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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.
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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B-52's appearance was quite a surprise. No, it didn't land at Lethbidge (didn't want to create a precedent, perhaps :), what it did was just one but very impressive speed pass.
Tatra 603 - a great car for driving in the snow - lots of rear-end traction, you see (Photo courtesy of my Brother Dave)
I saw this card at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. It still carries great meaning in today's political climate.
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
Also:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_1
Credit: Wikipedia
Low & fast pass by the MiG-21. Flown by general de flotilă aeriană Cătălin Băhneanu in the front seat și comandor Dan Moise in the rear seat. Open Day at Baza 95 Aeriană Erou Căpitan Aviator Alexandru Șerbănescu Bacău.
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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
You have been contaminated. Follow the red arrows on the floor. Follow all instructions. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO LEAVE.
The theatrical guided tour unveiled the fascinating secrets locked away in Greenham’s chemical decontamination suite.
Photographed outside the Wing Headquarters Building, Greenham Common, a Grade II listed building.
The Wing Headquarters building of the former Greenham Common airbase, built circa 1985 as part of the Cold War redevelopment of the base to accommodate cruise missiles, is listed at Grade II for the following principal reasons:
Political interest: one of a group of buildings at Greenham Common specifically constructed as part of the USAF redevelopment of the base to accommodate cruise missiles in the 1980s: a key component of NATO’s strategy to maintain nuclear parity with the Warsaw Pact countries and one of only two bases nationally (the other being Molesworth in Cambridgeshire) where cruise missiles were deployed; Historic interest: the command and control building for an internationally significant Cold War airbase, designed as a conduit for orders from High Command to deploy Greenham’s cruise missiles. The decontamination suite and Battle Room in particular reflect the building’s central mission to the cruise programme. The briefing room is also part of the disarmament story following the signing by the USSR and the USA of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty. This allowed the Russians to inspect key NATO sites, including this one, until the expiry of the treaty in June 2001;
Architectural interest: a structure which reflects NATO’s policy of hardened and camouflaged specialist buildings during the Second Cold War of the 1980s. Of particular note, given its scale and remarkable completeness, is the decontamination suite, which is one of the two best (the other being within the Avionics Building at Alconbury airfield, Cambridgeshire) nationally in terms of scale and preservation;
Group value: with the 1980s cruise missile shelters and support buildings of the scheduled ground-launched Cruise Missile Alert and Maintenance Area (GAMA), also with the Grade II-listed control tower and the Grade-II listed adjacent Combat Support Building, all of which reflect the nationally significant development of the base to accommodate cruise missiles.
Messenger of the Gods
Returning to Offutt, this E-6B Mercury stands out against the blue skies over Nebraska.
A beautiful Cold War-era Boeing KC-97G Stratofreighter aerial refueling tanker on display at Pima Air & Space Museum near Tucson, Arizona
The iconic Flanker roaring into the sky with two incandescent trails of fire behind it for its evening display during Bucharest International Air Show 2016.
It was about time for a fast jet after so many props on my photostream, don't you think?
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Sukhoi - Su-27 - Cold War Aircraft - Ukrainian Air Force - BIAS - BIAS 2016
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Youth, Unite ! Forward For Lasting Peace ! LOL
A Polish propaganda postcard from 1951, from "Cold War" days..
I recently won that card on the internet auction... an interesting piece of our European history.
I just had to have it. ;-) .. a pure "relic" from the days when Europe was divided in two... somewhat like today ;-)
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Roaring overhead during the sunset display, the MiG driver has just engaged reheat and the afterburner flame is starting to spew from the jetpipe. You can take a look inside the afterburner of the Tumanski R-13-300 turbojet engine! What a shape, what a sight, what a sound, what a feeling...
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My first encounter with a Flanker...words are not enough, but hopefully my photographs will be. Breathtaking and exhilarating performance from a legendary aircraft. Many thanks to the Ukrainian Air Force and the organizers of the Bucharest International Air Show 2016 for this unique opportunity!
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Willfire exercise during Internationale Luft-und Raumfahrtausstellung (ILA) Berlin 2014.
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Transall - Luftwaffe - Bundeswehr - Cold War Aircraft - ILA 2014
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Avro Vulcan B Mk 2 XM603 was completed at Woodford on 15th November 1963, fitted with Bristol Siddeley Olympus 301 engines. She first flew in the all white anti-flash paint scheme used for the high altitude role that the Vulcan was originally designed for.
Delivered the same month to No. 12 Sqn, then part of the Coningsby Wing which moved, shortly afterwards, to Cottesmore in 1964. XM603 then transferred to the Waddington Wing in 1968, joined 50 Sqn in August 1975 followed by 101 Sqn in December 1980 & then 44 Sqn. in July 1981. By this time the paint scheme had changed to the Grey/Green camouflage used in the low level role which the Vulcan was now used for.
She travelled extensively to British and American bases round the World before being retired by the RAF in 1982 as part of the general removal of Vulcans from service, just missing the Falklands conflict.
XM603 was sold to British Aerospace (as was) for preservation at Woodford. She arrived there on 12th March 1982 flown by Charles Masefield – now Sir Charles Masefield.
She was used as the trial mock up aircraft for the Vulcan K.Mk 2 tanker conversion. Vulcans were used for air to air refuelling in Europe allowing the Victors to be used in the South Atlantic. A number of items were also removed to support operational Vulcans.
After the team maintaining her were stopped accessing the airfield she started to decay and suffered some vandalism. XM655 at Wellesbourne now has two of her engines and still performs taxi runs. Recently restored to top static condition XM603 is the only preserved Vulcan in the all-white colour scheme.
The BlackBox Cold War exhibition depicts the division of Germany and Berlin in the context of the international bloc confrontation at the historical site of the 1961 tank confrontation.
In the exhibition, which is unique in Germany, 16 media stations, a small cinema, documents and original objects show what the Berlin Wall has to do with the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis and open the view to the global dimension of the East-West confrontation .
Commander Gheorghe Stancu saluting the crowd from the cockpit of his MiG-21 with a beautiful topside pass. The aircraft belongs to the 86th Air Base Fetești (Borcea).
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Taking off for the flying display during the Open Day held at 'Baza 71 Aeriană General Emanoil Ionescu, Câmpia Turzii'. The whole air is a hot, flickering jelly from the aircraft in front.
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