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The PT-19 series was developed from the Fairchild M-623 when the United States Army Air Corp first ordered the aircraft in 1940 as part of its expansion program. The PT-19 was a cantilever low-wing monoplane with fixed landing gear and tail wheel design with an open cockpit. The simple but rugged construction included a fabric-covered welded steel tube fuselage. The remainder of the aircraft used plywood construction. An inline engine allowed for a narrow frontal area which was ideal for visibility while the widely set-apart fixed landing gear allowed for solid and stable landing (Source: Travis Air Force Base Heritage Center.)
Nike missile Base MS-20 was built in 1959 on the highest point of land in St. Croix County in western Wisconsin. The base was one of four bases constructed during the Cold War era to defend the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul (MS) in the event of Soviet aircraft attacks. The command and control facility was located at Fort Snelling and provided target designation information to each of the four sites. MS-20 was decommission in 1971. In 2014, one of the former missile assembly and warhead buildings remained at the Launch Site.
JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- Spc. Shane Van Dyke, assigned to C Company 1st Battalion 5th Infantry Regiment, right, dodges a blow by U.S. Army 1st Lt. Tavis Reid, assigned to 73d Engineer Company, during U.S. Army Alaska's 2013 Combatives Tournament. Soldiers assigned to U.S. Army Alaska, Alaska Army National Guard's 49th Missile
Defense Battalion at Fort Greely and an Air Force fighter from 773rd CES competed in USARAK's 2013 Combatives Tournament, Friday, March 22, 2013, at the Buckner Physical Fitness Center on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Combatives, or hand-to-hand combat, is an engagement between two or more persons in an empty-handed struggle or with hand-held weapons such as knives, sticks or projectile weapons that cannot be fired. Proficiency in hand-to-hand combat is one of the fundamental building blocks for training the modern Soldier. (U.S. Air Force photo/Justin Connaher)
A scene from the 2017 Joint Base San Antonio Best Warrior Competition July 31 and Aug. 1 at Camp Bullis, Texas. U.S. Army photo by Tim Hipps, IMCOM Public Affairs
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Treino da equipe Sub-20 do Fluminense.
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I used this month sketch for this card, but I made my stripes shorter. I made a heart window and the sentiment on the inside is saying `I wish you...`. Tfl
Open house held at storied base
By Dave Palmer
LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – The ‘Wings, Wheels and Rotors Expo’ is a one-day event that draws more than 30,000 spectators to the historic Los Alamitos Army Airfield. This year’s show was held Oct. 23.
As the only remaining military airfield in the greater Los Angeles area, the base plays a major role in regional exercises and real-world emergencies and is home to California's Southern Region Office of Emergency Services.
“What we want to do is develop a closer association with local and state officials,” said District Commander Col. Mark Toy. “When we get our new Rapid Response Vehicle we are going to house it here and we will be able to further develop these relationships. One of our mission sets is emergency operations.”
The show featured classic cars, military aircraft, emergency vehicles and first responders.
“We have the chance to educate a lot of families on water safety and disaster preparedness, as well as explain to the general public what the role of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is,” said Anne Hutton, chief of the district’s Emergency Management Office. “A lot of the military organizations aren’t sure either, because we have such a large civilian workforce.”
Event co-sponsor the California National Guard chose the event to announce the winners of their “Best Warrior” competition. Nine citizen-soldiers competed earlier this month at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif. Events included a confidence course, land navigation, written essays and combatives, or hand-to-hand combat.
Spc. John Cunningham was named the top Soldier and Staff Sgt. Demetrius McCowan, the top non-commissioned officer.
McCowan and Cunningham move on to regional competition against winners from Arizona, New Mexico, Hawaii and Utah. The regional winners will then compete against National Guard, Reserve and active duty Soldiers in the U.S. Army’s Best Warrior Competition.
“I think I’ve saluted more here in the last hour than I have in my last year in command,” said Toy. “It’s nice to be with Soldiers; that’s what a lot of us in uniform truly love. Although my last year here working with Department of the Army Civilians, who are just as dedicated, is great.”
Landing pad for non-military ships.
These shelves are made of plastic grated shelves with a transparent Lexan sheets to prevent legos from falling through. ~answer to BricknBrack's question.
