Flying boats are fixed-wing aircraft with hulls like boats, allowing them to land on water instsead of runways. Lakes, seas, reflecting pools, you name it.
In the early history of flight this kind of thing was popular because there were a lot of places without runways and airstrips, and a lot of those that did exist were too small to accomodate larger, long-distance airplanes. There were other advantages too - because their size wasn’t limited by the length of runways, they could be built to an impressive size, and had longer range than land-based airplanes. I imagine it was also comforting to be able to land safely on the water in case of mechanical problems.
I think my favorite flying boat is the Dornier Do X (pictured in the thumbnail) which was made in the 1920’s. In addition to seats for about a hundred passengers, its three decks contained an onboard kitchen, a dining room, multiple bathrooms, and a bar. Each nacelle on the top has two engines, for a total of twelve. There’s just something magnificent about it.
In the 21st century flying boats are quite rare, although there are a few models used for fighting wildfires. The CL-415 Super Scooper for example, can skim the surface of a lake or reservoir for a few seconds and take in more than six thousand liters of water without stopping!
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I hate people who go around spreading that they “used” to be trans. Like no, you’re either trans or you were confused. There is no way to resolve being trans. You didn’t have a “trans phase”. You’re a bumfuck cis person. Stop spreading this shit. It hurts trans people.
You know I had this thought a while ago that some of the worst perspectives on a topic are the people who are superficially close to but not in the group being talked about.
Sincere desisters/detransitioners feel a proximity to trans-ness through lived experience, but as you say, they are cis, their experience is fundamentally different.
I saw a similar thing where a feminine twink insisted he understood what trans women go through, because of the discrimination a feminine mans goes through, and no he doesn’t.
Personally for me I thought I was non-binary for a long time, but I wasn’t, I am a binary trans woman. I don’t go around using this to tell people what being non-binary is about. Because I wasn’t non-binary.
Also yes I was like “Oh baby-girl, is there maybe a deeper reason you might think you understand what a trans woman goes through?” just incase that helped crack anything.
And like yes, some of them are repressing or whatever, but a lot of them are also just straight up cissies.
Actually 90% of them openly state that there are external reasons for them detransitioning. An environment that’s too dangerous, medical complications, family, partners or a workplace that does not accept them. Nothing cis about that. The next biggest group are nonbinary trans people who used to think they’re binary trans and found out they do not want to be on HRT any longer.
There may be cases that do not fall into these categories, but they are very far from making up the majority. Most detransitioners are provably and by their own account still trans people. When somebody says they are ex trans, that does not coincidentally sound like somebody saying they are ex gay because Jesus healed them.
I’m not talking about the sum total of detransitioners, nor enbies. I’m talking about people who explicitly identify as cis. Who say things like “my trans phase” “when I was trans”. Plenty, probably most, of these people were not on hrt. I absolutely think if you were on a proper dose of hrt for like, call it 6+ months, and it didn’t make you feel terrible you’re clearly transsexual.
I am explicitly not talking about them. I am talking about people who identify as their agab and say they “used to be trans”. By their own account, that’s a cis person. Sure some of them are trans, and repressing, but some of them are just actual cis people. As they themselves identify.
Fertility, sure, but what else? Cis people don’t take cross sex hrt so I have never understood why trans people should stop hrt. It usually strikes me as a cis doctor abusing a trans patient.
While this is very niche, there’s not a lot of these people, their rhetoric is still extremely damaging. Actual cis people who claim they used to be trans, that it was all a phase they grew out of.
Mostly autoimmune diseases for estradiol HRT. It’s extremely rare that it gets so bad it outweighs hormonally transitioning from the patient’s perspective, i know several girls who have pretty severe autoimmune issues that got worse with starting HRT and they all say it’s still 100% worth it. But the absolutely tiny number of trans women who get such severe autoimmune issues that being on E is actually worse than living with the increased dysphoria is still orders of magnitude more common than a person who claims to be cis and to have had a trans phase.
Well duh, that’s my point. “Ex trans” is as real as “ex gay”. These people who claim to be cis and to have been trans are almost certainly not cis.
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