Avtozilla: November 2019

Saturday, November 30, 2019

Spotted...cars in Moscow: Tupolev Tu-104

[Correction: this is not a Tu-104, it's a Tu-124, a smaller version].

Here is a Tupolev Tu-104 displayed at entry to the bridge over the river Volga at Kimry, somewhere in Russia.

Per wikipedia, The Tupolev Tu-104 was a twinjet medium-range narrow-body turbojet-powered Soviet airliner.

It was the second to enter in regular service and was the only jetliner operating in the world from 1956 to 1958 when Boeing finally came up with its first flying contraption of a jetliner.

In 1957, Czechoslovak Airlines – ČSA, (now Czech Airlines) became the first airline in the world to fly a route exclusively with jet airliners, using the Tu-104A variant between Prague and Moscow. In civil service, the Tu-104 carried over 90 million passengers with Aeroflot (then the world's largest airline), and a lesser number with ČSA.

Spotted...cars in Moscow: Tupolev Tu-104: [Correction: this is not a Tu-104, it's a Tu-124, a smaller version]. Here is a Tupolev Tu-104 displayed at entry to the bridge over ...

Wednesday, November 27, 2019

Pro Rally 2001 Intro

Redneck engineering

Redneck engineering. pic.twitter.com/TKEOglhWrV
— Only in America (@Crazzyintheusa) November 27, 2019

Old Arbat Street, Moscow, Walking the Arbat on May 05 2017

2008 Ford Sony 6CD Car Radio

Saturday, November 23, 2019

Spotted...cars in Moscow: Striped Train (3rd Trainset) - Moscow Metro Named Train

Here is the Striped Train (3rd Trainset), one of the Moscow Metro's trains named and decorated to commemorate or highlight an event or issue.

The Striped Train is the third striped trainset and highlights Amur tiger preservation I think.

It was spotted and ridden on on November 11, 2019.

Interior.

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Thursday, November 21, 2019

Japan Police Parade - 平成31年警視庁年頭部隊出動訓練

Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Elon Musk: Man Who Pollutes

'Man who polluted heavens': Astronomers furious over Musk's Starlink satellites clouding their vision — RT World News

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk seeks to make the world happy with his Starlink project providing satellite Internet access. So far, he only managed to make astronomers across the world upset by rendering their telescopes blind.
The billionaire who also positions himself as philanthropist and innovator has recently set himself a goal of bringing high speed internet to the most remote corners of the earth with a network of thousands of small satellites he plans to put on the low-earth orbit. The ambitious plan involves sending a whopping 12,000 devices into space to form a satellite constellation as part of the project Starlink.
That is not the final number, though, as SpaceX has entered into negotiations with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) reportedly seeking to get permission to fly another 30,000 Starlink satellites, bringing their total number to 42,000. That is roughly 20 times more than the number of operational satellites currently in orbit.

Thanks, Elon