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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1625 on: January 31, 2017, 04:24:16 PM »
Cats... or turkeys?  ;)
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« Reply #1626 on: February 01, 2017, 06:28:30 AM »
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« Reply #1627 on: February 01, 2017, 09:14:15 AM »
Tough job! Just another boring day at the office.......

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« Reply #1628 on: February 01, 2017, 08:37:08 PM »
I stumbled on this Flickr site of colour slides taken at 1950s US airshows.



https://www.flickr.com/photos/23032926@N05/sets/72157628027548881/
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« Reply #1629 on: February 02, 2017, 07:28:55 PM »
Netherlands State Police Citroën H Van

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« Reply #1630 on: February 02, 2017, 09:25:54 PM »
That looks like a scene from a Monty Python sketch!

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« Reply #1631 on: February 03, 2017, 12:18:50 AM »
The Secret Policeman's Ball? or the The Secret Policeman's Other Ball?

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« Reply #1632 on: February 03, 2017, 02:24:46 AM »
That looks like a scene from a Monty Python sketch!

My thoughts exactly.
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« Reply #1633 on: February 04, 2017, 04:11:52 AM »
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« Reply #1634 on: February 04, 2017, 07:39:07 AM »
Trust Melbourne to be late

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« Reply #1635 on: February 05, 2017, 04:59:20 AM »
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« Reply #1636 on: February 05, 2017, 05:03:16 AM »
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« Reply #1637 on: February 05, 2017, 11:03:17 AM »


Oh boy I feel a domestic coming on. 

My wife hates it when I see photos of Newship Hobart at sea as I get all nostalgic about the project and start thinking about how I never wanted to leave the project and how much better our lives (and definitely my career and family finances) would be if we hadn't moved.  She then get defensive starts trying to justify how her career is more important because it pays more and that there was no guarantee I would still be there anyway although it's inconceivable that I would have voluntarily left part way through my Masters and building my "functional area" into a team and then a department.  She will then say, "I suppose its all my fault" and I will say "yes", then she will say "how was I to know" and I will say "because I f___ing told you and asked you not to apply for the transfer because moving would f___ my career".  It then spirals down hill from there.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1638 on: February 07, 2017, 01:42:28 PM »


And the decals are already coming:

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1639 on: February 07, 2017, 01:44:00 PM »
BTW, I'm thinking the above decals would look cool on a Eurofighter Typhoon...maybe a twin tailed version akin to this:

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« Reply #1640 on: February 07, 2017, 04:48:45 PM »
BTW, I'm thinking the above decals would look cool on a Eurofighter Typhoon...maybe a twin tailed version akin to this:



Or even the EAP had it been built with twin tails instead of a Tornado tail.

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« Reply #1641 on: February 07, 2017, 07:27:28 PM »
A permafrost passenger!

On 4 February, 2017 ANTONOV #AN-124-100М Ruslan that belongs to Antonov Airlines transported the world's biggest engine General Electric GE90 for the Swiss International Airlines Boeing 777-300ER which made an emergency landing in Iqaluit, Nunavut, Canada.

To deliver this cargo, the aircraft controlled by the crew headed by Iakiv Syrovenko, performed ferry flight from Stansted, Great Britain, to Zurich, Switzerland. There the engine, weighting over 8 t, was loaded into the Ruslan. The loading operation had to be performed very precisely because of the cargo’s big dimensions. Nevertheless, the technical crew headed by load master Valentyn Dobrogorsky fulfilled it perfectly. The Ruslan with the cargo aboard flew from Zurich to Great Frozen North.









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« Reply #1642 on: February 08, 2017, 12:33:12 AM »
Those P-8s are no joke from what I am hearing in exercises
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« Reply #1643 on: February 08, 2017, 12:52:48 AM »
Those P-8s are no joke from what I am hearing in exercises

Word is they are demonstrating capabilities that would have once required an E-3 (E-7 in Australias case), but also JSTARS, RIVETJOINT etc.  Obviously not all the capabilities there of but a surprising level of them just the same.  The RAAF used to operate ISR P-3s but with the P-8 it appears there wont be a need for a special outfit (though we are getting those Gulfstreams too)

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1644 on: February 08, 2017, 03:42:20 AM »
I wond r how they are at intell gathering. We may never know

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« Reply #1645 on: February 10, 2017, 07:55:46 PM »
"409 Hawk lead after another stellar performance at the Abbotsford Airshow in 1981" says the pilot of 101010 Capt. Terry Hunt.



This is probably one of the best CAF Voodoo photos I have seen.
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« Reply #1646 on: February 10, 2017, 08:26:54 PM »
"409 Hawk lead after another stellar performance at the Abbotsford Airshow in 1981" says the pilot of 101010 Capt. Terry Hunt.

This is probably one of the best CAF Voodoo photos I have seen.

I was there.  Voodoos fly over fast, light burners in front of crowd and blast out of there up and away.  WOW  :-*  8)
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« Reply #1647 on: February 10, 2017, 08:40:50 PM »
"409 Hawk lead after another stellar performance at the Abbotsford Airshow in 1981" says the pilot of 101010 Capt. Terry Hunt.

This is probably one of the best CAF Voodoo photos I have seen.

I was there.  Voodoos fly over fast, light burners in front of crowd and blast out of there.  WOW  :-*  8)

Then you and I Bill were only 168 miles apart as I was CFB Comox but was not part the ground support team that went to the show.
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« Reply #1648 on: February 20, 2017, 11:56:28 AM »
This one is for Jeff, Jon and Bill.  1962 Golden Hawks flying over the Needle at the World's Fair in Seattle, Washington

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« Reply #1649 on: February 20, 2017, 02:03:10 PM »
Sweet photo.  I seen both Golden Hawks and Seattle World's Fair (Century 21).
Looks like some sort of stealth jet slipped into formation beside top center F-86.  Is it Canadian ?