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Space Shuttle Orbiter Test Article "Pathfinder" (OV-098) atop the Main Propulsion Test Article - External Tank (MPTA-ET) and two prototype Advanced Solid Rocket Boosters. U.S. Space & Rocket Center, Huntsville, Alabama.
Pictured are members of the British Army Pathfinders taking part in an Urban training environment.
Pathfinders (PF) are the advance force for 16 Air Assault Brigade, the British Army’s airborne rapid reaction force.
PF soldiers are trained in specialist airborne insertion techniques and capable of conducting offensive action tasks at very short notice.
PF operate behind enemy lines in small, self-sufficient patrols, finding and relaying vital information back to Brigade HQ to enable it to plan and execute missions.
A key role is identifying drop zones and landing zones where the main body of troops can be parachuted or landed by helicopter.
Photos: Cpl Danny Houghton
Photographed from the F-18 pathfinder aircraft, the Orbital ATK L-1011 Stargazer aircraft is seen flying over the Atlantic Ocean offshore from Daytona Beach, Florida. Attached beneath the aircraft is the Pegasus XL rocket with eight Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System, or CYGNSS, spacecraft. The CYGNSS satellites will make frequent and accurate measurements of ocean surface winds throughout the life cycle of tropical storms and hurricanes. The data that CYGNSS provides will enable scientists to probe key air-sea interaction processes that take place near the core of storms, which are rapidly changing and play a crucial role in the beginning and intensification of hurricanes.
NOTE: The Dec. 12, 2016 launch attempt was postponed due to a hydraulic pump aboard the Orbital ATK L-1011 aircraft which is required to release the latches holding Pegasus in place, is not receiving power.
Photo credit: NASA/Lori Losey
Canadian Armed Forces members prepare for a low hover insertion and extraction drill with a CH-146 Griffon helicopter during a Pathfinder Course in Petawawa, Ontario on September 20, 2015.
Photo: Corporal Darcy Lefebvre, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
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Des membres des Forces armées canadiennes se préparent en vue d’un exercice d’insertion et d’extraction en vol stationnaire à basse altitude avec un hélicoptère CH-146 Griffon, dans le cadre d’un cours d’éclaireurs, à Petawawa, en Ontario, le 20 septembre 2015.
Photo : Caporal Darcy Lefebvre, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
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These are just a documentary of my friends' and my adventures when we play Pathfinder. I thought it would be fun to memorialize some of our more memorable fights in LEGO form.
Railfreight Distribution liveried class 37 locomotive 37673 (37132, D6832) waits at Bugle on the Par to Newquay branch, with Pathfinder Tours "The Cornish Centurian" Railtour, whilst on a trip to the West Country from Manchester.
The rusty track in the forground served the kiln at Carbis Wharf, the last train on this short branch ran on 19th June 1989 behind 37669.
New to Cardiff on 5/63 as D6832 withdrawn from Toton 12/00 cut up 05/08 by EMR Kingsbury
4th May 1991
Soldiers of the Pathfinders and Groupement des Commandos Parachutiste (GCP), the advance forces of 16 Air Assault Brigade and 11e Brigade Parachutiste, about to practise fast roping from a French Army Puma helicopter during Exercise Falcon Amarante.
British and French paratroopers are showing their readiness to deploy together on joint operations.
Across two demanding weeks in November, south west France saw Exercise Falcon Amarante testing the Airborne Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (A-CJEF) – a partnership between 16 Air Assault Brigade and 11e Brigade Parachutiste.
The two brigades provide the airborne rapid reaction forces for their respective armies, and the A-CJEF has been trained and ready since 2013 to deploy on short-notice operations ranging from war fighting to disaster relief.
Exercise Falcon Amarante is the A-CJEF’s annual test exercise, taking place in 2018 under 11e BP’s command. Some 650 British troops and 170 vehicles of the 3 PARA Battlegroup - built around the airborne infantry of 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment bolstered by artillery, engineers, medics, signallers and logisticians took part.
British troops were paired with the 3e Regiment de Parachutistes d’Infanterie de Marine as the A-CJEF, with US paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade working alongside it.
After mission planning and reconnaissance, the exercises started in earnest with some 600 British, French and US paratroopers jumping onto the Caylus training area near Toulouse. From there, a series of simulated missions tested the skills and capabilities of the 2,000-strong force.
Ａ SUV for the hiker (mini figure series 16). All his epuipments are on board: map, compass, backpack, and a rifle to protect himself from wild animals.
If it were a trike, it would be better.
Due to the dusty and windy environment, the rover and lander need constant cleaning on order for tourists to enjoy the full splendor of the exhibit.
