Author: v1904

Julian Alvarez is revelling in his partnership with Erling Haaland in Manchester City’s attack. The Argentinian World Cup winner continued his strong start to the season with two goals as the holders began their Champions League title defence with a comfortable 3-1 win over Red Star Belgrade on Tuesday. An injury for Kevin De Bruyne has seen Alvarez handed a run of games in support of prolific centre forward Haaland and it is a role he is relishing. “I am very happy with the goals, to help the team,” the 23-year-old said. “We are doing well, we are winning –…

In an era of increasing global instability and the ever-evolving landscape of defense requirements, the quest for the perfect blend of capability and cost has sparked a burgeoning market for civil helicopters adapted to meet multi-mission military needs. Bell, drawing upon its extensive expertise in civil, para-public, and military helicopter realms, is rising to the challenge with its Special Missions Aircraft (SMA) initiative. Bell’s SMA aircraft are distinguishable by the “M” designation appended to their model numbers. One standout contender in this innovative lineup is the 407M, a sibling of the legendary OH-58 light attack and reconnaissance aircraft. The 407M…

As the nation recovers from a night of unbridled revelry with sore heads being reported across the land, these images of some animals, who themselves appear to have over-indulged may provide some respite from headaches and dehydration. The photographs include a list of domestic and wild animals in the most adorable poses including a cat looking quite ill on a toilet and a polar bear leaning headfirst into a bucket. There is even a little monkey who looks as if he has consumed the contents of a party pack of strong lager. Video: Baby elephant tries his darndest to wake…

If you’re often losing your car in the supermarket car park, how about this? A McLaren MP4-12C has become the world’s fastest piece of artwork after a tuning firm gave it a £90,000 multi-coloured makeover. The British-built supercar, which retails at £175,000, normally comes in more traditional hues such as blue, black, silver or white. But a German tuning company – a workshop that specialises in souping up cars – has taken the idea of ‘pimping your ride’ to the extreme. Inspired by the classic BMW Art Cars of the 1970s, Hamann Motorsport has transformed the 12C, built in Woking,…

Everyone sings the praises of the A-10 Thunderbolt II, and rightly so. There’s something that’s eternally cool about a military attack jet that’s built more around its cannon than its wings or engine. But we need to stop pretending they’re invincible superplanes that bounce off tank shells like they’re made of silicone. Plenty of people have done an exemplary job explaining why the A-10 isn’t nearly as good as you think it is. Go check out LazerPig’s two-part series on YouTube about the A-10 if you want to learn more. But for right now, we’d like to direct your attention…

Aston Martin has unveiled the production version of its new £700,000 217mph plug-in hybrid petrol-electric Valhalla supercar. And as befits a car that appears in a 007 movie – it is living proof of the James Bond edict that ‘You Only Live Twice’. For while Aston’s new bosses say the new Valhalla has ‘evolved’ from the original concept of two years ago, in essence they have gone back to the drawing board to re-design and re-engineer the original prototype from top to bottom to ensure they could turn the original dream into a practical reality that also makes money. Video:…

A squadron of foreign fighter jets have rattled Sydneysiders’ windows after they tore across the sky on Tuesday. The eight jets, which form the Republic Of Korea Air Force’s (ROKAF) Black Eagles aerobatic team and are known for their distinctive black, white and yellow paint, zipped over the city on Tuesday around midday. Those in Sydney’s CBD and Northern Beaches reported hearing a loud roar as the jets flew across the sky in unison. The aircraft are in Australia ahead of the Australian International Airshow which begins next month at Victoria’s Avalon Airport. The Black Eagles are one of the…

The Air Force wants the highly-efficient blended wing body demonstrator, which could inform various future projects, to be flying by 2027. The U.S. Air Force says it has picked aviation startup JetZero to design and build a full-size demonstrator aircraft with a blended wing body, or BWB, configuration. The goal is for the aircraft, which has already received the informal moniker XBW-1, to be flying by 2027. Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall made the announcement about JetZero’s selection at an event today hosted by the Air & Space Forces Association. The service hopes this initiative will offer a…

