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Operator: Go North East
Depot: Deptford, Sunderland
Fleet Num: 674
Registration: NK16 BXR
Livery: Black/Red Base (Potentially Black Cats)
Bodywork: Optare Solo SR
Chassis: Optare M925
Location: Peterlee Bus Station
Route: X-Lines X6 to Sunderland
Operator: West Coast Motors
Fleet Num: 11606
Registration: YS16 LML
Livery: citylink air
Bodywork: Irizar i6
Chassis: Scania K360EB4
Location: Glasgow Buchanan Bus Station
Route: AIR to Glasgow
Operator: ELR Bury Diesel Group
Livery: BR Blue
No: 37109
Service: Rawtenstall to Heywood
Location: Bury Bolton Street
Manufacturer: Mitsubishi (Under Licence)
Operator: Japan Self Defence Force
Type: F-15J fighter aircraft 32-8827) "Eagle"
Location: Hyakuri JASDF Air Base
Operator: Swedish Air Force
Aircraft: Saab JAS 39C Gripen
Registration: 39248
C/n: 39248
Time & Location: 11.06.2017, EFSI, Finland
Remarks: Seinäjoki Airshow 2017.
The Lynx mk3 variant was an enhanced version with a Westland WG30 tail boom and rotor, Gem 60 engines, and new wheeled tricycle undercarriage. Only one prototype ZE477 was built and first flew in 1984.
RNAS Yeovilton - Air Day Static Lynx 40th Anniversary
Operator: GB Railfreight
Location: Shoeburyness
Platform: 1
Class: 66
Number: 726
Type: Diesel Locomotive
Origin: Broxbourne Down Tamper Siding
Destination: Broxbourne Down Tamper Siding
Date: 26th October 2015
Kii Battleship
Class overview
Operators: Imperial Japanese Navy
Preceded by: Ise class
Succeeded by: Iburi Class
Planned: 8
Completed: 8
General characteristics
Type: Fast battleship
Displacement: 51,500 tons (normal)
Length: 250.4 m
Beam: 34.8 m
Draft: 9.8 m
Installed power: 170,000 shp
Propulsion: 4 shafts
4 × geared steam turbines
Speed: 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Armament:
4 × twin 460 mm (18.1 in) guns;
12 155mm guns in four triple turrets;
6 double 127 mm AA guns;
102 47mm guns in 34 triple turrets;
Armor:
Waterline belt: 400 mm
Deck: 180 mm (5 in)
This is the second battleship class used by Japan during the “Alternate World” Second Russo-Japanese war, the Kii Battleship, in 1947.
More images here: www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=535949
And now a “little” of What if Story:
In 1919, shortly after the end of the First World War, the Americans invited the World Powers of the time to a conference in Boston to stop the “Battleships Race” in existence at the time between the US and the empires of Japan and the United Kingdom (in the real world, this appended in Washington in 1921). The US had an ambitious plan of building 50 battleships on the next 10 years; so costly that would make the United States almost bankrupt. Therefore, the Americans decided to reduce their battleship fleet to only 15 battleships and stop all new ships under construction. Therefore, the Colorado Battleships were sunk as targets, together with many other older battleships. However, things were even worst for Japan; after the conference, Japan was only allowed to have 8 ships-of-line and one of them needed to be converted into a training vessel. The two almost complete battleships of the Nagato class were cancelled and their hulls used for target practice and numerous testings. The Amagi battlecruisers, the Tosa and Kii battleships, which were just starting to be built, were immediately cancelled. With only 7 operational battleships, Japan virtually lost any chance of ever winning a war against the US.
