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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1800 on: August 30, 2017, 10:45:59 PM »
Ever wondered what the view is like from the jump seat of the Mk.I Bristol Blenheim?!



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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1801 on: August 31, 2017, 01:10:41 AM »
Cool pic!  I don't think the iPad Mini was original equipment, though! :D

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1802 on: August 31, 2017, 02:10:46 AM »
Cool pic!  I don't think the iPad Mini was original equipment, though! :D

Yeah, all pilots were issued them after the Android tablets proved incompatible with the RAF flight control systems... ;) ;D  The Luftwaffe on the other hand had no problems and used multiple Android run systems...much t the detriment of their supply chain. ;D.
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« Reply #1803 on: September 02, 2017, 08:39:01 AM »
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« Reply #1804 on: September 03, 2017, 07:30:46 AM »
Just plain beautiful :-* :-*
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« Reply #1805 on: September 03, 2017, 08:23:47 PM »
The is ISS Expedition 52 Soyuz capsule during and moments after landing. Please note there are still 3 humans stuffed inside this BBQ'd sardine can.



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« Reply #1806 on: September 05, 2017, 03:30:10 AM »
Photo's from RIAT 2017 by Hesja Air-Art Photography





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« Reply #1807 on: September 05, 2017, 04:06:58 AM »
Thunder Over Michigan 2017



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« Reply #1808 on: September 05, 2017, 05:53:50 PM »
Or Market-Garden. ;)
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« Reply #1809 on: September 07, 2017, 08:09:22 AM »
Chris Hernandez, sector vice president of research, technology and engineering at Northrop Grumman Corp., is photographed in his Redondo Beach office. (Jay L. Clendenin / Los Angeles Times).

Note the various models.



Full Article can be found here: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-himi-hernandez-20170903-htmlstory.html and an article just on the models here: http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/14058/this-northrop-grumman-exec-has-some-very-interesting-airplane-models-on-his-desk
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« Reply #1810 on: September 08, 2017, 01:00:12 AM »
Foo fighters secret revealed?  ;)
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« Reply #1811 on: September 09, 2017, 05:24:40 AM »
This just doesn't look right...

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« Reply #1812 on: September 09, 2017, 06:48:23 AM »
Yep sure doesn't look right :o
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« Reply #1813 on: September 09, 2017, 05:13:35 PM »
Pilot's got everything hangin' out to slow her down! :smiley:
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« Reply #1814 on: September 10, 2017, 03:38:56 AM »
Keeping to a theme, it could get interesting if the last was combined with this one:

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« Reply #1815 on: September 10, 2017, 07:01:34 AM »
Golf can be important ;)
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« Reply #1816 on: September 10, 2017, 07:08:45 AM »
I'm guessing it was his best game ever and he wasn't going to quit.
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« Reply #1817 on: September 10, 2017, 08:49:52 AM »
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« Reply #1818 on: September 10, 2017, 06:17:02 PM »
Keeping to a theme, it could get interesting if the last was combined with this one:



I really hope that's photo-shopped because, if it isn't, they're all bloody idiots! >:D
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« Reply #1819 on: September 12, 2017, 08:42:43 AM »
September 11/17: L-3 Communications will move forward external link with migrating the US Air Force’s EC-130H Compass Call equipment to a Gulfstream 550 Conformal Airborne Early Warning (CAEW) aircraft, after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) turned down a protest from rivals Boeing and Bombardier last month.

The Compass Call “crossdeck” program (EC-X), will transition mission equipment from the USAF’s existing fleet of Lockheed Martin EC-130H aircraft, which serves as a communications eavesdropper and jammer for the service, onto new Gulfstream business jets.

A service spokesperson said that a final agreement with L-3 on contract terms, specifications and price of the undefinitised contract action (UCA) is still pending.



Moving Compass Call onto this sort of platform follows the U.S. Navy’s plan to replace its old NP-3D “Billboard” aircraft with a new plane using the Gulfstream G550 special mission design, which some have referred to as the NC-37B. These aircraft monitor missile tests and conduct other research, as well as keep an eye for unwanted visitors over the testing grounds.



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« Reply #1820 on: September 13, 2017, 12:17:09 AM »
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« Reply #1821 on: September 13, 2017, 04:05:01 AM »
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« Reply #1822 on: September 13, 2017, 04:09:03 AM »
Next car purchase for Bill (finsrin):

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« Reply #1823 on: September 13, 2017, 12:35:06 PM »
The very cool '57Bug certainly looks more threatening than the F-35 manned target  8) 8)
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« Reply #1824 on: September 13, 2017, 07:29:29 PM »
Antonov An-12 in Cavok Air livery

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