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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #750 on: December 05, 2014, 06:58:06 PM »
Russian link with some great photos (many in colors) from the end od 1930s and beginning of 1940s.
http://dieselpunk.livejournal.com/643946.html#cutid1
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #751 on: December 06, 2014, 02:53:19 AM »
Some classy photos there.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #752 on: December 07, 2014, 05:35:59 PM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #753 on: December 07, 2014, 05:50:24 PM »
Glasair Sportsman Yacht: Yep, 'coz only a pro sportsman could afford to buy one! ::)
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #754 on: December 07, 2014, 06:53:29 PM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #755 on: December 08, 2014, 11:11:09 AM »


Lt. Col. Andrew Campbell prepares to land a C-130 Hercules Nov. 13, 2014, during Keen Sword 2015 at Yokota Air Base, Japan. Keen Sword is a bilateral exercise between the Japan Air Self-Defense Force and U.S. service members aimed to increase readiness to defend and support various crisis situations in the Pacific theater. Campbell is the 36th Airlift Squadron commander.

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« Reply #756 on: December 08, 2014, 11:15:18 AM »


An Air Force Reserve aircrew closes in for a refueling maneuver with a KC-10 Extender during the 349th Air Mobility Wing's Focus on the Family event Oct. 25, 2014, at Travis Air Force Base, Calif.

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« Reply #757 on: December 08, 2014, 11:20:45 AM »


A C-5 Galaxy flies behind a KC-135 Stratotanker from McConnell Air Force Base, Kan., during an air refueling training exercise, Aug. 5, 2014.

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« Reply #758 on: December 08, 2014, 11:24:29 AM »


A KC-135 Stratotanker refuels a Royal Air Force RC-135V/W Rivet Joint June 26, 2014, off the coast of England. This was the first time a tanker belonging to the 100th Air Refueling Wing refueled a RAF RC-135.

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« Reply #759 on: December 09, 2014, 06:56:51 AM »
Stumbled upon this:

Amazing Warbird Photos Look Like They Were Taken By A Time-Traveler

The author is very clear in stating the photos are not for distribution or download beyond the purposes of this article. But it is worth the mouse click I think.
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« Reply #760 on: December 09, 2014, 07:50:01 AM »
Comox Valley Airport: Nice! But how about this cute message for mom when she taxis past on WestJet?

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« Reply #761 on: December 10, 2014, 05:52:43 AM »


CWH Avro Lancaster VR-A through the Derwent Valley

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« Reply #762 on: December 11, 2014, 09:03:22 AM »
"They know you can do anything, So the question is, what don't you do?"

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« Reply #763 on: December 15, 2014, 07:09:51 PM »


Eleven C-130H Hercules’ and 13 C-130J Super Hercules’ prepare to take off Dec. 6, 2014, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas in support of the U.S. Air Force Weapons School's Joint Forcible Entry Exercise 14B

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« Reply #764 on: December 19, 2014, 09:38:51 AM »


The second picture shows the three Lancasters used in the film flying together probably for the last time. This was taken at a Battle of Britain Day tribute in Cumbria. The caption on the reverse says that this was taken at Silloth, but in Jonathan Falconer’s Filming the Dam Busters, this is mentioned as taking place at nearby Anthorn. (If anyone can confirm which airfield this is, please let me know. Cumbria resident Dom Howard reckons that it is Silloth– see this link .)

Note in the picture that only two of the aircraft have been modified to the “Dambuster” configuration. The central one must be NX782, which was left as standard and used in an early sequence where Gibson is completing his final flight as CO of 106 Squadron.

Note also how low the three Lancasters are flying, and how close they are to the members of the public wandering across the runway. Modern air displays have much stricter health and safety rules!

Source: http://dambustersblog.com/category/avro-lancaster/
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #765 on: December 20, 2014, 02:47:22 AM »
Cool! :)
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« Reply #766 on: December 20, 2014, 07:46:14 AM »


A C-5M Super Galaxy lands on a foggy runway Dec. 10, 2014, at Travis Air Force Base, Calif. The newly modernized aircraft is the fifth C-5M to return to Travis this year following retrograde and refurbishment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Ken Wright)
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« Reply #767 on: December 20, 2014, 11:00:33 PM »
Aluminum Overcast!

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #768 on: December 21, 2014, 04:11:25 AM »
Now if only the USAF would modernize and upgrade the B-52! There would be an increase in payload or range by removing the miles of unused wires from decades of other additions/upgrades.

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« Reply #769 on: December 21, 2014, 05:45:17 AM »
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« Reply #770 on: December 21, 2014, 05:47:19 AM »
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« Reply #771 on: December 21, 2014, 02:31:52 PM »
Now if only the USAF would modernize and upgrade the B-52! There would be an increase in payload or range by removing the miles of unused wires from decades of other additions/upgrades.

There was the Rolls Royce proposal of several years ago to reengine them with four Trents (or maybe one of their other engines) that would have increased performance and reduced fuel burn by such a degree to have paid for the entire upgrade within a decade.


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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #773 on: December 22, 2014, 04:11:29 AM »
banned-in-the-US-because-they-depleted-stocks-of-wild-fowl

you could get a whole flock of duck with one shot - takes all the skill out of it :(

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« Reply #774 on: December 22, 2014, 10:58:50 AM »
Reminds me of Chinese "Tai Qiang" (Great Musket).  Known as Jingals to the Europeans, they were used last during the Boxer Rebellion.  While the Punt gun was mounted, the Jingal was fired from a tripod or even the shoulders of it's crew quite often in the field: