I’m easing into the July 4th weekend myself. So there’s no overarching theme here, other than: America!
“Grayhounds of the Sea”, a history of U.S. Navy destroyers, narrated by none other than Mr. Jack Webb.
Ordnance Lab builds a replica of the Syrian Hell Cannon Mortar. This is part 1: as far as I can tell, they haven’t posted part 2 yet. (The Wuhan Flu probably has something to do with that. But it looks like they’ve been doing stuff recently with the Roomba-Boomba.)
“Ten Years To Remember”. This is a promo film from the Martin Company (which later merged and became Martin Marietta, and even later on merged again and became Lockheed Martin) from 1964, covering ten years of rocket development.
1972 NASA promo film for Skylab. I’ve always been kind of partial to Skylab.
I was only going to do three, but this one popped up, and it is short: a tribute to Robin Olds from AirForceTV.
Tomorrow: things blow up real good.