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Some background:
The Messerschmitt Bf 109, commonly called the Me 109 (most often by Allied aircrew and even amongst the German aces themselves, even though this was not the official German designation), was a German World War II fighter aircraft designed by Willy Messerschmitt and Robert Lusser during the early to mid-1930s, powered by a liquid-cooled, inverted-V12 aero engine.
The Bf 109 first saw operational service during the Spanish Civil War and was still in service at the dawn of the jet age at the end of World War II, during which time it was the backbone of the Luftwaffe's fighter force.
Originally conceived as an interceptor, later models were developed to fulfill multiple tasks, serving as bomber escort, fighter-bomber, day-, night-, all-weather fighter, ground-attack aircraft, and as reconnaissance aircraft. It was supplied to and operated by several states during World War II, including Italy, Romania, Croatia, Bulgaria and Hungary. Through constant development, the Bf 109 remained competitive with the latest Allied fighter aircraft until the end of the war and served with several countries for many years after the war.
One of the final Bf 109 developments was the ‘Ludwig’ variant, a dedicated low- and mid-altitude variant of the K series, or "Kurfürst", introduced in late 1944. Like the Bf 109 K, the ‘Ludwig’ was powered by the DB 605D engine with an emergency output of up to 2,000 PS (1,973 HP), but on the Ludwig it drove a four-blade metal propeller for improved acceleration.
Furthermore, the ‘Ludwig’ was the first domestic Bf 109 production variant to introduce a bubble canopy and a lowered spine for an improved field of view. In order to compensate for a resulting loss in directional stability the fin was raised and resembled the designs for the stillborn Me 209. In order to further improve handling at lower altitudes, the Ludwig’s wing tips were clipped. The resulting square wing tip shape resembled the early war ‘Emil’ type, and this deceiving outline was a dangerous surprise for Allied pilots who anticipated an outdated opponent with a weak DB 601 engine and light armament.
This surprise was even worse because the Bf 109 L had an excellent rate of climb that was superior to all Allied adversaries including the P-51D Mustang, Spitfire Mk. XIV and Hawker Tempest Mk. V, and the Bf 109 L’s outstanding rate of roll gave it an extra edge in dogfights against these fighters.
The surprise was made even more severe through the ‘Ludwig’s’ main armament, a powerful MK 103M cannon firing through the propeller hub, augmented by a pair of synchronized MG 131 machine guns. The original specification for the MK 103 called for a dual-purpose weapon for anti-tank and air-to-air fighting, with the option of fitting it inside an aircraft's engine mounting as a so-called Motorkanone.
The original MK 103 proved to be too large and heavy (it was 2,350 mm (92.52 in) long, needed a muzzle brake and weighed 141 kg (311 lb) empty) to fit into small fighters like the Bf 109. If mounted elsewhere, such as in the wing, the asymmetric force of the cannon's recoil tended to yaw the aircraft's nose to one side. The only usage of the original MK 103 in a Motorkanone installation was actually in the Do 335.
Anyway, a modified version with a reduced-profile barrel and less powerful ammunition in order to avoid the draggy muzzle brake and lighten the gun’s suspension - the MK 103M - was developed and tested for possible use in the Bf 109K in 1944. This turned out to be successful, but the MK 103M was only introduced with the Bf 109L where it proved a devastating penetration power against air and ground targets, paired with high accuracy and range.
The weapon entered production only slowly, though, and a few Bf 109 L were delivered with the less powerful but lighter MK 108 cannon as L-2. Additionally, a Rüstsatz was offered that replaced the fuselage-mounted heavy machine guns with a pair of MG 151/20 20mm cannon in underwing nacelles (R-6 suffix, the same kit was also used on former Bf 109 variants), but this option was not widely adopted in the field: The pilots preferred the agile, original setup with as much of the overall reduced weight as possible concentrated along the longitudinal axis.
Even though only a single cannon was carried the MK 103M was very popular among the pilots since it allowed attacks on aerial and ground targets from a relatively safe distance, and sometimes just a single hit was enough to create crippling damage even to armored targets.
Nevertheless, the ‘Ludwig’ came very late, the first machines were delivered in early 1945 to the Luftwaffe and primarily used in Southern Germany and the Northern Balkans for home defense. A few machines were also allocated to Hungarian and Croatian forces that operated in the region. Total production of the ‘Ludwig’ was less than 100 airframes until the end of hostilities.
