Picture of the day
- Thread starter jwhc
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steamy teabag
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Inside Carneys Reich
I hope I can post this here for the historical context...if it is true, this is pretty impressive.
That pictures speaks.
fingers284
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Alberta Cowboy Ranges
That is the one...Thank you.
Eatcherhartout Charlie Brown!
I hope I can post this here for the historical context...if it is true, this is pretty impressive.
Looks to be bs if you dig a little. The four women appeared in the media over 4 years ago as paramedics, and online there are claims the birchenau camp women include a mother and three daughters. As mentioned they could be cousins, or it could be disneyesque malarky. Looks like the later.
Something I just found out.
Curtis flying boat NC-4.The first to fly across Atlantic in May of 1919.It took them 19 days and many stops for refueling and repairs.
Flight was assisted by US Navy by providing ships forming pickets (way points) .One of those ships was USS Thatcher-destroyer much later transferred to Canadian Navy as HMCS Niagra.
That flight took part 2 weeks before much more famous first nonstop transatlantic flight, made by the Royal Air Force pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown two weeks later.
USS Thatcher
Anyone knows any books or films about this event?
Curtis flying boat NC-4.The first to fly across Atlantic in May of 1919.It took them 19 days and many stops for refueling and repairs.
Flight was assisted by US Navy by providing ships forming pickets (way points) .One of those ships was USS Thatcher-destroyer much later transferred to Canadian Navy as HMCS Niagra.
That flight took part 2 weeks before much more famous first nonstop transatlantic flight, made by the Royal Air Force pilots John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown two weeks later.
USS Thatcher
Anyone knows any books or films about this event?
Cottage Hill Bill
CGN Regular
- Location
- Pensacola, FL USA
There is a NC-4 on display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida. It is one of the best aviation museums in the world, easily on par with the Air and Space Museums at Smithsonian. It is free and open year round. Well worth the time to visit. The NC-4 is huge.
Today in history-Richard Joseph "####" Audet DFC shot down 5 German planes making him "ace-in-a-day".
I'm not sure how many Canadians did that but we don't often mention aces here so here is one of them .
https://imodeler.com/2016/05/eduard-148-spitfire-ixe/
https://acesofww2.com/can/aces/audet/
I'm not sure how many Canadians did that but we don't often mention aces here so here is one of them .
https://imodeler.com/2016/05/eduard-148-spitfire-ixe/
https://acesofww2.com/can/aces/audet/
the moment the pilot landed after gunning and running from a ME109
From the Ia onwards , most models with the razor back and Malcolm hood had either a round or rectangular mirror. Models with the bubbletop typically had no external mirror.
The poor rearward visibility on the prototype encouraged the development of the Malcolm hood(bulged) and the mirror.
The poor rearward visibility on the prototype encouraged the development of the Malcolm hood(bulged) and the mirror.
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Dark Alley Dan
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
- Location
- Darkest Edmonton
Happy New Year, folks. I hope 2020 is good to you.
A Polsten triple gun mount.
(Note please that Shirtless Herbie has his second pointing finger ready in case his main pointing finger (Appendage, Pointing, Right Hand, Mk. I) suffers a malfunction. Good preparedness there.)
Also available on a ###y low-profile 6X6 mount and a quad setup.
A Polsten triple gun mount.
(Note please that Shirtless Herbie has his second pointing finger ready in case his main pointing finger (Appendage, Pointing, Right Hand, Mk. I) suffers a malfunction. Good preparedness there.)
Also available on a ###y low-profile 6X6 mount and a quad setup.
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Happy New Year, folks. I hope 2020 is good to you.
A Polsten triple gun mount.
(Note please that Shirtless Herbie has his second pointing finger ready in case his main pointing finger (Appendage, Pointing, Right Hand, Mk. I) suffers a malfunction. Good preparedness there.)
Also available on a ###y low-profile 6X6 mount and a quad setup.
I assume this is a staged picture.
What is the duty of the 4 guys in front? When shooting, that location would be awful hard on the ears.
Where would they be when the gun was in action?
7 members in the crew? Seems like a lot.
These things are pretty labor intensive, check out some videos of AA guns in action. Mostly automated these days, so smaller crews. Two guys just to aim, one for elevation and one for horizontal angle.
Grizz
