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[GH85Carrera]

The Schofield tank, named after its designer, was a New Zealand tank design of the Second World War. Developed in 1940 when it seemed that the Pacific War might reach New Zealand and with little likelihood of weapons coming from Britain, it did not enter service. It was designed to run on either tracks or wheels.

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I don't know about that, I see some leaks. I'd call him back

[GH85Carrera]

A Valentine tank with a jet engine mounted to it in order to test how effective this would be against minefields - dated 1944.




1937 Delahaye 135MS Roadster







Sangamon mine at Poverty Gulch - Cripple Creek District (Colorado) ca. 1890s

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Originally Posted by daepp

B29 Fun Fact: I read somewhere recently that the B29 actually recorded more overall kills than the P51 during WWII.

"The B-29 had five “sighting stations” that were equipped with what was an analog computer. The computer compensated for airspeed, gravity, temperature, humidity and calculated the amount of “lead” required for the bullets to hit the target. All the gunner had to do was track it long enough for the computer to do its thing. Each gunner had the ability to bring one or more of the bomber’s turrets to bear on the target."

On a recon mission Jay Zeamer and his crew on Ole 666 got into an actual dogfight with zeros.

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That's the most flattering angle I've seen on a Javelin. I much prefer it to the '71-'73 Mustang.

[GH85Carrera]

Salta, Quebrada, Argentina 🇦🇷
Quebrada de Humahuaca is a narrow mountain valley in northern Argentina. It's known for its dramatic rock formations and hills, and its indigenous Quechuan villages. In the south, the rocky, multihued slopes of the Seven Colors Hill rise above the Spanish colonial village of Purmamarca.
The red beds of La Yesera Formation, which are the basal strata of the Salta Rift, accumulated from the Late Neocomian to the Cenomanian. The La Yesera Formation is thicker than 700 meters in the Alemanía sub-basin. The unit is made up of three sections: the lower and upper ones are dominated by conglomerates, and the middle section consists of sandstone and siltstone. It is proposed here to consider these sections as formal members. The lower section, or Yacutuy Member, is composed of alluvial-fan conglomerates and scarce mud-flat sandstone and siltstone. The middle section, previously identified as Las Chacras Member, consists of mud flat siltstone and sandstone. The upper section, or Don Bartolo Member, is composed of alluvial-fan conglomerates and lava flows of the Isonza Basalt.
A cuesta is a hill or ridge with a gentle slope on one side, and a steep slope on the other. In geology the term is more specifically applied to a ridge where a harder sedimentary rock overlies a softer layer, the whole being tilted somewhat from the horizontal. This results in a long and gentle backslope called a dip slope that conforms with the dip of resistant strata, called caprock. Where erosion has exposed the frontslope of this, a steep slope or escarpment occurs. The resulting terrain may be called scarpland.
Cuestas are the expression of extensive outcrops of gently dipping strata, typically sedimentary strata, that consist of alternating beds of weak or loosely cemented strata, i.e. shale, mudstone, and marl and hard, well-lithified strata, i.e. sandstone and limestone. The surfaces of the hard, erosion-resistant rock strata form the caprock of the backslope (dip-slope) of the cuesta, where erosion has preferentially removed the weaker strata. The frontslope of the cuesta consists of an escarpment that cuts across the bedding of the strata comprising it. Because of the gently dipping nature of the strata that forms a cuesta, a significant shift in horizontal location will take place as the landscape is lowered by erosion.

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Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

That's the most flattering angle I've seen on a Javelin. I much prefer it to the '71-'73 Mustang.

Right, the '71-73 mustangs (IMO) were not attractive. Performers, yes, attractive, no.

The Javelin / AMX is similar.

[GH85Carrera]

The Alabama Highway patrol used the 401 Javelins for a while. They sure looked menacing.

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See even other countries have idiots!

[GH85Carrera]

A P-38 Lightning above the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, 1943.




Horse drawn binders and a tractor working in a wheat field. Unknown location, 1911

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Starboard prop is feathered. Good thing it has 2 engines !

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If you can make it to Edwards Air Force Base in Southern California Oct. 14 -16 this is the first time in 13 years Edwards has opened its gates!
The Navy apparently told Top Gun’s producer, legendary filmmaker Jerry Bruckheimer, that China re-oriented spy satellites to get a glimpse of the full-size mock-up they built for filming. Darkstar bears a striking resemblance to artist renderings of Lockheed Martin’s long-awaited follow-up to the SR-71 Blackbird, the hypersonic SR-72. As it turns out, that may not have been by happenstance. According to Bruckheimer and Joseph Kosinski, the film’s director, they actually worked with engineers out of Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works on the design.
Lockheed Martin Skunk Works will put a secret hypersonic airplane on static display at the Edwards Air Force Base airshow from October 14 to 16.. It is the Darkstar full-scale model that is featured in the opening scenes of this year’s hit movie “Top Gun: Maverick.”
The exhibit looks set to be the main attraction, at least on the first day of the show, when some 12,000 students from high schools in the region will attend. Lockheed and the show organizers hope that it will stimulate interest in aerospace careers.
Skunk Works is currently on a hiring drive, having secured multiple, mostly classified contracts from the Pentagon over the past few years. Last year, it opened a new 215,000-sq-ft advanced manufacturing facility at its Palmdale headquarters.
“Darkstar may not be real, but its capabilities are. Hypersonic technology is a capability our team continues to advance today by leveraging more than 30 years of hypersonic investments and development and testing experience,” Skunk Works said when the movie debuted in April.
Rumor and speculation about such developments at Palmdale, California, have circulated for years. First it was the “Aurora” and later the “SR-72.”
Meanwhile, the locally-based Flight Test Museum Foundation (FTMF) will be celebrating the raising of the roof on the new building that it is constructing just outside the main gate at Edwards. The building will replace a smaller museum inside the base that was closed to non-military visitors some years ago for security reasons. So happy to read about the raising of
the roof on what will be a fabulous museum right outside of Edwards Air Force Base open to the public. This is a move that is positive for the Blackbird family~ posted by Linda Sheffield-Miller

[Tervuren]

Air contains water, I wonder which one that water is in.

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

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