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Operator: LSL
Livery: Pullman blue
No: 43055 & 43059 'Loch Shiel'
Service: 5Z46 2223 Potters Bar to Crewe H.S.
Location: Crewe
A short wheelbase Irizar i6 that was new to Beeston; Hadleigh but can anyone confirm its current operator?
22 - 221
04/2018 - new as YN18 ZNM to Beeston; Hadleigh (EX).
??/???? - passed to Grange Travel; Gravesend (KT).
??/???? - re-registered 10 BSX.
08/2022 - reverted to YN18 ZNM.
??/2022 - passed to Ferris; Nantgarw (?)
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a/c 11-04, 111 Esquadrón, Ala 11, Free Spanish Air Force
Al Mahbes, Spanish Sahara, March, 1972
Personal mount of Captain Raúl Jiménez (pilot) and Lieutenant Janner Corozo (observer/ECM operator)
The Spanish Republic maintained a neutral stance when WW3 broke out in mid-1950. However, in December Spain joined the Moscow Pact as the European Red Revolutions culminated in the ousting of US forces from mainland Europe. Ejected from the UN, Spain was now at war. In response, the US occupied Spain's Atlantic territories, including the Canary Islands, and Free French troops based in Morocco took control over Spain's northern and southern Moroccan protectorates and its Spanish Sahara colony. A Free Spanish government was established at Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in February 1951, which subsequently resumed authority over Spain's Atlantic and African territories. As a result, Free Spanish forces would see considerable combat against the Reds until 1980.
The colonial administration of Spanish Sahara was propped up by UN troops and funding, by the active support of the Spanish diaspora and the recruitment of foriegn mercenaries. After the Reds liberated northern Morocco in 1954, Free Spain and its UN allies defended Spanish Sahara until the colony was liberated in August 1980. Enemies included the Red Army and the insurgencies of the Moroccan Liberation Army and later the Polisario Front. It was the latter that established full control over the former colony as the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic in August 1980.
The air war over Spanish Sahara was fought in two distinct arenas. Peer operations saw several campaigns of attrition fought between Red and UN airpower. Meanwhile, UN air forces maintained an ongoing COIN effort against insurgents and the Trotsky Trail, the latter forming the routes through which the Reds supported anti-UN forces in sub-Saharan Africa. While fast jets used Spanish Saharan air bases to engage the enemy up-north, those same airfields hosted a range of slow movers mounting tactical COIN missions across the broad swathe of the western Sahara.
In the late 1950s the UN established a series of defensive lines south of the Maghreb, from the Atlantic in the west to the border of neutral Libya in the west. Characterised by minefields, berms, fortifications, artillery fire bases, airfields and extensive surface and air patrolling, this forward positioning was expensive to maintain and constantly proved to be porous. With the growing prowess and reach of Red airpower, UN airpower within and to the north of these lines became increasingly challenged during the late 60s and into the 70s. By 1969, it had become apparent that the UN's nocturnal campaigns against Red movements in the Maghreb, collectively actioned under the umbrella of the DAMIT (Denied Area Mobile Interdiction Techniques) program, was unsustainable. To stem crippling losses, senior UN officers concluded that new systems and tactics were needed. A call went out for innovative solutions.
111 Esquadrón of the Free Spanish Air Force was formed in July 1953 at Laayoune as the first flying squadron of Ala 11. Flying US surplus North American AT-6D Texans, 111 Esq deployed detachments to forward airfields to conduct FAC and light attack missions throughout the colony, into southern Morocco and western Algeria. As with its sister squadron, 112 Esq (formed in 1954), the unit drew heavily on the Spanish diaspora for its personnel. The Texans were replaced by North American T-28D Nomads in 1962. In 1968, another North American product was introduced, the OV-10A Bronco. By then, most of the aircrew were foreigners from throughout the Hispanosphere.
