Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...

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And off we go on another train of thought.

Andrew Plummer @AndrewPPhotos

An impressive Western line up. Old Oak Common, 2nd September 2017.

Great archive of trains.
I have been watching the Hornby Model Empire show in TV over the last month or so down here in Aus. I now know more about British Trains than I ever did. Been a wonderful show, not only does it cover the design and production of the Hornby brand, but also Airfix, Scaletrix and Corgi.

[Kerick]

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I just have ask, what are the sensor/saucepans on the sides in front of the horizontal stabilizers?

[Jeffry Fontaine]

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I just have ask, what are the sensor/saucepans on the sides in front of the horizontal stabilizers?

Directional Infrared Counter Measures (DIRCM).  It resembles a FLIR ball in that it can rotate and it is intended to jam IR guided missiles.
Something more on the subject at this Wiki link: Directional Infrared Counter Measures

[raafif]

this is the front of a rail-magazine editor's business card.

Believe it's the line-up of the surviving locomotives of one class at a festival.

[The Big Gimper]

Nice image showing the aircraft taking part in Sentry Savannah. Some interesting black T-38s and, on the left hand side of the shot, middle row, The Black Jet. More details about the F-117 at Sentry Savannah here:

https://theaviationist.com/2022/05/04/f-117-sentry-savannah/
and here:
https://theaviationist.com/2022/05/09/f-117-georgia-video/

[The Big Gimper]

82 Squadron RAF  Mosquito on operations against the Japanese in Burma. Fl/Lt A. G. McKenzie, RAAF, of Norseman, WA (centre), and 'his' navigator, F/O Alf Newman, RAF of Dunstable, Bedfordshire, England, and 'Basher' the dog. Kumbhirgram, Assam, India. 7 January 1945.  AWM SEA0091

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...Some interesting black T-38s and, ...

Apparently, some units with pretty special primary airplanes like U-2, F-22 or B-52 also have some black T-38 for some training where the expense of using the primary type is not justified.

[GTX_Admin]

Its interesting to see these in full high resolution colour so as to give a real feel for what it must have looked like in the 1940s rather than the typical black and white photos:




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[Small brown dog]

Its interesting to see these in full high resolution colour so as to give a real feel for what it must have looked like in the 1940s rather than the typical black and white photos:

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To add to that then and now thing...

Hawker Hurricane Mk.I V7497
Genuine BoB veteran I caught at Duxford September 2021

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[The Big Gimper]

Diorama time. Should be done in 1/48 or larger. 

This 1944 photo is of factory-fresh Corsairs and Hellcats being prepared to be shipped to the Pacific.

Is this a NAS Moffat, NAS Santa Ana or NAS Tillamook hanger? Or another.

[GTX_Admin]

Diorama time. Should be done in 1/48 or larger. 

After you good sir...

[Kerick]

Ok boys, we’re going to run up the engines on all these aircraft at the same time!

[The Big Gimper]

USS Missouri (left) and Iowa (right) prepare landing parties to Japan following the cessation of hostilities, taken August 20th, 1945. Note Missouri is easily identifiable by the quad 40 mount atop B turret, which is trained sharply to port.

Taken prior to the formal surrender, Missouri transfers crew to her sister in preparation for going ashore. With both ships sporting the latest in armament and radar suites, aircraft have not been neglected either; an SC-1 Seahawk can be seen on each of Missouri's catapults.

Note Iowa does not have a 40mm atop B turret due to her role as fleet flagship; the addition of such a tall mounting would obscure the vision of the lower levels of the heightened conning tower. As such, only single 20mm mountings have been placed there.

From the From the US Naval Archive [3000x2478]: https://bit.ly/3M7uA5K

[The Big Gimper]

An F-102A flaunting its unique "removeable" inflight refueling probe (yup, that shining piping there). The probe was used predominantly during ferrying or for overseas deployments.

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[Kerick]

An F-102A flaunting its unique "removeable" inflight refueling probe (yup, that shining piping there). The probe was used predominantly during ferrying or for overseas deployments.

That is something I’ve never seen before!

[finsrin]

New one on me too.  Likely how they were deployed to Hawaii. 

[apophenia]

Diorama time. Should be done in 1/48 or larger. 

This 1944 photo is of factory-fresh Corsairs and Hellcats being prepared to be shipped to the Pacific.

Is this a NAS Moffat, NAS Santa Ana or NAS Tillamook hanger? Or another.

Doesn't look like Santa Ana or Tillamook (at least, not Hangar B). From the inny-outy bits, I'm wondering if it was NAS Sunnyvale (or another hangar from that decade-earlier era)?

[GTX_Admin]

Any idea if someone does a conversion kit for the refuelling probe?

[The Big Gimper]

Does this bomb make me look fat?

An A-4 Skyhawk carrying a Mark 7 atomic bomb, the largest of a wide range of weaponry the A-4 was capable of carrying

[The Big Gimper]

Any idea if someone does a conversion kit for the refuelling probe?

Unsure Greg. This is the first time I have seen this configuration.