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The Republic F-105 Thunderchief was an American supersonic fighter-bomber used by the United States Air Force. Capable of Mach 2, it conducted the majority of strike bombing missions during the early years of the Vietnam War; it was the only American aircraft to have been removed from combat due to high loss rates. It was originally designed as a single-seat, nuclear-attack aircraft; a two-seat Wild Weasel version was later developed for the specialized Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses (SEAD) role against surface-to-air missile sites. The F-105 was commonly known as the "Thud" by its crews.
As a follow-on to the Mach 1 capable North American F-100 Super Sabre, the F-105 was also armed with missiles and a rotary cannon; however, its design was tailored to high-speed low-altitude penetration carrying a single nuclear weapon internally. First flown in 1955, the Thunderchief entered service in 1958. The single-engine F-105 could deliver a greater bomb load than some American heavy bombers of World War II such as the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress and Consolidated B-24 Liberator. The F-105 was one of the primary attack aircraft of the Vietnam War; over 20,000 Thunderchief sorties were flown, with 382 aircraft lost including 62 operational (non-combat) losses (out of the 833 produced). Although less agile than smaller MiG fighters, USAF F-105s were credited with 27.5 kills.
During the war, the single-seat F-105D was the primary aircraft delivering heavy bomb loads against the various military targets. Meanwhile, the two-seat F-105F and F-105G Wild Weasel variants became the first dedicated SEAD platforms, fighting against the Soviet-built S-75 Dvina (NATO reporting name: SA-2 Guideline) surface-to-air missiles. Two Wild Weasel pilots were awarded the Medal of Honor for attacking North Vietnamese surface-to-air missile sites, with one shooting down two MiG-17s the same day. The dangerous missions often required them to be the "first in, last out", suppressing enemy air defenses while strike aircraft accomplished their missions and then left the area.
When the Thunderchief entered service it was the largest single-seat, single-engine combat aircraft in history, weighing approximately 50,000 pounds (23,000 kg). It could exceed the speed of sound at sea level and reach Mach 2 at high altitude. The F-105 could carry up to 14,000 lb (6,400 kg) of bombs and missiles. The Thunderchief was later replaced as a strike aircraft over North Vietnam by both the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II and the swing-wing General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark. However, the "Wild Weasel" variants of the F-105 remained in service until 1984 after being replaced by the specialized F-4G "Wild Weasel V".
From Wikipedia:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-105_Thunderchief
This aircraft
USAF Serial: 62-4375
View a four part video walk through tour of the museum on my YouTube channel here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJppqw_6g14&list=PLMVOdgHWU6B...
Photo by Eric Friedebach
Sullivan Island Beach - we entered at the area next to the Sullivan Island lighthouse - Station 18 1/2. It was still overcast from the rain shower we had the Boone Hall Plantation earlier.
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It turns out there's a buckeye tree in the backyard; the neighbors had to tell us. I was able to identify the black walnut in the middle of the yard, but had paid absolutely no attention to the other tree further back.
Buckeyes are a surprisingly big deal 'round these parts, being the mascot of a certain Big 10 school just down the road; fans often festoon themselves with these nuts when attending various sporting events.
I just like their color, and the satisfyingly smooth way they slide out of their pod-shells when they ripen.
This photograph fulfills Requirement 2. It is a picture of the Jordan Hall at Stanford University. To take a picture with no vertical vanishing points, I had to find a building where I could have a large amount of distance and the least amount of obstruction. Since I was out in the daylight, I had to set the aperture to f/22.0 on a moderate ISO of 800. With post processing through Adobe Lightroom, I manual transformed the vertical to create proper alignment of the building to meet the requirement.
Here at the Markelton post office I was caught off guard by this eastbound mixed manifest on track 2.It was a long train with two mid train DPU's.
Montacute House is a late Elizabethan mansion with garden in Montacute, South Somerset.
An example of English architecture during a period that was moving from the medieval Gothic to the Renaissance Classical, and one of few prodigy houses to survive almost unchanged from the Elizabethan era,[3] the house has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade I listed building,[1] and Scheduled Ancient Monument.[2] It was visited by 125,442 people in 2013.[4] Designed by an unknown architect, possibly the mason William Arnold, the three-storey mansion, constructed of the local Ham Hill stone, was built in about 1598 by Sir Edward Phelips, Master of the Rolls and the prosecutor during the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters.[5]
Sir Edward Phelips' descendants occupied the house until the early 20th century. For a brief period the house was let to tenants, one of whom was Lord Curzon, who lived at the house with his mistress, the novelist Elinor Glyn. In 1931, it was acquired by the National Trust.
The house is maintained by the National Trust. Its Long Gallery, the longest in England, serves as a South-West outpost of the National Portrait Gallery displaying a skilful and well-studied range of old oils and watercolours.
