A dedicated first-rate fleet screen, seen in original as-launched configuration.

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Turrets and torpedo battery obtained in "technology transfer" with Seabass ;^)

A quartet of NS GP38-2s are at McDonough, Georgia awaiting their next moves. 5005 and 5049 are still in their as built high hood configuration while 5066 and 5217 have been rebuilt with Admiral Cabs. December 2021

Boeing 737 Next Gen - MSN 36700

Status : Active

Registration : XA-AMA

Airline Aeromexico

Country : Mexico

Date : 1972 -

Codes AM AMX

Callsign : Aeromexico

Web site : www.aeromexico.com

Serial number36700 LN:4137

Type737-852

First flight date30/07/2012

Test registration

Plane age6.4 years

Seat configuration

Engines2 x CFMI CFM56-7B

17/08/2012AeromexicoXA-AMA

Boeing 737 - MSN 21467

Status : Active

Registration : C-GMAI

Airline Air Inuit

Country : Canada

Date : 1978 -

Codes 6H 3H AIE

Callsign : Air Inuit

Web site : www.airinuit.ca

Serial number21467 LN:515

Type737-2Q2C

First flight date29/03/1978

Test registration

Plane age40.3 years

Seat configuration

Engines

31/07/1978Air GabonTR-LXL

22/07/1997Air InterTR-LXL

01/01/1998Air GabonTR-LXLCeased operations 24 feb 06

19/11/2010Air InuitC-GMAI

Le site des dunes de Tadoussac offre une configuration idéale pour l'observation de la migration des oiseaux. En raison de la largeur du fleuve Saint-Laurent, les oiseaux ne se risquent pas à le traverser à cet endroit. Il se crée des couloirs de vents favorables compte tenu de la configuration particulière du fleuve avec le Saguenay et son fjord, Le site des dunes est dégagé et offre à l'observateur un point de vue unique. On voit les oiseaux de proie arriver par-dessus la montagne, quand on regarde vers l'est-nord-est. Un premier couloir passe côté fleuve, à main droite, et on y voit souvent les oiseaux glisser le long de la dune avant de remonter. L'autre corridor passe plutôt côté terre, à main gauche. Ils suivent ensuite le fleuve jusqu'à ce que ce leur soit facile de le franchir, à partir de Québec et plus au sud. Ces temps-ci, un ornithologue professionnel fait le décompte des migrateurs. Sa connaissance des oiseaux est formidable. Il identifie les espèces à distance à leur silhouette et à leur vol. Il peut facilement statuer sur leur âge. Grâce à lui nous avons observé de nombreuses espèces qui nous auraient échappé.

Il y avait activité de baguage des passereaux, le jour, et des nyctales, la nuit, au pavillon des dunes. L'observatoire des oiseaux de Tadoussac, l'OOT, organisait et gérait tout ça.

The Tadoussac Dunes site offers an ideal setting for observing bird migration. Because of the width of the St. Lawrence River, birds do not risk crossing it at this point. Corridors of favorable winds are created given the particular configuration of the river with the Saguenay and its fjord. The site of the dunes is clear and offers the observer a unique point of view. We see the birds of prey coming over the mountain, when we look to the east-northeast. A first corridor passes on the river side, to the right, and we often see the birds gliding along the dune before going up. The other corridor passes rather on the land side, to the left. They then follow the river until it is easy for them to cross it, starting from Quebec and further south. These days, a professional ornithologist is counting the migrants. His knowledge of birds is tremendous. He identifies species at a distance by their silhouette and flight. He can easily decide on their age. Thanks to him we observed many species that would have escaped us.

There was banding activity for passerines during the day and owls at night at the pavilion des dunes. The Tadoussac bird observatory, the OOT, organized and managed all of this.

Mexican stonecrop buds.

*****

EXPLOREd on June 1, 2013.

(#46, as of Apr. 23, 2016)

© All rights reserved. A low-res, flatbed scan of a 6x7 (2 1/4 x 2 3/4 inch) transparency

While shooting a "Why Not?" type shot of the Ferry Building's '1915' lights, I took notice of three workers ardently moving up and down the Bay Bridge's suspension cables in baskets. After it became clear that they were installing the new Bay Lights (soon to be officially on when this was taken), I thought I'd see what it looked like in a long exposure.

And, here you go.

I am sure these new LED lights are brighter than the old ones. They also must be in a different configuration along the strands because of how they make really pronounced individual starbursts. Even in this jpeg, I believe you can see that.

