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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.
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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The Ukranian Air Force Flanker putting on an impressive display at The Royal International Air Tattoo 2018, RAF Fairford.
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.
Feel the heat! During the evening display, the pilot threw the aircraft around using generous helpings of reheat. Powered by two Lyulka/Saturn Al-31F afterburning turbofan engines developing 123 kN each. Bucharest International Air Show 2016.
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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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Glienicke Bridge was a legendary theatre during the Cold War. The USA and the Soviet Union exchanged spies here.
The most charming landscape in the already very green Berlin is located in the far south-west of the city - where Berlin and the Brandenburg capital of Potsdam meet. This is where the Glienicke Bridge is located. It connects Berlin and Potsdam and was a legendary theatre during the Cold War. The USA and the Soviet Union exchanged spies across the bridge. Today, the bridge is an unspectacular connection to Potsdam, but offers a beautiful view over the enchanting Havel landscape.
Mediterranean flair: Glienicke Palace
The Prussian rulers, who cultivated the banks of the Havel into a park around Klein-Glienicke Palace, recognised its picturesque quality. Just before the bridge, the first horticultural work by Peter Joseph Lenné (1816) can be admired on Königstraße. Prince Carl of Prussia had the existing buildings artistically remodelled and given a Mediterranean design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ludwig Persius and Ferdinand v. Arnim in 1824-60. The lion fountain in front of the palace, modelled on the Villa Medici in Rome, is well worth seeing.
Die Glienicker Brücke war legendärer Schauplatz im Kalten Krieg. Hier tauschten die USA und die Sowjetunion Spione aus.
Die reizvollste Landschaft im ohnehin sehr grünen Berlin liegt im äußersten Südwesten der Stadt - dort, wo Berlin und die brandenburgische Hauptstadt Potsdam aufeinander treffen. Hier befindet sich die Glienicker Brücke. Sie verbindet Berlin und Potsdam und war legendärer Schauplatz während des Kalten Krieges. Über die Brücke tauschten die USA und die Sowjetunion Spione aus. Heute ist die Brücke eine unspektakuläre Verbindung nach Potsdam, hat jedoch einen sehr schönen Blick über die zauberhafte Havellandschaft zu bieten.
Mediterranes Flair: Schloss Glienicke
Die malerische Qualität erkannten schon die preußischen Herrscher, die das Havelufer zum Park rund um das Schloss Klein-Glienicke kultivierten. Kurz vor der Brücke ist an der Königstraße die erste Gartenbauarbeit von Peter Joseph Lenné (1816) zu bewundern. Die existierenden Gebäude ließ Prinz Carl von Preußen 1824–60 durch Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Ludwig Persius und Ferdinand v. Arnim kunstvoll umbauen und mediterran gestalten. Sehenswert ist die Löwenfontäne vor dem Schloss nach Vorbild in der Villa Medici in Rom.
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 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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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.
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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A great topside pass by a beautiful MiG-21UM LanceR B at the Open Day held at 'Baza 71 Aeriană General Emanoil Ionescu, Câmpia Turzii'. Note the cool looking pilots with their Elbit Systems DASH (Display And Sight Helmet), one of the first helmet display and queing systems ever implemented by a NATO country (2001).
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North American T-28A Trojan, USAF 49-1643, registered N81643.
Photographed at Paine Field, Everett, Washington in 2004.
T-28 Trojan (Wikipedia):
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_T-28_Trojan
T-28 Trojan (Aircraft in Focus):
Tatra 603 - a great car for driving in the snow - lots of rear-end traction, you see (Photo courtesy of my Brother Dave)
Gemini 1 at the moment of ignition, 11:00:01 a.m. EST, April 8, 1964, Launch Complex 19, CCAFS.
8.5” x 10.875”.
Note the reddish appearance of the Titan II’s exhaust. A telltale indicator of it being produced by a hypergolic fuel mixture. Even if you have no idea what that is, doesn’t it just look toxic & corrosive? Which it indeed is.
“Gemini 1 was an uncrewed orbital test of the Titan 2 launch vehicle, the Gemini spacecraft structural integrity, and the launch vehicle-spacecraft compatibility. The test covered all phases through the orbital insertion phase. Other objectives were to check out launch vehicle-spacecraft launch heating conditions, launch vehicle performance, launch vehicle flight control system switch-over circuits, launch vehicle orbit insertion accuracy, and the malfunction detection system. This was the first production Gemini spacecraft and launch vehicle.
Mission Profile
Launch of Gemini 1 took place at 11:00:01 a.m. EST (16:00:01.69 UT) from Complex 19. Six minutes after launch, the Titan 2 booster placed the Gemini spacecraft and the attached 2nd stage in a 160.5 x 320.6 km orbit with a period of 89.3 minutes. An excess speed of 22.5 km/hr sent the spacecraft 33.6 km higher than planned. Mission plans did not include separation of spacecraft from the 3.05 meter diameter, 5.8 meter long Titan stage 2, both orbited as a unit. The planned mission included only three orbits and ended about 4 hours 50 minutes after launch with the third pass over Cape Kennedy. The spacecraft was tracked until it reentered the atmosphere and disintegrated on the 64th orbital pass over the southern Atlantic on April 12. The systems functioned well within planned tolerances and the mission was deemed a successful test.
Spacecraft and Subsystems
The Gemini spacecraft was a cone-shaped capsule consisting of two components, a reentry module and an adaptor module. The adaptor module made up the base of the spacecraft. It was a truncated cone 228.6 cm high, 304.8 cm in diameter at the base and 228.6 cm at the upper end where it attached to the base of the reentry module. The re-entry module consisted of a truncated cone which decreased in diameter from 228.6 cm at the base to 98.2 cm, topped by a short cylinder of the same diameter and then another truncated cone decreasing to a diameter of 74.6 cm at the flat top. The reentry module was 345.0 cm high, giving a total height of 573.6 cm for the Gemini spacecraft.
The adaptor module was an externally skinned, stringer framed structure, with magnesium stringers and an aluminum alloy frame. The adaptor was composed of two parts, an equipment section at the base and a retrorocket section at the top. The reentry module consisted mainly of the pressurized cabin designed to hold the two Gemini astronauts. Two instrumentation pallets were mounted in place of the couches which would normally hold the astronauts. The pallets carried some 180 kg of pressure transducers, temperature sensors, and accelerometers. Separating the reentry module from the retrorocket section of the adaptor at its base was a curved silicone elastomer ablative heat shield. The module was composed predominantly of titanium and nickle-alloy with beryllium shingles. Dummy packages and ballast was used to simulate normal spacecraft weight and configuration for systems not required for this flight.”
Above per:
nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1964...
Credit: NSSDCA website
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_1
Credit: Wikipedia