Montacute and its gardens have been a filming location for several films and a setting for television costume dramas and literary adaptations. Wikipedia
T Coronae Borealis is a recurrent novae in the constellation Corona Borealis (also known as the Blaze Star). It is expected to go nova at any time between March and September, 2024 and likely in August. It does this about every 80 years.
This is an annotated version of the original which can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/mcintyre_sj/53973313608/in/album-72...
Corona Borealis (CrB) is the crown shaped constellation normally consisting of 7 dim to moderately bright stars that form the crown. One night this month there will suddenly be 8 stars in CrB. Fortunately CrB is currently south west in the sky about mid way up. It's barely visible from urban skies but stands out nicely in semi-rural skies.
This is just a nova, not a super nova, so it won't be exceedingly bright. But one night, there will be a new star in the constellation Corona Borealis which will shine as bright as Alphecca - the current brightest star in the constellation.
When it does go nova, T CrB will brighten within a few hours from magnitude 10 (which requires a large aperture telescope to see), to magnitude 2, which is easily seen with the naked eye from semi-rural skies. (Polaris, the North Star, shines with magnitude 2.2.).
It should remain this bright for a few days to a week before vanishing again for another 80 years.
Corona Borealis (CrB)
Northern Crown
α-CrB (Alphecca) mag 2.24, 75 ly
β-CrB (Beta) mag 3.65, 112 ly
γ-CrB (Gamma) mag 3.80, 146 ly
δ-CrB (Delta) mag 4.57, 165 ly
ε-CrB (Epsilon) mag 4.13, 242 ly
ι-CrB (Iota) mag 4.96, 312 ly
θ-CrB (Theta) mag 4.06, 380 ly
η-CrB (Eta) mag 5.02, 58 ly
T -CrB mag 10, 2,630 ly
T -CrB Nova mag 2
Harry has a habit of sitting by the net of the ping pong table. Tonight the table isn't used for ping pong, but for soldering while facing the tv.
Fremantle (/ˈfriːmæntəl/) is a major Australian port city in Western Australia, located at the mouth of the Swan River. Fremantle Harbour serves as the port of Perth, the state capital. Fremantle was the first area settled by the Swan River colonists in 1829.[2] It was declared a city in 1929,[3] and has a population of approximately 29,000.[1]
The city is named after Captain Charles Fremantle, the English naval officer who established a camp at the site on 2 May 1829.[4] The city contains well-preserved 19th century buildings and other heritage features. The Western Australian vernacular diminutive for Fremantle is Freo.[5] The Nyungar name for the area is Walyallup.
Mount Auburn Cemetery is the first rural cemetery in the United States, located on the line between Cambridge and Watertown in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Boston.
With classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain,[2] it marked a distinct break with Colonial-era burying grounds and church-affiliated graveyards. The appearance of this type of landscape coincides with the rising popularity of the term "cemetery", derived from the Greek for "a sleeping place." This language and outlook eclipsed the previous harsh view of death and the afterlife embodied by old graveyards and church burial plots.[3]
The 174-acre (70 ha) cemetery is important both for its historical aspects and for its role as an arboretum. It is Watertown’s largest contiguous open space and extends into Cambridge to the east, adjacent to the Cambridge City and Sand Banks cemeteries. It was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 2003 for its pioneering role in 19th-century cemetery development.
Wikipedia
On Wednesday, August 28, 2013, we went with the Brakes to a Bridgeport Bluefish game. They played the Camden Riversharks and wound up winning 3-2. It was an overcast night with ominous skies, but it turned out to be a perfect night for a ballgame.
1. I chose this filter because I thought it was cool and I like how it interchanged the colours of the photo
2.It enhanced my image by showing a different element to the photo
Wondabyne is a small railway station located next to Mullet Creek, which connects 6km down to the Hawkesbury River. The stations platforms are only a few metres long and it is the other station in Australia that has no road access.
The station appears to be only used by those doing water activities on the adjacent creek (there is a pontoon next to Platform 1, the creek side), and those bushwalking through the escarpment next to Platform 2).
It is quite a walk to the nearest road.
Garden in Diamond Hill, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The garden has an area of 3.5 hectares. It garden is designed in the Tang Dynasty-style with hills, water features, trees, rocks and wooden structures.
The garden was a joint project of the Chi Lin Nunnery and the Hong Kong Government.[1][2] It opened to the public on November 14, 2006.[2]
(Wikipedia)
I look majorly peeved in this one and I'm not sure why. Unfortunately it's the ONLY pic I took of myself today so I'm stuck with it. I was actually in a great mood when I took it because I was leaving the AAC after watching the Stars whoop up on the Rangers by winning 10-2. It was freaking awesome. I love hockey, have I mentioned that?
