Picture of the day

[diopter]

Any guesses?

Here we have a Mongolian cavalry team on the foreground a soldier with binoculars.Notice carefully that he is also a Mergen Mongolian for sniper armed with a very camoflaged SVD Сна́йперская Винто́вка систе́мы Драгуно́ва образца́ 1963 года, Snáyperskaya Vintóvka sistém'y Dragunóva obraz'tsá 1963 goda (SVD-63), officially "Sniper Rifle, System of Dragunov, Model of the Year 1963") caliber 7.62mm x 54mm rimmed with a PSO-1 Rifle scope Where in Mongolia good question but I can assume facing the south?

 

[HuskyDude]

Courteous of the rider to keep the sun out of the horses eye...

 

[Sharps '74]

Horsies have a nap while Daddy shoot bad guys ..... ;>)

 

[diopter]

Horses need gillie suites.

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Courteous of the rider to keep the sun out of the horses eye...

Wonder how long they'd stay that way if things liven up ?

Grizz

 

[The Wizard]

You mean like this one on DH Tiger Moth?They were pretty common way back.Simple,cheap and effective.What's not to like?

Miss Phryne Fisher flies a De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth.

 

[Canadian Hillbilly]

 

[Sharps '74]

I say, my good man, it's a pity you didn't have a spot of tea while flying...

I think a better name for the Dragon Rapide would have been the D-H "Dragon Fly". It just looks so friendly and eager to fly with those beautiful biplane elliptical wings .....

 

[diopter]

I think it "evolved' into the DH-104 Dove.

And then into the military Devon

 

[oldstarfire]

Very glad I never had to see what the men with the flag probably saw......

War is such a waste.

 

[1-trident-1]

Very glad I never had to see what the men with the flag probably saw......

War is such a waste.

they fought and died so you could say that.

 

[Sharps '74]

I think it "evolved' into the DH-104 Dove.

And then into the military Devon

Make that "devolved" and I'll agree with you. The Dove may have been sleek, but lacked the charm of the old school, wooden airframe, fabric covered Rapide.

 

[diopter]

When is riverside building not riverside building? It’s when it’s a 43 thousand ton Battleship fitting out at Kriegsmarinewerft Wilhelmshaven ship yard in 1940. Tirpitz in disguise.

 

[Canadian Sig]

Very glad I never had to see what the men with the flag probably saw......

War is such a waste.

The truly best days of my life were spent at war.....but it is too often waged for wasteful reasons.

 

[Falcorn]

Veteran gunner Clarence Smoyer, 96, poses for a picture in front of a Pz.Kpfw.Panther Ausf.G tank. He just received the Bronze Star, for destroying similar Panther tank in tank duel at the Cologne cathedral, 75 years ago.

Pz.Kpfw.Panther Ausf.G vs Heavy Tank T26E3 in color. Panther killed two Sherman tanks, before being gunned down by E3. Video is age restricted, because of nature of the war.

 

[AP]

Churchill - Fighter

Fort Churchill ... too bad I cant find the original -- this is an old scan

 

[Grizzly Adams]

Veteran gunner Clarence Smoyer, 96, poses for a picture in front of a Pz.Kpfw.Panther Ausf.G tank. He just received the Bronze Star, for destroying similar Panther tank in tank duel at the Cologne cathedral, 75 years ago.

Pz.Kpfw.Panther Ausf.G vs Heavy Tank T26E3 in color. Panther killed two Sherman tanks, before being gunned down by E3. Video is age restricted, because of nature of the war.

I've been there, you'd never know a savage battle was fought there.

Grizz

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Fort Churchill ... too bad I cant find the original -- this is an old scan
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The Hawker Hunter was a lovely machine. Such clean lines.

 

[Ganderite]

The Brits sure made some beautiful airplanes. (and some of the ugliest, too.)

 

[old303]

The Brits sure made some beautiful airplanes. (and some of the ugliest, too.)

The Canadian Vickers Velos was one of ours, though. I suspect a drunken wager on whether a TTC streetcar could be made to fly was part of that deal.