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Showcasing two fun components of the new BrickArms M2HB China Machine Gun. What I really like is how Will incorporated not only a ton of detail into each, but includes more than a few ways for each part to connect to other parts.

Arlen Ness’ Untitled

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People in the know call Arlen Ness “Godfather,” not because he makes offers you can’t refuse, but as a sign of respect for his accomplishments throughout a long and storied career. He is the patriarch of the custom motorcycle industry.

Back in “the day,” circa 1970 BC (Before Catalogs), when choppers were still the homespun products of some local dude with a torch, a hacksaw, a drill press, and a rattle can of flat black paint, Arlen Ness was going for baroque. He gold-plated parts, adorned the aluminum fascia of drive-train components with ornate engravings, and applied wild splashes of Peter Max-inspired color to the sheet metal. Plush, velour upholstery adorned his seats. If Arlen thought he could squeeze more than one motor into a frame, he would. It was nearly routine—at least for Arlen Ness—to cram two supercharged, Ironhead Sportster engines into a single frame where they would cuddle up to produce ungodly heaps of horsepower.

These eccentric-looking machines were hallmarks of early 1970s chopper style. Ness was one of the first builders to embrace the extravagant hippie counterculture that blossomed in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place Ness calls home. Some of his motorcycles from this period look like psychedelic props from a Jefferson Airplane album cover, or as if King Louis XIV of France had commissioned an eighteenth-century, rococo rocket sled to go tooling around the Palace of Versailles. Ness combined “flower power” with horsepower to create motorcycles that defined an era. He is still setting the pace for younger builders.

Boeing 747-400, Lufthansa, D-ABVM, landing on Runway 19 L. SFO. 747

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Lufthansa 747-400, having landed safely, going basically South by South-west down Runway 19 L, at SFO. Thrust reversers are operating. All the way from Germany, possibly, or possibly they cleared customs in Chicago, or Toronto, re-boarded and now here they are. Or arrived from the mysterious West- Japan, China, Singapore, Australia, etc.

Its tricky, the shorter runways that seem to be athwart the Bay, well, they’re Runways 19 (coming in from the East Bay) and Runways 1 (O-N-E) coming from the Peninsula and over the BART station before landing. So
013 magnetic, 027 true and
193 magnetic, 207 true. Again, 27 degrees off a true North – South play. North by North-east for "1" and South by South-West for "19". That’s pretty counter intuitive.

And the runway that’s parallel to to the Bay, more or less, is runways 28 L & R going toward San Bruno Mountain, 10 L & R heading down to the San Mateo Bridge. It seems like it should be North and South, but those are unadjusted magnetic headings, not aligned to True North, so they turn out to be
103 magnetic, 117 true
283 magnetic, 297 true, 27 real degrees away from real East and West. More like West by North-west and East by South-east. So there’s some North/South component, but they’re really more E-W than N-S.

And it explains why the sun isn’t shining straight onto the side of planes taking off on runways 28 L or R- They’re pointed West of North-west. On the Solstice, that’s only 4 degrees north of straight into the sunset!

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Cropped and centered.