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Offline The Big Gimper

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2675 on: June 23, 2019, 09:27:22 PM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2676 on: June 26, 2019, 02:45:04 AM »
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« Reply #2677 on: June 27, 2019, 07:54:04 PM »
This is a "what-if" composite photo of the three Mosquito's restored by Avspec. Source photo is KA114 in the middle.



Thanks to Zac for the pointer.
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« Reply #2678 on: June 29, 2019, 07:49:08 AM »


50 years later, Apollo Flight Director Gene Kranz returns to his console, which has been restored to appear exactly as it did when we landed on the Moon. Time travel back to 1969 in the Apollo Mission Control Room

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/time-travel-back-to-1969 #Apollo50th
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« Reply #2679 on: June 29, 2019, 12:37:50 PM »
Right down to the ashtrays, cigarettes & matches! ;D :smiley: 8)
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« Reply #2680 on: June 30, 2019, 02:21:13 AM »
Someone should do a Leopard 1 or 2 tank in this scheme:

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« Reply #2681 on: June 30, 2019, 04:57:23 AM »


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No need for sunglasses today as nearly 60 F-16 #Vipers blocked out the sun in a mighty display of #airpower!
Come what may, #TeamShaw is ready.

(U.S. Air Force photos by Senior Airman Christopher Maldonado)
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« Reply #2682 on: July 02, 2019, 07:24:22 PM »


Note the "Canada" decal on the A/C right side has slid down. Poor 1:1 scale modelling technique.
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« Reply #2683 on: July 02, 2019, 09:46:55 PM »
And the font doesn't look right either   ;D

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« Reply #2684 on: July 03, 2019, 02:37:04 AM »
Official comment from Lieutenant General A D Meinzinger, Chief of the Air Force Staff and Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force:   "Bloody rivet counters!!!" ;) ;D
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« Reply #2685 on: July 05, 2019, 06:15:50 AM »


RCAF 450 SQN CH-147F Chinooks at CFB Petawawa
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« Reply #2686 on: July 07, 2019, 08:25:15 AM »


Source: RCAF Technician Matt MacKenzie in right seat of #7 heading towards Moose Jaw.
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« Reply #2687 on: July 07, 2019, 08:25:38 AM »


And another.
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« Reply #2688 on: July 07, 2019, 10:26:39 AM »
They're sneaking in Kids With Guns as ring ins! :o ;) 8)
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« Reply #2689 on: July 07, 2019, 08:40:52 PM »


FO: What's the purpose of that big red blinky light again?

AC: Ignore it. That's the "We are low on toilet paper" light.
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« Reply #2690 on: July 10, 2019, 04:03:45 AM »
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« Reply #2691 on: July 10, 2019, 04:40:01 PM »
Nice  8)
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« Reply #2692 on: July 10, 2019, 05:45:09 PM »
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« Reply #2693 on: July 10, 2019, 11:33:58 PM »
Nice to see that the Horets can keep up.............................. 8)    :o   >:(
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« Reply #2694 on: July 11, 2019, 08:19:38 AM »



Great photo Greg!
Really gives a good perspective of just how narrow the Majestic-class flight-deck was :-\

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« Reply #2695 on: July 12, 2019, 02:28:48 AM »
Indeed
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« Reply #2696 on: July 13, 2019, 05:51:09 AM »



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« Reply #2697 on: July 13, 2019, 05:52:12 AM »
F-22s at work:


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« Reply #2698 on: July 13, 2019, 05:52:41 AM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #2699 on: July 13, 2019, 10:33:25 AM »

Beautiful!!  What's being launched here?