The original bridge was built by the Royal Engineers during their 1858-63 sojourn in the Colony, upstream (I think ...?) from the current bridge. Walking across the current bridge with it's pierced steel decking is an experience.
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The original bridge was built by the Royal Engineers during their 1858-63 sojourn in the Colony, upstream (I think ...?) from the current bridge. Walking across the current bridge with it's pierced steel decking is an experience.
A hidden gem most just drive by and have no idea it's even there...which is fine. Kids do a number on it from time to time with Graffiti...still a wonder to see.
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#1bcshooter
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1/600 scale model of Neuf Brisach, made circa late 1600's, early 1700's.
Currently stored in the Musée des Plans-reliefs in Paris:
http://www.museedesplansreliefs.culture.fr/
Ian at Forgotten Weapons did a video about the museum a week ago. Apparently, the French went all in during that period, when it came to constructing detailed models of their own fortifications, and those of other nations, for the purposes of military planning. They had a large workshop of dedicated craftsmen, and a significant staff of surveyors, artists, and spies, to collect information and drawings. Around 260 models were made, of which 100 remain, stored ina museum that no-one visits.
Currently stored in the Musée des Plans-reliefs in Paris:
http://www.museedesplansreliefs.culture.fr/
Ian at Forgotten Weapons did a video about the museum a week ago. Apparently, the French went all in during that period, when it came to constructing detailed models of their own fortifications, and those of other nations, for the purposes of military planning. They had a large workshop of dedicated craftsmen, and a significant staff of surveyors, artists, and spies, to collect information and drawings. Around 260 models were made, of which 100 remain, stored ina museum that no-one visits.
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Similar layout, yeah. The SAAB Tunnan:
Not sure if there's any common DNA there or if it's just different folks coming to similar conclusions.
The Tunnan was used in the Congo Crisis. Like other Swede hardware they were at the forefront of everything that was modern for their day.
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The Survivors: Sweden’s & the World’s Last Junkers Ju 86
The first Ju 86 variants flew with uniquely diesel-powered Junkers Jumo engines designed for better fuel economy but were later replaced with better performing radial engines. In addition to Germany, military Ju 86 aircraft operators included Austria, Bolivia, Chile, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Spain, South Africa and Sweden.
https://acesflyinghigh.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/the-survivors-swedens-the-worlds-last-junkers-ju-86/
The first Ju 86 variants flew with uniquely diesel-powered Junkers Jumo engines designed for better fuel economy but were later replaced with better performing radial engines. In addition to Germany, military Ju 86 aircraft operators included Austria, Bolivia, Chile, Hungary, Portugal, Romania, Spain, South Africa and Sweden.
https://acesflyinghigh.wordpress.com/2017/12/30/the-survivors-swedens-the-worlds-last-junkers-ju-86/
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You could not do that today. PETA would be all over you!
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So the bears are sitting around the zoo one day trading stories on the topic of "how you got here".
"I'm minding my own business, working over a sweet dumpster behind a Taco Bell. I'm just getting down to a bag full of loose grease and some decent burrito stuff and some fishcop shoots me in the ass with a dart. Hurt like a bugger at first, like getting stung, y'know? I felt myself passing out, but I managed to get into that bag. Almost worth it."
"They caught me in a tent in the park. Who sleeps with beef jerky? I got darted too but managed to walk it off. Frickin' live trapped in that culvert thing a couple days later. What can I say? I'm a slave to roadkill."
"You two arseholes got off easy. I was orphaned as a cub when Mom got hit by a train. I was raised in a zoo like this. One day a couple of weirdos in blue suits come in and put the finger on me. Next think I know I'm being shot through the goddamn sky with a rocket up my arse, world's spinning like crazy, ears are popping like that sound birds make when you chew 'em up, and then a hell of a loud bang and it's like I weigh seven thousand goddamn pounds. Got real quiet after that, almost peaceful like. Until I hit the ground. You ever fall out of a tree? JUST like that, but like a really TALL tree, like twenty times Bernie's height."
"Bernie's a grizzly, man. Dude's like CRAZY long."
"Not lying, dude. Hit the ground like boom. Rotten goddamned experience. My mouth felt like it was full of dandelion fluff for a day or so afterward. Head hurt like a bastage. Not sure what they did it for, but it was easily the weirdest thing I've ever been through..."
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The B-58 Hustler was one of the great beauties of 1950's aviation. What a great looking airplane.
"I'm minding my own business, working over a sweet dumpster behind a Taco Bell. I'm just getting down to a bag full of loose grease and some decent burrito stuff and some fishcop shoots me in the ass with a dart. Hurt like a bugger at first, like getting stung, y'know? I felt myself passing out, but I managed to get into that bag. Almost worth it."
"They caught me in a tent in the park. Who sleeps with beef jerky? I got darted too but managed to walk it off. Frickin' live trapped in that culvert thing a couple days later. What can I say? I'm a slave to roadkill."
