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Anyone who likes pictures of Test-Bed aircraft and Lancasters will like this webpage:

https://www.lancaster-archive.com/lanc_photos_testbed.htm

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Avro Lancaster Mk.III ME540 equipped with a nose probe to detect gusts on the aircraft (I translate from English) as part of the development of the Brabanzon.
The goal was to find a solution to mitigate the effect of gusts and provide a more stable flight by acting on the control surfaces.
 
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The Kong Jiang-1 was one of China's first AWACS platforms based on a Soviet-made Tupolev Tu 4 "Bull" bomber equipped with turboprop propellers.
Only one of these has been built.
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Cancelled before it went into production or service. More of an attempt at an airborne early warning (AEW) platform rather than an airborne early warning & control (AEW&C) platform like AWACS.
 
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https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/sncase-sud-est-se-1010.9714/

Start-up of the SNECMA 14R (ex. Gnome & Rhône) engines of the SNCASE SE 1010 prototype outside the hangar in Marignane at the beginning of 1948. This elegant aircraft was a stratospheric aircraft intended for the IGN shots in high altitude. Unfortunately, it will be destroyed in an accident following a flat spin on October 1, 1949. All the crew members were killed in the accident. The project was canceled and the three aircraft under construction were not completed.
 
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diopter, I always enjoy your posts. You find so many incredible pictures of things that none of us have seen or will ever be able to see up close and personal.

Thanx for the effort you put into this.
 
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If It Fits, It Ships!
A D7 dozer with a crane boom hoists the body/shell of a Dodge WC54 Ambulance through the cargo door of a Curtiss C-46 Commando of the USAAF's Air Transport Command, flying over "The Hump", between India and China - 1944
LIFE Magazine Archives - William Vandivert Photographer

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August 1944, Paris, France.
During street fighting that preceded the entry of Allied troops into Paris, a German soldier wounded by a French bullet is disarmed by two members of the *Forces Françaises de l'Intérieur (FFI), *one a woman.
 
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An Italian woman inspects the kilts of Pipe Major William MacConnachie and Pipe Major William Boyd in the Colosseum of Rome, 6 June 1944.
© IWM (NA 16084)

The above picture reminded me of a friend and pistol shooting buddy who died a some years ago. Bob Duplessis, Blackwatch

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In Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, on July 23, 2011, at the age of 89, passed away Mr. Bob Duplessis.
Donations to The War Amps Foundation, 606 Cathcart Street, Suite 530, Montreal (Quebec) H3B 1K9,

He was wounded in the Netherlands, Machine gun. Lost fingers on his right hand and recovered from leg and chest Wounds.

March 1944 in front of Edinburgh castle


April 2008 in front of Edinburgh castle
 
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Umm I don't see a uniform, which a German soldier would have been wearing and the rifle is French

I would say that's a wounded or KIA FFI member, whose weapon is being salvaged by another FFI without one.
 
The North American F.T.B. "Mustang" (1942). It was a project studied by Rolls Royce to install a "Griffon" engine behind the cockpit (like the P-39 Airacobra). The project would reach the mock-up stage before being cancelled in 1943.

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And Fisher XP-75

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diopter said:
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An Italian woman inspects the kilts of Pipe Major William MacConnachie and Pipe Major William Boyd in the Colosseum of Rome, 6 June 1944.
© IWM (NA 16084)

The above picture reminded me of a friend and pistol shooting buddy who died a some years ago. Bob Duplessis, Blackwatch

Duplessis-Robert-i1.jpg


In Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue, on July 23, 2011, at the age of 89, passed away Mr. Bob Duplessis.
Donations to The War Amps Foundation, 606 Cathcart Street, Suite 530, Montreal (Quebec) H3B 1K9,

He was wounded in the Netherlands, Machine gun. Lost fingers on his right hand and recovered from leg and chest Wounds.

March 1944 in front of Edinburgh castle


April 2008 in front of Edinburgh castle
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J'ai très bien connu J.A. Robert (BOB) Duplessis, ayant formé équipe ensemble durant plusieurs années pour des compétitions PPC.

À ce qu'il m'a toujours dit, il aurait été blessé à Caen. Il n'était pas avare pour conté les faits de guerre de son régiment, les "Black Watch".
 
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J'ai très bien connu J.A. Robert (BOB) Duplessis, ayant formé équipe ensemble durant plusieurs années pour des compétitions PPC.

À ce qu'il m'a toujours dit, il aurait été blessé à Caen. Il n'était pas avare pour conté les faits de guerre de son régiment, les "Black Watch".
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Could be my fault, He also talk of the decimation of his unit in the Netherlands, so I may have gotten that mixed up.

C'est peut-être de ma faute, il a aussi parlé de la décimation de son unité aux Pays-Bas, donc j'ai peut-être mélangé ça.
 
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