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Ford Australia | 1994 Ford DC LTD | 302 V8 TI9990
Former Government Ministerial car 'CR1' which is the number plate for the New Zealand Prime minister's offical car.
Note the remote face Tait T2000 RT behind the gear shifter, phone is in way.. this is what was originally used in these cars during Government use.
Location | Cenotaph Road | Auckland Museum
Auckland Domain
Auckland | New Zealand
04 Mar 2009, WASHINGTON, DC, United States --- Pulitzer Prize winning photojournalist Nick Ut and Kim Phuc (R), the subject of his 1973 Pulitzer Prize winning photograph, reunite in Washington March 3, 2009. Ut took one of the most recognized photographs of the Vietnam War of the then 9-year old Kim Phuc running away from the napalm fire and screaming in pain. REUTERS/Hyungwon Kang (UNITED STATES) --- Image by © HYUNGWON KANG/Reuters/Corbis
chiến thắng Pulitzer phóng viên ảnh Nick Út và Kim Phúc (R), chủ đề năm 1973. Pulitzer bức ảnh chiến thắng của mình, đoàn tụ tại Washington ngày 03 Tháng 3 năm 2009. Út đã là một trong những hình ảnh được công nhận nhất của cuộc chiến tranh Việt Nam của sau đó 9 tuổi Kim Phúc chạy ra khỏi đám cháy bom napalm và la hét trong đau
The lovely DC flag flying over the SW waterfront near the seafood market.
Blogged:
www.princeofpetworth.com/2012/09/dear-popville-looking-fo...
Milano AC/DC mediolanum forum
URAGANO AC/DC - Quei ragazzotti venuti dalla provincia musicale australiana erano destinati a far tremare il pianeta con il loro hard rock. Lo hanno capito le tre generazioni che hanno riempito il Mediolanum Forum, godendosi uno show iperbolico tra memorie e fradicia sbronza visionaria. Un lungo video in apertura rimbalza tra cartoon e videogame, e poi una vecchia locomotiva è lì a dominare il mega palco. L'irrefrenabile chitarra di Angus non vuole darsi tregua: il carismatico leader degli AC/DC saltella col suo “passo d'oca” a ridosso della voce di Brian Johnson, ruvida come la carta vetrata per l'apertura in gran stile di Rock 'n roll Train. Sembrano schegge impazzite e se ne accorgono gli sbarbatelli sotto il palco che forse ciondolavano ancora nella culla quando gli Ac/DC hanno cantato l'ultima volta in Italia.
BLACK ON ICE - Lapilli di rock dall'ultimo album Black on Ice e, senza tregua, la feroce rincorsa a saccheggiare le radici con Back in Black e You Shook Me, tirando il fiato per qualche secondo prima dell'ultima discesa agli inferi. Una campana gigante rimbomba sul palco e il coro dei quindicimila canta Hells Bells, aspettando di risalire con Let there be rock, Tnt, Shoot to thrill. Il basso di Williams e la batteria Rudd ci danno dentro e, quando sparano i cannoni, l'apoteosi si rischiara con il finale di For Those About To Rock. Fuochi d'artificio, effetti speciali, grande lezione di musica, ma il tempo è passato troppo in fretta. Troppo presto per riflettere sui giganti della storia del rock, troppo veloce per evitare di tornare nelle nostre gabbie quotidiane, ancora più difficili da smantellare se non ci fosse stata la musica degli Ac/Dc, per una sera, ma anche per una vita intera.
FOTO: FRANCESCO PRANDONI
By the 1950s, transcontinental flights across the United States had become much easier than they had been 20 years before--instead of six or seven stops for fuel, airlines now regularly made just one with their Douglas DC-6s or Lockheed Constellations. It was still not enough for Cyrus "C.R." Smith of American Airlines, however: he wanted an airliner that could fly nonstop. Given FAA regulations that limited crew flight time to eight hours, the new design would need to be able to make that trip in exactly that time.
Douglas was approached by Smith, but only agreed to try when Smith placed an order for 25 DC-7 aircraft before the new airliner was even designed. Douglas used the tried and true DC-6 as a basis, giving the new design a three foot increase for more passenger and fuel capacity. The DC-6 used Pratt and Whitney R-2800 Double Wasps for propulsion, but to make the DC-7 faster, Douglas used Wright's more powerful R-3350 Duplex Cyclone. Testing went smoothly enough: the prototype flew in May 1953 and American put their first DC-7 into revenue service in November of that year. As advertised, the DC-7 made the trip nonstop in just under eight hours.
Though American could now boast of nonstop flights from New York to Los Angeles, DC-7 crews reported problems early in the new airliner's service. To make the trip in under eight hours' time, the engines had to be redlined, causing several failures and subsequent diversions.
