Picture of the day

[Grizzly Adams]

This plaque marks the spot on the USS Missouri where the Japanese surrender documents were signed and WWll officially ended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan


Grizz

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Silly buggers installed it upside down.

 

[NAA]

This plaque marks the spot on the USS Missouri where the Japanese surrender documents were signed and WWll officially ended.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surrender_of_Japan


Grizz

Stood right near that spot myself 2 weeks ago today.

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NAA.

 

[Painkillers]

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[Dark Alley Dan]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I kid.

Here's a MiG21 in interesting markings:

Ex-Iraqi AF, flew to Israel and surrendered, subsequently loaned to the Yanks for analysis.

Paved the way for IDF to receive the F-4 Phantom in some numbers:

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Today marks 100 years since the NAZI party staged the Beer Hall Putsch.

Grosse Herman was shot in the groin. This led to his addiction to opiates, which he beat, but would always make trouble for him. He was standing next to Hitler at the time. Imagine how history would have been different if that anonymous Munich cop who shot Goering had aimed two feet to the left.

 

[Rod B]

Very interesting video, thanks for sharing.

 

[55recce]

A few poignant memorials. The first 2 are from Gallipol and the last from Portsmouth, UK.
HMS Neptune was a WW2 light cruiser sunk in the Med by Italian mines, 764 were killed and the sole survivor spent 15 months as a POW.

 

[fat tony]

Devil's Battery, Elkin Barracks.

https://hmhps.ca/sites/devils-battery-and-elkins-barracks

Other than the blatantly visible grey painted gun embrasure shown, I had not a clue those old emplacements were further up the hill.

It says the 9.2" guns were removed and shipped to Turkey in 1954.

 

[HuskyDude]

German battle cruiser Prinz Regent Luitpold being towed back to Rosyth, keel uppermost.
The vessel was one of many German ships sunk by her crew in Scapa Flow on June 21, 1919, after the fleet had surrendered in November 1918.

 

[fat tony]

bombing trials:


from 'The Avro CF-100' by Larry Milberry, CANAV Books, 1981

To determine the usefulness of the CF-100 as a ground attack aircraft, bomb trials were conducted in 1954 at Malton. Aircraft 18105 was modified as a Mk.3 aerodynamically, and 14 bomb-dropping trips were flown over the Lake Ontario range. In all, twenty-one 1000 lb bombs were dropped and twenty 100 lb practice bombs. Problems encountered included bombs fouling each other when released, but the pilot's comments were favourable as far as performance went:
"Bomb dropping was satisfactory under conditions tested. Change of trim at moment of bomb or bombs release was small or negligible."
Bombs had been dropped at speeds between 230 and 550 mph.
The CF-100 was not developed any further in the bomb carrying mode. This was explained later in an Avro memo relating to the proposed STOVL (Short Takeoff and Vertical landing) CF-100: "At 27,000/30,000 lb. gross the CF-100 Mk.4 strength factor is about 7g limit. Between 10/12g limit is recommended for ground attack planes... Low strength factors and the cost incurred to correct the situation was one reason why the CF-100 ground attack proposal in 1954 was not developed."

so as overbuilt as it was, the lead sled was too weak for close air support. /sad

 

[Rob]

 

[HuskyDude]

So as overbuilt as it was, the lead sled was too weak for close air support. /sad

Great plane that's for sure!

Too weak...Achilles heel was the extra 6 tons of engine and fuel (excluding wing tanks) it was carrying...

Mrk 3
1250lb engines x 2 (1.25 tons)
1590 us gals of fuel ( @6lb per us gal) 9540lb (4.7 tons)

Hope my math is okay...lol

Good reading

https://www.avialogs.com/cf-100-canuck/item/56150-eo-05-25da-1-aircraft-operating-instructions-cf-100-mk3d

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

I wish the CAF had kept one of them flyable for shows and the like. They're quite the beast.

They look like a piston design updated for jets - big ol' straight plank wing. Move those nacelles outboard, throw in a couple of Griffons and she'd look very 1946.

 

[HuskyDude]

Pretty sure you can still plop your arse down in one at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton.

Gorgeous craft in black with wing tanks.

 

[fat tony]

They have one on static display at ACAM and she is massive. Almost like a mothership protecting the smaller exhibits with her big wings.

 

[R005t3r]

They have one on static display at ACAA and she is massive. Almost like a mothership protecting the smaller exhibits with her big wings.

There's one up in Haliburton, Ontario.
Location: N 45° 02.569 W 078° 31.277 At the intersection of County Road 21 and Gelert Road.

 

[bearhunter]

There's one up in Haliburton, Ontario.
Location: N 45° 02.569 W 078° 31.277 At the intersection of County Road 21 and Gelert Road.

There's another on a pedestal at the Nanton Air Museum in Alberta.

 

[CV32]

Aftermath of the collision between USS Belknap (CG-26) and the aircraft carrier USS John F Kennedy (CV-67) on 22 November 1975, off the coast of Sicily.