5-10-12 Day after vinegar was sprayed it rained all day. Was afraid it got washed away. Day 3 it looked like this. Guess it does work! Will have to buy more + finish yard :)
Day 41, Year 2
It's Orientation Day tomorrow which means classes start next week. As usual there's so very much to do and lots of late nights. I almost forgot to take a 365Days shot before I went to bed.
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SXSW Music Festival
3/20/09
2) It seems that brides very rarely use full veils now-a-days, and if they do, they don't pull it over their face. I like to take at least one portrait with the veil pulled down for an old-glamorous look.
Tecs: No flash, window light.
The Ibn Tulun mosque: A view from the minaret (2). It shows the roof of the Emir Sarghatmish mosque-madrasa.
This photo was taken by my iphone7 on April 2. It was about 8 pm and I was on my way to get some food, and I saw this tree with eyes looking at me.
So I googled when I back home, this tree is called Quaking Aspens with bright green and yellow leaves and striking white bark. and the eyes are called Aspen eyes. These aspen eyes form when the tree “self-prunes” by dropping smaller branches that don’t receive enough sunlight and that leaves a scar on the trunk of the tree.
Mount Hope Cemetery is a historic cemetery in southern Boston, Massachusetts, between the neighborhoods of Roslindale and Mattapan. It was established in 1852 as a private cemetery, and was acquired by the city five years later. It is the city's first cemetery to be laid out in the rural cemetery style, with winding lanes. It was at first 85 acres (34 ha) in size; it was enlarged by the addition of 40 acres (16 ha) in 1929. Its main entrance is on Walk Hill Street, on the northern boundary.[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on September 25, 2009.
Wikipedia
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It's so hot out there that even after a brief, drenching downpour this morning, the flowerbeds were parched by the afternoon.
Bonus wren in the comments!
Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts, was founded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery" or "rural cemetery". With classical monuments set in a rolling landscaped terrain,[2] it marked a distinct break with Colonial-era burying grounds and church-affiliated graveyards.
Wikipedia
My very first SLR the Pentax Spotmatic 2. It was also the first SLR to be imported with through the lens metering (TTL). This is a 35mm film camera
Got my Modern Warfare 2. It's great. I suck. But I'll be playing more to get better. It's still a blast & I have my days where I'm on fire.
The red kite (Milvus milvus) is a medium-large bird of prey in the family Accipitridae, which also includes many other diurnal raptors such as eagles, buzzards, and harriers. The species is currently endemic to the Western Palearctic region in Europe and northwest Africa, though formerly also occurred just outside in northern Iran.[2] It is resident in the milder parts of its range in western Europe and northwest Africa, but birds from northeastern and central Europe winter farther south and west, reaching south to Turkey. Vagrants have reached north to Finland and south to Israel, Libya and Gambia.
After leaving checkpoint 2 it, unfortunately, started to hail again. We swore that after being so cold the day before in the hail (because we stopped and took cover under trees) that if it happened again we would just push on. But those hail stones hurt! So here we are under a tree again. I can't remember the names of the guys who took this photo, but they were hiding in the woods too.
Day 155, Year 2
It's been pretty cold at the moment. While Shay is away, and when Celyn is tucked up in bed, it's nice to get an early night and catch up on a few video podcasts.
What I want to express in this group of photos is that the girl actually has TWO boyfriends (shown in 2). But her boyfriend in 1 does not know the fact and still love her. That is the 'truth' he missed.
I asked the girl to wear club clothes and make up a little bit so she looks like a kind of mean girl. But she actually is a good girl in reality.
Body languages are most important for these two photos.
1.Both photos were taken in my house. I asked models to act like a couple and love each other so much.
2.It is occult here for the boy in photo 1. He did not know another guy was kissing his girl’s hand at the other side when he was whispering to his girlfriend this side.
this is what 250 all star ballots looks like. 16 players x 250 ballots = 4000 pieces of confetti (assuming no hanging chads) and a free diamondbacks license plate from the MVD! note: it's more fun if you can convince your friends and nearby spectators help punch your ballots. note 2: it takes about 3 innings to do 250 of them. note 3: Augie Ojeda now has at least 125 write in votes.
Combos:
1 Cobalt & Dorothy Who
2 It's up to Blue & Holo Blue
3 Art Lofty Toffee & Hue lft a Msg
4 Purple Pizzaz & Gone Wish'n
5 Wild Wisteria & Purple Xing
6 Charcoal & Born to the Purple
7 Charcoal & Chunky Black Holo
8 Big Spender & Firework
9 Celb City & Grand Finale
10 Silver Sweep & Winter Wonderland
11 Awakening & Rockstar Pink
12 Beetle & Chunky Black Holo
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