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MEMORIES - from an old 35mm slide with my first colour-film camera. This was probably about 1958 , give or take a few years.
Amtrak Phase III heritage unit #145 gets her tanks topped off at Russell, KY. March, 2021
Nikon FA / Fujichrome Provia
PHILIPPINE SEA (Jan. 2, 2022) - Sailors refuel a F/A-18E Super Hornet, assigned to the “Bounty Hunters” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 2, on the flight deck of Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Jan. 2, 2022. Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is on a scheduled deployment in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations to enhance interoperability through alliances and partnerships while serving as a ready-response force in support of a free and open Indo-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Megan Alexander) 220102-N-YN807-1275
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Today back to my UK railway archives, and a theme of "Westerns"..... and not the ones starring Clint Eastwood or John Wayne - but Diesel Hydraulic locomotives of the Western Region of British Railways.
A real shame that this shot is just off focus from the Class 47 onwards. Late afternoon in early September 1972.
There were four Westerns, this 47 and a 50 on the stabling point. A few minutes later one of the last surviving Warships trundled in. I can remember this day like it was yesterday. I was 15 and had been allowed to go to London on my own for the first time with a gang of friends on a low priced special train from Warrington Bank Quay. Upon being granted permission to make the trip I immediately wrote to Stratford depot to request a visit permit and to my surprise within a week it dropped through the letterbox. I was a hero with the whole gang for a few days....
It must have been noisy living in those adjacent flats (apartments).
There were several females of this species stopping over at this pond. Most should all be headed to their breeding grounds in more northward states by now... this is likely only a refueling stop. We see them mainly in the winter and during their migration flights. This park is a scant 100 yds from the Rio Grand... a continual avian flyway. The dark eyes are diagnostic for the sex of this species... males have yellow eyes, and have much more vivid dark red coloring.
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VL-DS “Oceanus”
Since January of this year (2012), I have started to modernized and enlarge the Imperial Lego Air Force, however, some aircrafts that I need are simply just too large to be built in minifig scale, like the Mil Mi-12 Homer or the Oceanus. Therefore, some of them will be built in micro-minifig scale. Still, they are as fun to build as the large ones.
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The VL-DS “Oceanus” (one of the Greek mythology Titans, the personification of world ocean) is a long-range amphibian flying boat, capable of anti-submarine, oceanic patrol, search and rescue and aerial refuelling missions. The aircraft carries homing torpedoes, depth charges and anti-ship missiles as offensive armament and a large number of defensive weapons.
The “Oceanus” has two internal bomb bays capable of carrying eight heavy weight torpedoes, four nuclear depth charges or other conventional armament. There is also sixteen underwing hard points for rocket pods, conventional depth charges, additional torpedoes or long-range anti-ship missiles. Maximum bomb-load: 30 000kg.The defensive armament consists of five remote-controlled retractable gun turrets, with two waist gun positions and one rear position. Each dorsal turret is fitted with two 37 mm ENA-75 auto-cannons, the wing turrets and waist guns with one 37mm gun each, the ventral turret with three guns and the rear position, with 4 guns. In the front, 4 fixed forward firing 37mm ENA-75 are used against cargo-ships or submarines, for a total of 19 cannons. Recently, all the defensive guns were removed.
The plane has six turboprop engines, each developing 7000kW (8691shp) with a maximum speed of 720km/h. It’s equipped with long-range anti-ship radar and dipping sonar, which has a limited use, since it requires the aircraft to land on water to deploy. It can also carry and launch up to 200 sonobuoys.
The plane also carries a rear mounted retractable Magnetic Anomaly Detector (MAD), which retracts when not in use. It has a crew of twelve: pilot, co-pilot, flight engineer, navigator, medic and seven sensor/weapons operators.The Oceanus can also be refuelled or act as an aerial refuelling aircraft. Some planes are also used as cargo planes, to deliver equipment in difficult access islands, which lack aircraft runways. Civilian aircrafts are mainly used as transports or against forest fires.
The Imperial Lego Air Force only uses the Oceanus as a transport, search and rescue and aerial refuelling aircraft. The Imperial Naval Aviation uses the Oceanus as an anti-submarine, anti-ship, aerial refuelling, transport, search and rescue and oceanic patrol aircraft. Although most “Oceanus” aircrafts have more than 30 years of service now (the first prototype flew 54 years ago), a new modernization is currently being made on all aircraft to provide at least 30 years more of good, if not exceptional service.
The Oceanus is based on the Blohm & Voss BV 250. The BV-250, as a landplane version of the BV 238, replaced the former’s underwater hull with a retractable twelve-wheel undercarriage.
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General characteristics
Crew: Fifteen (with accommodations for a second relief crew)
Capacity: 325 troops, or 123 litter patients and 35 attendants
Payload: 65,000 kg of cargo;
Length: 39.54 m
Wingspan: 72.54 m
Height: 13.23 m
Wing area: 412.4 m²
Empty weight: 35,578 kg
Loaded weight: 89,820 kg
Max. takeoff weight: 134,800 kg
Powerplant: six V-768 turboprop engines, each developing 6000kW (7450shp);
Performance
Maximum speed: 720 km/h
Cruise speed: 405 km/h
Range: 18,000 km
Service ceiling: 9,450 m
Armament: 19 37mm ENA-75 guns;
Maximum bomb-load: 30 000kg.