Consulted on DAMIT's issues and informed of the funding available for new proposals, the personnel of Ala 11 responded with a novel concept. They noted that a critical problem was deteriorating situational awareness during DAMIT missions. This, they argued, was due to the loss rate of fast FAC aircraft being higher than the loss rate of the slow FACs they replaced. The failings and increasing timidity of the fast FAC force was compounded by DAMIT's standoff surveillance and EW platforms being forced to fly further south than was useful for effective support. The solution, the Free Spanish personnel figured, was to replace these planes with ones that flew slow and low. They knew from experience that a low flying Bronco was hard to shoot down with a fighter, even in daylight, but what the OV-10A didn't have was the range of targeting sensors and ECM to fulfil DAMIT night FAC missions alone. What was needed, they suggested, were Broncos with LLLTV, FLIR, ground mapping/MTI radar, Elint and ECM capabilities. As the OV-10 had a cargo and passenger compartment in the rear fuselage, Ala 11 argued that the Bronco could feasibly (if uncomfortably) accommodate a third crew member and their black boxes if needed.
When the Ala 11's proposal (The Multispectral OV-10 DAMIT FAC) was considered by UN brass, it was warmly received by Canadian officers, but not the Americans. Although all were aware of the USMC's recently let contract for 2 of the complementary YOV-10D NOGS (Night Observation Gun Ship), the relevant US officers failed to see the potential synergies. Instead, the US focus was on stealth (specifically the Lockheed YO-3A Quiet Star), special forces, RPVs and precision guided weapons. Nethertheless, UN funding was made available and Canada and the Free Spanish collaborated to define a new Bronco variant, to be manufactured by North American Rockwell as the YOV-10D NEWT (Night Electronic Warfare & Targeting).
Given access to the NOGS program and a commitment for the supply of 6 NOGS for combat testing on DAMIT missions, the Free Spanish Air Force ordered 6 NEWTS from North American Rockwell. Intending to use the two types as a DAMIT FAC and attack team, NEWT required a ground mapping radar with MTI, plus a sufficiently powerful ECM suite to provide joint protection. Not limited to using American equipment, NEWT featured the Turquoise Oval SLAR in an elongated nose and the Heliotrope Sail escort ECM suite, which included a ventrally mounted pod. Both systems were produced by the Canadian Marconi company. At the tip of the nose was an internally mounted AAA-4B Pave Mouse IR/UV beacon detector, while under the fuselage was a fairing housing the Pave Bounce direction finding radar receiver. LORAN-C provided both navigation and geolocation data for third-party targeting. Both versions of the YOV-10D were issued to 111 Esq, while 112 Esq upgraded to the OV-10F (which, like the NEWT, featured 4 .50 cal Brownings, more powerful engines and upgraded air-conditioning).
NEWT external loadout options included CBUs (4 Mk.20 Rockeye IIs are seen here), rocket pods, Mk.82s and GBU-12s. SideARMs or AGM-45B Shrikes were carried for SEAD, with a Phillips Canada Sable Latch chaff/flare dispenser mounted on each tail boom as standard. The NEWT's capabilities and weapons complimented the FLIR, laser designator and turreted 20mm M197 cannon of the NOGS.
The airfield adjacent to the northern Spanish Saharan town of Al Mahbes was one of 112 Esq's forward positions. This aircraft, 11-04, was photographed there in April 1972, alongside a NOGS, prior to a night FAC team mission. Seen beside the NEWT Bronco was its crew, pilot Captain Raúl Jiménez (a former Mexican Air Force C-130B pilot) and systems (radar and ECM) operator Lieutenant Janner Corozo (a former electronic warfare operator with the Ecuadorian Navy). According to the article in Soldier of Fortune magazine that accompanied the photo (DAMIT! Hispanic NEWTS and NOGS, September 1972), neither men had seen combat before recruitment to the Free Spanish Air Force. They were said to have volunteered for "the adventure and to kill Commies." Capt. Jiménez was quoted as saying they flew "CSAR FAC and DAMIT kill box FAC patrols, SEAD, heckler diversion and harassment raids and special forces support." According to the story, their "memorable missions" included "successful CSAR efforts" (one to save a downed USAF F-111A crew and another to rescue a Canadian F-4M crew) and a "particularly productive sortie where they busted a pair of BTR-60s, took out a BMP-1 and flamed a few trucks." Both men were killed on 3 November 1972, when 11-04 was shot down by an FLIR-assisted, radar guided ZSU-23-4 Shilka mobile AAA system near Fam El Hisn in Morocco. Their loss brought an end to YOV-10D operations.
