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Existence well what does it matter?
I exist on the best terms I can.
The past is now part of my future,
The present is well out of hand.
The present is well out of hand.
Heart and soul, one will burn.
Heart and soul, one will burn.
One will burn, one will burn.
Heart and soul, one will burn.
(Joy Division - Heart and soul)
This well-preserved and partially restored six-storeys high tower house is betweeen Lough Doo to the W and Lough Aslaun to the E, it was once the largest in Ireland. It was in existence in 1574 when it was in the possession of 'John Oshagnes' it remained in O'Shaughnessy ownership until 1697 when it was confiscated. The tower has a gabled roof and a slight base-batter. It is protected by two bawns and is centrally located in the inner one. It is accessed by a pointed arched doorway in the N wall, which leads to a small lobby with a murder-hole overhead. Doorways off the lobby access the spiral staircase to the E and the main chamber to the S. The doorway to the guardroom to the W is blocked up and that room is now accessed by a robbed-out doorway at the W end of the N wall of the main chamber. The ground and upper floors each consist of a main chamber with a subsidiary one to the N, with the exception of the 5th floor where the wall which separated the chambers has been destroyed; this is now an open area floored by concrete. Stone vaults exist between the 1st and 2nd floors, and between the 4th and 5th floors of the main chambers. All the other floors were wooden and were carried on corbels, some of which survive in the E and W walls. A barrel vault also exists over the guardroom; otherwise the floors of the subsidiary chambers were also wooden. Again all are gone part from that at 1st-floor level which survives intact. Intramural passages between the main and subsidiary chambers on the 1st and 4th floors accessed garderobes at their W ends. Fireplaces in the W wall on the 2nd and 3rd floors and in the S wall on the 5th floor are later insertions; that on the 2nd floor partially blocks an ogee-headed window. From the 5th floor stairs lead to the wall-walk and attic. The S gable is intact and carries a chimney but the N gable no longer survives. There is also a chimney on the W wall. Angled bartizans survive on the NW and SE corners at 2nd-floor level, and on the top of the tower at the SW corner there is a semicircular machicolation. At this level on the NE corner three corbels indicate the former presence a similar defensive feature. A projecting string course is visible at the top of the walls, and between the chimney and the SW bartizan enclosed crenellations survive. Windows vary from narrow rectangular lights on the stairwell to single, double and three-light round and ogee-headed windows in the subsidiary and main chambers.
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Day 19/51
It does exist some where in the depth.
Canon Powershot SX30 IS, f5.6, shutterspeed 1/100, ISO200.
A previous existence as a military parachutist helped Patrick Baty on this project. The 185ft bridge had to be scaled at night, when the trains had stopped running, in order for paint samples to be taken.
See the BBC clip here.
He was able to establish that this famous bridge by Isambard Kingdom Brunel had originally been painted with a white “anti-corrosive” paint containing ground glass. The bridge had been painted twenty times and with a combination of physical and documentary analysis Patrick was able to work out how it looked since it was built in 1859.
I just love those moments when it just finished raining, and the sun is laying perfectly over everything.
The Bell AH-1 Cobra (also called HueyCobra) owes its existence to the Vietnam War. While the proof of the air cavalry concept was being proven every day, the US Army was also losing huge amounts of helicopters to ground fire. Equipping the troop-carrying “slicks” with door guns helped, and arming the UH-1 Iroquois/Huey with weapons was another interim solution. Clearly, however, the solution lay with a dedicated attack helicopter that could defend the troop carriers.
Bell, the manufacturer of the UH-1, had been also experimenting with a concept of a heavily armed, turreted, and thin fuselage helicopter. The US Army awarded a proof-of-concept contract to Bell, which replied in a heavily modified Model 47 called the Sioux Scout. It failed to win any orders, but Bell kept at it even as the Army pursued the far more complicated and expensive AH-56 Cheyenne. This resulted in the Model 209, based on components of the UH-1 and the original conceptual design.
With the Vietnam War intensifying and the Cheyenne going nowhere, the Army issued a requirement for an interim solution, which the Model 209—built and tested in only eight months—won easily. The Army ordered 110 AH-1Gs in April 1966 and the type was in action in Vietnam a year later. It was highly successful there, and successive marks of the Cobra would continue to fight in America’s wars since—Grenada and both Gulf Wars. US Army Cobras were upgraded continually in the 1980s, resulting in a dizzying number of variants: the AH-1S (with upgraded engine), AH-1P (with flat glass windscreen), AH-1Q (with TOW missile system), AH-1E (with 20mm gatling cannon in nose turret), and AH-1F (with laser rangefinder and countermeasures). In 1988, the Army finally gave up and redesignated the whole lot as AH-1S.
US Army Cobras were finally retired in 2001, but USMC Cobras remain in service, with the fleet being converted to AH-1Z Kingcobras. Israel, Iran, and Pakistan likewise have used and continue to use their Cobra fleet, and it is generally considered to be the most successful and prototypical attack helicopter.
As is usual with most helicopters, very little can be found of the career of this AH-1F, 68-17063. Given its delivery date, it probably was originally built as an AH-1G and was later upgraded to an AH-1F in the 1970s; as such, 68-17063 might have seen combat in Vietnam. It is known that the helicopter's last assignment was with the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment (Tennessee National Guard), and it was retired sometime after 2000. It was then donated to the Veterans Memorial Museum at Chehalis, Washington.
68-17063 retains the older overall olive drab finish of US Army helicopters, along with the markings of the 1st Cavalry Division and the 7th Cavalry Regiment; the infamous 7th Cavalry was attached to the 1st during the Vietnam War, though the 7th may not have gotten Cobras until after Vietnam. The elaborate sharkmouth was probably not Army regulation, but some AH-1Gs did carry sharkmouths this large--plus it looks cool. I got this picture on a cloudy Washington morning in May 2024...the clouds having just robbed me of a chance to see Mount St. Helens.
Some people may moan about the present cold spell, however there is always a silver lining and some of the sky scenes have been awesome recently and many a time have I wanted to pull over and take a shot during work; this is exactly what I did on this day. This is in a parking area on the A46 en route to Newark.