Back to Spitfires! This is a Mk Vc - the 'c' describes the armament load that could be carried in the wing. There was provision for some permutation of 4 cannon and 4 machine guns although, because of the weight, not all could be carried at the same time. A common configuration was 4 machine guns with 2 cannon as in this example. The Mk V Spitfire was essentially a Mk 1 with a more powerful Merlin engine fitted - nominally 1400 hp compared to just over 1000 hp of the original. However, the actual power available to the pilot depended to some extent on the octane rating of the fuel used. Supplies of 100 octane petroleum were imported from the USA; this high octane fuel was not available to the Luftwaffe and had a significant, but not often mentioned, impact on the air war in Europe.

On July 13, 2025, a remarkable train ran from Amsterdam to Rotterdam: between the 1830 locomotives operating for Rail Force One and the pristine white 7193 881 (Vectron, owned by European Locomotive Leasing), there was a single tank car. Unfortunately, the purpose of the trip is unclear to me. Despite the gloomy weather, I still made the trip to Biezenmortel to take a picture of a train you'll probably never see in this configuration again.

To make the most of the beautiful sun of these days for shooting the full sun I have prepared this configuration: underneath the Lunt LS80T with Halfa filter and above an apochromatic refractor for the Baader Planetarium Herschel Wedge filter (visible light) or the Lunt B600 Ca-K filter

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Wings configuration different from male

Westbound grain loads tackle Bozeman Pass in a 2x3x1 configuration.

Mass generation is not up for your call.

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Le site des dunes de Tadoussac offre une configuration idéale pour l'observation de la migration des oiseaux. En raison de la largeur du fleuve Saint-Laurent, les oiseaux ne se risquent pas à le traverser à cet endroit. Il se crée des couloirs de vents favorables compte tenu de la configuration particulière du fleuve avec le Saguenay et son fjord, Le site des dunes est dégagé et offre à l'observateur un point de vue unique. On voit les oiseaux de proie arriver par-dessus la montagne, quand on regarde vers l'est-nord-est. Un premier couloir passe côté fleuve, à main droite, et on y voit souvent les oiseaux glisser le long de la dune avant de remonter. L'autre corridor passe plutôt côté terre, à main gauche. Ils suivent ensuite le fleuve jusqu'à ce que ce leur soit facile de le franchir, à partir de Québec et plus au sud. Ces temps-ci, un ornithologue professionnel fait le décompte des migrateurs. Sa connaissance des oiseaux est formidable. Il identifie les espèces à distance à leur silhouette et à leur vol. Il peut facilement statuer sur leur âge. Grâce à lui nous avons observé de nombreuses espèces qui nous auraient échappé.

Il y avait activité de baguage des passereaux, le jour, et des nyctales, la nuit, au pavillon des dunes. L'observatoire des oiseaux de Tadoussac, l'OOT, organisait et gérait tout ça.

The Tadoussac Dunes site offers an ideal setting for observing bird migration. Because of the width of the St. Lawrence River, birds do not risk crossing it at this point. Corridors of favorable winds are created given the particular configuration of the river with the Saguenay and its fjord. The site of the dunes is clear and offers the observer a unique point of view. We see the birds of prey coming over the mountain, when we look to the east-northeast. A first corridor passes on the river side, to the right, and we often see the birds gliding along the dune before going up. The other corridor passes rather on the land side, to the left. They then follow the river until it is easy for them to cross it, starting from Quebec and further south. These days, a professional ornithologist is counting the migrants. His knowledge of birds is tremendous. He identifies species at a distance by their silhouette and flight. He can easily decide on their age. Thanks to him we observed many species that would have escaped us.

There was banding activity for passerines during the day and owls at night at the pavilion des dunes. The Tadoussac bird observatory, the OOT, organized and managed all of this.

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Captain Davie described the configuration of the great banking room. "Before conversion, three sets of four teller stations were placed between the square pillars on the right side. Each station included the main parts of classical architecture in reduced size, the horizontal entablature resting on the two vertical columns and consisting of cornice, frieze, and architrave. Strong structures supported a bronze hinged wicket at each of the 16 positions. Some of these groupings have been rearranged to accommodate hotel design requirements."

