Yearly Archives: 2013

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Inordinately buff fitness trainer Frank Medrano shows off his calisthenics prowess – using his body weight rather than gym equipment as a form of resistance.

Consider this as you palm-mash that third Danish into your face-hole.

*sob*

awesomer/kotaku

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Scenes from today’s Flightfest over Dublin.

From top: A Ryanair Boeing B737-800 with ‘You’ll Never Beat D Irish’ on it’s belly; Irish Air Corps PC9s and CASAs; pics 2-4 Air Corp formation taken from either the Casa CN -235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft ( the large blue aircraft) or from Eagle 4, one of the Pilatus PC-9 (smaller twin seat grey aircraft) at the rear of the formation; Irish Air Corps PC9s and CASAs; Hawker Hunter and the F-86 Sabre and the A380 800, the worlds biggest passenger aircraft.

Meanwhile,

90313892-2herculesA Royal Airforce C-130 Hercules.

Was it for this?

Brendan writes:

The Royal Air Force C130 Hercules you have posted is in fact an Irish aircraft, owned by Air Contractors, HQ in Swords, Co. Dublin…..The hint is on the underside of the wing, the Irish registration EI-JIV (The only civillian Hercules in the EU).

 

Watch the B-17 Flying Fortress (Memphis Belle) here and the Catalina flying boat here

Thanks Jonathan Benn

Pix: Irish Air Corp and Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland, Wayne O’F and Oisín Kane.

sky3Name those aircraft anyone?

Pic: Wayne O’F

577904_10200624101705597_1396725329_nGrand Theft Auto V map overlayed on to a map of Dublin city.

Why the hell not.

James Butterly writes:

So being a bit of a gamer (understatement) and an even bigger nerd, I spent the best part of the morning designing a comparison map of GTA 5 and Dublin city.
GTA 5’s new map (Los Santos) is approx. 11km in height (North to South, as the crow flies) and is approx. 6km in width (East to West, as the crow flies).
So with this in mind, I went to google maps and searched the same distance in Kilometres and assessed that GTA 5’s map would fit into an area as North as the Airport, as East as the Docklands, as South as UCD and Terenure, and as west as Phoenix park. The result = BOOM!

 

James Butterly (Facebook)

Thanks Sean Smyth