Both the NEWT and NOGS versions of the YOV-10D were experimental and no more were built. The Free Spanish YOV-10D DAMIT teams achieved limited success and after 10 months of combat were withdrawn. By then, only 3 NOGS and 2 NEWT YOV-10Ds remained to be sent to the boneyard. Of the 2 USMC NOGS, both saw service in SEA during 1972's Operation Half Back Flanker, where they were shot down. Production OV-10Ds were built to an entirely different standard and delivered to 111 Esq in 1974.
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HRT operators board a ship from their boat during a training exercise.
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Operator- Select Bus Services Penkridge
Operating Area- Staffordshire & Shropshire
Make- Optare
Model- Versa
Chassie-
Fleet No- 37
Reg- YJ08PKX
Location Seen- Ironbridge/Coalbrookdale Car Park
Service- 96 to Telford Centre
Info- New to Vision Bus
Seen- 15/2/23
P1130963
Operator: First Eastern Counties Buses Ltd
Fleet No: 34114
Registration: W434CWX
Body/Chassis: Volvo Olympian Alexander Royale
Chassis No: YV3YNA413YC029744
Seating: DPH43/29F
New: June 2000
Ex: Yorkshire Coastliner
Livery: First (Standard Barbie)
Date: Saturday 14th June 2014
Location: Caister-on-sea
Route: 8 (Caister)
Operator: Country Bus
Vehicle Type: Optare Solo (M710SE)
Fleet Number: 336
Registration: YJ09 EZK
Pictured in Newton Abbot, working a 178 service from Okehampton.
9/5/2023.
Operator- National Express West Midlands
Operating Area- West Midlands Area
Make- ADL
Model- Enviro 400 MMC
Chassie-
Fleet No- 6759
Reg- SN16OUP
Location Seen- Willenhall
Info- Allocated to Wolverhampton Named Sanjana
Seen 2/2/22
A class of Bus Operators graduates at the Zerega Training Facility on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
A class of Bus Operators graduates at the Zerega Training Facility on Thursday, July 21, 2022.
(Marc A. Hermann / MTA)
Operator:Atlas Air(Flexport)
Aircraft:Boeing 747-4KZF
Registration:N508KZ
Place:Tokyo-Narita[RJAA/NRT]
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2015 Kona Supreme Operator frame
2015 Fox 40 Performance Elite fork
2022 Marzocchi Bomber CR rear coil-over shock
Fox M8 x 38mm shock hardware mounting kit
Fox 400# coil spring
Jagwire Lex SL dropper post and shifting cable and housing
FSA Orbit C-40 (lower ABEC sealed cartridge bearing 36° x 45° with a 1.5 to 1.125 reducer crown race, upper ABEC sealed cartridge bearing 45° x 45° )
Wolf Tooth headset bling kit
Renthal FatBar 35mm handlebar
Cateye Enduro CC-ED400 computer
Renthal Integra II 35mm direct mount stem
ODI Rogue Lock-On grips
Hope Tech 3 E4 front and rear brakes
Hope F20 pedals
Kona seatpost collar
Wolf Tooth Dropper Remote
PNW Cascade external dropper post
SDG Radar seat
Roach top tube pad
Shimano Zee FC-M645 cranks
Burgtec Hollowtech II crank bolt
Wolf Tooth Drop-Stop chainring
Wolf Tooth chainring bolts
e. thirteen ISCG-05 chain guide (original 2006 E13 SRS mounting plate and lower guide pulley with an LG1+ upper chain guide plate)
KMC X9.99 chain (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent derailleur (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent Trail Trigger Pro shifter (9 speed)
MicroSHIFT Advent 11-42 tooth cassette (9 speed)
Shimano SM-RT75 203mm front rotor
Galfer Wave 180mm rear rotor
Shimano 180mm R/P180 caliper adaptor
Shimano XT M800 BB92 Hollowtech II press-fit bottom bracket
Renthal Padded Cell chainstay / swingarm protector
Rear wheel:
Custom made - hand-built by Universal Cycles
Industry Nine Hydra MTN HG (12x157mm) Super Boost hub
DT Swiss Competition 14/15/14 double butted stainless steel spokes
DT Swiss brass nipples
Spank Spoon 32 rim (32 hole, 26 inch, 32mm outer width, Schrader valve)
Maxxis High Roller II Kevlar bead tire (26 x 2.40)
Front wheel:
Custom made - hand-built by Universal Cycles
Hope Pro 4 (20x110mm) hub
DT Swiss Competition 14/15/14 double butted stainless steel spokes
DT Swiss brass nipples
Spank Spoon 32 rim (32 hole, 26 inch, 32mm outer width, Schrader valve)
Wilderness Trail Bicycles MotoRaptor (26 x 2.50)
Operator: Transpennine Express
Livery: Transpennine Express
No: 185103
Service: 9E10 Liverpool Lime Street to Newcastle
Location: Leeds
NRC staff briefs the Commission on the Operator Licensing Program and discusses issues related to licensee training programs, NRC initial licensing examinations, requalification and impacts from new post Fukushima requirements. NRC staff pictured at the table (left to right) Branch Chief, Operator Licensing and Human Performance Mike Junge , Director, Division of Inspection and Regional Support Ho Nieh, Executive Director for Operations Bill Borchardt, Branch Chief for Operator Licensing and Training Jack McHale, and Branch Chief for Region IV Operations Mark Haire.
