Picture of the day

[jhedsy]

A typical Canadian range after two more terms of Liberal govt?

Put that slingshot on a tug boat and you have the Canadian Navy.

 

[Cold Warrior]

Put that slingshot on a tug boat and you have the Canadian Navy.

Seems like there's never a submarine around when you need one....

 

[Surplus1]

It looks like it could be an ak variant. It would be prohibited

 

[gerard488]

Seems like there's never a submarine around when you need one....

The Canadian navy had two, in the West Edmonton Mall

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

These were launched by "slingshot"...

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[grelmar]

Prohibited assault crossbow. It has the shoulder thing that goes up.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Inspectors give a factory fresh B17F the once-over.

 

[Halfton]

Inspectors give a factory fresh B17F the once-over.

I am wondering why the tail fin numbers have been blacked out on the B-17...WW2 censors in action possibly to hide which factory is in the picture. Does anyone know what aicraft the glass noses in the forefront are off...My guess is a Douglas A-20 Havoc/Boston but they don't quite look right for that either??

Jim

 

[dryfire]

I am wondering why the tail fin numbers have been blacked out on the B-17...WW2 censors in action possibly to hide which factory is in the picture. Does anyone know what aicraft the glass noses in the forefront are off...My guess is a Douglas A-20 Havoc/Boston but they don't quite look right for that either??

Jim

The nose cones do look suspiciously like Boston pieces, especially with the blast troughs along the sides and the cutaways for the placement of the cheek guns.

The greenhouse varied from mark to mark but this shows the gun placements

 

[Gibbs505]

The first guided missile cruiser of the US Navy USS Boston (CAG underway from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, 10 January 1967

 

[Donny Fenn1]

The attrition rate through flying accidents during war has always been high since WWI.

A retired Wingco I knew told me of one that haunted him for years. An Avro Anson was reported missing and found in a field. It appeared that the pilot/instructor had been practicing an emergency landing and the aircraft flew into a single strand of open wire which sliced through the Perspex of the canopy, decapitating both pilots.

The aircraft had been throttled back and trimmed for landing, which it did on it's own. It taxied until the wheels hit a drainage ditch and the engines idled until they ran out of fuel.

Right out of the "Twilight Zone" .....

almost 34,000 Bf-109s built and something like 12,000 lost in accidents, that stat always blew me away

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The nose cones do look suspiciously like Boston pieces, especially with the blast troughs along the sides and the cutaways for the placement of the cheek guns.
The greenhouse varied from mark to mark but this shows the gun placements

Good eye, mate. I couldn't suss that out.

 

[Ganderite]

almost 34,000 Bf-109s built and something like 12,000 lost in accidents, that stat always blew me away

Probably ground handling problems. The gear is very close together.

 

[Sharps '63]

... as was that of the Spitfire.

 

[Brno8x57]

Approaching 800 pages of excellence in this thread and still going strong. Best thread on the whole CGN forum in my opinion. Thanks to all who have contributed so far.

 

[tiriaq]

80 pages, if you reset your preferences...

 

[woodchopper]

hmmm approaching 160 pages for me

 

[MarkCNP]

Page 159 and counting . . .

 

[Halfton]

The nose cones do look suspiciously like Boston pieces, especially with the blast troughs along the sides and the cutaways for the placement of the cheek guns.

The greenhouse varied from mark to mark but this shows the gun placements

We seem to have lost the original pic of the B17F model and the nose pieces in question, so I will re-post it. Interestingly the site I found the picture on said it was from the Douglas factory so if indeed that is the case then the Nose pieces are most likely off an A-20 Havoc then.

Jim