Grumman LLV
Apr. 13th, 2022 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
palusbuteoSo....This popped up on my YT new videos feed a few minutes ago.
https://youtu.be/y3g2p4KKS74
There's....Some stuff I'm still processing and some of the stuff the narrator talked about with nostalgia and the "time" this vehicle occupies in (my) childhood/lifetime) kida hit me upside the head in a way I wasn't expecting but can't articulate at the moment.
Maybe will talk more about it later.
I mean, yeah, I admit I've had a sort of fascination with the mail truck since childhood and have had my bouts of curiosity of what it's like to sit in the driver's seat and see what the driver sees (as I also have a fascination with aircraft cockpits for similar reasons)
It's just kinda odd-funny that such a <i>simple bare-bones utility vehicle</i> exists as it does but yet considering what the vehicle has "witnessed" in its years and well beyond the time it was supposed to "end" / be retired from service, yet, still putters on.
(something to be said about Grumman engineering and design ethos from the 1930s to 1990s. Could be worth it's own specialized discipline in a History degree)
Or maybe because I watched this a few minutes before midnight, well past my bedtime, and my brain is doing that over-analysis thing.
Also maybe not entirely related I found myself searching and watching some videos of people playing MicroProse computer games that date back to 1988 - 1994, one or two I played and were firmly cemented in my childhood.
And a couple of songs that came up on the XM satellite radio from around the same time period mentioned above.
So brain is doing a lot of processing and analysis.
https://youtu.be/y3g2p4KKS74
There's....Some stuff I'm still processing and some of the stuff the narrator talked about with nostalgia and the "time" this vehicle occupies in (my) childhood/lifetime) kida hit me upside the head in a way I wasn't expecting but can't articulate at the moment.
Maybe will talk more about it later.
I mean, yeah, I admit I've had a sort of fascination with the mail truck since childhood and have had my bouts of curiosity of what it's like to sit in the driver's seat and see what the driver sees (as I also have a fascination with aircraft cockpits for similar reasons)
It's just kinda odd-funny that such a <i>simple bare-bones utility vehicle</i> exists as it does but yet considering what the vehicle has "witnessed" in its years and well beyond the time it was supposed to "end" / be retired from service, yet, still putters on.
(something to be said about Grumman engineering and design ethos from the 1930s to 1990s. Could be worth it's own specialized discipline in a History degree)
Or maybe because I watched this a few minutes before midnight, well past my bedtime, and my brain is doing that over-analysis thing.
Also maybe not entirely related I found myself searching and watching some videos of people playing MicroProse computer games that date back to 1988 - 1994, one or two I played and were firmly cemented in my childhood.
And a couple of songs that came up on the XM satellite radio from around the same time period mentioned above.
So brain is doing a lot of processing and analysis.
