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One of my first experiences with was trying to get a P-51 into the air after getting comfortable with the Cessna. There is no special reason for this beside that it simply was one of my first plane models I got as a child. It’s not like I did know anything about this plane or avionics at all. It simply looked good so I went with it.

And I failed miserable on my first try. The P-51 was build for war and has like nothing in common with the set of controls I started to get comfortable with. Not that I know much about avionics to begin with, I mean. Anyway, YouTube to my aid: There is a wonderful channel named “Kermit Weeks” that I stumbled over when looking for answers and I found em here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1Z-WEZZGM

After watching all three parts I finally managed to get one off the ground in – felt really good about it and… forgot about it again.

Until the YouTube algorithm decided to come back at me today and showed me https://animagraffs.com/how-a-p-51-mustang-works/ where it is explained in great detail how the P-51 Mustang actually works. There is a list of errata on the pinned comment on YouTube but after all this is a really high quality animated description of the plane and it’s workings.

I highly recommend to watch both pieces if you’ve only the slightest interest in planes or wartime history.

Get a fresh up close and personal look at the Steam Deck with Hellish Quart by Liam DaweLiam Dawe (gamingonlinux.com)
Want a really close view on the Steam Deck in action? Hellish Quart developer Kubold recently had a Steam Deck devkit delivered so they took a video. Can't say I had heard of Hellish Quart until seeing the video either. It's a physics based, realistic, 3D sword duelling game set in the 17th century ...

Oh wow. Why didn’t my bubble tell me about https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/01/get-a-fresh-up-close-and-personal-look-at-the-steam-deck-with-hellish-quart/ before?

That’s freakin awesome – for a game!

Thoughts on Novak Djokovic by an author (jayeless.net)
So I woke up this morning to the news that, after 11 days of legal conflict and confusing news reports, male tennis no. 1 Novak Djo­ko­vic has been deported. In my opinion, this whole issue has been a bit of a shit-show, and I feel like I still don’t fully understand quite how this has all gone ...

Thanks for the writeup. First time I really read about this incident at all (it’s sports and far far away so I didn’t care). And somehow I doubt I’d have read it anywhere else with your insights from our local media.