The Ford Mustang GTD borrows technologies from the Mustang GT3 race car. Just a day after it leaked online, the limited-edition Ford Mustang GTD has been unveiled as the ultimate road-going version of the beloved pony car. Ford says it was born from the concept of the Mustang GT3 which will race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans next year and will sit at the very top of the Mustang family. The Mustang GTD is a track-focused street car in the purest sense. It takes technology directly from the GT3 race car and Ford says it is targeting a…

Update – September 19, 2023: The crash site of the Lockheed Martin F-35B Lightning II that went missing over South Carolina on September 17, 2023 has been located – and its produced more questions than answers. Among them is whether the aircraft had actually been left on autopilot after the pilot ejected. According to new reports, the F-35B was one of two that took off from Joint Base Charleston on the afternoon of September 17. Just after 2:00 PM, one of the pilots ejected, landing via parachute into a residential backyard in north Charleston. While it was initially thought that…

The incredible moment a carpet python hanging from a roof devoured a giant possum has been caught on camera. Stuart McKenzie from Sunshine Coast Snake Catchers was called to collect a large python from a Mooloolaba backyard, north of Brisbane, on Wednesday morning. He arrived to find it hanging from a gutter with a possum halfway down its throat. Video: Massive Python Eats Possum In Backyard Mr McKenzie shared the photos on Facebook and told Daily Mail Australia it was a fully-grown ringtail possum. ‘The python was about two metres long and took nearly an hour to eat the possum,’…

The beautiful model only started playing golf two years ago but has a huge fanbase with 1.4million Instagram followers who are regularly treated to her raunchy pictures. Gorgeous OnlyFans model Bri Teresi is promising to ‘make golf sexy again’ with her mixture of revealing sports attire and hardly there bikini snaps. The 28-year-old has followed the likes of Paige Spiranac into the golf influencer world after first taking to the course in October 2020. The gorgeous blonde has a thriving OnlyFans page which has accumulated over 182,000 likes and she has appeared in the likes of FHM, GQ and Maxim.…

The Italians are at it again with another rare breed of hypercar. Enter the Corbellati Missile, and they’re not joking with the name here, it really is a missile. Unveiled at the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, Corbaletti’s new hypercar is designed for ultimate performance, delivering us some ludicrously huge numbers, with the intention of becoming ‘the fastest hypercar in the world’. To achieve this rather bold statement, they’ve dropped in a… shall we say… massive, 9.0-litre twin-turbo, quad-cam V8 onto its carbon fibre chassis. The motor discharges a claimed 1,800bhp and a staggering 2,350Nm of torque to the rear wheels…

Erling Haaland, the Manchester City striker, recently shared his perspective on the attribute he admires most in his Ballon d’Or competitor, Lionel Messi, during an interview with L’Equipe. In the interview, Haaland was posed with the question, “If you could choose one quality from another player, what would it be and from whom?” The Norwegian striker’s response was candid: “I wish I had Messi’s dribbling. It’s quite a good choice, isn’t it? (laughs)” Haaland engaged in this conversation as part of his interview with the French newspaper, conducted in anticipation of the upcoming Ballon d’Or award ceremony, where he stands…

This buffalo shows just how fierce a mother’s love can be – as she fought off 14 lions who were devouring her calf. The distraught parent had to watch as the lions brought down her baby, but rather than turning to run, she charged back to see them off in Kruger National Park, South Africa. As the hungry predators repeatedly tried to reach their kill, the mother drove them back again and again. She was then joined by four members of her heard to mourn the calf by licking and cleaning it. Only after nearly an hour did the buffalo…

Alfa Romeo has unveiled its last ever combustion-engined supercar – and it’s an absolute stunner. Called the 33 Stradale, the long-awaited two-door performance machine has been in development for the last two years and pays homage to the Italian brand’s iconic cars from the 1960s sharing the same name. With prices starting in the region of £1.7million, it won’t be cheap. In fact, it’s the most expensive Alfa Romeo of all time. But that won’t matter to you and me, because we can’t have one. Video: Alfa Romeo 33 Stradale is its last combustion supercar That’s because only 33 examples…

