Picture of the day

When we see highly polished Mustangs at airshows these days, it's easy for us to forget that they were hard working, quasi-disposable weapons systems back in the day. Kinda neat to find pictures of them looking serviceable but ratty.

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Especially one with the Malcolm hood.

I still like the looks of the razor back P-51B. Pilots lamented that it too closely resembled the profile of the Me109, making it a target for trigger happy AA gunners.
 
Those are likely props owned by photographer.Very much non-guns yet one on the right looks a bit like French Gras .Bayonet on her also looks like Gras/Chassepot issue.

I'm wondering if this photo wasn't made 20 some years later,right after WW1 ended.Greeks fought Turks very hard in Western parts of Turkey in those days.
 
And a latter-day reproduction/restoration:

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Just the thing for those difficult Monday morning commutes.[/QUOTE]

Are pesky rice burners with over-sized mufflers cutting you off, jacked-up half tons hogging the left lane, are the pair of 60s and m2s just not getting the job done, while worry no more cause our newest route clearing hauler now comes with an added chain gun. Traffic issues will be a thing of the past!! Holy crap thats a lot of firepower!
 
Easy and cheap way to get around fast.

The Swiss Army used to have bicycle troops until a couple years ago. We still use bicycles for some roles, like for guards to cover a whole base quickly.
 
Kampfhamster said:
Easy and cheap way to get around fast.

The Swiss Army used to have bicycle troops until a couple years ago. We still use bicycles for some roles, like for guards to cover a whole base quickly.
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Unlike those poor fellows in the picture I'm willing to bet you had proper bikes, built appropriately for the job. Those bikes look like street bikes pushed into service and likely subject to perpetual break downs.

Bicycles were used by a lot of different armies as a cheap method of transport and even as cargo carriers. I spoke with a fellow that had been a Viet Cong fighter. He was very young when he was pulled into service for the PEOPLE and never could get over his fear of firearms. So, his Comrades put him to work hauling cargo between Cambodia and Viet Nam. His vehicle was a Chinese built bicycle. He was expected to start with 100 kilos of rice and get to his destination with 80 kilos. His rations came out of his cargo. There wasn't supposed to be anyone to trade with along the trail but of course there always was. He would trade rice for fish and chicken when it was available.

DAD certainly comes up with some very interesting pictures. Thanks DAD.
 
On a related note in the bad old days before quads I used to use a bike to haul deer out of the heavy timber in New Brunswick via game trails and it sure beat dragging or carrying. I gave it up in favor of a length of aluminum stepladder mounted over a dirt bike wheel on struts which let one man handle either end.
 
Bearhunter, you're very welcome. It's fun finding the more obscure stuff. :)

Diopter, those Swiss bikes are very nice kit. Have you ridden one? They look heavy. Not 50-pound-steel-frame-single-speed-at-the-Somme heavy, but certainly not hill climbing/homesick angel material. I could bear being proven wrong, as I really like the concept. :)

There was an article about a year ago in Bicycling magazine about a guy who uses a mountain bike for elk hunting in Wyoming. Has a lot of success. Very quiet way to cover far more ground than walking, smells better than a horse...
 
The bike in the link is the newer 1993 model. We had the 1912 model. I hated it in NCO school and I will never again ride one. Built like a tank. Indestructible. Only one gear. Still have flashbacks when I remember the final EX in NCO school.
 
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