Picture of the day

[Ganderite]

50s nostalgia, the Douglass D-558 II with a B47A

beautiful picture of beautiful planes. Ansel Adams would be proud.

 

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[MarkCNP]

Weirder than fiction:

 

[silverfoxdj]

Weirder than fiction:

They look weird and must have even worse to fly them

 

[MarkCNP]

Made by Hamburger Flugzeugbau in the Finkenwerder. You just can't make that stuff up.

 

[ipscgraz]

Along the same line, the Italians reportedly built a piston engine aircraft with ONE propeller blade and a counterweight on the other side. It supposedly ran once before the differential lift from the single prop blade caused severe vibration.


this was brought to you by the same country who built an aircraft with a piston engine driving the compressor of a turbine engine.

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[kawicrash]

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[Gibbs505]

Carlos Hathcock in Vietnam with his customized M40 rifle, featuring a “Starlight” scope and a large suppressor.

 

[bearhunter]

Gibbs that looks like an M14 to me

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The JU-87G was quite the misshapen beast. The grandpappy of the A10. Those cannons were capable enough:

Just the thing for winning the Knight's Cross mit swords, oak leaves, and diamonds...

 

[dryfire]

Gibbs that looks like an M14 to me

Actually , probably an M21. But near enough. !

 

[dryfire]

Freeman's Folly. Arguably the most versatile and best a/c of WWII. All started on a private venture in a little warehouse at Hatfield.

The Bv 141 was supposed to have been very easy to fly in spite of it's asymmetry

 

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[Gibbs505]

Flying boat Martin M-130 China Clipper over San Francisco.

 

[B_noser]

Interesting shot. Golden Gate is under construction.

 

[Gibbs505]

At Dresden, between 13 and 15 February 1945, 722 heavy bombers of the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and 527 of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) dropped more than 3,900 tons of high-explosive bombs and incendiary devices on the city, reducing it to rubble.

“The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.“ - Sir Arthur Harris, Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief (AOC-in-C) RAF Bomber Command.

 

[Rod B]

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you. Pay back is a real #####, isn't it.

Harris had the balls to do the job that was required.

 

[J996]

Harris had the balls to do the job that was required.

Fast forward to today and the Western nations have a complete lack of balls. If only we could resurrect Harris and put him in charge of dealing with IS.

 

[Gibbs505]

Harris was a SOB, his nickname amongst the command was "Butch", short for butcher! They did not love him but they respected him and followed him.
He was the right man for the job.