Although the use of the San Diego Trust & Savings Bank building changed ten years ago, from a bank and offices to a hotel with 245 guest rooms, the original features of the structure remain remarkably intact. The Courtyard-Marriott Hotel, located in the heart of a vibrant downtown San Diego, is a spectacular example of successful readapted use. The hotel stands proud in the bank's place, as the sentinel of an important piece of San Diego history.

Courtyard by Marriott - This excellent example of adaptive reuse was a 1999 People In Preservation award winner. 143

Captain Davie described the configuration of the great banking room. "Before conversion, three sets of four teller stations were placed between the square pillars on the right side. Each station included the main parts of classical architecture in reduced size, the horizontal entablature resting on the two vertical columns and consisting of cornice, frieze, and architrave. Strong structures supported a bronze hinged wicket at each of the 16 positions. Some of these groupings have been rearranged to accommodate hotel design requirements."

Although the use of the San Diego Trust & Savings Bank building changed ten years ago, from a bank and offices to a hotel with 245 guest rooms, the original features of the structure remain remarkably intact. The Courtyard-Marriott Hotel, located in the heart of a vibrant downtown San Diego, is a spectacular example of successful readapted use. The hotel stands proud in the bank's place, as the sentinel of an important piece of San Diego history.

Courtyard by Marriott - This excellent example of adaptive reuse was a 1999 People In Preservation award winner. 140

Configuration for the L22

Thanks to koigon for the basic idea.

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The top of the tennis court net curtain that allows flexibility in court configuration. Closed during play, and open for easy access.

So this is the picture that I've really wanted to take for the past few weeks, and I finally got everything lined up for it!

The vehicle is the same base as my previous picture, but in what I want to call the "Sentinel" configuration with the back changed out for a more armored module and a computer-assisted rocket launcher and machine gun combo on top so multiples of these can pretty much set up in a defensive position and hold their own against the enemy laying down some serious cover fire and firing off four rockets at a time. The rockets can be reloaded manually through the back.

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Benedetto Buffalino – La voiture sur le lampadaire, 2019 - Voiture Peugeot 406 blanche, métal, bois, système d’éclairage

Pour Benedetto Bufalino, chaque œuvre est une nouvelle aventure à imaginer. Ici pour le quartier de Paris La Défense il décide de poser une voiture sur un lampadaire. La voiture, symbole de la modernité du xxe siècle, a été pendant toute une période un élément central des villes, occupant tout l’espace (routes, parkings...). La voiture est un objet essentiel dans l’œuvre de Bufalino.

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Smile, people, it is Friday!

Thank you for staying around and enjoy your weekend!

A robin in our back garden landing on the fork Rachel wasn't at that point using. This is not a Photoshop job!! (Well, beyond a crop, levels, slight sharpen.) I just happened to have the macro lens (f=105mm) on the camera, which helped.

Interesting antennae configuration spotted on top of a tin shed.

Pangasinan Five Star Bus Company

ALMA radio telescope; antennas in compact configuration

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BLUE 1 [ KF • KFB • Bluefin ]

• Country : OH Finland 🇫🇮

• Date : 2003 - 2015

• Group / Part of SAS Group | StarAlliance

• In the past, see also : Air Botnia

Web sitehttp://www.blue1.com

BOEING | B717-2K9 - MSN 55053 LN:5016 # OH-BLN

• Production Site : Long Beach (LGB) 🇺🇸

• Type : MD-95 ( McDonnell Douglas)

• First flight date : 03/12/1999

• Seat configuration : CY115 Seat

• Hex code 7C7BD7

• Engines : 2 x BMW RR BR715

Status : Stored

AIRLINE HISTORY

• 29/12/1999 : Olympic Aviation > SX-BOB

• 11/07/2007 : Spanair > EC-KHX

• 19/12/2010 : Blue 1 > OH-BLN

• RMK : painted in "Star Alliance" special colours

• 05/02/2016 : Cobham Aviation > VH-YQX

• 31/07/2020 : QantasLink opby National Jet Systems > VH-YQX

• Stored 03/2024 To be scrapped

Perched a hundred feet above Hanging Lake in Colorado's Glenwood Canyon, Spouting Rock falls features three separate falls, one above the other in a unique configuration.