Therefore, attempts were made to transform the US into a new ally, especially after Britain refused to continue the defensive treaty with Japan after 1921. To achieve this, Japan supported all interests of the United States on the Pacific region, while Japan could advance and expand to China. This was only possible because the dangerous and charismatic Mao Tze Tung achieved power in China in 1926, transforming China into a huge and dangerous enemy for both Japan and the US. American and British relations also became worst, after the Americans demanded the payment of every guns, ammo and food sent to England during the war, with very high Taxes…
With this, Japan could effectively expand into China… but things got a little different in 1928. In 1928, the Kzarin of Russia decided to revenge the Romanov family and above all else, the loss of the First Russo-Japanese war. To achieve this, she started a huge naval program (52 battleships and battlecruisers, 10 huge aircraft carriers, almost 80 cruisers and 400 other ships!). Amongst other things, the Kzarin wanted to conquer both China and Japan (and maybe prepare a massive invasion of the United States in 1950)…
With such a large fleet, Japan was simply doomed. Since Russia wasn’t at the Boston Conference (and since the Kzarin did everything she wanted), Russia was free to start its huge naval program. First, the Russians decided to build their new ships with the help of the British, which supported Russia, starting with 16 battleships of the Sevastopol class, armed with nine 406mm (16,0”) guns, 28knots of speed and 320mm of armour, faster and better protected than any battleship in the world at the time (only Hood, Renown and Repulse were faster).
If Japan wanted to survive, new ships needed to be built as a response immediately; but how? At the time, the Japanese industry represented just 3% of the world Industrial Power while Russia (after the so called Russian Miracle) represented 31% (4% more than the US). It was just a matter of time before the 50 Russian battleships were completed and ready to destroy Japan. So if quantity wasn’t the solution, quality was.
Japan therefore decided to build their new battleships with more armour, speed and guns than any other nation in the world. Since the United States were at the time crossing the crash of the Wall Street in 1929, Japan was free to start the construction of the new ships.
Still, during that period, the Japanese never stopped developing and testing new things, for example the construction of a series of aircraft carriers for training and extensive tests on the hulls of the two Nagatos to develop new techniques to improve the defence of their battleships. Much was also learn with the help of many American designers who started working for Japan during the Wall Street chaos.
The Japanese therefore started the construction of a powerful class of 8 new battleships, based on the cancelled No. 13 design, which was extremely secret at the time. They called to this new ship class, the “Kii”s. The 8 old battleships and battlecruisers of the Japanese navy were slowly removed from service since they were considered by now obsolete; every time a Kii was completed, one old ship was removed. New tests were performed on those old ships and the new lessons learn were applied to the next battleship class, the “Iburi”s and some improvements were also performed on the “Kii”s.
Heavily armoured to survive 406mm shells and heavy weight torpedoes, the “Kii”s were designed to fight various enemy ships at the same time. The main belt of armor along the side of the vessel was 400mm (16 in) thick, with additional bulkheads 305mm (12.0 in) thick beyond the main-belt. Furthermore, the top hull shape was very advanced, the peculiar sideways curving effectively maximizing armor protection and structural rigidity while optimizing weight, a techninc recently developed in Japan. Armor plates in both the main belt and main turrets were made of Vickers Hardened, which was a face-hardened steel armor. Deck armour—180 millimetres thick—was composed of a nickel-chromium-molybdenum alloy.
The ship was also heavily protected against Torpedoes; special bulges and a great number of counter flooding devices were installed. In total, the vessels of the kii class contained 970 watertight compartments to help control flooding. The most recent battleship completed by the United States at the time, the USS West Virginia (BB-48) had only maximum armour of 457mm (turret face) and 343mm on belt armor while the typical Russian battleship of time had a maximum belt armor of 320mm.
The primary armament of the Kii class was eight 45-caliber 460mm (18,1”) guns in four twin-gun turrets, two each fore and aft of the superstructure, firing a 1,550-kilogram (3,420 lb) shell at a muzzle velocity of 800 meters per second (2,600 ft/s). These huge guns, the largest in the world at the time, were kept in secret and special covers were put on the front of the barrels to deceive every body about their true size. The Russians only discovered the size of those guns during the Second battle of Tsushima, when 18,1” started to pierce the Russian battleships. The secondary battery consisted of 12 155mm guns mounted in triple turrets on the sides of the ship. The ships' anti-aircraft defenses consisted of twelve 127mm guns mounted in 6 double turrets.
In addition, the “Kii”s carried 24 47mm automatic anti-aircraft guns, primarily mounted amidships. When refitted in 1944 for the naval engagements against Russia, the number of 47 mm anti-aircraft guns was increased to 102.
