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Yuri Gagarin in Mexico (1963)

In the scene in The Incredibles where Helen (Elastagirl) is flying the plane, her use of radio protocol is exceptionally accurate for a movie. The terminology used hints that she has had military flight training. In the director’s commentary Brad Bird says that actress Holly Hunter insisted on learning both the lingo and its meaning.

“VFR on top” means she is flying in the regime of Visual Flight Rules ‘on top’ of a cloud cover.

She requests “vectors to the initial”, or directions on how to get to the initial landing approach.

“Angels 10” is her altitude call, ten thousand feet. This is a military term. Civilian flights use the term “flight level”.

“Track east” is her direction of travel.

“Buddy spike(d)” is a US military brevity code meaning “friendly anti-aircraft radar has locked on to me, (please don’t shoot)”.

“Transmitting in the Blind Guard” is a call on the emergency frequency where 2-way communication has not been established.

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"Thanks to my new sword," said the student.

The swordmaster studied the blade and frowned. "This is enchanted?"

"You know about cursed swords that whisper that you should kill?"

"Yes?"

"This tells me I'm loved and valid."

At the 1985 Labour party meet, the motion to support LGBT rights as a party was passed due to a block vote from mining unions.

Two weeks ago, we were partying with friends and friendly strangers at our favourite bar, The Avro in Queen Street East. The cupcake-laden, beer-doused evening was organized to launch THE GOOD BIKE PROJECT publication and film, and to bring together everyone who helped us realize that city-wide neon vision. The publication is a self published wrap-up designed by the talented Andy Callahan. Its pages include photos, press excerpts, write-ups for each of THE GOOD BIKE PROJECT’s sixty painted bikes and an essay on our experience as artists on a politically charged project. The film, which was produced by The Public Assembly, is just plain awesome. We’re so thankful to have footage from that crazy, wonderful summer that connected us with so many amazing, community-minded people in Toronto. Things certainly felt cosy at The Avro, and we’d like to thank the bar’s dynamic duo, Bruce and Rachel, for hosting us that night and for taking such good care of us always. Cheers again to everyone who came out to our party, and to all of those who lent their hands and hearts to THE GOOD BIKE PROJECT! *** FYI, the publication is available for sale at the OCAD U Student Gallery (and will soon also be available at Art Metropole). 

The BoingBoing featured mentioned in the essay caused the very first Good Bike post (by Caroline on May 31, 2011, "Re-Cycling" [link below]) to reappear in one of @mostlysignssomeportent's "Object Permanence" post recently, which rounds up posts from X years ago on this day.

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