2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

IWO JIMA.
Air Force personnel receiving coffee from "Coffee Shop Number 2" on Iwo Jima, Bonin Islands.
ORIGINAL HISTORIC WARTIME CAPTION. (NARA)




Nowhere else in the country, except Louisiana, could you post this sign. And Louisiana natives know what it means.


Post war auction yard full of CCKWs. The GMC factories produced more than 300 trucks per day, for five years in a row

[Racerbvd]

Famed 'American Pie' bar in Saratoga Springs turns 50.

Tin & Lint owner Jim Stanley in his bar with his dog Scarlett on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020, in Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Stanley is sitting in the booth where musician Don McLean began writing the song American Pie one night in the summer of 1970.

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[GH85Carrera]

Happy Birthday Aunt Sue!!


March 21st - on this day in 1964, the Soviet Union made another attempt to conduct the first soft landing of a spacecraft on the Moon. The launch took place from Gagarin's Start at Baikonur, using a Molniya-L rocket.
The spacecraft was the fourth in the Ye-6 series to be launched. E-6 n°6, as it was called, never reached orbit, though, due to a failure of the launch vehicle's Blok I stage. This was the fourth of eleven failures of Soviet lunar landers in a row. In January, 1966, Luna 9, the 12th lander launched, succeeded in achieving humanity's first landing of a robotic spacecraft on the Moon, preceding the U.S. Surveyor 1 lander by about 4 months.




The X-43 is the fastest jet-powered aircraft on record at approximately Mach 9.6, flying at approximately 7,000 mph at 110,000 feet in altitude and setting the current world speed record for an air-breathing vehicle.
A winged booster rocket with the X-43 placed on top, called a "stack", was drop launched from a Boeing B-52 Stratofortress. After the booster rocket (a modified first stage of the Pegasus rocket) brought the stack to the target speed and altitude, it was discarded, and the X-43 flew free using its own engine, a scramjet

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[GH85Carrera]

"Manhattan switchboard operators", part of a shoot by Eliot Elisofon for LIFE magazine, 1962.
Actual legs as workplace trip hazards!

[Seahawk]

I knew his daughters, Elin and Jill, well. My Mom was best friends with Joan, who married Whitney Towers are Eliot passed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Elisofon

I own the house next to Joan and Whitney...now owned by other.

Joan and Whitney treated me amazingly well. RIP.

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

"Manhattan switchboard operators", part of a shoot by Eliot Elisofon for LIFE magazine, 1962.
Actual legs as workplace trip hazards!

Good friends van:

[john70t]

[kach22i]

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/304284

[kach22i]

The Ford Motor Company GAA V8: The Best Sherman Motor
https://www.theshermantank.com/sherman/the-motors-four-motors-made-it-into-production/

The motor started life as a V12 Ford had designed to compete with the Rolls Royce Merlin, after a deal to produce the RR engine fell through. Ford was incensed that a deal could not be worked out and decided to build his own V12 aircraft motor. When he tried to sell it to the Army he was turned down, but later when the army needed tank motors he used the V12 as a basis for the V8, by removing 4 cylinders. As a tank motor, it was under very low stress putting out only 500 horsepower, and could have been really upped in horsepower with a few tweaks.

This motor does not get much credit for how advanced it was. The much talked about, and unreliable as hell, German Maybach HL 230 P30, the motor used to power the Tigers, and Panther tanks, was not nearly as advanced, or as reliable as this amazing V8. This V8 is apparently the largest gas-powered all-aluminum V8 ever produced. It has some very advanced features, even for a modern V8, like a one-piece cast aluminum block with dual overhead cams and four valves per cylinder a true, dual, overhead, cam, motor, or DOHC. It had a very innovative 8-way power drive system for its accessories, like the generators, fuel and water pumps, and two magnetos. The motor used no belts or chains, everything was gear and shaft driven.

[GH85Carrera]

Newly built F4U Corsair and F6F Hellcats being prepared to be shipped to the Pacific theatre, USA, 1944. On October 1, 1940, the XF4U was the first single-engine US fighter to exceed 400 mph. Not only was she fast in a straight line but also in a dive too, attaining speeds of up to 550 mph.








The 1921 Oldsmobile Truck that was the original “Beverly Hillbillies” car today is in the Ralph Foster Museum, located on the College of the Ozarks campus. The Ozarks were where the Clampett family first lived before they struck it big in oil and moved to California in the show..