To direct and control the main and secondary artillery against the enemy ships initially the ships had a very old and ineffective system with very high shell dispersion. The Americans therefore provided an advanced targeting radar to Japan in 1942 together with the latest (for the time at least) analogic targeting computers, providing unparallel precision for the Japanese warships at the time.
With the recent appearance of the Aircraft Carrier and the British Battlecruiser Hood (armed with eight 380mm guns and 30knots of maximum speed), the new Japanese battleship needed to be faster than the preceding class. To achieve this, 170 000 horsepower was provided through four huge steam turbines. Although all Japanese aircraft carriers were still faster, the Kiis were at the time the fastest battleships in the world, achieving 30,5knots during trials fully armed. That feature was also kept in secret until 1937, everybody thinking that they were only capable of achieving 25 knots.
Operational Story:
Once the new ships became operational during the 30´s, they were heavily used on naval games, trainings and occasionally strikes against the Communist China. A number of times these ships travelled to Pearl Harbor and even to the San Diego Naval Base, to perform courtesy visits. The American admirals became great friends of their Japanese equivalents, because Japan was in every way the shield of the United States on the Pacific against Russia and China.
When war was declared by Russia, all 8 “Kii”s were operational and ready to defend the nation. They formed two separate naval squadrons; each one with four “Kii” battleships (eight 460mm guns each), four “Nishi” Heavy Cruisers (fifteen 254mm guns each ship), 1 “Iwate” Aviation heavy cruiser (nine 254mm guns each ship), 4 “Osasa” Light cruisers (fifteen 155mm guns each ship), 2 Aso Anti-aircraft cruiser and 10/14 destroyers, therefore a very powerful battery of 32 460mm guns, 60 254mm guns, 108 155mm guns and around 300 torpedo tubes, plus reloads.
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Eínon
Operator | Victory Liner, Inc.
Fleet Number | 7101
Classification | FirstClass-Airconditioned Bus
Coachbuilder | Almazora Motors, Corp.
Model | SR MAN Modulo HOCL R39
Chassis | PBMR39
Engine | D2066LOH
Suspension Type | Airsuspension
Seat Configuration | 2x2
Maximum Capacity | 49+2
Shot Location | Cubao, Q.C
Taken in the old telephone exchange at Sherbrooke Village.
Sherbrooke is famous regionally for being the home of Sherbrooke Village, an open-air museum. Sherbrooke Village employs the majority of residents in the area; estimated to around 100 full-time and seasonal workers. There are approximately 30 buildings including include a working blacksmith shop, a pottery shop, a water powered lumber mill (located off site), a tea room (restaurant), and several animal barns (sheep, horses, cow, chickens, turkeys, and peafowl or peacocks). Sherbrooke village is the largest component of the Nova Scotia Museum complex; it open in the summer from June to October and at select times the rest of the year.
Operator: United Kingdom Air Force (RAF)
Aircraft: Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4
Registration: ZJ916
C/n: 057/BS007
Time & Location: 05.08.2021, Helsinki, Finland
Remarks: Kaivopuisto Airshow 2021
Pete was the night shift #2 Sander Operator for the finishing side of the plant. All the panels we received from the particleboard side were rough out of the presses. Pete's job was to receive the panels coming from the presses, grade them and sand out any imperfections on them.
Pete was a good friend and we stayed in contact even after the plant closed. He passed away a couple of years ago from diabetes complications.
Everyone there had a nickname or two. Pete was known as "Pedro", a translation from Spanish, or by "Peter". When you heard "Peter, what the hell are you doing up there?" you knew he probably blew a belt on the sander and it was going to down for awhile! Sometimes we called him "Peedro" as well. We were far from politically correct but we had a grand time!
Shot with my Sony MVC-FD100, which appears to be the only one on Flickr?
Date Taken: December 21, 2015
Basic Details:
Operator: Worthy Transport, Inc.
Fleet Number: A-326
Classification: Air-Conditioned City Operation Bus
Seating Configuration: 3x2 Seats
Seating Capacity: 58 Passengers
Body:
Coachbuilder: Sta. Rosa Motor Works, Inc.
