Author Topic: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...  (Read 1192689 times)

Offline Kerick

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1125 on: June 28, 2015, 08:01:01 AM »
Looking at the guys in chem suits brings back memories of being incredibly hot and exhausted. Had my first look at the inside roof of an ambulance that day. So did many others.

Offline Volkodav

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1126 on: June 28, 2015, 09:45:46 AM »
Bunch of great photos here...such as this one:




That particular photo is just so cool, really eye catching.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1127 on: June 28, 2015, 01:36:36 PM »
Bunch of great photos here...such as this one:




That particular photo is just so cool, really eye catching.


It looks almost like a purebred racing horse with its jockey...

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Offline Kerick

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1128 on: June 28, 2015, 02:33:39 PM »
I've heard in a Spitfire cockpit it helps if your small.....
Awesome pic.

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1129 on: June 29, 2015, 01:50:08 AM »
To me it looks like he has a dead engine and is about to belly land it...
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1130 on: June 29, 2015, 03:00:38 AM »
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Offline Gingie

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1131 on: July 01, 2015, 03:24:17 AM »
To me it looks like he has a dead engine and is about to belly land it...

reminds me of this video:

https://youtu.be/4iOoiEbtf2w


Offline Logan Hartke

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1132 on: July 01, 2015, 11:51:50 AM »
Our local unit is finally back home after 3 months in the Netherlands and Bulgaria.

Cheers,

Logan

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1133 on: July 01, 2015, 06:47:41 PM »
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1134 on: July 02, 2015, 02:50:58 AM »
Wait a minute...I see a T-33 and some F-84s in there...
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« Reply #1135 on: July 02, 2015, 03:38:43 AM »
Wait a minute...I see a T-33 and some F-84s in there...

Yup.  And also B-57s, C-47s, C-119s.  Busy place.  I'll bet the refueling techs were bagged at the end of the day.
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Offline Weaver

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1136 on: July 02, 2015, 09:14:28 PM »
From user @chrisjones3247 on Twitter:



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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1137 on: July 03, 2015, 02:30:16 AM »
Now put those Lightnings in Soviet markings as escorts... ;)
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1138 on: July 03, 2015, 07:51:33 AM »
Now put those Lightnings in Soviet markings as escorts... ;)

Or paint the Bear in Nimrod colours & markings. ;)


Or you could do both & have Soviet Lightnings intercepting a British Bear. :D
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« Reply #1139 on: July 04, 2015, 02:36:35 AM »
That would work too.
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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1140 on: July 04, 2015, 04:15:43 AM »
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Offline Kerick

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1141 on: July 04, 2015, 12:31:28 PM »
Nice airbrush work!

Offline Old Wombat

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« Reply #1142 on: July 04, 2015, 11:25:47 PM »
Nice airbrush work!

Just what I was thinking, although the gums could do with a little pink in them.
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Offline mrvr6

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1143 on: July 05, 2015, 02:58:55 AM »
Nice airbrush work!

Just what I was thinking, although the gums could do with a little pink in them.

but then it wouldnt be lo viz markings lol

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1144 on: July 05, 2015, 04:58:34 AM »


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« Reply #1145 on: July 08, 2015, 06:44:54 AM »


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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1146 on: July 08, 2015, 10:24:36 AM »
For a moment I was mildly confused ... the shadows on the wings made the early-WW2 camo look like the Vietnam-ish SEAC scheme. :-\


Nice photo! :D
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Offline Volkodav

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1147 on: July 08, 2015, 07:39:24 PM »
Now that would be an extended service life!

Offline perttime

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« Reply #1148 on: July 08, 2015, 09:59:23 PM »
There's people who'd be overjoyed to see it at a show in Finland...

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Re: Just some cool photos...nothing more, nothing less...
« Reply #1149 on: July 12, 2015, 03:54:17 AM »
All hail the God of Frustration!!!

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