Picture of the day

[Rob]

 

[Dosing]

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

No jaywalkers on Kurt's watch...

 

[fat tony]

Freikorps?

"Friend, do you have any spare doorknobs and canvas sacks I might borrow?"

 

[R005t3r]

Ja, Freikorps.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

French Navy Vought F8-E Crusaders:

Great looking bird.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The Philippines operated them as well:

And one civilian operator flew an F8 for a time - Thunderbird Aviation out of Arizona:

 

[Rob]

 

[Pete04]

LOL
^^ wait till the range narzies catch those two!!
LOL

 

[R005t3r]

But wait, there's more!

The XF8U-3 Super Crusader, first flew on 2 June 1958. Despite claims by many books and articles that the aircraft reached Mach 2.6 at 35,000 ft (10,670 m) during testing, the maximum speed achieved was Mach 2.39. Normal operating speed was no more than Mach 2.32. Some sources state that Vought projected a top speed of Mach 2.9 with the tail rocket installed. The windscreen and most aluminum airframes were not designed to withstand the effects of kinetic heating at speeds of more than Mach 2.35 and would tend to get a little melty, LOL! Still a cool looking airframe.

 

[R005t3r]

LOL
^^ wait till the range narzies catch those two!!
LOL

Ya see,that was the problem. The war would have been over sooner had we not stomped all over Europe looking for Narzies.

 

[HuskyDude]

How many sailors does it take to clean a deck gun ?

 

[Rob]

Go Cong River, 1967

 

[fwm]

Go Cong River, 1967

Would make yourself a pretty tempting target if you lit up the light I would think

 

[R005t3r]

Would make yourself a pretty tempting target if you lit up the light I would think

That is a reasonable proposition. The light however is a focussed beam. Hence seeing it as a target one could reasonably assume it was pointing at you. Along with the light you would most probably be experiencing incoming fire from that M2 Browning; thereby mitigating your ability to return fire. Unless of course you're an idiot.

 

[R005t3r]

Go Cong River, 1967

Kinda looks like a 'Lance' doesn't he.

 

[CV32]

Camera equipment lined up for nuke tests at Bikini in 1946, arrayed in front of FB-29J “Suella J” of 16th Photographic Reconnaissance Squadron.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Kinda looks like a 'Lance' doesn't he.

Very first thing popped into my mind.

"Where's the puppy, man?"

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

By the end of WW2, the Swiss had quite a collection of other nation's aircraft.

But what of the interned aircrew? Well, many of them ended up staying as "guests" in beautiful Wauwilermoos Penal Camp, a place pretty much awful in most regards. A former internee recollected...

...the beds were wooden planks or some of them were only straw on the floor ... American prisoners were subjected to physical and ###ual abuse, starvation, freezing, disease-ridden conditions and virtually no hygiene facilities ... [the camp] was exactly like, if not worse than, any POW camp in Germany, it was horrible.

Nice.

 

[I Dont Care About You]

By the end of WW2, the Swiss had quite a collection of other nation's aircraft.
.

If you look it up there was a case of an air battle of Me109's vs Me109's. Swiss vs German during the war.