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During our tour of B Reactor at Hanford Nuclear Reservation, we spent time in the Control Room. The tour participants had the option of trying out the Operator chair. The Operator job was so stressful and so important, operators worked for one hour shifts. They felt the weight of the fate of the nation on their heads as this plant produced the plutonium used to bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Not to mention that since this was the first nuclear production facility in the world, all systems were new and untried.
Recently, I was asked to do some employee shots for Identity Group. This is one of the shots we got.
This gentleman is a press operator for Identity Group's Redi-Tag branch.
strobist: 1 Nikon SB-24, camera right, 1/2 CTO gelled, diffusyed by a 15" Alzo softbox. 1 Quantaray QDC-900WA, camera right (slightly behind subject and overhead), 1/2 CTO gelled, reflected into a silver umbrella. 1 Canon 580EX, well behind subject and pointed at the background, red gelled, diffused by a Stofen diffuser. Flashes triggered via Cybersyncs.
Silhouette of a camera operator filming from a boom or crane. Fully editable vector image. Files included: EPS8, AICS2, AI8 and high resolution JPEG
Country: SOUTH AFRICA
Operator: SUB NIGEL LTD.
Item: STEAM
Class or Maker: Built by Orenstein & Koppel
Wheel Arrangement or Type: 0-6-0T
Number: 2
Place details: Transvaal
Additional notes: Gauge 2ft6
LCGB Tour of South Africa & Mozambique
Original source material: Agfa 35mm slide
Photographer: Robert W Bridger
Copyright: Photographer
Library locator reference: RWBR.0302
30937 Transport Photograph Database
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Operator- Arriva Midlands Shrewsbury
Operating Area- Shropshire & Staffordshire
Make- McV
Model- Evora
Chassie- Volvo B8RLE
Fleet No- 3242
Reg- BU75WMF
Location Seen- Shrewsbury Bus Station
Service- 1 Shrewsbury - Monkmoor Shrewsbury
Info- New to Arriva Midlands Shrewsbury Garage
Seen- 4/3/26
Operator: Brighton & Hove Bus Company
Route: 1A
Destination: Mile Oak
Location: Western Road, Brighton
Date: 16th November 2011
Operator: K&P Coaches, Anglesey
Vehicle Type: Volvo B8RLE / MCV Evora
Registration: LF73 DVH
Pictured parked up at Corwen after working a TrawsCymru T10 service from Bangor.
5/10/2024.
Purported to be from the 'School of Van Eyck', unfortunately lost in the fire. This black and white record was rumoured to have been made by Mr. Blunt, shortly before his arrest.
Former DSS&A station at Bergland Michigan, taken shortly before it too, went missing. From here the tracks still go north to White Pine, but were abandoned on the former main east to Sidnaw. Taken September 1997 and scanned from a slide.
Operator: National Express West Midlands
Vehicle Type: Transbus Trident 2 / ALX400
Fleet Number: 4449
Registration: BJ03 EUX
Name: Genevieve
Pictured arriving into Walsall Town Centre working a 529 service from Wolverhampton.
20/12/2022.
