Aviation Wreck and Relics
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cóż małe rozczarowanie jak to zwykle w życiu bywa, w filmie był nastrój magia, na żywo gdzieś mi to wszystko umknęło. Nie ten czas, nie ta chwila.
East Side Gallery, Berlin Wall, Mülenstraße, Berlin-Friedrichshain, Germany 2015
This mural by Birgit Kinder, originally painted in 1990 and restored in 2009, is part of the East Side Gallery and depicts a Trabant Car breaking through the erstwhile Berlin Wall.
Comprising of 106 painting/murals by 118 artists from 21 countries, on 1316 meters of the Berlin Wall in East Berlin, the East Side Gallery is the largest open air gallery in the world.
Signed :
"Birgit K,
09.07.09"
www.muralguide.org/murals/berlin/test-rest-formerly-test-...
The English Electric Lightning was a supersonic Intercepter fighter flown by the RAF. It was retired in 1988. This example is riding high over Castle Motors car showrooms in Cornwall
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An abandoned syrian tank on the Golan highest at Oz77 memorial site with the milky way in the background
Probably T-62 tank
This photo made from 2 photos
* The tank and the landscape are 3.5 minutes a exposure (4 photos stack together)
* The sky with the milky way are made of 8 stack photos, 30 sec exposure to reduce noise
all of the photos been taken at ISO 800
On the tidal flats of The Wash, just off the Lincolnshire coast near Wainfleet, two derelict ship hulks sit stranded in pale sand and silts, with narrow creeks curling around them as the tide drains away. From the air, the scene looks almost abstract: smooth mudflats, dark wrecks and the sinuous channels that constantly reshape this edge of the coast.
These wrecks were not accidental losses. They were placed here as targets for the RAF Wainfleet Air Weapons Range, also known as The Wash (North Side) Bombing Range. The area has been used for military practice for a very long time: artillery were using the marshes from 1890 and by 1891 formal byelaws defined the range boundaries and imposed fines for trespass. Aircraft began using the sands for armament training during the First World War, then the range reopened for aerial bombing and gunnery in August 1938. During the Second World War it was used as a practice range for many types of aircraft, then in the post-war decades it hosted generations of military jets and strike aircraft training over the Wash.
Old ship hulks were ideal aim-points on an empty expanse of intertidal sand. One recorded example is the coaster WALLBROOK, built in 1940, which was later sunk off Wainfleet as a range target after March 1999. Operations at RAF Wainfleet ceased in December 2009 and the range was fully closed in 2010, leaving these skeletal targets to rust quietly in the mud, appearing and disappearing with the tides and the shifting sands.
These are the stacks for underground ventilation of the underground portion of this defunct cold war installation. Photo was originally in color, but the color of the sky worked better converted to B&W.
Roaring into the air to begin the evening display and tearing up the air with a massive afterburner flame.
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Mikoyan - MiG-21 - Cold War Aircraft - Romanian Air Force - BIAS - BIAS 2016
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There have been 2 changes made to the latest installment of what has to be my favorite tank. The first change is the side skirts. Instead of using that piece that leaves a spacing in between the hull and the skirts(I’m not very good with terminology and part names) I used some other kinda technique which y’all will see when I do the breakdown for the hull although for some of y’all it might seem obvious. The second is the back of the tank. In my recent pursuit to beautify the butts of my builds I have rebuilt the back of the tank, making it match the rear of the mark 1 hull. Anyway, hope y’all like it!
-Van
Blackburn/H.S. Buccaneer S.2 XN981 of 12 Sqn. RAF during a simulated airfield attack at St. Mawgan Air Day 1990
The Greenham Cold War Experience
A unique opportunity to explore parts of Greenham Common that played a key role in the Cold War, through scenes presented by professional performers. Three 15-minute scenes and a Q & A with a local historian brought the Cold War of the 1980s to life with a walk across the beautiful Site of Special Scientific Interest, filled with wildlife and the relics of military life.
Decontamination Suite Tour
The base commander's wife has been contaminated after exposure to fallout from chemical weapons. She doesn't look very pleased!
Commander Gheorghe Stancu keeping his MiG-21 Lancer C low after take-off and roaring over the runway retracting the landing gear. The heat coming from the afterburner is 'melting' the background. The aircraft belongs to the 86th Air Base Fetești (Borcea).
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XH558 the last flying survivor of the Avro Vulcan bomber family performing it's final seasonal display at RAF Fairford's Royal International Air Tattoo 2015.
The Avro Vulcan is a jet-powered tailless delta wing high-altitude strategic bomber, which was operated by the Royal Air Force from 1956 until 1984. Aircraft manufacturer A.V. Roe and Company designed the Vulcan and XH558 is one of the 136 airframes that were built (including prototypes).
The iconic Flanker roaring into the sky and flying into the sun like Ikarus. I love the heat effect of the exhaust plume of the afterburner turning the air into jelly. Powered by two Lyulka/Saturn Al-31F afterburning turbofan engines developing 123 kN each. I did close my right eye, as the magnifying effect of the SLR camera can cause retinal burns if pointed at the sun. The silhouette of the Flanker is beautiful, elegant and unmistakable. Evening display during Bucharest International Air Show 2016. Explored 8th January 2017.
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Sukhoi - Su-27 - Cold War Aircraft - Ukrainian Air Force - BIAS - BIAS 2016
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A purposefully ominous shot taken at the abandoned Nike missile site in Lorton, Va just a few miles from our home. Here's what the historical marker has to say about this place:
"Located north of here was one of three Nike anti-aircraft missile complexes in Fairfax County operated by the U. S. Army and the Army National Guard between 1954 and 1974. The sites were established during the Cold War to defend Washington from Soviet air attack. This complex, along with those at Great Falls and Fairfax, was among thirteen Nike sites that surrounded Washington and Baltimore. The ring of Nike sites was reminiscent of the perimeter of forts that had protected the capital during the Civil War. This was the only Nike complex in Fairfax County containing missiles armed with nuclear warheads. It served as a model site for visits by foreign dignitaries."
Thankfully those missiles were never used.
The heavy tank model 47/c, or Nhéz Harckocsi modell 47-c, was one of the first Grópac indigenous designs, as all previous tank designs of the Central Pact had been designed in other factory complexes - it entered service just as the Second Wew War was ending, and be the object of fear for western countries for several years to come.
They serve both in tank-only regiments as well as amongst the mechanized infantry support, and were designed to carry troops mounted on their outsides as well.
With heavy armour and a heavy gun, the m-10/m would see action in the 1958 Prilep Crisis, despite nearing the end of its production. Total production would cease in 1962, as the tank was squarely out-of-date by then. All tanks have been going through the slow process of modernization since to make them competitive with more modern tanks.
Later production models and modernizations (1959+) would see the introduction of the -/m variant, which would upgrade the roof and coaxial machineguns to 14.5mm. These would
prove exceedingly useful once the introduction of the helicopter and more specifically, attack helicopter entered the battlefield, and would also provide more power against lightly-armored vehicles as was seen during the combat during the Prilep Crisis. It would also see the introduction of an NBC protection system for the tank, as well as more advanced IR systems.
It's a T-10M. Thanks to Zee for inspiration on how to get the pike-nose right, and to Awe for some other minor assistance.
Checkpoint Bravo ("Checkpoint B") was the name given by the Western Allies to the main autobahn border crossing points between West Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. More info: here.
ISO 100, f8 @ 35mm, 22:14, 10sec.