OFF THE COAST OF SCOTLAND (Oct. 10, 2016) Crews from Spanish Navy ship, ESPS Cantabria and Her Majesty's Canadian Ship (HMCS) Charlottetown (not pictured) pull in on heavy messenger lines between the ships while conducting a pre-dawn Replenishment at Sea (RAS) during Exercise Noble Mariner off the coast of Scotland, October 10 2016. Noble Mariner 16 is designed to confirm the NATO Response Force 2017 Maritime Forces interoperability, evaluate their readiness and validate the capabilities of the NRF 2017 MCC by exercising NRF missions and tasks. This year, exercise Noble Mariner is combined with the United Kingdom's exercise Joint Warrior and Unmanned Warrior and NATO Air Command's Noble Arrow. By combining these exercises participants from all exercises gain greater interoperability and more capability development. Exercise Noble Mariner will meet participant nations' training objectives by generating a fictitious yet representative scenario which emulates a broad range of evolving crisis and conflict situations that could be realistically experienced in operations. NATO photo by Cpl Blaine Sewell, Formation Imagery Services /Released.
Capt. Jared White, an F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot from the 421st Fighter Squadron, Hill Air Force Base, Utah, receives fuel from a Utah National Guard KC-135 tanker en route to San Diego, Calif., Jan. 18, 2013. A cadre of Hill-based 388th Fighter Wing pilots will be operating out of Marine Corps Air Station Miramar to provide close air support for the U.S Marine Corps Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 13-1 formerly known as Mojave Viper. This joint training operation, executed at 29 Palms, prepares Marine battalions for deployment to Afghanistan. (USAF Photo by Master Sgt. Ben Bloker)
After getting fuel and a recrew, CSXT #3415 departs Connellsville with a westbound intermodal. In the yard, WE #3016 has just dropped the marker on its train and will follow the intermodal towards Sodem where it will transfer back to home rails.
A Lockheed MC-130J Commando II of the 9th Special Operations Squadron (9 SOS) refuels a pair of Bell Boeing CV-22B Ospreys of the 20th Special Operations Squadron (20 SOS) "Green Hornets" at the 2016 Cannon AFB Open House and Air Show held May 28-29, 2016.
A U.S. Navy F/A-18 Hornet pilot positions the aircraft for refueling from a KC-10 Extender Nov. 25, 2010, over Southwest Asia. The KC-10 is with the 908th Expeditionary Air Refueling Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Andy M. Kin)
Father's squadron 431st. He flew this retrofitted B29 during the Cuban Missile crisis. His USAF career span the era of Korean war through Vietnam war.
There are plenty of photos of D1015 working on the main line. So here's one of it not on the main line; refuelling at Wellingborough prior to working empty JHAs to Mountsorrel.
04 December 2013
An F-35C test aircraft refuels during a test mission Jan. 29, 2013. The F-35C uses the probe and drogue refueling method.
A KC-135 Stratotanker boom operator refuels a B-52 Stratofortress during air operations for Operation Desert Storm over Southwest Asia. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Chris Putnam)
First roll through a HiMatic 7SII.
Camera: Minolta HiMatic 7SII
Lens: Fixed 40mm f1.7 Rokkor
Film: Ultrafine Ultramax 400 t-Grain (Not a film I particularly like)
Developer: Xtol
Scanner: Epson V600
Photoshop: Curves, Healing Brush (spotting)
Cropping: None
MONTANA (July 31, 2017) The U.S. Navy flight demonstration squadron, the 'Blue Angels', conduct aerial refueling operations with a Boeing KC-135 "Stratotanker" assigned to the 128th Air Refueling Wing, Wisconsin Air National Guard, as the Blue Angels transit to Seattle, Wash., for the 2017 Boeing Seafair Air Show. The 'Blue Angels' are scheduled to perform more than 60 demonstrations at more than 30 locations across the U.S. in 2017.
Royal Navy Type 45 destroyer HMS Diamond.
HMS Diamond, the Royal Navy’s third Daring class destroyer built by BAE Systems in Govan, made her first return visit to the River Clyde Wednesday 9th February 2011.
The 7500-tonne warship, boasting state-of-the-art technology and a top speed of 27 knots, made her way to Loch Striven to make a brief refuelling stop, before continuing her journey round the top of Scotland.
She is en route to Aberdeen, the city with which she is affiliated and she will be alongside in the Granite City until Monday.
The Type 45 destroyer is currently undergoing sea trials before she is formally commissioned into the Royal Navy in May this year.
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Taking a pit stop at the new snack bar at Furzton Lake MK.
Are they discussing how many extra steps they will have to take to burn off those coffee calories...?
Air Commandos with the 1st Special Operations Logistic Readiness Squadron conduct a forward area refueling point operation at Hurlburt Field, Fla., June 13, 2017. During the operation, a Pilatus PC-12 assigned to the 319th Special Operations Squadron received fuel from an EC-130J Commando Solo assigned to the 193rd Special Operations Wing, Middletown, Pa. The FARP program is a United States Special Operations Command initiative that performs nighttime refueling operations in deployed locations where fueling stations are not accessible or when air-to-air refueling is not possible. Forward area refueling points enable global reach and mission accomplishment. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Joseph Pick)
Capt. David Clark, 351st Air Refueling Squadron pilot from St. Clair Shores, Mich., looks out a window while flying a KC-135 Stratotanker June 24, 2014, over Germany. Clark and his crew supported three missions in one day, air-to-air refueling, space-available travel and aeromedical evacuation training. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Micaiah Anthony/Released)