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John Romain with a very sneaky, slow, low pass above ARCo's hangar at Duxford, on Friday prior to the Duxford Battle of Britain airshow.
beautiful wildflower being pollinated by a bee, in the Mojave Desert, near Lake Mead, near the Valley of fire. There is great beauty and life in the middle of the Mojave desert, Southwest United States of America.
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The pilot's face is clearly visible in this shot. Also, just visible through the blue tinted front screen is the circular reflector gunsight. This was, arguably, the most (only?) technically advanced piece of equipment in the aircraft. The gunsight was calibrated or 'harmonised' to show the pilots where his bullets would hit, and took account of the effect of gravity on the bullets (which start to drop as soon as they leave the guns), and the distance the target aircraft would have travelled before the bullets reach it. The pilot had to dial in the estimated distance of the target, and an illuminated circle was projected from a small lamp-holder and lens assembly up onto the circular reflector visible in the picture. The idea was to get the target in the circle - easier said than done. Without an effective targeting system, fighter aircraft were pretty much useless, so this small item of equipment, more than anything, was the very heart of the Spitfire. Spitfire cockpits had a small rack on the right-hand side containing 3 spare bulbs for the gunsight, should one fail in use. I seem to recall being told that the gunsights were 'top secret' and that pilots of downed aircraft were to destroy them to prevent them falling into enemy hands, but looking at some illustrations of the gunsights, they have 'patent' numbers clearly marked on them, so evidently full details were published - so not secret at all!
Despite what we see in movies, Spitfires carried about enough ammunition for only 20 seconds of continuous firing of their guns.
Istituito nel 1979 il Parco Naturale Alta Valsesia si caratterizza come parco alpino per eccellenza, sviluppandosi fino ai 4559 m. della Punta Gnifetti sul Monte Rosa ed è quindi l’area protetta più alta d’Europa.
Inizialmente il Parco si estendeva nei Comuni di Alagna, Rima, Carcoforo e Rimasco per poi essere ampliato nel 1985 ai Comuni di Fobello e Rimella venendo così ad occupare le testate vallive della parte alta del bacino idrografico del Sesia.
Chrysler VC Valiant sedan. Taken at the 2003 New South Wales All Chrysler Day, held at Fairfield Showground, Prairiewood, Sydney.
Best looking rear end in the business - work of art!.
It's really hard to capture the elegance of the VC-10.
Ideally a very wide angle lens would do the trick, 17mm's just is not wide enough.
Might be inspired by the famous photo of a VC woman walking with an M16 at a watercourse.
I have gotten more and more into the codl war and it's conflicts. I have switched my nma figs to yellow skin, I like the older look for them. I have a couple of both VC and NVA soldiers. I've also built two tuk tuks that I want to use in some MOC, haven't figured out what yet.
I watched the mini series called The same sky which was really good, now my most played playlist on spotify is a newly created 70-80s list. I built a couple of 50s cars, I both want to build a Saigon '68 MOC and a Berlin, haven't really found any inspiring photos for any of it, so I haven't started yet, please tell me if you do. ;)
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I hope this pic isn't as flash heavy, I have a little problem with the settings on the camera...
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… joins the flight line at IWM Duxford. Incredibly enough, 'Central Railways Uruguayan Staff' was actually funded by mostly British expats run Uruguayan Central Railways, when built under contract by Westland in Somerset in 1942.
Even more improbably, this very aircraft escorted the famous "Memphis Belle" returning from her last mission in 1943, which the B17 in the background has been impersonating since the eponamous movie.
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Shuttleworth collection’s beautiful clipped wing Spitfire LF Mk.Vc AR501 at the Shuttleworth Vintage Air Show 2021, Old Warden airfield. Paul Stone is the pilot.