Boeing 737 Next Gen - MSN 34157

Status : Active

Registration : C-GWCN

Airline WestJet Airlines

Country : Canada

Date : 1995 -

Codes WS WJA

Callsign : Westjet

Web site : www.westjet.com

Serial number34157 LN:1818

Type737-7CT

First flight date09/11/2005

Test registration

Plane age13.4 years

Seat configuration

Engines2 x CFMI CFM56-7B24

23/11/2005WestJet AirlinesC-GWCN

Southern Shorthaul Railroad’s 4917 & C506 unusually run long end leading from the result of C507 taking half the rake the night before to Temora. The train was seen powering through Bargo as empty grain train 2343 bound for The Rock for grain loading.

Binbrook, August 1982. This aircraft was allocated to the Nimrod MRA.4 programme as ZJ518 and first flew in that configuration on 15 December 2004. It was scrapped on the cancellation of that programme.

Bus Number - 5603

Fare - Airconditioned Regular Fare

Seating Configuration - 2x2x49

Route - Cubao - Mariveles Via San Fernando/Balanga City

Bus Body - Euro Edition

Bus Engine - Nissan Diesel PE6

Aircon System - Denso Overhead A/C

Tranny - M/T

Date Taken - April 9, 2008

Jee, got a Harry Potter look after a use of my portrait in photolab.

Have a nice week everybody and thanks for passing by.

So, here is what’s happening. I was going to show a different equipment configuration because I am planning on using the EOS70D next time round for another go at the gyrfalcon. That would eliminate the need for the 1.4 extender and possibly speed up autofocus a bit. To that purpose, I was diligently testing at home getting some encouraging results even up to ISO 3200. A bit softer but still quite useable and I actually liked that effect. So, since the light turned dark and miserable today, I abandoned that trip and focused on showing my result with this configuration on a female red crossbill. And then of course, I got sidetracked and came across this little beauty (yes, also the female Red Crossbill) in some wonderful lighting conditions that I was unable to resist. The cool thing here is that the water in the birdbath is releasing some steam that is clearly visible in the early morning sun and the light on the bird itself is something that I could not turn a blind eye to. (yes, bad grammar I know). She is obviously quite captivated by the steam as well. No need to talk about her beak or her non-red color. And even though I suspect that she’s an adult female, just on the off-chance she’s not, she will be one soon.

Girl, you’ll be a woman soon – Urge Overkill

Deers

Fleeting glimpse

Dynamic flow

Interconnected events

LeitzWetzlarGermany Elmaron 120mmf2.8

Different configurations of collected steel sculptural forms. Two being magnetic allowing for reconfiguration at the whim of the owner/curator. The diameter of the round base is about 200mm.

Boeing 737 Next Gen - MSN 29933

Status : Active

Registration : C-FYQN

Airline Air Transat

Country : Canada

Date : 1986 -

Codes TS TSC

Callsign : Air Transat

Web site : www.airtransat.com

Serial number29933 LN:1038

Type737-8AS

First flight date06/12/2001

Test registration

Plane age15.8 years

Seat configuration

Engines2 x CFMI CFM56-7B26

19/12/2001RyanairEI-CSTStored 03/2009

01/04/2009Canjet AirlinesC-FYQN

26/04/2014LOT Polish AirlinesC-FYQNlsd from Canjet Airlines

31/10/2014Canjet AirlinesC-FYQNStored 04/2015

29/04/2015JetairFlyOO-CANStored 10/2015

Lsd From Canjet/cit

03/12/2015Air TransatC-FYQNLsd From Cit

Palit sila ni 975..

Bus No: 997

Year released: 1994

Capacity: 53; 2x2 seating configuration

Route: Cubao-Tayug via Dau/Tarlac/Carmen/Rosales/Sta. Maria/Paniqui

Body: Nissan Diesel Philippines Corp.(rehab by Five Star Bus Body)

Engine: Nissan Diesel PE6T

Fare: Airconditioned

Aircon System: Denso LD8 overhead a/c(previously Denso sub-engine a/c)

Transmission System: M/T

Plate No.: AVH-947

Taken on: January 16, 2009

Location: McArthur Highway, Brgy. San Sebastian, Tarlac City, Tarlac

Editor's note: HUGE positive announcement about SLS today. Read all about it here! www.nasa.gov/exploration/systems/sls/

Artist concept of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) 70-metric-ton Block 1 configuration. SLS will be the most powerful rocket ever built for deep space missions, including to an asteroid and ultimately to Mars. The first SLS mission -- Exploration Mission 1 -- will launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft to a stable orbit beyond the moon and bring it back to Earth to demonstrate the integrated system performance of the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft’s re-entry and landing prior to a crewed flight.