Operator: TUI fly Netherlands
Aircraft: Boeing 737-8
Registration: PH-TFO
C/n: 44598/7333
Name: Antalya
Location: Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS/EHAM)
Date: 24-4-2021
Previously: N1786B Boeing
Kelley Duncan, an operator for Todd Haley at Outback Wildfire, stands astride his "Skidgeon" a hybrid logging skidder fitted with firefighting water tank and pump.
180917-FS-DeltaFire-JWB-108-LR
Operator: Reading Buses - (Greenline)
Make/Model: ADL E40D/Alexander Dennis Enviro 400 MMC (H47/33F)
Registration Number: YY15 OYD
Fleet Number: 762
Operator: Arriva
Livery: Northern / Unbranded Northern Rail
No: 150211 & 150268
Service: 1D96 Llandudno to Chester
Location: Llandudno
Operator: Finnish Air Force
Aircraft: British Aerospace Hawk Mk66
Registration: HW-367
C/n: SW010/345
Time & Location: 02.05.2024, EFJY, Finland
The X-24A lifting-body research aircraft begins its rocket-powered flight after being launched from the wing of NASA's B-52 mothership during a 1970 research flight. NASA B-52, Tail Number 008, is an air launch carrier aircraft, mothership, as well as a research aircraft platform that has been used on a variety of research projects. The aircraft, a B model built in 1952 and first flown on June 11, 1955, is the oldest B-52 in flying status and has been used on some of the most significant research projects in aerospace history. Some of the significant projects supported by B-52 008 include the X-15, the lifting bodies, HiMAT (highly maneuverable aircraft technology), Pegasus, validation of parachute systems developed for the space shuttle program (solid-rocket-booster recovery system and the orbiter drag chute system), and the X-38. The B-52 served as the launch vehicle on 106 X-15 flights and flew a total of 159 captive-carry and launch missions in support of that program from June 1959 to October 1968. Between 1966 and 1975, the B-52 served as the launch aircraft for 127 of the 144 wingless lifting body flights. In the 1970's and 1980's the B-52 was the launch aircraft for several aircraft at what is now the Dryden Flight Research Center, to study spin-stall, high-angle-of attack, and maneuvering characteristics. It also supported eight orbiter (space shuttle) drag chute tests in 1990. In addition, the B-52 served as the air launch platform for the first six Pegasus space boosters. During its many years of service, the B-52 has undergone several modifications. The first major modification was made by North American Aviation (now part of Boeing) in support of the X-15 program. This involved creating a launch-panel-operator station for monitoring the status of the test vehicle being carried, cutting a large notch in the right inboard wing flap to accommodate the vertical tail of the X-15 aircraft, and installing a wing pylon that enables the B-52 to carry research vehicles and test articles to be air-launched/dropped. Located on the right wing, between the inboard engine pylon and the fuselage, this wing pylon was subjected to extensive testing prior to its use. For each test vehicle the B-52 carried, minor changes were made to the launch-panel operator's station. Built originally by the Boeing Company, the NASA B-52 is powered by eight Pratt & Whitney J57-19 turbojet engines, each of which produce 12,000 pounds of thrust. The aircraft's normal launch speed has been Mach 0.8 (about 530 miles per hour) and its normal drop altitude has been 40,000 to 45,000 feet. It is 156 feet long and has a wing span of 185 feet. The heaviest load it has carried was the No. 2 X-15 aircraft at 53,100 pounds.
Operator Name: First Glasgow.
Fleet / Reg No: 38212 SN09 CCE.
Chassis: ADL Trident 12.1 SLF tri-axle.
Body: ADL Enviro 500 H53/29F.
Location: Larkfield Bus Garage, Glasgow.
Date: 4th May, 2013.
Generic library image from Devon & Cornwall Police and use is authorised by the media, but must include a copyright credit to the Force.
Photographed just prior to the end of operations by this operator. The Fleetlines were pretty rough cosmetically, but appeared sound otherwise, unfortunately I don't think they have survived into preservation.
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A mystery this one. Bedford YMP Plaxton Paramount 3200 C431 RJR was found on an industrial estate in either King's Lynn or Dereham with Crusader Coaches names. The livery belongs to TM Travel and it is known to have spent two years with operators on Merseyside, one of which traded as Crusader but there was a further owner change at the start of 2005 tying in with this view in May of that year so who had it when I saw it in Norfolk? What I do know is that it was new to Marton, Heathrow, as C809 TLF.