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Carnaval de St Martin de Valgalgues, Gard, Occitanie.
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Le groupe de musiciens à la fête de la musique de Céret.. Vous pouvez écouter un de leur titre sur mon lien YouTube..
The musicians group at the music festival of Céret... You could listen them in my Youtube link...
I don't really know exactly what this is - I saw it in the Aviation Museum. Anyway, I liked it, so I photographed it.
A photo of a vintage aircraft propeller and wings against the background of stormy sky. Non-flying weather. Really? The brave pilot is going to take up the gauntlet. Adventure is calling and he must fly. Dare you to join him? Black and white version.
Three Pistons of a trumpet, very hard but interesting instrument.
that's the trumpet of "L'art de la Joie..."
Some more close up shots of some of the old, industrial machinery in the grounds of Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life.
I've taken snaps of the ols steam crane before on previous visits, but this time I was more interested in zooming in on elements of this venerable machinery for some close ups. I thought takin them like that, in B&W with some decent daylight on them almost made them look sculptural.
When most people see this ruined piston, they assume that the damage has been caused by heat. Not so. The damage is all mechanical and was caused when valve spring resonance allowed the valve collets to become dislodged and a valve fell into the cylinder when the engine was doing 7,500 rpm. It made the engine cough a bit. The piston is 3 inches in diameter.
This week's Saturday Flashback looks back to a classic era of civil aviation.
Painted in 1999, this wonderful work by Jonathan Frank depicts some of the aircraft that frequented Houston Municipal Airport in the 1940's and 50's, as well as the Terminal Building that still stands today as a museum.
I am more than happy for those more knowledgeable about aviation than myself to correct the following. Airborne is a Trans-Texas Airways DC3, known as "Super-Starliners". Note the wheel shrouds! On the ground there is an Eastern Air Lines Lockheed Super Constellation. The third large aircraft may be a Braniff? Possibly a Lockheed Electra?
(Apologies for the distortion. It was difficult to get a straight shot, at least in part due to lights reflecting in the background)
Flickr Explore # 443 on Wednesday, January 18, 2017
Six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-53 Wasp Major 28-cylinder 4-row 71.489-litre radials, 3800-hp each
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Four General Electric J47-GE-19 turbojets, 5,200-lbf each
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Markings: USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC) 95th Bombardment Wing, Biggs AFB, El Paso, Texas (1953-59), 'City of Ft. Worth'
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Background: USAF Boeing EB-47E Stratojet ELINT six-jet bomber, 1953
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Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, Arizona
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Largest mass-produced piston-engined aircraft
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_B-36_Peacemaker
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Six Pratt & Whitney R-4360-53 Wasp Major 28-cylinder 4-row 71.489-litre radials, 3800-hp each
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_R-4360_Wasp_Major
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Four General Electric J47-GE-19 turbojets, 5,200-lbf each
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_J47
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Markings: USAF SAC 95th Bombardment Wing, Biggs AFB, El Paso, Texas (1953-59), 'City of Ft. Worth'
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biggs_Army_Airfield
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Armament: remotely operated radar-aimed tail turret with two 20mm (0.787 in) M24A1 autocannon
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispano-Suiza_HS.404
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Background: Three USAF Boeing B-52 Stratofortress strategic bombers and a North American Aviation Texan trainer
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-52_Stratofortress
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_T-6_Texan
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This aircraft's radial piston engine was part of the static displays at the Stuart Airshow in Stuart, Florida. See this, and more, on my website at www.tom-claud.pixels.com.
Some more close up shots of some of the old, industrial machinery in the grounds of Summerlee Museum of Scottish Industrial Life.
I've taken snaps of the ols steam crane before on previous visits, but this time I was more interested in zooming in on elements of this venerable machinery for some close ups. I thought takin them like that, in B&W with some decent daylight on them almost made them look sculptural.
NSU Ro80 at the Automuseum Braunschweig
The original rotary engine were replaced with a 4-cylinder engine by VW.