Anyway, thanks for checking out this shot! And is it just me, or did Flickr change the way stats are counted again?

Coal loads for Alma, WI fly along the Mississippi River at 55 mph in a 3 x 1 configuration here at Sauk Rapids. Nary an EMD to be found in this consist, imagine that.

Another of the variety of wing and tail configurations deployed by this Snowy Egret as it hovered and whirled about a cypress stump perch, looking in vain for a morning meal on Mud Lake.

@ FlySafair | South Africa

• Date 1970 -

• Codes FA SFR

• Callsign Cargo

• Web site www.flysafair.co.za

@ Boeing 737 - 400 | ZS-DMI

• Build by Boeing (RNT) WA USA

• Serial number 24165 LN:1720

• Type 737-4S3

• First flight date 08/05/1989

• Test registration

• Seat configuration Y165 Seat

• Hex code 00893D

• Engines 2 x CFMI CFM56-3C1

@ Operators of the aircraft :

• 23/05/1989 : Air Europe > G-BPKC

• 03/03/1992 : Markair > N690MA

• 01/04/1996 : Jet Airways > VT-JAI

• 18/08/1999 : Sahara India Airlines > VT-SIH

• 01/07/2003 : JAT Airways > YU-AOQ

• lsd from Hanway Corp - Ex N758BC

• 01/12/2003 : Transaero Airlines > EI-DDK

• 08/11/2017 : FlySafair > ZS-DMI

• 05/2024 : Stored

@ Southern Airways Express | USA

• Founded : 2013

• Code : 9X / FDY ( FRIENDLY )

• Website : iflysouthern.com

@ Saab 340 - MSN 345 - N95SA

• Build by SAAB | Sweden

• Serial number : 345

• Type : 340B

• First flight date : 16/08/1993

• Test registration : SE-C45

• Seat configuration : Y30 Seat

• Hex code : AD33DF

• Engines : 2 x GE CT7

@ Operators of the aircraft :

• 03/09/1993 : American Eagle > N345SB

• 01/12/2005 : PenAir > N345CV

• 23/02/2006 : PenAir > N679PA Ceased operations 5 apr. 2020

• 14/06/2022 : Southern Airways Express > N95SA

Named The Phil Lefevre

lsd from Turbo Lease

• 02/2024 : Stored

An artwork by the artist Jean Arp (1886-1966), a German-French sculptor, painter and poet. Jean Arp was broadly known as a Dadaist and abstract artist.

Seen in Museo Casorella, Locarno, Switzerland.

Thank you for your visits / comments / faves!

People on Flickr have been reminding me to stop and shoot more of these desert things. There are many odd things out there and it doesn't take much effort. This is a two-frame panorama shot with my backup backup camera. The place is closed and fenced. I sat the camera on the fence to shoot this.

“Aircraft infringing upon non-free flying territory may be fired upon without warning.”

— Kamchatka Penninsula chart

Correction: art grade image. One distracting element was edited out.

Do not copy this image for any purpose.

Configuration for the L22

Thanks to koigon for the basic idea.

EI-ASE : Boeing 737-248C : Aer Lingus

Seeing that the first eleven windows have blinds closed, I wonder if this was in a combi configuration?

Victory Liner Inc.

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Benedetto Buffalino – La voiture sur le lampadaire, 2019 - Voiture Peugeot 406 blanche, métal, bois, système d’éclairage

Pour Benedetto Bufalino, chaque œuvre est une nouvelle aventure à imaginer. Ici pour le quartier de Paris La Défense il décide de poser une voiture sur un lampadaire. La voiture, symbole de la modernité du xxe siècle, a été pendant toute une période un élément central des villes, occupant tout l’espace (routes, parkings...). La voiture est un objet essentiel dans l’œuvre de Bufalino.

VIP Configuration

Victory Liner Inc.

Victory Liner Inc.

VAK trailer mod mandatory, will be released as an add-on for V10

Victory Liner Inc.

I never have seen the configuration of the Coot's tongue - this image shows it a little better!

So this is the picture that I've really wanted to take for the past few weeks, and I finally got everything lined up for it!

The vehicle is the same base as my previous picture, but in what I want to call the "Sentinel" configuration with the back changed out for a more armored module and a computer-assisted rocket launcher and machine gun combo on top so multiples of these can pretty much set up in a defensive position and hold their own against the enemy laying down some serious cover fire and firing off four rockets at a time. The rockets can be reloaded manually through the back.