Soldiers of the Pathfinders and Groupement des Commandos Parachutiste (GCP), the advance forces of 16 Air Assault Brigade and 11e Brigade Parachutiste, about to practise fast roping from a French Army Puma helicopter during Exercise Falcon Amarante.
British and French paratroopers are showing their readiness to deploy together on joint operations.
Across two demanding weeks in November, south west France saw Exercise Falcon Amarante testing the Airborne Combined Joint Expeditionary Force (A-CJEF) – a partnership between 16 Air Assault Brigade and 11e Brigade Parachutiste.
The two brigades provide the airborne rapid reaction forces for their respective armies, and the A-CJEF has been trained and ready since 2013 to deploy on short-notice operations ranging from war fighting to disaster relief.
Exercise Falcon Amarante is the A-CJEF’s annual test exercise, taking place in 2018 under 11e BP’s command. Some 650 British troops and 170 vehicles of the 3 PARA Battlegroup - built around the airborne infantry of 3rd Battalion the Parachute Regiment bolstered by artillery, engineers, medics, signallers and logisticians took part.
British troops were paired with the 3e Regiment de Parachutistes d’Infanterie de Marine as the A-CJEF, with US paratroopers from the 173rd Airborne Brigade working alongside it.
After mission planning and reconnaissance, the exercises started in earnest with some 600 British, French and US paratroopers jumping onto the Caylus training area near Toulouse. From there, a series of simulated missions tested the skills and capabilities of the 2,000-strong force.
Pathfinders pack a punch as first in for Global Response Force.
The reconnaissance troops who are first in for the British Army’s Global Response Force have tested their firepower on the windswept STANTA Ranges in Norfolk.
The Pathfinders are the advance force for 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, trained to infiltrate behind enemy lines to find and relay vital information back to assist mission planning.
A key role is identifying drop zones and landing zones where the main body of troops can be parachuted or landed by helicopter.
Pathfinders work in small, self-sufficient patrols, either in vehicles or on foot. While operating with-out being spotted provides their best defence, troops need the firepower to get themselves out of trouble.
Pathfinders work in small, self-sufficient patrols, either in vehicles or on foot. While operating with-out being spotted provides their best defence, troops need the firepower to get themselves out of trouble.
Out on the ranges last week (24-28 Jan), troops practised fire and manoeuvre tactics in their RWMIK patrol vehicles, which are mounted with Heavy Machine Guns and Grenade Machine Guns. Soldiers also fired the potent and precise NLAW anti-tank missile.
Photos:Cpl Danny Houghton RLC
A 1958 Pontiac Pathfinder I came across in Green's Harbour, Newfoundland. The Pathfinder was a Canadian only model with an interesting history. I found some more information here:
General Motors of Canada began producing Pontiacs at its Oshawa, Ontario plant in the late 1920s. The Pontiac line was so popular that sales surged, from 1,200 vehicles in 1926, to over 14,000 in 1928. At this time, the Canadian-made Pontiacs were virtually identical to those produced in the U.S. In general, however, Canadian consumers preferred less-expensive, smaller versions of American models. In 1937, a uniquely Canadian model, based on a blending of Pontiac and Chevrolet components, appeared on the market. This new model was developed in response to consumer preferences, and also because of Canada’s restrictive import duties and tariffs. To avoid these, American car makers opted to set up factories in Canada and to share parts. In this way, they could keep production and sales costs low for the smaller Canadian market. Pontiac’s popularity increased throughout the 1940s, with a record-breaking 19,782 cars produced in 1948.
The Pontiac Pathfinder was introduced on the Canadian market only in 1953 and was produced until 1958. The car was an instant hit and Pontiac models continued to increase in popularity – production soared to 44,369 vehicles in 1953. The Pathfinder series, its name suggesting a car suitable for the exploration of Canada’s rugged terrain, was joined by the up-scale Pontiac Laurentian series, named after the popular mountain vacation region of Quebec. By 1958, the post-World War II economic boom began to decline and car sales slowed – for many car makers except Pontiac which saw another record-breaking sales year. In 1959, Pathfinder marque was replaced with Strato-Chief, and the Pathfinder line came to an end.
Pathfinders pack a punch as first in for Global Response Force.
The reconnaissance troops who are first in for the British Army’s Global Response Force have tested their firepower on the windswept STANTA Ranges in Norfolk.
The Pathfinders are the advance force for 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team, trained to infiltrate behind enemy lines to find and relay vital information back to assist mission planning.
A key role is identifying drop zones and landing zones where the main body of troops can be parachuted or landed by helicopter.
