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« Reply #4625 on: November 24, 2021, 07:49:24 AM »
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Air Chief Marshall (Rtd) Mark Binskin made his debut flying the Canberra:

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And the Spitfire Mk 8 marked up as Bobbie Gibbs machine - "Grey Nurse"

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« Reply #4626 on: November 24, 2021, 10:47:38 PM »
Classic Aircraft Photography

Took this photo at the Military Aviation Museum in the USA to thank the owner of the museum and aircraft Jerry Yagen for all of the photo flights I was able to do there over a five year period.
From left is an Fw 190A-8N, Me 262 and a Mk IX Spitfire, the photo was taken from a Grumman Avenger.

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« Reply #4627 on: November 25, 2021, 12:17:20 AM »
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« Reply #4628 on: November 25, 2021, 12:48:51 AM »



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« Reply #4629 on: November 25, 2021, 02:07:14 AM »
Air Chief Marshall (Rtd) Mark Binskin made his debut flying the Canberra:

Interesting it was with a Canberra given his background was with A-4s and Mirages and indeed, the Canberra had left service before he joined the RAAF.

Mind you, Mark Skidmore flew the Boxkite and it was well before his time ;)

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« Reply #4630 on: November 25, 2021, 06:57:44 AM »
I knew they were running out of space for new airports but to put one BETWEEN the buildings ???

Yeah, and then having to hoist the aircraft up to their 23rd floor hangar space  :P
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« Reply #4631 on: November 25, 2021, 07:05:11 AM »
Air Chief Marshall (Rtd) Mark Binskin made his debut flying the Canberra:

Interesting it was with a Canberra given his background was with A-4s and Mirages and indeed, the Canberra had left service before he joined the RAAF.

Mind you, Mark Skidmore flew the Boxkite and it was well before his time ;)



Well, Skates was an F-111 Pilot and has flown the Meteor........


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On a test flight apparently a fire extinguisher came loose and punched a hole and started a fire.......
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« Reply #4632 on: November 25, 2021, 07:14:18 AM »
I knew they were running out of space for new airports but to put one BETWEEN the buildings ???

Phoenix International, just to the left of 'downtown'.  Calgary is getting nearly as bad.

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« Reply #4633 on: November 26, 2021, 12:37:35 AM »
Well, Skates was an F-111 Pilot and has flown the Meteor........


Yep, and was a test pilot.  Mind you chatting with him a few years ago he said that the box kite was the scariest thing he has ever flown.
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« Reply #4634 on: November 27, 2021, 03:48:29 AM »
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« Reply #4635 on: November 28, 2021, 12:30:26 AM »
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« Reply #4636 on: November 28, 2021, 06:24:04 AM »
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« Reply #4638 on: November 29, 2021, 01:23:13 AM »
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« Reply #4639 on: November 29, 2021, 01:25:27 AM »
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« Reply #4640 on: November 29, 2021, 01:28:17 AM »
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« Reply #4641 on: November 29, 2021, 01:33:46 AM »


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« Reply #4642 on: November 29, 2021, 02:14:25 AM »
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« Reply #4643 on: November 29, 2021, 07:32:28 AM »
Excellent picture  :smiley:

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« Reply #4644 on: November 29, 2021, 08:06:23 AM »
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« Reply #4645 on: November 30, 2021, 01:24:15 AM »


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« Reply #4646 on: December 01, 2021, 06:07:41 AM »
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« Reply #4647 on: December 01, 2021, 09:06:22 PM »
NASA: Space Station in 2021
The International Space Station photographed by ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet from Crew Dragon Endeavour

A sample of photos taken when Crew 2 did a fly around just after undocking.


The space station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon
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The space station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon
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The space station is pictured from the SpaceX Crew Dragon
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« Reply #4648 on: December 02, 2021, 03:12:07 AM »
Jupiter last night - the small black dot on the left is the shadow of Ganymede (first moon visible on the right) the other moon further out is Io. The pinkish spot on the lower right limb is the Great Red Spot. It was cool (57F/14C) last night but starting to get foggy and the atmosphere wasn't very steady, so the image is a little fuzzier than normal. Taken with a Celestron Nexstar 6SE and a small astro camera. The faint square pattern on Jupiter is an artifact of the image processing:



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« Reply #4649 on: December 02, 2021, 04:30:21 AM »
You can see that with one of those --- WOW!