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[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by craigster59

We went hiking and photographing there years ago. Someone had done a petroglyph of a Model T back in the day....

They do a good job of leaving things alone on the high ranges.







The flying there is nothing short of spectacular. I have seen things.

Doris Day, btw, just that certain something.

[GH85Carrera]

[craigster59]

[Rtrorkt]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Our college try at the same cover. Bunch of '70's guys

[flatbutt]

just so cool

[Steve Carlton]

Totally agree. I had a model of a B-58 when I was in grade school. I saved some pics I found of them.

[GH85Carrera]

Run out of juice, and get a tow to the chargers.

[GH85Carrera]

July 27, 1896 The success of the F. L. Graves gold dredge prompted the building of four more dredges along Grasshopper Creek. In April 1896 a second dredge boat was begun. This dredge was built just east of Marysville on the Gold Leaf Placers. A new design was tried using a cutter head and suction method of removing gravel from the creek. The dredge began working on July 27, 1896 but by the middle of August work stopped. The suction design frequently clogged and was not powerful enough so the dredge was redesigned as a double lift connected bucket dredge. The Maggie Gibson after remodeling during the grand launch.

[Steve Carlton]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/roman-coin-depicting-zodiac-symbol-discovered-off-israels-coast-180980495/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_ campaign=20220729-daily-responsive&spMailingID=47171663&spUserID=ODg3NDcwNDgyMTU1S0&spJobID=2283120186&spReportId=MjI4MzEyMDE4NgS2

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/roman-coin-depicting-zodiac-symbol-discovered-off-israels-coast-180980495/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&utm_medium=email&utm_ campaign=20220729-daily-responsive&spMailingID=47171663&spUserID=ODg3NDcwNDgyMTU1S0&spJobID=2283120186&spReportId=MjI4MzEyMDE4NgS2

I get emails from Smithsonian too!
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/sudan-land-kush-meroe-ancient-civilization-overlooked-180975498/

Meroe, 150 miles north of Khartoum, served as a necropolis for the kings and queens of Kush for close to 600 years.

Ruins at the Temple of Soleb, which was dedicated to the Egyptian sun god Amun-RA. The temple's patron pharaohs included Tutankhamen, who had his name inscribed on a red granite lion.

Inside the tomb of King Tantamani, circa 650 B.C, in El-Kurru, the site of royal burials during Egypt’s 25th Dynasty, when Kush conquered Egypt and initiated the reign of the “Black Pharaohs.”

Pyramid tombs at Jebel Barkal from the Meroitic era, dating between c.270 BC and AD 350. The site, near the ancient city of Napata, held special significance for Kush and Egypt, which believed that it was the source of Creation and the birthplace of the sun god Amun-Ra.

[Steve Carlton]

Fantastic magazine. Each month's issue has great nuggets!

[KNS]

[GH85Carrera]

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[craigster59]

[kach22i]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Armorers SSgt George Townsend and Sgt George Barker make ready the dorsal quad Browning .50 caliber machine guns of a P-61 Black Widow night fighter, Saipan, 19 July 1944" (National Archives)

Cool, remote controlled turret.

https://svppbellum.blogspot.com/2021/01/il-northrop-p-61-black-widow-vedova.html



https://plane-encyclopedia.com/ww2/northrop-p-61-black-widow/

As a defensive armament, it was of little practical use, as the radar operator’s illuminated instruments screens degraded his low light vision. The turret was directed by a sighting arm which sat atop a rotating column with firing controls in the grips and fitted with an N-6 reflector sight.

[red 928]

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

1956 model?

[GH85Carrera]

C-5 Galaxy next to C-130 Hercules and a couple of fighters. Still blows my mind how big the C-5 really is.

[GH85Carrera]