Pathfinders work in small, self-sufficient patrols, either in vehicles or on foot. While operating with-out being spotted provides their best defence, troops need the firepower to get themselves out of trouble.
Pathfinders work in small, self-sufficient patrols, either in vehicles or on foot. While operating with-out being spotted provides their best defence, troops need the firepower to get themselves out of trouble.
Out on the ranges last week (24-28 Jan), troops practised fire and manoeuvre tactics in their RWMIK patrol vehicles, which are mounted with Heavy Machine Guns and Grenade Machine Guns. Soldiers also fired the potent and precise NLAW anti-tank missile.
Photos:Cpl Danny Houghton RLC
This is my 1956 Polaroid Pathfinder 110A. It's a beautiful folding coupled-rangefinder camera, originally designed to expose now-obsolete Polaroid Type 30 roll film. Mine was converted by Landcameraman to accept the Type 600 range of Polaroid (and Fuji) 3 1/4 x 4 1/4" peel-apart films. It has a 127 mm Rodenstock Ysarex lens in a Prontor-SVS shutter (1 - 1/300 sec, B & T). Mine has the optional f/90 pinhole lens cap.
A shot of this camera from the side is here.
This camera is such a blast to use. It's only fault is that the shutter is rather slow: I add 2.5 stops to my exposure index when metering to get well-lit images. My shots with the Pathfinder are here.
The Pathfinder is featured in an interesting article on Polaroid rangefinders on Dante Stella's Website here.
In this shot, the Pathfinder is posing on my home-made plywood tripod platform that i made for my box cameras.
Shot with Uncle Shoe's studio strobes in his studio, f/5.6. I also borrowed his Nikon FM2 for the shoot; shot on Kodak Portra 160VC.
Members of 3rd Battalion, Royal 22e Régiment parachute from a CC-130H Hercules aircraft as part of the Patrol Pathfinder Course at CFB Valcartier, Quebec on October 20, 2019.
Photo: Pte Jessica Blackburn, Valcartier Imaging Services
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Des membres du 3e Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment, sautent en parachute d'un avion CC-130H Hercules, lors le cours sur les opérations d'éclaireurs-patrouilleurs, à la Base Valcartier, à Québec, le 20 octobre 2019.
Photo : Sdt Jessica Blackburn, Services d’imagerie de Valcartier
Location: Berlin - 1922km from home.
Newer, larger and more upscale cars from Spain are pretty rare to see here in Berlin, which isn't surprising given the distance. The Nissan Pathfinder, at least, is something nice to see, I think.
Not sure why but Illinois plates can be seen in California on a somewhat regular basis. Oddly, this one starts with the string "Z28"!
37417 nears its journey's end with Pathfinder's 'Cambrian Coaster' from Swindon on 26 May 2008. 37401 had been left at Machynlleth, leaving 37417 to tackle the last leg along the Cambrian Coast.
The structure that arrived at NASA Goddard in July 2014 from Northrop Grumman is the center section of the James Webb Space Telescope pathfinder (or test) backplane. Here it is at Northrop Grumman before shipment, shown with the secondary mirror booms fully extended. If you can imagine this structure upright, the primary mirror segments would lie on the latticed part of the struture - and the secondary mirror would sit at the end of the long booms.
The structure is at NASA Goddard so that spare mirrors can be mounted on it. Then it will go to NASA Johnson for cryogenic testing.
Credit: Northrop Grumman/Alex Evers
Jack carefully maneuver's the rover onto its rear rails for in-flight stowage. Ashlee and Zed finish checking over supplies.
Living up to their motto, ‘First In’, the British Army’s highly specialised Pathfinder troops jumped from a Royal Air Force C-17 Globemaster over Estonia as part of Exercise Swift Response this week.
The Pathfinders are 16 Air Assault Brigade's advance reconnaissance force.
They will jump ahead of everyone else to scout out enemy positions, mark dropzones and work with the main body of troops with tactical intelligence and offensive action support.
UK paratroopers have jumped alongside US, Czech Republic, Latvian, Polish and Estonian allies as part of a large-scale American-led military exercise.
Exercise Swift Response, featuring 16 Air Assault Brigade Combat Team (16 Air Asslt BCT), the British Army’s global response force, demonstrates UK and Allied ability to deploy and work together at high readiness.
Hosted at 6th Polish Airborne Brigade (6th Abn Bde) barracks in Gliwice, Poland, and landing over Nurmsi airfield, Estonia, a total of around 1,500 personnel from the six nations are taking part in what is known in military jargon as a joint forcible entry operation.