Douglas responded with the DC-7B, which introduced yet more powerful engines and more fuel in extended engine nacelles; this brought the DC-7 to the attention of Pan American, which could now fly DC-7Bs nonstop across the Atlantic from New York to Paris. Flying back was problematic, since the DC-7s would have to fly back against the wind, so Douglas developed the DC-7C, which increased the wingspan by ten feet and lengthened the fuselage by an additional three. This not only gave the DC-7C plenty of fuel for transatlantic flights, it now made "Great Circle" transpolar flights possible, and reduced transpacific flight fuel stops to just one. For this reason, Douglas billed the DC-7C as the "Seven Seas."
With the DC-7C, Douglas and its customers now had a reliable transatlantic aircraft, but for the DC-7, technology had left it behind. The DC-7 had entered service just after the deHavilland Comet jet airliner, and the DC-7C was quickly superseded by Boeing's jet 707 and Douglas' own jet DC-8. Continued engine issues meant that the DC-7 would be retired from many airline fleets even before the older but more reliable DC-6, and the secondary airline market did not really need the longer range (and higher operating costs) of the DC-7. As a result, only 338 were built, and comparatively few survived to the modern era. At least 17 are known to still exist, and a few are still flying as cargo aircraft, either in South America or in northern Canada; a few were also converted to firefighting aircraft, though again the DC-6 was preferred in that role.
Tucked in among all the modern aircraft either awaiting new owners or the scrapper's torch is this DC-7C, N777EA. It is Phoenix Goodyear Airport's longest resident, having been there since 1976, the year it last flew. It also has the distinction as being the last DC-7 ever built.
Originally built for KLM in 1958, it made an incredibly long delivery flight for its time, from Los Angeles to Paris nonstop. It was not with KLM for long before being sold to Interpublic Inc. in 1962. Interpublic had the interior completely redone in a plush executive layout, and it was used by the company, though occasionally it was also lended to Lady Bird Johnson for ski trips from Texas to Wyoming, prior to her husband Lyndon becoming President in 1963. It was sold off in 1967, and went through several oil companies, culminating in the Pyramid Oil Company, which bought N777EA in 1973. The aircraft was grounded at Phoenix Goodyear in February 1976, though it was kept in flyable condition.
And there it has remained. Rumors swirl around this aircraft: the interior is still kept up and is intact; that the owner of the Pyramid Oil Company intended to use it to fly Christian missionaries, but the project never came to fruition; the owners keep it ready to offer it to no less than Jesus Christ when He returns in the Second Coming as a personal transport.
Whatever the case, N777EA remains at Phoenix Goodyear, slowly fading in the Arizona sun. If it is well-maintained otherwise (and it certainly looks it, despite the faded exterior), it would be one of the last flyable DC-7s, and priceless to warbird and classic aircraft enthusiasts. Seeing it was certainly a surprise to me in June 2020.
Douglas DC-3 Dakota departing runway 24 at Glasgow in the colours of United States Army Air Force in the 1980's
Live Mural by Art Under Pressure - 1342 U St NW
Art Under Pressure will sponsor the creation of a new mural near their new 1342 U Street location. The mural will be a typographical celebration of U Street’s illustrious past. Titled “The Return of Black Broadway.” The mural will feature a quote from DC Hip-Hop elder, Head-Roc, who’s album with the same title, marks it’s 10-year anniversary. Art Under Pressure Artists in Residence Eric B. Ricks, Cory L. Stowers, Ernesto Zeleya and more, will install the mural during the DC Funk Parade as part of the celebration.
See: funkparade.com
May 3, 2014 is Washington, DC's first Funk Parade: Funk Parade was begun by two people who love Washington, DC, live music, and the U Street neighborhood: Justin Rood, a lifelong DC resident, and Chris Naoum, whose organization Listen Local First has helped hundreds of musicians find audiences and gigs throughout the Washington area.
The project has since been embraced by dozens of local businesses, neighborhood groups, community leaders, musicians and artists, who have pledged their support to the event. They hope you will join them and the mighty Funk Parade!
see: funkparade.com
I have posted 290 pictures of Obama supporters at the DC Pride Parade and Festival from last weekend.
When you find the picture of you, I hope you will click on the "F" - Facebook Logo that automatically "shares" the picture to you Facebook page. When you do that, it's like an electronic bumper sticker. If you make my picture your "profile picture," then every time you comment, there will be a picture of you representing President Obama showing up on each of your friends' pages for all of their friends to see.
300 pix is a lot to slog through, I know. But, to you right, are "Collections." Inside the 2012 Collection are four sets of the pictures from June 10 & 11. One set, labeled "DC Pride" has all 267. Besides that, to make the search slightly easier, I have sorted into "Pride Men," "Pride Women," and "Mixed Gender Couples and Groups." I hear you saying "did he not get the memo at all???? "How could anybody go to the Pride events and think gender comes in two flavors?" or "who is he to try to sort us into "M" and "F"???
I probably hurt some feelings because it's likely I put some folks in categories where they don't belong, but I decided that if I made it easier for people to find their picture, then more folks would find their pictures, download and use their picture, and if anyone wants me to take their picture out of one category or another, I'm happy to do that. Send an email to MdFriendofHillary Gmail com.
Ed Kimmel
4801 is centre of a blue DC sandwich on the Tranz-Alpine waiting to leave Christchurch in April 2004