Body Model: Sta. Rosa Exfoh
Chassis:
Chassis Model: Nissan Diesel SP215NSB
Layout: Front-Longitudinally-Mounted Engine Rear-Wheel Drive
Suspension: Leaf Springs Suspension
Engine:
Engine Model: Nissan Diesel FE6-T
Cylinder Displacement: 6.9 Liters
Cylinder Configuration: Straight-6
Engine Aspiration: Turbocharged
Max. Power Output: 205 hp @ 2,800 rpm
Peak Torque Output: 588 N.m @ 1,400 rpm
Transmission:
Type: Manual Transmission
Gears: 6-Speed Forward, 1-Speed Reverse
* Some parts of the specifications may be subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice...
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Operator: Horseman Coaches of Royal Berkshire
Make/Model: DAF (LF)/Noone Turas 900S
Registration Number: RX22 BZY
P1100432
Operator: Sanders Coaches Ltd
Fleet No: 502
Registration: S156JUA
Body/Chassis: DAF SB220 Optare Delta
Chassis No: DE02GSSB220 005938
Seating: B53F
New: September 1998
Ex: --
Livery: Sanders Services
Date: Saturday 15th February 2014
Location: Sanders Coaches, North Walsham
Route: --
Operator | Baliwag Transit, Inc.
Fleet Number | 1807
Classification | Regular-Airconditioned Bus
Coachbuilder | Hino Motors Philippine Corp. (Pilipinas Hino, Inc.)
Model | Grandeza
Chassis | RK1JST
Engine | J08C-TK
Suspension Type | LeafSpring Suspension
Seat Configuration | 2x2
Maximum Capacity | 49+2
Shot Location | Munoz, Q.C
An extremely... fast jet boat in a zig zag motion!
Their exciting moment frozen in time, with smiles included!
Thank you for taking time to stop in for a visit, always appreciated my friends!!
Operator : LOT - Polish Airlines
Aircraft : Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner
Registration : SP-LRC
Airport : London Heathrow (LHR / EGLL)
Photo Date : 10.07.2018
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Bus Operator: GV Florida Transport, Inc.
Fleet Number: GD12
Area of Operation: Provincial Operation
Seating Configuration: 2x1
Seating Capacity: 29+1
Bus Manufacturer: Del Monte Motor Works, Inc.
Model: Golden Dragon XML6127 Marcopolo Replica
Chassis: Hino RM2PSS
Engine: Hino P11C-TH
Suspension: Air Suspension
Taken at: Earnshaw St., Sampaloc, Manila, Philippines
*Specifications are subjected for verification and may be changed without prior notice.
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Operator: Precious Grace Transport / Grace Joaquin
Bus No.: 8816
Bus Body: 2014 Santarosa PKB
Chassis: PKB212N
Engine: FE6D
Route: NAIA (Pasay City) - Grotto (San Jose Del Monte, Bulacan) via EDSA / Fairview
Operator: United Kingdom Air Force
Aircraft: Eurofighter Typhoon FGR4
Registration: ZJ931
C/n: 103/BS022
Time & Location: 14.06.2019, EFTU, Finland
Operator: Precious Grace Transport / Grace Joaquin
Bus No.: 8807
Bus Body: Santarosa PKB Series
Chassis: PKB212N
Engine: FE6D
Route: NAIA - Grotto via EDSA / Fairview
Plate No.: UWM-161
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Specifications may change due to verification and correction without prior notice.
Operator: United States Navy
Aircraft: Lockheed KC-130T-30 Hercules
Registration: 164598
C/N: 382-5263
Time & Location: 25.06.2026 EFTP, Finland
Remarks: Only total of two KC-130T-30's were built for the US Navy.
