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« Reply #5450 on: October 07, 2023, 12:04:39 AM »


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« Reply #5451 on: October 11, 2023, 02:42:48 AM »
Hawker Tempest MK.II first flight after restoration to flying condition





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« Reply #5452 on: October 11, 2023, 09:30:20 PM »






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« Reply #5453 on: October 16, 2023, 06:21:02 AM »
USS Connecticut, USS Hartford and HMS Trenchant surface through the ice during the ICEX in the Arctic Circle, 2009.

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« Reply #5454 on: October 28, 2023, 02:54:54 AM »


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« Reply #5455 on: October 29, 2023, 02:39:27 AM »
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« Reply #5456 on: October 29, 2023, 02:57:49 AM »
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« Reply #5457 on: October 29, 2023, 02:58:06 AM »
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« Reply #5458 on: October 30, 2023, 12:23:48 AM »


Probably early 1990s.
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« Reply #5459 on: October 31, 2023, 03:58:31 AM »


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« Reply #5460 on: November 01, 2023, 02:50:10 AM »
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« Reply #5461 on: November 01, 2023, 11:11:40 PM »
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« Reply #5462 on: November 02, 2023, 10:48:02 PM »
While hovering above the Atlantic in a Wildcat helicopter, an @RoyalNavy photographer captured these incredible shots of Britain’s largest warship alongside USS Leyte Gulf and USNS Arctic.
@HMSPWLS





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« Reply #5463 on: November 03, 2023, 12:58:00 AM »
Interesting how little wake the warships create, compared to the auxiliary . . .


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« Reply #5464 on: November 03, 2023, 03:10:52 PM »
Interesting how little wake the warships create, compared to the auxiliary . . .


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Or the carrier compared to the destroyer. :icon_surprised:
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« Reply #5465 on: November 04, 2023, 12:18:59 AM »
@USNavy US Sailors and naval aviators from the @TheCVN69 CSG and @Warship_78 CSG sailed alongside #USSMountWhitney and
@ItalianNavy IT frigates ITS Fasan & ITS Margottini in the #MediterraneanSea, Nov. 3.







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« Reply #5466 on: November 04, 2023, 01:19:28 AM »
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« Reply #5467 on: November 04, 2023, 06:36:07 AM »
Beautiful pictures!! Thanks everyone.

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« Reply #5468 on: November 04, 2023, 07:04:58 AM »

Text says they are over Colorado. I wonder what their target was?

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« Reply #5469 on: November 05, 2023, 01:20:24 AM »
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« Reply #5470 on: November 05, 2023, 06:04:37 AM »
Would be marching to the beat of his own drum, if he didn't detest marching to any drumbeat at all so much.

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« Reply #5471 on: November 05, 2023, 06:15:18 PM »
The open bomb bay doors of a B-36 bomber at Carswell Air Force Base, located northwest of Fort Worth, Texas.

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« Reply #5472 on: November 06, 2023, 01:51:03 AM »
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« Reply #5473 on: November 06, 2023, 05:03:31 AM »



Y'know, cleaned up a bit, it would make a nice airliner . . .


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« Reply #5474 on: November 06, 2023, 06:16:31 AM »
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