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This is an A-10 Thunderbolt. The A-10 is the best plane ever, and not just because of the big fat gun in its nose, which is a toy for boys all on its own. According to Wikipedia, an "A-10 can fly even after the loss of one side of the tail, 1/2 of a single wing, and one engine." How cool is that! Zombie plane!
Funny thing is that this transformer is not quite in correct in the angle of the engines: the real A-10 has its engines at a 9-degree angle so it can get off the ground because of the engines' strange placement. In the transformer, they're straight. Fortunately, the hip-hinge has worn a little over the years and the entire tail is pulled down about nine degrees by gravity.
This is a lot of text for a flickr photo.
I had seen this variety of butterfly on the water front many times but they are fast moving and I have not been real successful about getting photographs of them.
i was waiting at the causeway to lindisfarne and took some photos of the water
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