Picture of the day

[Dark Alley Dan]

Ding!

 

[bush1]

Ding!

Get the file out boys and dress up that nick,

 

[Auggie Doggie]

Ding!

I'll bet that had a slight shimmy.

Auggie D.

 

[Cottage Hill Bill]

There is a similar prop blade in the Naval Aviation Museum from an A-1 Skyraider that was hit over Viet Nam. Pilot said he didn't know anything had happened until his crew chief pointed it out after the mission.

 

[purple]

Ding!

The P-47 was an excellent strafer/ground attack aircraft and was less vulnerable to groundfire than was the P-51 with it's liquid cooled engine. They could have used them in Korea along with the F4U Corsair which was tops at ground attack.

 

[diopter]

Often forgotten these days. Douglas A1/AD Skyraider.

A BLU-72/B bomb on a USAF A-1E taking off from Nakhon Phanom in Thailand, in September 1968

A Douglas A-1E Skyraider of the 1st Special Operations Squadron, 56th Special Operations Wing at Nakhom Phanom Royal Thai Air Force Base on 29 Sept 1968. The aircraft is carrying a BLU-72/B bomb under the right wing. The BLU-72/B was a 1130 kg (2500 lb) FAE (Fuel/Air Explosive) bomb, which was filled with 1020 kg (2245 lb) of propane. It was designed for low speed delivery and was equipped with a retarding drogue. The BLU-72/B was developed under the "Pave Pat I" programme, and combat-tested in South-East Asia in 1967-68.

Replaced by A-10 Warthog.

 

[woodchopper]

Douglas A1/AD Skyraider, yup those things were bomb trucks

 

[diopter]

Portuguese T-6 Harvard's used as bomb truck(ettes)s and air support.

 

[CV32]

The masts etc of an Oberon class submarine.

 

[Tikka223]

Question folks, chatting with a friend of mine here. He recalls seeing a book with a series of images taken from a film reel. It would have been a German machine gun ambushing Canadian troops, possibly in Italy. My friend has been trying to figure out where he saw / read this but his search has come up empty. Does this ring any bells with the folks on here?

 

[76r]

Ding!

What would have left such a large hole in the blade, yet was travelling fast enough that the blade appears to have been 'stopped in time' in its rotation?

 

[Donny Fenn1]

What would have left such a large hole in the blade, yet was travelling fast enough that the blade appears to have been 'stopped in time' in its rotation?

And from the hole angle/damage from pretty much directly from behind?

 

[bearhunter]

20mm cannon

 

[diopter]

 

[diopter]

20mm cannon

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

So long, H.R.H. Job well done. Time to head home.

She was a tough old bird who fell into a job that certainly has enormous perks but requires sacrifice of almost everything you want, or are. We could have done worse, and have.

 

[bearhunter]

She had more class in the tip of her little finger than all of the rest of the Royals put together, mind you, her husband was a decent fellow.

 

[SHELL SHUCKER]

Queen Elizabeth was of true heart for her nation and the world. I'll miss her presence in these twisted times.

 

[RRCo.]

She had more class in the tip of her little finger than all of the rest of the Royals put together, mind you, her husband was a decent fellow.

Of the younger set Kate Middleton is the one with the character, and her husband.

Royals and aristocrats usually think they are "above" the morality of the common herd; the Queen and her parents were a pleasant exception to that.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Charles III, while still humble ol' Prince Charles, served with the Royal Navy as a pilot in the early 70's.

He served on HMS Norfolk, HMS Minerva, HMS Jupiter, flew with 845 NAS aboard HMS Hermes, and ended his military career commanding a minesweeper, HMS Bronington.

(The beard suits him. Who's gonna tell him to shave every day now?)

The Bronington in service:

HMS Bronington of late:

A trust has been set up to refloat and restore her: https://hmsbronington.org/

Gotta think Chuckie Triplets is in for a few pounds.