Operator: Victory Liner Inc
Fleet no# 21
Classification: Air Conditioned Provincial Bus
Route: Olongapo City Zambales-Monumento Caloocan City
Seats configuration: 2x2
Type of operation: Provincial Operation (Regular)
Area of operation: Region 3 (Central Luzon)
Unit: Hyundai Aero Space LS
Coachbuilder: Hyundai Motors Korea
Chassis: KMJKJ
Engine: D6AC
Shot Location: Robinsons Starmills Transport Terminal Hub Gapan-Olongapo rd City of San Fernando Pampanga
Operator: First Eastern Counties Buses Ltd
Fleet Number: 36268
Registration: BG12YKA
Body/Chassis: Volvo B9TL Wright Eclipse-Gemini 2
Chassis No: YV3S4R22XCA156837
Seating: H45/27F
New: June 2012
Ex: First West Yorkshire Ltd
Livery: Yellow Line 28/29/X29
Date: Friday 27th July 2018
Location: Castle Meadow, Norwich
Route: 28 (Thorpe Marriott) YELLOW LINE
Airlynx, North Baddesley, Hampshire.
Yutong ZK6938H C33Ft, new in 2014.
Photographed in Winchester, August 2016.
Type: Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet
Operator: VFA-2, United States Navy
Identity: 165917 / NE-101
Date: 20 July 2004
Location: Farnborough, UK
Event: International Airshow
I have been watch this Barn owl for some time now over the winter months, but the light has generally been unkind. Today it shone and so very bright to capture 'Barnaby' quartering a field in and around Lavenham. A truly magical sight.
Operator: Abellio Greater Anglia
Location: Ipswich
Platform: 3
Class: 90
Number: 003
Type: Electric Locomotive
Origin: Manningtree
Destination:Ipswich
Date: 14th February
Operator: Private
Type: Piper PA32-301 Saratoga II HP
Serial: 3246141
Registration: LN-MLM
Ex. reg: OO-TVK, PH-AEH and N41409.
Bus Operator: Victory Liner, Inc.
Bus number: 1243
Area of Operation: Provincial Operation
Seating Configuration: 2x2
Seating Capacity: 45+1
Bus Manufacturer: Hyundai Motor Company
Model: Hyundai Universe Space Luxury
Chassis: Hyundai KMJKJ18BPSC
Engine: Hyundai D6AB-D
Suspension: Air Suspension
Taken at: NLEX Access Road, Dau, Mabalacat, Pampanga, Philippines
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Operator: DAGUPAN BUS CO., INC.
Fare Class: Regular Air Conditioned
Type of Operation: Provincial Operation
Manufacturer: Zhengzhou Yutong Bus Co., Ltd.
Layout: Rear-Engine
Chassis: Yutong ZK6107CRA(LZYTBTD6)
Engine: YuChai YC6A260-30
Transmission: 1-6 + R Manual Transmission
Body: Yutong ZK6107H
Suspension: Air Suspension
Seat Config.: 2x2
Total Pass.: 45
Note: SPECIFICATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE WITHOUR PRIOR NOTICE
Unknown original operator 8 (no, it isn't "Hickory Stick School District 13"), Springfield, Illinois.
Time to dig into the vaults again and exhume some sights from the summer of 2015, when I journeyed through the US states of Illinois and Missouri and touched the northwest corner of Arkansas before turning back again!
This bus was parked for many years at Shea's Service Station, a Route 66 historic site and roadside memorabilia repository in Springfield. The "museum" fell into disuse following the death of Bill Shea in 2013, and the entire collection was in the midst of being cleared and auctioned by the time I passed by.
K.S.K.T. (Kosovan Strike-Kill Team) bomb squad operator.
YAY MULTICAM!!!!
Smaller light tan is on the list to fix, what else should I do?
Operator: DRS
Livery: DRS
No: 88009 'Diana' & 88003 'Genesis'
Service: 6K41 Valley Nuclear Electrics to Crewe Coal Sidings (Drs)
Location: Llanduudno Junction
Operator: Finnish Air Force
Aircraft: British Aerospace Hawk Mk51A
Registration: HW-357
C/n: 416/5F007
Time & Location: 13,05.2019, EFTP, Finland
Remarks: Pihti 2019 military exercise.
Operator | Victory Liner, Inc.
Fleet Number | 7139
Classification | Regular-Airconditioned Bus
Coachbuilder | Del Monte Motorworks
Model | DMMC - DM14S1
Chassis | PBMR39.18.350 HOCL
Engine | D2066LOH
Suspension Type | Airsuspension
Seat Configuration | 2x2
Maximum Capacity | 49+2
Shot Location | Munoz, Q.C