"You two arseholes got off easy. I was orphaned as a cub when Mom got hit by a train. I was raised in a zoo like this. One day a couple of weirdos in blue suits come in and put the finger on me. Next think I know I'm being shot through the goddamn sky with a rocket up my arse, world's spinning like crazy, ears are popping like that sound birds make when you chew 'em up, and then a hell of a loud bang and it's like I weigh seven thousand goddamn pounds. Got real quiet after that, almost peaceful like. Until I hit the ground. You ever fall out of a tree? JUST like that, but like a really TALL tree, like twenty times Bernie's height."
"Bernie's a grizzly, man. Dude's like CRAZY long."
"Not lying, dude. Hit the ground like boom. Rotten goddamned experience. My mouth felt like it was full of dandelion fluff for a day or so afterward. Head hurt like a bastage. Not sure what they did it for, but it was easily the weirdest thing I've ever been through..."
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The B-58 Hustler was one of the great beauties of 1950's aviation. What a great looking airplane.
The Forgotten Drone of WWII
The TDR-1 was decades ahead of its time.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a28312/wwii-drone-strike-tdr-1/
The TDR-1 was decades ahead of its time.
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/aviation/a28312/wwii-drone-strike-tdr-1/
So the bears are sitting around the zoo one day trading stories on the topic of "how you got here".
"I'm minding my own business, working over a sweet dumpster behind a Taco Bell. I'm just getting down to a bag full of loose grease and some decent burrito stuff and some fishcop shoots me in the ass with a dart. Hurt like a bugger at first, like getting stung, y'know? I felt myself passing out, but I managed to get into that bag. Almost worth it."
"They caught me in a tent in the park. Who sleeps with beef jerky? I got darted too but managed to walk it off. Frickin' live trapped in that culvert thing a couple days later. What can I say? I'm a slave to roadkill."
"You two arseholes got off easy. I was orphaned as a cub when Mom got hit by a train. I was raised in a zoo like this. One day a couple of weirdos in blue suits come in and put the finger on me. Next think I know I'm being shot through the goddamn sky with a rocket up my arse, world's spinning like crazy, ears are popping like that sound birds make when you chew 'em up, and then a hell of a loud bang and it's like I weigh seven thousand goddamn pounds. Got real quiet after that, almost peaceful like. Until I hit the ground. You ever fall out of a tree? JUST like that, but like a really TALL tree, like twenty times Bernie's height."
"Bernie's a grizzly, man. Dude's like CRAZY long."
"Not lying, dude. Hit the ground like boom. Rotten goddamned experience. My mouth felt like it was full of dandelion fluff for a day or so afterward. Head hurt like a bastage. Not sure what they did it for, but it was easily the weirdest thing I've ever been through..."
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The B-58 Hustler was one of the great beauties of 1950's aviation. What a great looking airplane.
Reading this I was imaging a cartoon with the bears sitting around ruminating on their experiences. Hard not to laugh out loud ....
Made me laugh...thx!
Throughout my entire military career I had to deal with the eternal question of "finding where the bear $hit in the buckwheat?". I finally found out after I retired and was doing a hail claim on a field of buckwheat near Dauphin, MB.
I visualize three decorated bear war vets around a campfire razing some campers meat supply from the cooler and exchanging war stories.
1st one of his Polish artillery stories.
2nd of his story of being a stowaway surviving the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.
3rd getting his butt rocketed out of a perfectly good supersonic jet.
Not getting in to the polar bears and Kriegsmarine.
1st one of his Polish artillery stories.
2nd of his story of being a stowaway surviving the sinking of the USS Indianapolis.
3rd getting his butt rocketed out of a perfectly good supersonic jet.
Not getting in to the polar bears and Kriegsmarine.
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So the bears are sitting around the zoo one day trading stories on the topic of "how you got here".
"I'm minding my own business, working over a sweet dumpster behind a Taco Bell. I'm just getting down to a bag full of loose grease and some decent burrito stuff and some fishcop shoots me in the ass with a dart. Hurt like a bugger at first, like getting stung, y'know? I felt myself passing out, but I managed to get into that bag. Almost worth it."
"They caught me in a tent in the park. Who sleeps with beef jerky? I got darted too but managed to walk it off. Frickin' live trapped in that culvert thing a couple days later. What can I say? I'm a slave to roadkill."
"You two arseholes got off easy. I was orphaned as a cub when Mom got hit by a train. I was raised in a zoo like this. One day a couple of weirdos in blue suits come in and put the finger on me. Next think I know I'm being shot through the goddamn sky with a rocket up my arse, world's spinning like crazy, ears are popping like that sound birds make when you chew 'em up, and then a hell of a loud bang and it's like I weigh seven thousand goddamn pounds. Got real quiet after that, almost peaceful like. Until I hit the ground. You ever fall out of a tree? JUST like that, but like a really TALL tree, like twenty times Bernie's height."
"Bernie's a grizzly, man. Dude's like CRAZY long."
"Not lying, dude. Hit the ground like boom. Rotten goddamned experience. My mouth felt like it was full of dandelion fluff for a day or so afterward. Head hurt like a bastage. Not sure what they did it for, but it was easily the weirdest thing I've ever been through..."
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The B-58 Hustler was one of the great beauties of 1950's aviation. What a great looking airplane.
Gotta wonder why they picked a bear of all animals. Chimp sound more suitable.
