Random TRANSPORTATION pictures

[Bigtoe32067]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

That’s so funny. I just saw this today.

[GG Allin]

[RWebb]

[JackDidley]

Byron when he sees the bike pic below.

Originally Posted by RWebb

Transportation pic.

[wdfifteen]

Going through files from some of the photo shoots I've done over the years.

[Baz]

[CurtEgerer]

[sammyg2]

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Originally Posted by JackDidley

Byron when he sees the bike pic below.






Transportation pic.

I shed a tear too... Thinking it was a cannondale, until I saw the one piece crankset, and realized this was probably a department store bike. The world is probably a better place with it's passing. Byron, of course, would have seen this better than me and never missed a beat.

In the voice of David Attenborough "This is the natural course of nature, reclaiming department store bikes. It's death will spawn the day for more department store bikes."

[Rtrorkt]

[porsche930dude]

[Baz]

[sammyg2]

Originally Posted by porsche930dude

Interesting story on that, they always covered up or hid that mock-up when the ruskie satellites were passing over-head but the ruskies determined the shape anywho, by measuring the infrared temperature signature on the ground that was in it's shadow.

Or so I've heard.

[sammyg2]

But the USSR was not completely in the dark, it was already aware of the capabilities of the SR-71, even before its first flight. Mainly due to the over overhead satellite reconnaissance that the Soviet Union carried out over important US military installations. In this case the Nevada Test and Training Range at Groom Lake, popularly known as Area-51. While the Americans did try to schedule all flight tests after the satellites had passed, the Soviets used the heating and cooling pattern on the tarmac, as a result of the shadow formed by the aircraft to track any activity. In fact, around 1964 the US Ambassador to the USSR in Moscow was given a sketch of the A-12’s top-down silhouette, forcing the CIA to temporarily ground the A-12 project. During this period the ground crew at area-51 would draw absurd plane shapes on the runway and heat them up with lamps to mess with Soviet intelligence.

https://www.thejetboy.com/sr-71-secrets-of-the-secret-plane/

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[dheinz]

[CurtEgerer]

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[CurtEgerer]