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by Capt. Carrera

Try Googling, "Equal Credit Opportunity Act, 1974."
No quip, but I erroneously assumed everyone was aware of this. I was in high school when this passed, and I was thrilled by the news. Even so, in college I was still presented with three majors suitable for females, Nursing, Elementary Education, or Mrs.

My sister, and my wife, started college around this same time. Both said "screw that!" to such limitations, both got engineering degrees instead (petroleum and chemical, respectively). Attached are pics of my sisters and my wife with me, and my wife in college.

[GH85Carrera]

The Horse Manure Problem of 1894
The 15 to 30 pounds of manure produced daily by each beast multiplied by the 150,000+ horses in New York city resulted in more than three million pounds of horse manure per day that somehow needed to be disposed of. That’s not to mention the daily 40,000 gallons of horse urine.
In other words, cities reeked. As Morris says, the “stench was omnipresent.” Here are some fun bits from his article:
Urban streets were minefields that needed to be navigated with the greatest care. “Crossing sweepers” stood on street corners; for a fee they would clear a path through the mire for pedestrians. Wet weather turned the streets into swamps and rivers of muck, but dry weather brought little improvement; the manure turned to dust, which was then whipped up by the wind, choking pedestrians and coating buildings.
. . . even when it had been removed from the streets the manure piled up faster than it could be disposed of . . . early in the century farmers were happy to pay good money for the manure, by the end of the 1800s stable owners had to pay to have it carted off. As a result of this glut . . . vacant lots in cities across America became piled high with manure; in New York these sometimes rose to forty and even sixty feet.
We need to remind ourselves that horse manure is an ideal breeding ground for flies, which spread disease. Morris reports that deadly outbreaks of typhoid and “infant diarrheal diseases can be traced to spikes in the fly population.”
Comparing fatalities associated with horse-related accidents in 1916 Chicago versus automobile accidents in 1997, he concludes that people were killed nearly seven times more often back in the good old days. The reasons for this are straightforward:
. . . horse-drawn vehicles have an engine with a mind of its own. The skittishness of horses added a dangerous level of unpredictability to nineteenth-century transportation. This was particularly true in a bustling urban environment, full of surprises that could shock and spook the animals. Horses often stampeded, but a more common danger came from horses kicking, biting, or trampling bystanders. Children were particularly at risk.
Falls, injuries, and maltreatment also took a toll on the horses themselves. Data cited by Morris indicates that, in 1880, more than 3 dozen dead horses were cleared from New York streets each day (nearly 15,000 a year).

[Seahawk]

Awesome.

Oldest sister a Doc, next up a lawyer then me, dash three, a bit of a disappointment.

Society, here, was an impediment: but go anywhere else and best of luck.

We ***** about things yet the rest of the world gets in leaky boats to try and get here.

Originally Posted by Jim Horton

My sister, and my wife, started college around this same time. Both said "screw that!" to such limitations, both got engineering degrees instead (petroleum and chemical, respectively). Attached are pics of my sisters and my wife with me, and my wife in college.

[GH85Carrera]

[Heel n Toe]

[GH85Carrera]

B-29 'Enola Gay' undergoing modification at the Oklahoma City Air Depot. Photo from the Tinker Air Force Base History Office archives.




This photo taken in 1848 is the first in the history of photography ever used to illustrate a news story. The photograph shows the Rue Saint-Maur-Popincourt in Paris, full of barricades that were used in a battle between government forces and demonstrating workers
More: https://thetravelbible.com/mysterious-archaeological-finds/




The interior of the Long Branch Saloon in Dodge City, Kansas. Not much like the TV show Gunsmoke.

[john70t]

[GH85Carrera]

Dismantling German defenses on the island of Heligoland

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High school gym teacher Leonard Skinner holds the latest album by a band of his former students Lynyrd Skynyrd.








1922 Persu automobile.
Aurel Persu was a Romanian engineer and pioneer car designer, the first to place the wheels inside the body of the car as part of his attempt to reach the perfect aerodynamic shape for automobiles. He came to the conclusion that the perfectly aerodynamic automobile must have the shape of a falling water drop, taking it one step further toward that shape than the car Austrian Edmund Rumpler had presented in Berlin in 1921.
Persu, a specialist in airplanes aerodynamics and dynamics, implemented his idea in 1922–1923 in Berlin, building an automobile with an incredibly low drag coefficient of 0.22, still rare among cars today. This drag coefficient was far better that the 0.8–1.0 common with automobiles used at that time..!