Picture of the day

[Snider shooter]

Glasgow OTC. What’s attached to their scabbards ?

 

[stewbud]

Glasgow OTC. What’s attached to their scabbards ?

Those look like entrenching tool helves.

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[fat tony]

Rangefinder

Hemso Fortress - museum

Sweden

 

[ipscgraz]

RCAF B-47

 

[tiriaq]

Flying engine test bed?

 

[ipscgraz]

While I was rummaging around I also found these

 

[ipscgraz]

The two only known images of a F-4 phantom performing barrel rolls around a tu-95 "bear" during a routine intercept over alaska.

Funnily enough, it was reported that the Tu-95 crew requested the stunt and were delighted at the sight of it

@xAviation via X

 

[Consults]

While I was rummaging around I also found these

That list to get the Battle of Hastings is missing a huge number of battles, rather pathetic how much they skipped to get ti it! The Ottomans alone lost about 50,000 in the Battle of Vienna in 1683 (the anniversary of battle with the Hussars charge was last week) then there is the Polish sides losses probably 5 or 10,000, totally missing Gettysburg and Battle of Waterloo.... the Chinese Waring states battles, the Romans and Carthage, the Persians and Greeks had battles with tens of thousands dead, the Romans lost 3 legions in Gaul, Islamic army invasions into India had huge numbers, Mongols were huge too...


Beings it just came up.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/threads/poland-history.1662670/page-2#post-21434947

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

The Lady of the Lake:



Somewhere in Alaska, apparently. Stripped out and pushed into a pond off the end of a runway, or so the story goes.

 

[Dark Alley Dan]

Airspray's lineup of A-26's at Red Deer, c. 1981:

 

[Dosing]

I remember these from back in the day



Then saw this… hmmmm… lil green paint and a tarp….

 

[fingers284]

I remember these from back in the day
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Then saw this… hmmmm… lil green paint and a tarp….View attachment 1212061
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Two of those yellow babies in a Premier Auction next week if you want one. Auction is 1/2 mile from my house so can pick up for you and use-store it until you can come get!!

 

[mcpiper]

 

[Dosing]

Two of those yellow babies in a Premier Auction next week if you want one. Auction is 1/2 mile from my house so can pick up for you and use-store it until you can come get!!

LOL, ya I checked, my apartment building wont let me drive it in the halls. Honestly if i lived on an acreage, I would have bought that one.

 

[Consults]

Martlet off a picture of an old postcard

 

[stirlingsmg]

Martlet off a picture of an old postcard
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[stirlingsmg]

Grumman F4F Wildcat , renamed Martlet by the British for service on Royal Navy carriers

 

[ipscgraz]

Completed F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs are seen in storage awaiting transfer to the Pacific front at the Naval Lighter-Than-Air Station in what is now Tustin, California (1944).

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Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had predicted that, "for a while we’ll have everything our own way, stretching out in every direction like an octopus spreading its tentacles. But it’ll last for a year and a half at the most." This photo is why.

 

[woodchopper]

Completed F6F Hellcats and F4U Corsairs are seen in storage awaiting transfer to the Pacific front at the Naval Lighter-Than-Air Station in what is now Tustin, California (1944).

(description continues
Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto had predicted that, "for a while we’ll have everything our own way, stretching out in every direction like an octopus spreading its tentacles. But it’ll last for a year and a half at the most." This photo is why.

took me a second to figure out what the picture was, the sheer scale of the hanger is staggering.

 

[Donny Fenn1]

took me a second to figure out what the picture was, the sheer scale of the hanger is staggering.

There is a hangar like this near Tillamook, OR. They are truly massive.