July 2010 - [CGN/EDDK] Köln/Bonn - Konrad Adenauer

cn 30232, delivered to ATA as N532AT in 1997,

since 2008 with VIP- configuration for Gainjet.

Smile, people, it is Friday!

Thank you for staying around and enjoy your weekend!

The top of the tennis court net curtain that allows flexibility in court configuration. Closed during play, and open for easy access.

A robin in our back garden landing on the fork Rachel wasn't at that point using. This is not a Photoshop job!! (Well, beyond a crop, levels, slight sharpen.) I just happened to have the macro lens (f=105mm) on the camera, which helped.

Excerpt from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sint_Servaasbrug:

Sint Servaasbrug (or the St. Servatius Bridge) is an arched stone cyclist and pedestrian bridge across the river Meuse in Maastricht, Netherlands. It is named after Saint Servatius, the first bishop of Maastricht, and (despite being largely rebuilt after World War II) it has been called the oldest bridge in the Netherlands.

The Sint Servaasbrug connects pedestrian traffic from the Binnenstad district of Maastricht on the west bank of the Meuse (the most central part of the city) to the Wyck district on the east bank.

The bridge is made of limestone, and in its current configuration it is 160 metres (525 ft) long and 9 metres (30 ft) wide. Its seven arches each span approximately 12 metres (39 ft), and are supported by seven piers. A separate steel drawbridge with a span of 54.5 metres (178 ft 10 in) connects the east end of the bridge to the east bank of the river.

ALMA radio telescope; antennas in compact configuration

Pangasinan Five Star Bus Company

Interesting antennae configuration spotted on top of a tin shed.

Tram arch

The railway overpass over Syromyatnichesky passage was built in 1865 for the Moscow - Kursk railway line and is designed to pass six tracks. In the narrow tunnel, the tram rails are laid in a "plexus" - this is the last such configuration of rails in Moscow that has survived.

Embraer 135/145 - MSN 649 - N14105

Airline Expressjet

Country : USA

Codes XE BTA

Callsign : Jet Link

Web site : www.expressjet.com

Serial number649

Type145XR

First flight dateUnknown

Test registrationPT-SEJ

Plane age13.5 years

Seat configuration

Engines2 x AN AE3007A1E

23/10/2002ExpressjetN14105

Jee, got a Harry Potter look after a use of my portrait in photolab.

Have a nice week everybody and thanks for passing by.

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1930 Cord L-29 Cabriolet

Following the initial success of Harry Miller’s front wheel drive race car in the 1925 Indianapolis 500-mile race, E.L. Cord approached Miller with the idea of incorporating the front-wheel drive configuration into a passenger car. With Miller’s assistance, the Cord L-29 was introduced in August of 1929.It became America’s successfully first mass-produced front-wheel drive automobile. The Lycoming straight-eight engine was installed in reverse, which placed the transmission and differential in front of the engine to power the front wheels. The elimination of a lengthy drive-train allowed the Cord to sit eleven inches lower than similar automobiles of the day.

Auburn Automobile Company stylist, Alan Leamy masterfully designed the low and sleek Cord. A revolution both stylistically and mechanically, the Cord L-29 led the way for future automotive design.

Specifications

Model: ——————— Cabriolet

Wheelbase: —————137.5 inches

Engine: —————-— Lycoming in-line eight cylinder

Transmission: ——-— Three speed manual

Displacement: ——-— 299 cubic inches

Horsepower: ———— 125 @ 3,400 rpm

Weight: —————-—- 4,300 lbs.

Price when new: ——- $3,195

Note: A Cord L-29 was the official pace car for the 1930 Indianapolis 500-mile race, driven by racer Wade Morton.

Source - Display placard

……….. one final comment. If you look closely enough you should be able to see the ghost of the ACD Museum in the picture.

Hope you’all enjoy…………………

Engineer Steve Harner gives the group of us gathered next to the infamous KCS Crew Lake trestle a thumbs up as the 2024 CPKC holiday express blasts across at track speed. A noon time departure from Vicksburg, Ms, for the evenings showing in Monroe, La, meant there would be beautiful light along the small bayou known as Crew Lake. Crew lake is one of the few locations where the wooden trestles that once dominated the still hold on along the main. This shot was one of the must have locations both directions on the 2024 run. If this was the last year for the current configuration of this train I'm glad it was done well...

Thanks for looking!

I wasn't going to post this, but changed my mind after fiddling with it; I liked the configuration of the rubble and how the colors turned out.

