Picture of the day

[Red_Liner740]

Gibss505, we managed to make it 136 pages of absolutely awesome content and you managed to introduce those classless pictures.

Bravo...

We are in the milsurp section of CGN, and you post those pictures?? So pictures and discussion so far led you to go: "Yea, these will fit right in...."?

 

[BeaverMeat]

A famous photograph showing test pilot George Aird ejecting from a pre-production example of the English Electric Lightning fighter in September 1962. Fortunately the pilot survived after coming down in a greenhouse full of tomatoes. He suffered multiple breaks of his limbs and cuts from the shower of glass that rained down on him after going through the roof of the greenhouse.

Ok. I’m blowing that up and hanging it on my wall. lol

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Gibss505, we managed to make it 136 pages of absolutely awesome content and you managed to introduce those classless pictures.

Bravo...

We are in the milsurp section of CGN, and you post those pictures?? So pictures and discussion so far led you to go: "Yea, these will fit right in...."?

Our Man Gibbs obviously got confused. He's looking for the "Girls with Guns" thread.

The E.E. Lightning was an odd looking device. Clubby and weird and festooned with tumourous lumps. And yet, blisteringly feckin' fast.

Always thought they had a Soviet look to them. Sukhoi, maybe.

 

[steamy teabag]

US battleships South Dakota and Alabama on their way to the Marshall Islands to shell Roi and Namur islands, 1 February 1944

The good old days. To be alive and commanding a ship like that. Can't imagine being on the receiving end of those guns. Magnificent, thanks for sharing.

 

[grelmar]

Landing gear failure on a Marine AV-8B Harrier? No problem. Just set it down on the deck of a pitching aircraft carrier at sea, with enough precision to drop the nose on a nice padded seat kept in storage for just such an occasion:

All skill, no luck. And balls. Big, brass, need a wheelbarrow to haul them around, balls...

 

[Gibbs505]

Gibss505, we managed to make it 136 pages of absolutely awesome content and you managed to introduce those classless pictures.

Bravo...

We are in the milsurp section of CGN, and you post those pictures?? So pictures and discussion so far led you to go: "Yea, these will fit right in...."?

Our Man Gibbs obviously got confused. He's looking for the "Girls with Guns" thread.

Sorry about that chief!! That's what you get for multitasking. Maybe admin or a mod could move them.
Here is something else though.

 

[diopter]

A famous photograph showing test pilot George Aird ejecting from a pre-production example of the English Electric Lightning fighter in September 1962. Fortunately the pilot survived after coming down in a greenhouse full of tomatoes. He suffered multiple breaks of his limbs and cuts from the shower of glass that rained down on him after going through the roof of the greenhouse.

More on t he story behind the picture, and some pictures of the crash site.
http://www.rafjever.org/118sqnper002.htm

Note the broken ceiling glass on the second greenhouse that "broke" the pilot fall.

 

[BeaverMeat]

Our Man Gibbs obviously got confused. He's looking for the "Girls with Guns" thread.

The E.E. Lightning was an odd looking device. Clubby and weird and festooned with tumourous lumps. And yet, blisteringly feckin' fast.

Always thought they had a Soviet look to them. Sukhoi, maybe.

Thunder City in Cape Town used to offer rides on a Lightning. My dad was saving up money for it and just before his trip to South Africa... unfortunately jet crashed crashed a month before.

Now he's been contemplating going to Russia to ride in a Mig-25.

 

[Sharps '74]

"classless", you say? There is nothing inelegant or classless about those ladies. They are artfully posed, discreetly clothed and exude feminine grace and power, the kind of lady any man would be proud to have in his life. No whimpering SJW snowflakes and no victims there.

Reminiscent of the Betty Grable "Pin Up" logos that decorated countless aircraft in WWII, but in the flesh.

 

[CV32]

Landing gear failure on a Marine AV-8B Harrier? No problem. Just set it down on the deck of a pitching aircraft carrier at sea, with enough precision to drop the nose on a nice padded seat kept in storage for just such an occasion

And not an aircraft carrier, but something even smaller: the Wasp class amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5).

 

[ipscgraz]

Lancasters in the soup

 

[purple]

You have to wonder how many aircraft were lost to collisions while forming up or trying to fly formations in the fog and dark over Europe. It must have been huge because every account I've read contains descriptions of incidents like this.

 

[6GunJustice]

Just finished reading Damn Busters by James Holland last week ... cool to see a photo of what they faced. Beyond amazing navigation! Just received in the mail, Shattered Sword: The Untold battle of Midway ... pretty excited to get started!

6Gun

 

[fat tony]

Supposedly the Russians copied features of the EE Lightning for the Mig21. Not certain of it though. You might say the Fairey Gannet copied features of the Dornier Arrow but I have not heard anything about that.

The above in no way assumes or categorically states anything as fact. It merely is to state an unprofessional opinion about the subject of military a/design.

 

[CV32]

Just finished reading Damn Busters by James Holland last week ... cool to see a photo of what they faced. Beyond amazing navigation! Just received in the mail, Shattered Sword: The Untold battle of Midway ... pretty excited to get started!

Shattered Sword is a truly excellent book. If you are a fan of military history, and particularly, the details (like me, lol), you will enjoy it very much.

 

[CV32]

Supposedly the Russians copied features of the EE Lightning for the Mig21. Not certain of it though. You might say the Fairey Gannet copied features of the Dornier Arrow but I have not heard anything about that.

If any elements of the Lightning made it into the MiG-21, and I have never seen any credible information to that effect, it would had to have been prototypes of the Lightning because the two aircraft are very close in development vintage.

 

[fat tony]

Connection timed out lost edits blast it!

There is a thing out in the ether where ppl. think no nation post ww2 could or did come up with anything unless a former Axis scientist/designer was there to hold hands.

This is like the unfortunate mythical folklore concerning former AVRO employees.

It is more likely that the eternal arms race causes independent parties to pursue similar capabilities.

This usually generates a list of requirements. From thought to paper to machine, you end up with something that looks a certain way due to what physics dictates.

 

[fat tony]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_military_technology_during_World_War_II

^fairly useless article.

 

[diopter]

Dead horses and wrecked vehicles and equipment of a German convoy are strewn along the road in the vicinity of Lug, Germany, after an attack from US artillery. The Germans were trying to escape encirclement by the 3rd and 7th Armies.

 

[purple]

I'm now reading a book about P-47 ground attack units in the US 9th Air Force where the pilots express their distaste at having to shoot up German horse drawn transport on account of killing a lot of horses in the process. You got the same stories about people who were mercy shooting wounded horses in the aftermath of the massive destruction of the German army at Falaise.