Picture of the day

[Gibbs505]

Battleship Wisconsin in the dock

 

[diopter]

Do I need to Label this?

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

B58 Hustler with escape pod doors open.

The lawn-dartiest of the lawn darts, and just the best looking goddamned thing ever.

 

[donor]

Then you forgot this one.Myasishchev M-50 Blender or Blunder,no sorry Bounder.Soviets did make some really pointy planes but few of them made it off the drawing board.

 

[diopter]

Jean Bart was a French battleship of World War II, named for the 17th-century seaman, privateer, and corsair Jean Bart. She was the second Richelieu-class battleship. Wikipedia
Length: 248 m
Construction started: December 12, 1936
Launched: March 6, 1940
Completed: 1 May 1955
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Commissioned: 16 January 1949
Fate: Scrapped 24 June 1970

 

[diopter]

Wish I had the time and patience to make these.

And the computer power and software.

 

[bjmurata]

B58 Hustler with escape pod doors open.

The lawn-dartiest of the lawn darts, and just the best looking goddmaned thing ever.

Along with it's little brother the F-106 interceptor, sleek as hell.

 

[grelmar]

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"German Messerschmitt Me 109E fighters from I/Jagdgeschwader 27 (1st Group, 27th Fighter Wing) in flight over North Africa, circa 1941."

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Then you forgot this one.Myasishchev M-50 Blender or Blunder,no sorry Bounder.Soviets did make some really pointy planes but few of them made it off the drawing board.

I stand corrected.

 

[Brookwood]

Thanks for posting the pics of the M-50, I had no idea the thing or even the museum existed. Looking closer at the pic, I noticed the familiar lines of it's stable mate......What - the - hell is that doing there? It can't be.....Wait a minute...Those sneaky bastards! I used my Google-Fu to look it up - the Sukhoi T-4 - another new one for me! The B-29, the Concorde, the Harrier, the Space Shuttle, now I find out the B-70 as well.....Oh those Russians! I suppose it is the sincerest form of flattery!

 

[diopter]

Video of both.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuRe5EN2pJg

 

[Gibbs505]

Imprint of a Mitsubishi Kamikaze “Zero” along the side of the H.M.S Sussex, a heavy cruiser with 4.5" of reinforced steel at the point of impact

 

[Sharps '74]

It's the thought that counts .....

 

[Auggie Doggie]

Like a bug on a windshield.

Auggie D.

 

[shredder]

Thanks for posting the pics of the M-50, I had no idea the thing or even the museum existed. Looking closer at the pic, I noticed the familiar lines of it's stable mate......What - the - hell is that doing there? It can't be.....Wait a minute...Those sneaky bastards! I used my Google-Fu to look it up - the Sukhoi T-4 - another new one for me! The B-29, the Concorde, the Harrier, the Space Shuttle, now I find out the B-70 as well.....Oh those Russians! I suppose it is the sincerest form of flattery!

The Soviets would take anything they could get their greedy mitts on, reverse engineer it, and claim it as their own during the early years of the Cold War.

The Sukhoi T-4 was a direct copy of a B-29 that landed at Vladivostok in '44-'45 (can't remember exactly when) before the Soviet Union joined in the war on Japan. The B-29 and its crew were interned by the Sovs and the Sovs reverse-engineered what was then the biggest and best bomber.

 

[diopter]

Little bit of confusion there.
The copy of the B-29 was the Tupolov Tu-4

the B70 inspired Russian copy was the Sukhoi T-4

 

[shredder]

^^^Yup, my bad. Got the two manufacturers confused.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Weird formation.

 

[Cornflake Leader]

Imprint of a Mitsubishi Kamikaze “Zero” along the side of the H.M.S Sussex, a heavy cruiser with 4.5" of reinforced steel at the point of impact

Zero or something with fixed gear? Looks like that bug had pants on its wheels...

 

[Sharps '74]

Val torpedo bomber maybe? Or a fixed gear Nakajima?