General characteristics:
Crew: One
Length: 8.95 m (29 ft 7 in)
Wingspan: 9.31 m (30 ft 6 in)
Height: 2.60 m (8 ft 2 in)
Wing area: 16.05 m² (173.3 ft²)
Empty weight: 2,247 kg (5,893 lb)
Loaded weight: 3,148 kg (6,940 lb)
Max. take-off weight: 3,400 kg (7,495 lb)
Powerplant:
1× Daimler-Benz DB 605DB liquid-cooled inverted V12, 1,750 PS (1,287 kW) with MW-50 injection,
driving a VDM four-bladed light-alloy propeller of 3m (9ft 10in) diameter
Performance:
Maximum speed: 640 km/h (398 mph) at 6,300 m (20,669 ft)
Cruise speed: 590 km/h (365 mph) at 6,000 m (19,680 ft)
Range: 850 km (528 mi) 1,000 km (621 mi) with droptank
Service ceiling: 12,000 m (39,370 ft)
Rate of climb: 17.0 m/s (3,345 ft/min)
Wing loading: 196 kg/m² (40 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 344 W/kg (0.21 hp/lb)
Armament:
1× 30 mm (1.18 in) MK 103M as centerline Motorkanone with 65 RPG
2× 13 mm (.51 in) synchronized MG 131 machine guns with 300 rounds per gun
Underfuselage hardpoint for
- 1× 250 kg (551 lb) bomb or
- 4× 50 kg (110 lb) bombs or
- 1× 300-litre (79 US gal) drop tank
The kit and its assembly:
Inspiration for this whiffy Bf 109 came from two sources: one was the thought how a low-altitude variant of a late Bf 109 in the style of the Spitfire LF.XVI with a bubble canopy would look like?
Another impulse came from pictures of a late WWII Hungarian Bf 109 G, which bore rather interesting national markings in the form of simple white or light gray crosses painted between the simplified German Balkenkreuz markings.
A third impulse were actually the painting instructions from the Heller Bf 109 K which was used as conversion basis – the most recent re-boxing of the kit features several paint and decal options, and one of the featured machines carries a rather improvised camouflage which formed the basis for my model’s shaggy livery (see below).
The kit was basically taken OOB and modified in certain areas:
• The propeller was modified to carry four blades, the spinner is OOB
• Inside of the front end, a styrene tube holds a metal axis for the propeller
• The round wings were clipped and new tips sanded from the massive material
• The original spine and cockpit opening were replaced by a cover, a Matchbox EA-6B drop tank half
• Into it, a new cockpit opening was cut and canopy parts from a late Spitfire (Airfix) fitted
• The upper fin was replaced by a Ki-61’s (Hasegawa)
• The landing gear is OOB, just with better wheels (maybe from an Italeri Fw 190)
Blending the new spine with the rest of the fuselage was not easy, but the decision to cover the cockpit completely and then make a new opening for the relatively small Spitfire canopy paid out, since this method turned out to be more convenient than trying to sculpt a smaller opening into the original canopy space from styrene strips and putty. Only the brittle, 30-year-old styrene of the spine donation part turned out to be a nuisance.
The underfuselage hardpoint was fitted, but – for an agile interceptor – left empty.
One major problem were two warped fuselage halves; luckily, these could be straightened out when the parts were glued together and the new dorsal section added.
Painting and markings:
Livery-wise, this model is a mix of several sources, plus personal twists. The first element, the Hungarian Air Force as operator, was settled first, and with it the rather special national markings.
For the livery I had originally planned a typical German late war scheme – but reality is stranger than fiction and I adopted a scheme taken from the Heller painting instructions! This includes RLM 81, 82 and 76 on the upper surfaces, with parts of the cowling and former German tactical markings painted over with RLM 75 in the field, a greenish gray for the flanks and under the fuselage (sometimes referred to as RLM 84 or RLM 99, even though this was no official color; I used Humbrol 23) and RLM 76 (only) under the wings, too.
Some RLM 02 was added in the background of the flanks’ mottles, and the tail rudder was painted in opaque RLM 82 and 83 in order to make it look like a replacement piece.
RLM02 was also used on the landing gear, while cockpit and wheel discs became dark gray. Under the engine, the rest of a yellow fuselage band is the remnant of typical late WWII Luftwaffe markings (a corresponding yellow rudder had been replaced). The spinner was painted black with a white 120° segment, the propeller blades became Black Green (RLM 70). The paints are all Humbrol und ModelMaster enamels.
