Author Topic: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...  (Read 1192238 times)

Offline Cliffy B

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #400 on: December 04, 2013, 10:07:03 AM »
Took these today before I went home.

BB-64 Sunset


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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #401 on: December 13, 2013, 07:15:04 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #402 on: December 14, 2013, 04:26:13 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #403 on: December 14, 2013, 08:18:33 AM »

Stunning.
that's my new desktop.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #404 on: December 15, 2013, 02:59:35 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #405 on: December 15, 2013, 04:08:17 AM »


Maybe it's just the angle, but that sure looks like it could be an inverted-V12 engine, rather than a V12 engine.  Wonder how a DB603 cowling on a Mustang would look.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #406 on: December 15, 2013, 04:23:15 AM »
looks like it could be an inverted-V12 engine, rather than a V12 engine.  Wonder how a DB603 cowling on a Mustang would look.
Quite good I think. I'm sure someone has drawn or built one.

... I was thinking it might be a RR Griffon, though. And a racing canopy...

... Like this:



A "Precioius" Sunset
« Last Edit: December 15, 2013, 04:36:51 AM by perttime »

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #407 on: December 15, 2013, 11:00:16 AM »
Griffon engined racing Mustang, looks like number 5 on the tail.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #408 on: December 15, 2013, 06:05:26 PM »
looks like number 5 on the tail.
Which would probably make it the "Red Baron".

...although #5 was very much modified even before it was called Red Baron, and the installation of the Griffon and the bigger fin.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #409 on: December 16, 2013, 02:09:08 AM »


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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #410 on: December 16, 2013, 03:08:09 AM »
Where's the second one taken?
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #411 on: December 16, 2013, 05:27:51 AM »
Got to be Cape Canaveral, or was it Kennedy then? The rocket is an Atlas Mercury.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #412 on: December 16, 2013, 05:43:56 AM »
Got to be Cape Canaveral, or was it Kennedy then? The rocket is an Atlas Mercury.
That would make it the Cape Canaveral Launch Center, later to become Kennedy Launch Center at Cape Canaveral (the geographical place never changed name, but the facility did).  All the Atlas-Mercury flights were early enough that there was no reason at that time to change the Center's name.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #413 on: December 16, 2013, 07:13:35 AM »
That's Mercury-Atlas 6 (Friendship 7) with John Glen on Feb. 20, 1962.

Different angle (or the one above is reversed):

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #414 on: December 19, 2013, 02:37:28 AM »
Love sunsets after a storm  8)

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #415 on: December 19, 2013, 05:19:38 AM »
A pair of A-7E Corsair IIs, from VA-72 aboard the USS John F. Kennedy, somewhere over the Persian Gulf, on this date in 1990.  They were just a couple of weeks away from bombing Iraq.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #416 on: December 19, 2013, 06:13:35 AM »
Nice comparison of a regular bird and the CAG bird!

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #417 on: December 24, 2013, 04:34:30 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #418 on: December 25, 2013, 04:55:56 AM »
Not a photo…but a cool image never-the-less:

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #419 on: January 01, 2014, 05:35:42 AM »


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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #420 on: January 03, 2014, 04:37:23 AM »
I just love the markings on this …um…errr…plane…

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #421 on: January 03, 2014, 05:07:19 AM »
Plane?

What plane?

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #422 on: January 03, 2014, 06:14:22 AM »
I just love the markings on this …um…errr…plane…




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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #423 on: January 03, 2014, 04:26:05 PM »
Would a humorous comment about requesting landing clearance be out of place?
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #424 on: January 03, 2014, 08:17:15 PM »
Taken at Vintage Wings Canada 2012 Airshow.



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