Picture of the day

[CV32]

Looks like VF-41 Jolly Rogers flying off a Nimitz-class carrier (Nimitz, Eisenhower, or Carl Vinson?). The USN really did a nice job with the paint schemes on the Tomcats in the 70's and 80's.

Likely CVN-68, Nimitz. I think they changed the fighter paint scheme to grey for the Vinson and Eisenhower already.

It is USS Nimitz. But those F-14A Tomcats are from VF-84, not VF-41. (The Jolly Rogers nickname has belonged to a number of differently numbered squadrons.)

 

[shredder]

It is USS Nimitz. But those F-14A Tomcats are from VF-84, not VF-41. (The Jolly Rogers nickname has belonged to a number of differently numbered squadrons.)

You are correct, my bad.

Don't know why I thought VF-41.....

 

[Sqr]

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[Dark Alley Dan]

"Grosse Hermann" had one too:

Not sure how many Libarace-ish powder blue dress uniforms His Corpulence had, but I've seen one at the IWM in London. Quite a lot of material.

Jail food slimmed him up some before he finshed the job.

 

[grelmar]

Same squadron as Wop May.

Correct... But even more than that, really.

Wop May and A Roy Brown were 209 Squadron. At some point after the downing of Richthofen (the date is a little hazy), the design of their squadron patch was changed to the "Fallen Eagle" patch, to commemorate the downing of Richthofen.

209 squadron was de-activated (briefly) after WWI, then re-activated, absorbed into another squadron, re-activated, and so on, and so on, and so on...

But the patch remained.

So now that 209 squadron is an Air Cadet unit, on their shoulders they bear a patch designed specifically to commemorate the death of a specific individual enemy:

 

[Bubba Yugga]

Wow, I wish my Air Cadet Squadron number meant more than just an old Chevy small block (283)...

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

A Sherman of the Kuomintang Army, China, WW2.

Meanwhile, on the Marshall Islands, the lads bring home a souvenir...

 

[Belzebuth666]

Beats adding tracks for extra armor...

 

[grelmar]

Wow, I wish my Air Cadet Squadron number meant more than just an old Chevy small block (283)...

http://www.raf.mod.uk/history/283squadron.cfm

 

[Canadian Sig]

Wow, I wish my Air Cadet Squadron number meant more than just an old Chevy small block (283)...

Hell, mine was just 22 Sqn. Lol

 

[Countryscooter]

Mine was 133 Technical Squadron. Not much glam to that. Essential though

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Here's a classy off-roader - the Mercedes Benz W31:

Hillclimbing? Why not?

Got some mates coming into town? Drive 'em around, see the sights...

And if you stand on the seat, you get a "commanding" view.

 

[Gibbs505]

 

[MarkCNP]

 

[diopter]

Any idea which museum? Ukraine?

 

[NavyShooter]

Looks Russian. Ish.

 

[CV32]

Any idea which museum? Ukraine?

Tula State Museum of Arms in Russia.

 

[Brookwood]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The Turks flew a LOT of different aircraft during and after the war.

Everything but Italian and Japanese types.

 

[diopter]

Not to try with an AR(Non Piston).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8MCiixMZGY

There is a reason the Seals like the Sig 550.