Photos: Cpl Lee Matthews
Introduced in 1985 and in North America in 1986 as an early 1987 model, the early Pathfinders were 2-door wagons. The 4-door wagon followed in the 1990 model year and the 2-door was dropped.
Network Rail pair 97 302 'Rheilffyrdd Ffestiniog ac Eryri/Ffestiniog and Welsh Highland Railways' and 97 304 'Rheilffordd Talyllyn Railway', pass the site of the former Black Rock halt, hauling the third of this years Pathfinder 'Cambrian Coast Express' charters 1Z67, the 0550 Bristol Temple Meads - Pwllheli on Thursday 5th September 2024.
U.S. Army soldiers assigned to Foxtrot Company, 2nd Assualt Helicopter Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, conduct platoon Situational Training Exercise, Fort Bragg, N.C., 18 July 2016. The training exercise enabled the pathfinders to train and hone their fundamental skills of infantry maneuver, offensive operations and air insertion.
Members of the Pathfinders conduct a parachute insertion, whilst guided out by an RAF Parachute Jump Instructor.
Soldiers from the British Army’s Global Response Force will conduct Joint Theatre Entry (JTE) parachuting exercises with the UK’s world-class air and maritime support on its shoulder.
The exercises, with partner forces, will link in with the Carrier Strike Group (CSG) as it transitions from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean on Operation Fortis.
The troops, from 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA), will conduct a number of mission rehearsals in Cyprus, where UK Defence has bases which maintain a permanent military presence in the Eastern Mediterranean, helping to support regional security and allowing force projection when needed.
2 PARA comes under 16 Air Assault Brigade, based in Colchester, and is the most deployable and ready formation in the British Army.
The Pathfinders, trained in specialist airborne insertion techniques and capable of conducting offensive action tasks at very short notice, are the advance force for 16 Brigade and will also play a part in the JTEs. Their key role is identifying drop zones and landing zones where the main body of troops can be parachuted in by altitude or landed by helicopter.
All troops deployed to Cyprus have to follow stringent health protection measures and prove negative tests when arriving, in tandem with Cypriot and local military requirements.
Photographer:
Cpl Danny Houghton
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Canadian Armed Forces members perform fast roping drills from a CH-146 Griffon helicopter during a Pathfinder Course in Petawawa, Ontario on September 20, 2015.
Photo: Corporal Darcy Lefebvre, Canadian Forces Combat Camera
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Des membres des Forces armées canadiennes effectuent des exercices de descente rapide depuis un hélicoptère CH-146 Griffon dans le cadre d’un cours d’éclaireurs, à Petawawa, en Ontario, le 20 septembre 2015.
Photo : Caporal Darcy Lefebvre, Caméra de combat des Forces canadiennes
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Class 69 69006 "Pathfinder Railtours" - 0E85 1111 March Up Yard to King's Lynn T.C., near Littleport - 23/08/2024.
This locomotive was sent out to rescue the 6E85 Middleton Towers to Barnby Dun sand train, due to the failure of train locomotive 69007.
I would have waited to have see the stricken train. However, I knew that by the time the train finally arrived at this spot, the sun would be in an awful position for a photograph. Therefore, I decided to head over to Manea for a change & photograph 60096 on the 6L92 Chaddesden Sidings to King's Lynn T.C. sand empties instead.
The Pathfinders, trained in specialist airborne insertion techniques and capable of conducting offensive action tasks at very short notice, are the advance force for 16 Brigade and will also play a part in the JTEs.
Their key role is identifying drop zones and landing zones where the main body of troops can be parachuted in by altitude or landed by helicopter.
Photographer:
Sergeant Benjamin Maher
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The Pathfinders, trained in specialist airborne insertion techniques and capable of conducting offensive action tasks at very short notice, are the advance force for 16 Brigade and will also play a part in the JTEs.
Their key role is identifying drop zones and landing zones where the main body of troops can be parachuted in by altitude or landed by helicopter.
Photographer:
Sergeant Benjamin Maher
©MoD Crown Copyright 2021
V i d e o © D a v e F o r b e s
Engagement 3,600+
Filmed Closing in on Greenock James Watt Dock 3/3/13
Albeit running 55 minutes down Offshore Vessel Vroon Offshore Multi-Purpose and Rescue vessel VOS Pathfinder slips slowly into the narrow entrance to James Watt Dock at around 1755hrs on Sunday March 3rd 2013 after sailing north from the Morecombe Gas Field in the Irish Sea.
VESSEL BUILDER
Offshore Supply & Rescue Vessel
Constructed in 2008 Pasajes Spain
by Astilleros Zamakona
Vroon Offshore Services Aberdeen
British Flagged
1,433grt
IMO 9366079
First Name & Unchanged