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The last flying Vulcan will now fly no more. I was glad to be able to witness her displays at Rhyl and Southport as part of her farewell tour of Britain.
Please read this link,as it describes her final flight.
Lightning F3 showing her geniune 111 Squadron markings as XR713 at The Lightning Preservation Group twilight event.
“I’m gonna lay down my heavy load,
Down by the Riverside
Down by the Riverside
Down by the Riverside
I’m gonna lay down my heavy load
Down by the Riverside !
I’m gonna Study War No More !
I Ain’t Gonna Study War No More !
I Ain’t Gonna Study War No More ! “
~Sister Rosetta Tharp~
“Down by the Riverside”
As the Cold War comes out of Mothballs~
2-23,24-2022 🙏 Prayers for Peace ☮️
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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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Greenham Common is a former Royal Air Force station in Berkshire. Opened in 1942, it was used by both the Royal Air Force and United States Army Air Forces during the Second World War and the United States Air Force during the Cold War. After the Cold War ended, it was closed in 1993.
In 1997 Greenham Common was designated as public parkland, although some remnants of it's past still remain. The centre cross of the main runway, the control tower and the fire fighting plane have been kept as mementos to its past.
In the south part of the ex USAF Air Base lies a mock up plane in form of a C-130c. 14 metres in length made by Ray Theodore Welding in Newbury at a cost of £15,000 and installed in August 1986. This is located in a fenced circular compound and was used for fire fighting training by airfield fire crews and Newbury Fire Brigade , It was fitted with dummy seats and passengers prior to a training exercise and was linked with a pipeline allowing the fuselage to be sprayed with aviation fuel . The circular compound is shown on the 1994 master plan of RAF Greenham Common.
35 YEARS LATER WHERE IS THE PEACE?
The East Side Gallery is an international memorial to freedom and the longest remaining stretch of the Berlin Wall in its original position. This section of the wall is 1.3 km long and is entirely painted with graffiti by various artists, concerning themes such as peace or the fall of the wall following the end of the so-called Cold War.
The back side was painted in 1990 and has been considered a protected monument since 1992.
Rosemarie Schinzler was born in Tübingen in 1949 and has lived in Fribourg, in southwestern Germany, since 1971. She has been working as an independent artist and art therapist since 1996.
She painted the works “Wachsen lassen” (Let it Grow) and “Alles offen” (All Open) at the East Side Gallery around 1990.
Lt Col Yurii Bulavka from the Ukrainian air force displaying the Su-27 Flanker at the Royal International Air Tattoo 2019, RAF Fairford. Lt Col Yurii Bulavka was awarded the Paul Bowen Trophy for the best solo jet display.
Former Swiss Air Force De Havilland DH.112 Venom J-1614 G-VENM painted to represent WK436 of 11 Sqn. RAF seen at Kemble 2003
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.
One of the stars of Royal International Air Tattoo 2019 , the Mig-21 LanceR from the Romanian Air Force, displaying on a gloomy summer's day at RAF Fairford.
Roaring into the air to begin the evening display and tearing up the air with a massive afterburner flame.
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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
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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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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Go low..or go home..😉
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Erstaunlich wie der kleine Baum mitten im Fels wachsen kann.
It's amazing how the small tree can grow in the middle of the rock.
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.
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The howl of Starfighters passing over my hometown was a signature sound of my childhood in the 1980s.
Based on a nearby RCAF base, the pilots trained for potential low- level- high- speed- (potential no return)- missions to deliver nuclear "payloads" against warsaw pact countries.
50% of Canadian CF-104s were "lost" in accidents !
In the years 56'-58 ' the Soviets built here in the Gulf of Finland a demagnetization facility for submarines and operated this facility until the year 91'.
At the time this facility was said to be one of three worldwide.
MiG-15UTI “RED 18”
This aircraft is a Polish-built SB Lim-2 (MiG-15UTI), produced by WSK-Mielec in 1952. The aircraft is operated by the Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron as a representative of the Cold War ‘enemy’.
Following its Polish Air Force service ending in 1990, the aircraft was exported to the USA, and based at Quillayute Airport just outside Forks, Washington. It was again returned to Europe in the summer of 2014. Experienced ex. Polish Air Force MiG-15 engineers carried out the maintenance of the aircraft.
Given the shared border between north-eastern Norway and Russia, and the many encounters between Royal Norwegian Air Force and Soviet aircraft during the Cold War, the Polish MiG is an appropriate addition to the Norwegian Air Force Historical Squadron.
The aircraft is painted and marked as “RED 18” to represent Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin’s MiG-15. He was the first human to journey into outer space in 1961. Before his cosmonaut training Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was stationed close to the Norwegian boarder and only 40 km from the Norwegian city of Kirkenes as a fighter pilot flying the MiG-15.
Seen at IWM Duxford
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