The Norwegian football star Erling Braut Haaland is famous for his extraordinary physical strength and height, with which he stands out on the green. But when African basketball giant Mamadou N’Diaye asked him for a joint photo after the match with West Ham (3:1) and then published it on the social network, he presented the Scandinavian in a completely different light. The photo made the world laugh, also because of Haaland’s “dwarf” teammate Bernando Silva. In recent days, a viral photo has been circulating around the world showing the very tall basketball player Mamadou N’Diaye and three football stars of…

The Hughes XF-11 was a prototype reconnaissance aircraft intended to be operated by the US Army Air Forces (USAAF). It was partially designed by Howard Hughes, and his company built just two units. In 1943, the USAAF ordered 100, but the program was delayed until the end of the Second World War. The first XF-11 took to the skies in 1946, with Hughes himself in the cockpit. This flight ended in a fiery crash, which Hughes somehow managed to survive. He later completed another test in the second prototype. The program was ultimately canceled, something that didn’t come as a…

The B-52 Bomber is one amazing bomber. She is old, she should, in fact not even be flying as she was created in the 1950s. And yet, the old B-52 Stratofortress could somehow serve close to 100 years if new engines and other upgrades keep the old bomber flying. Here we present the latest coverage of the B-52 and 16 amazing photos that will show you why this bomber is so respected: Sticker shock has struck most anyone in recent weeks who has filled up their car’s gas tank or walked the aisles of a grocery store. Inflation continues to…

Not long after Tesla put a yoke steering wheel in the Model S and X in 2021, Lexus showed one in the debut of its first EV, the RZ450e. But the RZ has been on sale for a year or so now, and yet there’s still no sign of the yoke. It turns out the company isn’t yet satisfied with the tuning of this very different steering setup. This is noteworthy because Lexus actually made changes to make the yoke work, such as limiting steering travel to eliminate hand-over-hand maneuvers, as opposed to Tesla’s approach which didn’t include any changes…

In January 1964, a Boeing B-52H Stratofortress embarked on an eight-hour flight load survey to test buffeting turbulence effects at low-levels. When this turbulence became too much, the bomber climbed to a higher altitude, where disaster struck. Missing its tail and in what should have been a deadly situation, the B-52H and its crew survived. Despite having the makings of a horrible disaster, this incident showcased the bomber’s design and the skill of the men onboard. A routine test flight After the B-52H Stratofortress embarked on its flight from Wichita, Kansas to the Rocky Mountains, its crew began their test,…

For the twelfth time in recent memory, military documents have been leaked to the public via the War Thunder forum – this time, regarding the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk. The stealth attack aircraft’s flight manual was posted by a user, and it included a lot of details about its design. The leak was confirmed to Task & Purpose by Konstantin Govorun, head of public relations for Gaijin Entertainment, which developed the game. “Our moderators quickly nuked the post, deleted the files and banned the user,” he told the publication. Allegedly, the post to the War Thunder forum featured the flight manual…

A Nebraska woman who was born with a double uterus was shocked to discover that she was pregnant in both of them at the same time — but the pregnancy would not go smoothly, and she went into early labor at just 22.5 weeks gestation. Megan Phipps, 24, was born with uterine didelphys, a rare condition in which a woman has two uteruses, and sometimes even a cervix for each. The condition hadn’t been an issue in her previous two pregnancies, which happened on her right side — but earlier this year, she discovered that she was pregnant with twins,…

Let’s get ready to tumble! Erling Haaland celebrated his latest blast of fame by re-living one of the Prem’s most notorious moments of shame. The Manchester City striker recreated Paolo Di Canio pushing late referee Paul Alcock to the ground 25 years ago to the month – as the infamous Italian culprit looked on in the stands at his old club West Ham. Fellow City scorer Bernardo Silva shoved Haaland – with the Norwegian tumbling backwards to the ground just like Alcock did. The pair wore huge grins – unlike the ref in September 1998. Alcock was ridiculed amid suggestions…