Dark Alley Dan
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That's an amazing picture. Someone's gonna have a very bad day in a second or two...
Skyraiders were, and still are, impressive aircraft. Here's one with a tumor:
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That's an amazing picture. Someone's gonna have a very bad day in a second or two...
Skyraiders were, and still are, impressive aircraft. Here's one with a tumor:
BBQ incoming 3...2...1.
Cutts Compensators lost favour as they increased muzzle blast to adjacent shooters. They were current in the era when "real men" didn't wear hearing protection. They manfully went deaf.
And many of us wear hearing aids as proof. It used to be a real bell ringer to go to the range and shoot wearing a steel helmet and no hearing protection and then hear the echoes for some time afterwards.
In the good old days, I used to offer my Thompson to others to try. No one ever declined the offer....
Favourite target is the military fig 12. Aiming from the shoulder, aim at the appendix. It will stitch about 6 rounds to the opposite shoulder.
As you can see, each burst climbs up and a bit right, even with the Cutts.
That is, it climbs up and a bit right. Mine is a 1928 with a Cutts. The later military model had no Blish, no Cutts and a higher rate of fire. I would assume, but don't know, that it would climb more.
But that does not mean that the Cutts does anything. To know that I would have to take it off and do a before and after. I don't see that I can do that easily.
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There was a lot of marketting ju-ju around the Blish lock in the original Thompson. It was eliminated in the modified M1 and M1A1 models which were straight blow-back operated and simpler/cheaper to produce.
The Thompson was very heavy and would have been a bear to lug around. The Thompson was standard issue in Cdn units through the Italian campaign, but was replaced by the STEN in NW Europe.
The Nationlist Chinese were big recipients of the Thompson and many were turned back on us in communist hands in Korea and Vietnam.
The Thompson was very heavy and would have been a bear to lug around. The Thompson was standard issue in Cdn units through the Italian campaign, but was replaced by the STEN in NW Europe.
The Nationlist Chinese were big recipients of the Thompson and many were turned back on us in communist hands in Korea and Vietnam.
Dark Alley Dan
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Also popular with the Comrades of Red Army and Navy:
September 15, 1940: Sgt Ray Holmes of No.504 Squadron scrambles from RAF Hendon in his Hawker Hurricane to intercept multiple German Dornier Do 17s headed for Buckingham Palace. He shoots down one, and being out of ammo, rams another and slices cleanly through its rear fuselage. Both pilots parachute from their doomed aircraft. The Hurricane buries itself into Buckingham Palace Road, where it stays until 2004, when the remains were excavated and placed on display at the Imperial War Museum. The Dornier fell into Victoria Station, picture above.
fingers284
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Jon Blanchette, working on his still airworthy MiG-17PF, originally acquired in 1994 for US$16,000.
Ha ha ha the irony in that photo....bought the aircraft for $16000 but probably worth many multiples of that now...and he's working on it with a knuckle-buster Crescent wrench.
Dark Alley Dan
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This classic bit of Swedish ingenuity from Reddit:
Translation:
Top left: "Just an attempt! 37mm Anti-tank cannon on standard tractor"
Top right: "Fast transport on truck"
Translation:
Top left: "Just an attempt! 37mm Anti-tank cannon on standard tractor"
Top right: "Fast transport on truck"
fat tony
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The Blish lock worked on the assumption that the coefficient of friction difference between the steel alloy and bronze alloy of the lock would provide a delay - there was some sort of inclined plane incorporated into it and small shoulders? The concept was tried with juicer calibers in rifle prototypes using the blish lock. It was observed that the empties would get stuck in the roof over the firing points and/ or have enough energy left to injure or kill bystanders they knew they were at a design dead end.
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fat tony
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Flemish caption:
This is the infamous attack which hit the city center of Antwerp (fuze hit overhead lines causing airburst) with water from mains mixing in with blood and human remains, the British MP directing traffic who was smeared across the intersection, etc.
Here is an intersting site for the Flemish speakers among the cgn membership:
https://sites.google.com/site/antwerpenstadantwerpcity/09-de-2de-wereldoorlog
Same attack, part of Allied convoy was caught in the intersection Commonwealth truck and driver
I might have posted the second pic before.
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Transport Canada better not see that...when i was an AME (Aircraft Maintenance Engineer) in my previous life, it was strictly verboten to have metric, adjustable, pliers etc in your tool box
I've heard from a very interested fellow that the owner was offered US$7 million for it, where is as is. He's holding out for more.
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From https://opentextbc.ca/postconfedera...dians-and-military-service-in-the-world-wars/
In the first half of the 20th century, Canada’s Status Indians faced many challenges. The Indian Act restricted their freedoms and rights and Canadian society, which viewed Indians as an inferior and dying race, marginalised them economically and socially. Despite this reality, when Canada marched to war in 1914 and 1939, First Nations people joined the national efforts and volunteered for the military. In fact, more than 4,000 Status Indian men enlisted in each World War, the majority as volunteers. Most First Nations were supportive but it is difficult to generalise because the degree of engagement varied greatly, with some communities giving almost every able-bodied man and others almost none. While the Army experimented with segregated all-Indian units in WWI, overwhelmingly First Nations youth enlisted and served as individuals integrated into regular military units.
In the first half of the 20th century, Canada’s Status Indians faced many challenges. The Indian Act restricted their freedoms and rights and Canadian society, which viewed Indians as an inferior and dying race, marginalised them economically and socially. Despite this reality, when Canada marched to war in 1914 and 1939, First Nations people joined the national efforts and volunteered for the military. In fact, more than 4,000 Status Indian men enlisted in each World War, the majority as volunteers. Most First Nations were supportive but it is difficult to generalise because the degree of engagement varied greatly, with some communities giving almost every able-bodied man and others almost none. While the Army experimented with segregated all-Indian units in WWI, overwhelmingly First Nations youth enlisted and served as individuals integrated into regular military units.