Image credit: NASA/MSFC

More about SLS:

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More SLS Artist Concepts:

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Space Launch System Flickr photoset:

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• Date 1980 -

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@ Embraer 195 - MSN 88 - ZS-YDE

• Production Site : Sao Jose Dos Campos (SJK) Brasil 🇧🇷

• Serial number 88

• Type 195AR

• First flight date Unknown

• Test registration PT-SNG

• Seat configuration Y116 Seat

• Engines 2 x GE CF34-10E6

@ Operators of the aircraft

• 29/06/2007 Royal Jordanian Airlines > JY-EMG

• 23/12/2015 BoraJet > TC-YAU

• 25/04/2017 Leasor Gecas > Stored as EI-FLR

• 12/03/2019 Ukraine International Airlines > UR-EMG

• 22/04/2023 Airlink South Africa > ZS-YDE

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The four configurations of cardinal buoys indicate the safe side

of a danger with an approximate bearing. For example, the North cardinal buoy has safe water on its North and the danger on its South side.

Les quatre configurations de bouées cardinales indiquent le côté sûr d'un danger avec un relèvement approximatif. Par exemple, la bouée cardinale nord a de l'eau sûre sur son côté nord et le danger sur son côté sud.

De vier configuraties van kardinale boeien geven de veilige kant aan van een gevaar met een benaderende peiling. Zo heeft de Noord-kardinale boei veilig water aan de noordzijde en het gevaar aan de zuidzijde.

Now with extra added sparkle.

Excerpt from torontobiennial.org/work/augustas-serapinas-at-small-arms...:

Augustas Seripanas’s sculpture originated in Fogo Island, Newfoundland. Created from the material of an abandoned shed on the island, it references the island’s building history as well as the social and functional role of these modest structures. The vernacular architecture found in Fogo is synonymous with life and livelihood lived in tandem with the water, as well as with the houses and sheds built by boatbuilders. Fogo Island is known for its fishing industry, which is deeply marked by the cod moratorium initiated by the Federal Government in 1992 necessitated by decades of industrial overfishing and the subsequent collapse of the regional economy. While cod are making a slow recovery, the fishing ban remains largely in effect. One way the industry recovered was through the community banding together to create fishing cooperatives and diversifying their catch from a single species to crab, shrimp and turbot. The co-ops kept profits within the community and handled the preparation of catch for distribution to outside markets.

The modest wooden sheds, often brightly painted, with peaked roofs, dot the shoreline of the island. They are places to store nets, boats, and equipment, to clean and salt fish, and sometimes, to gather. Augustas’s shed came from Barr’d Islands, where it had gone through different iterations of construction. Locals recalled that this was the third time that a similar structure had been rebuilt with the same materials, each time with a slightly different configuration of nails, wood, flooring, and shingles. The shed has also taken on more contemporary building additions, including vinyl siding, wallpapered panels, and a front door repurposed from another structure. History is held in its walls, too, and visible in its layers of paint and inscriptions.

As a means of speaking to this resourcefulness—the material necessity of making use and reuse of what is at hand—Augustas has continued to transform the shed. With each rebuilding, a new structure is generated from the original materials. The first shed looked something like the original, but walking around it revealed that it was no wider than a closet, purposely narrowed to fit the confines of the gallery entrance. It also functioned as its own shipping container as it migrated to other venues, with the roof fitting into its interior, transforming the entire work into a crate.

In Toronto, the shed will undergo one final transformation. The artist, working together with Sawmill Sid, who runs a local milling service and lumber yard, will take the structure apart piece by piece and remake it into a towering lighthouse. Installed near the waterfront of Lake Ontario, Augustas’s propositional beacon will be visible from the Small Arms Inspection Building. Rather than guiding ships, however, it is a beacon to the transformative potential of even the most humble of materials.

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In a major artwork by Eno, Luminous launches with the lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails.

Like a freeform painting, Utzon’s masterpiece will glow with rich, continuously changing configurations of colour. Presented in association with Smart Light, the sails will remain lit for the three weeks of Luminous.

Explore, June 5 ... Page 1 at #3 ... very humbled, and thanks to everyone that looked :-)

Some configurations somehow turn surreal....... At Goðafoss, a bizarre pattern of constantly moving clouds, periodically changing, diffused, dusk light and a beautiful fall together made a hypnotic configuration.