The Hurricane!

I Was Going To Go With "The Hurricane - DEATH FROM ABOVE!"
But this might be considered a tad tasteless, given the extreme weather conditions prevalent in South Canada and the Phillipines at present, these being actual hurricanes, rather than the one I meant, which is the Hawker version, if Art will provide?

A bigger bang

     There you go.  This is the MkIID, a variant of the humble yet heroic Hurricane that was armed with two 40mm cannon, and which prowled the skies above North Africa during the Second Unpleasantness, looking for enemy tanks.  Since they attacked from above, where a tank's armour is weakest, they used to open up panzers like tins of dog food.  Indeed, No. 6 Squadron, who originally flew these anti-tank guns with wings, still have a tin-opener as their squadron mascot.

Check the tail

     Nowadays they fly Typhoons, not Hurricanes, though you can see the theme of <ahem> Not-Very-Alive From Above is still there.
     "Okay, now we are better-educated about Perfidious Albion's flying mallets - what brought this on?" I hear you asking.
     I thought you'd never ask!  An article on the Beeb's webpage, which is a bit of a puff-piece on the film called "Hurricane", again about the aircraft.  They mention a Czech pilot flying with a Polish squadron - our old chums of Number 303 again - who was a holy terror in the skies, and the highest-scoring ace Perfidious Albion had during the Battle of Britain: Josef Frantisek.  And herein the link:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45516556

     Of course, if you've been reading BOOJUM! then you'll know we've covered this stuff in detail ages ago, just not as reverentially.  In fact:

https://comsatangel2002.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-bottle-of-britain.html

     Another link for you.  How fortunate you readers are!

Heh.

     Time to tie the motley to the very end of a wind turbine blade and see how long before it gets motion sickness!

"Foundation and Empire" By Isaac Asimov
Your humble scribe is now into the second volume of Ol' Ises 'Foundation' trilogy (for I shall ignore anything with the "F" word in the title that came after, as being mere fiscal finagling frippery).  The old Empire is fading, being challenged subtly by the ascendant Foundation - Art?

Yeah, that sort of thing.

     I believe that Ol' Ise based his premise upon the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.  Unlike most of you, Conrad has actually read Gibbon's "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" and Ol' Ed's central contention held that it was Christianity what done for the Imperial Romans.  Can't see anything similar transpiring in F&E, but we shall see.
    Okay, I have now got most of my large-format books arranged in alphabetical order in the big upright bookcase.  This gave me a sense of satisfaction on completion.
    However, it is staggeringly dull stuff for the rest of you, so - no photos and that's it done with. 

Egad!  What a frightful sight!

"The Rockford Files: The Man Who Saw The Alligators"
This was an interesting one.  It clocks in at nearly an hour and a quarter, a lot longer than a normal episode, which was done for production reasons: torrential rain whilst filming on location severely hampered the shoot, so the producers expanded the running time, which balanced the books.  They had to shoot extra scenes, which is why you get a lot of the nominal bad guy, Anthony Gagglio, played by George Loros.  Art?

George at starboard

     Very unusually, Mr. Gagglio is a returning villain, who blames Jim Rockford for getting shot in an episode several years earlier.  This shooting injury causes him chronic liver trouble, and he gets parole early, determined to track down Jim and do him in.  Erk!
     Part of the character's appeal is his utter disgust at the Californian lifestyle, landscape, climate, cuisine and neighbourhoods; all the complete opposite of his comfort zone (Brooklyn, NY).  
     Sorry, no alligators.

"I feel so - so - cheated."

Finally -
Because we need another short article to get up to count, I thought I would wheel in the big guns, or a big gun.  A metaphorical one, we've already had big enough ones hanging off aircraft.  Art?

Super-spud?

     This is the world's biggest potato, it being 8 lb 4 oz and no, you don't get a metric equivalent, Imperial measurements all the way with BOOJUM! - all it takes is a millimetre here and a decilitre there and the next thing you know the entire British Empire is on it's knees -
     Where was I?  O yes.  A giant potato.  Knock yourself out.

Actually that reminds of of "The Tale Of The Turnip", from that splendid collection of Sinister-era sci-fi short stories by - 

Perhaps another day.
Later!