The unique Hungarian crosses were created through black German Balkenkreuze under which stripes of white decal sheet had been placed (generic material from TL Modellbau). On the fin, a small Hungarian flag was added, made from single decal stripes in red, white and green. The aircraft’s tactical code was created from single letter decals.
Little Women
Based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott
The Roman Theatre of Verulamium
St Albans, Herts, Great Britain
Performance 4th August 2022
Runs until 14th August 2022
Directed by Steph Allison and Amy Connery
Presented by OVO
Jo, the second eldest of the March daughters and an aspiring writer, receives yet another rejection from a publisher. Her friend, Professor Bhaer, tells her she can do better by making her stories more personal.
Begrudgingly, Jo weaves the story of how she and her sisters - Meg, the eldest, who's on the brink of love, sweet-natured Beth who always puts others first and Amy, the youngest and most precocious - grew up in America.
Even though money is short, times are tough and their father is away, their infectious sense of fun sweeps everyone up in their adventures - including Laurie, the boy next door. And through sisterly squabbles and tragic losses, the sisters discover that growing up is sometimes very hard to do.
Louisa May Alcott’s timeless and captivating book is brought to life in a brand new adaptation, perfect for all the family. This classic story embodies the complete theatrical experience, guaranteeing laughter, tears and a lifting of the spirit.
Lucy Crick as Meg March
James Douglas as Mr Brooke
Gabriel Fogarty-Graveson as Laurie Laurence
Katie Friedli Walton as Jo March
Anastasia Raymond as Beth March
Boyd Rogers as Mr Laurence / Mr March
Kat-Anne Rogers as Mrs March
Faith Turner as Professor Francis / Aunt March
Jane Withers as Amy March
Steph Allison
Director
Tom Cagnoni
Musical Director
Rúben Carneiro
Stage Manager
Amy Connery
Director
Mattis Larsen
Lighting Designer
Emma Lyth
Costumer Designer
Delga Martineau
Wardrobe Supervisor
Simon Nicholas
Set Designer
Lauren Wedgeworth
Stage Manager
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Partida entre Palmeiras e Santos, válida pela final (volta) do Campeonato Paulista Sub-13, no Estádio Municial de Santana de Parnaíba, em Santana de Parnaíba-SP. (Foto: Fabio Menotti/Palmeiras/by Canon)
NAVAL BASE GUAM (May 1, 2020) NAVAL BASE GUAM (May 1, 2020) Sailors assigned to aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), who have tested negative twice for COVID-19, are asymptomatic and completed their off-ship quarantine or isolation, prepare to board the clean ship. Sailors from Theodore Roosevelt were moved to locations on Naval Base Guam and local hotels in an effort to implement an aggressive mitigation strategy to minimize the spread of COVID-19 and protect the health of the Sailors. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class MacAdam Kane Weissman)
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Who doesn't know what I'm talking about
Who's never left home, who's never struck out
To find a dream and a life of their own
A place in the clouds, a foundation of stone
Many precede and many will follow
A young girl's dream no longer hollow
It takes the shape of a place out west
But what it holds for her, she hasn't yet guessed
[Chorus:]
She needs wide open spaces
Room to make her big mistakes
She needs new faces
She knows the high stakes
She traveled this road as a child
Wide eyed and grinning, she never tired
But now she won't be coming back with the rest
If these are life's lessons, she'll take this test
[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the high stakes
As her folks drive away, her dad yells, "Check the oil!"
Mom stares out the window and says, "I'm leaving my girl"
She said, "It didn't seem like that long ago"
When she stood there and let her own folks know
[Repeat Chorus]
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
She knows the highest stakes
Melody captured this image of the base of a redwood tree next to the paved path on the floor of Muir Woods National Monument, a redwood tree forest in Mill Valley California just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The layout of 554 acres of redwood trees allows visitors to walk among the giants that tower over 200 above us. The paths on the floor of the valley of the forest are the only ones that are paved. The paths that climb through the hills on either side are cut into the mountainsides and are well defined but not paved. Many include stairs of natural materials in many of the steep areas. Walking a trail through these coastal redwoods above some of the tree tops can be quite strenuous and take a few hours.
Q-Base festival, edition 2010, with the harder styles in dance music.
Airport Weeze, Germany.
Client: Q-Dance
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