HFF ! Or should I say, MFF ? ( Missing Fence Friday ).

Different configurations of collected steel sculptural forms. Two being magnetic allowing for reconfiguration at the whim of the owner/curator. The diameter of the round base is about 200mm.

Deers

Boeing 737 Next Gen - MSN 36421

Status : Active

Registration : C-GVWJ

Airline WestJet Airlines

Country : Canada

Date : 1995 -

Codes WS WJA

Callsign : Westjet

Web site : www.westjet.com

Serial number36421 LN:2484

Type737-7CT

First flight date09/01/2008

Test registration

Plane age10.9 years

Seat configuration

Engines2 x CFMI CFM56-7B24

23/01/2008WestJet AirlinesC-GVWJ

what i learned on this trip...

i need a wider lens.

just couldn't get the perspectives i wanted with the 17-55.

couldn't back up any further because of the crowds and street configurations.

...yup, i need a new lens...

So, here is what’s happening. I was going to show a different equipment configuration because I am planning on using the EOS70D next time round for another go at the gyrfalcon. That would eliminate the need for the 1.4 extender and possibly speed up autofocus a bit. To that purpose, I was diligently testing at home getting some encouraging results even up to ISO 3200. A bit softer but still quite useable and I actually liked that effect. So, since the light turned dark and miserable today, I abandoned that trip and focused on showing my result with this configuration on a female red crossbill. And then of course, I got sidetracked and came across this little beauty (yes, also the female Red Crossbill) in some wonderful lighting conditions that I was unable to resist. The cool thing here is that the water in the birdbath is releasing some steam that is clearly visible in the early morning sun and the light on the bird itself is something that I could not turn a blind eye to. (yes, bad grammar I know). She is obviously quite captivated by the steam as well. No need to talk about her beak or her non-red color. And even though I suspect that she’s an adult female, just on the off-chance she’s not, she will be one soon.

Girl, you’ll be a woman soon – Urge Overkill

Rainswept September 12, 2002 saw a coal empty creeping up the western slope of Soldier Summit. UP's power desk had the nerve to place that yellow leader 6818 into the set of ACs. A fourth Espee shouldn't have been that hard to find.

The westbound track had a green light so we tried to catch a meet further east. A coal train was working up the other slope. And of course, the three mid-train DPU of the empty were Espee AC4400, too. The empty train was powered in 4-3-1 configuration according to my notes.

A brilliant songbird in a striking red and yellow configuration. WBC. SPI.

The Claymore heavy fighter is designed to engage capital ships. It is typically deployed from carriers where it is transported in a folded configuration, stacked in racks of eight.

It is armed with two dual plasma projectile cannons. The cannons can be configured to shoot short salvos where the four cannons fire in succession, or they can fire a single coordinated shot with devastating power.

Because of it's thin profile the Claymore is hard to hit from forward and behind. A capital ship without escort will not last many minutes against a wing of these.

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Built for SHIPtember 2021!

Length: 44 studs

Width: 64 studs

Height: 106 studs

With only a few days left before september 1, I decided to build my verison of a concept by Theo Stylianides:

I've wanted to build it for some time but didn't really know if I could pull of the delicate design.

I had to rebuild it many times during the month. Because I wanted it so thin, it was hard to assemble all the parts. At one point the whole ship just broke apart and I had to rebuild everything. The vertical body of the ship is only 1 stud thick, but built with SNOT-bricks so I can attach plates on the sides. The black stripe on the side on the ship plus the engines are what's keeping it together. The upper and lower part are held together with a technic tructure that also contains the mechanism for folding the wings.

There is a small doodle on the original concept art that suggests the "wings" can be folded. I didn't know if I should bother with it, but I thought it would make the ship a bit more interesting if I could manage that feature. So after much experimentation I was able to build a mechanism that folds one wing up and the other one down.

An other thing that gave me problems during the build process was gravity. Again. The design makes it very tail heavy. My original plan was to just make it stand on the cannons, but that would have made the whole ship tip over backwards. The solution was to build a stand for it. It's not really that pretty. I might have to redesign the stand later.

I've spent many late nights on this. Sacrificing sleep. It was fun, but now I'm fed up with it! 😄

Thanks to everyone who helped me and gave me feedback!

Swoosh: youtu.be/HzVBos--tQM

Folding wings: youtu.be/wNyWjHF0wzU

Stairs of la Defense, near Big Arche