGatineau.

For once I remembered to tap the camera hard-right.



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[Dave Hadfield]

I built a Phil Bolger Elegant Punt, and used it as a dinghy for several years. It's very simple, yet rows well. Building it could hardly be simpler....

[Dave Hadfield]

Make sure it isn't just wax. My ear canals are always plugging-up.

[Dave Hadfield]

With the greatest respect, medals awarded 60 years late are likely to have been actuated by topical concerns.

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[Dave Hadfield]

It's a back-to-basics, commune-with nature, re-establish-yourself, anti-establishment experience.

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[Dave Hadfield]

10, at the moment....