Gongol.com Archives: July 2021
July 24, 2021
Philosophically, the explosive growth of DIY publishing platforms like Substack is a great thing. But some lovely writers need to cut themselves off around the thousand-word mark. 3,500 words is too many, and profoundly too much for the screen.
Massive flooding far from the Zhengzhou disaster
If conditions are consistently like this throughout the 200 km in between, this is a magnitude of disaster that's hard to comprehend.
Maybe it fell off the back of a truck
A Soviet-era MiG on display at a museum indicates that "Its service history remains unknown"...which raises some questions about how it was retrieved in the first place. The US Air Force did have a special program for aircraft of Soviet origin flow by pilots trained to fly like Soviets. For obvious reasons, the program was kept secret.
