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#33, Eurasia Motorsports, Ligier JSP217-Gibson, driven by: Jacques Nicolet, Pierre Nicolet, Erik Maris, 24 Heures Du Mans 85th Edition, 17/06/2017,
Surf driven by severe northwest winds pounds the Gulf of St. Lawrence shoreline of Cape Breton Island near the community of Terre Noire on the Cabot Trail
1973 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Angus Rogers during the Jack Lewis Enterprises International / American Challenge on Friday at the 2013 Classic Motorsports Mitty.
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Commemorative Air Force AirPower History Tour 2015
Tucson International Airport
Tucson, Arizona
The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing which was flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War. It was one of the largest aircraft operational during World War II and featured state of the art technology. It was the single most expensive weapons project undertaken by the United States in World War II, exceeding the cost of the Manhattan Project by between 1 and 1.7 billion dollars. Innovations introduced included a pressurized cabin, dual-wheeled, tricycle landing gear, and a remote, computer-controlled fire-control system that directed four machine gun turrets that could be operated by a single gunner and a fire-control officer. A manned tail gun installation was semi-remote.
Built by Boeing at the Renton factory in Washington, B-29A serial number 44-62070 was delivered to the USAAF in Kansas in 1945. Modified to a TB-29A standard, it served as an administrative aircraft before being placed in "desert storage." It was returned to active duty in 1953.
The airplane was retired in 1958 and placed at the U.S. Navy Naval Weapons Center and bombing range at China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station in California as part of a group of 36 B-29s.
FIFI was acquired by the CAF in the early 1970s when a group of CAF members found her at the U.S. Navy Proving Ground at China Lake, California where she was being used as a missile target. The airplane was rescued and restored and flew for over thirty years until 2006 when the chief pilot made the decision to ground her pending a complete power plant re-fit. What followed was an extensive four year restoration that included replacing all four engines with new custom built hybrid engines. FIFI returned to the sky in 2010 and since that time has traveled coast to coast attracting large crowds at every tour stop.
Role: Strategic bomber
Manufacturer: Boeing
Introduced: May 1944
Produced: 1943–1946
Power: 4 × Wright R-3350 -23 and 23A Duplex-Cyclone turbosupercharged radial engines, 2,200 hp
Length: 99 ft 0 in
Height: 27 ft 9 in
Wingspan: 141 ft 3 in
Range: 3,250 mi
A whole bunch more from the Driven Show. Finished my processing today, and delivered them to the clients.
DRIVEN
Clocking in When Others Clock Out
Created by Daniel Reese
Roger Brown, 52, works two jobs pushing 80 hours a week. During the day, he oversees a warehouse at Ohio University while moonlighting as a limousine taxi cab driver on weekends, all in the interest of securing a middle class lifestyle.
See the full story at: 2011.soulofathens.com
One of the drivers of the Sikkim Mahananda Express preparing 'khaini' during the train's halt at Kanpur Central
Driven Perfection Visits The Lamborghini Factory And Museum In Sant'agata Bolognese Bologna, Italy. No photos were allowed on the factory floor. These were taken at the museum and "The Bull Bar" across the street. It was truly and honor to witness the production line in action, and view the full history of one of the greatest supercars in the world!
This picture is dominated by two fairly grand, large, square residential buildings. In the background the church spire is visible. In the middle of the picture is large ball of heavy black smoke.
The slang British term used here for German, 'Hun', gained popular usage after Kaiser Wilhelm II urged his troops to 'behave like Huns' to win the war. It was important to the retreating side that nothing of use was left for the advancing army.
[Original reads: 'In the trail of the Hun. A house set on fire by the Germans as they were driven out of the village.']
Reich (?) tire driven bell: it's loud! and just like bright lights, loud bells are illegal in germany.
On an unseasonally warm February afternoon at Lincoln Road, Bromsgrove Sporting goalkeeper Jonathan Brown takes a swig of water during a first-versus-second clash with Peterborough Sports. Brown's visitors led 2-0 after 21 minutes and went on to win 2-1. Victory saw them leapfrog the Turbines into top spot in the Southern League Division One Central table. Biggest talking point for the division's biggest crowd - 391 - of the day came in the 51st minute when a cynical foul by Bromsgrove's Liam Spink on Josh McCammon sparked a mass brawl. Referee Robert Dadley booked three and sent off Sports' Paul Malone for an apparent headbutt.
Match statistics:
Admission: £9. Programme: £2 (28 pages). Attendance: 391. Peterborough Sports 1 Bromsgrove Sporting 2 (HT 1-2). Scoring sequence: 0-1 (Jason Cowley, 11mins); 0-2 (Kieren Westwood, 21mins); 1-2 (Dion Sembie-Jones, 33mins). Paul Malone (Peterborough Sports) was sent off in the 51st minute for a headbutt). Referee: Robert Dadley.
The Nux Car
Driven in Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
Designer: Peter Pound
Builder: Natoli Panel Creations
Based on: 1934 Chevrolet 5-Window Coupe
Following complete oil depletion, the world is plummeted into war, resulting in a nuclear apocalypse. Warlord Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne) controls the Citadel, the last oasis of water in the radioactive Wasteland. Nux (Nicholas Hoult), a devoted War Boy joins the hunt for Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron) in his pursuit vehicle, which features a front-mounted crucifix to hold “blood bags”--healthy people forced to transfuse with the disease-ridden “half-lifes” in order to extend their lives.
Each vehicle from Fury Road is highly personalized to reflect its driver. The twin-turbocharged, nitrous-infused Chevrolet 5-window Coupe was chosen to reflect Nux’s wild “revhead” personality. Religious and talismanic objects, along with a rear lancer perch for throwing “thundersticks,” represent Nux’s fanatical devotion to violence and the “Cult of V8” led by Immortan Joe. To earn a place in Valhalla, Nux’s car is rigged to explode in order to ensure his death is anything but mediocre.
Following a good Saturday morning perusing the Stoddard L.A. Porsche Literature and Toy Meet, we hit the buses again for the day's first stop at the Petersen Automotive Museum in L.A.
Before our vault tour in the basement (no photos allowed), I had 30 minutes to visit all three above-ground levels of the museum. If these pics look a little rushed, they were. I clicked about 130 shots.
When I visted Petersen in 2018 with Kristina, we spent about an hour on each floor. But the exhibits were much stronger then - three major ones - Porsche, Ferrari, and vintage motorcycles and scooters. All were awesome.
+++ DISCLAIMER +++
Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based on historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
An Aerosan (Russian: aэросани, "Aerosled") is a propeller-driven sledge, sleigh or toboggan which slides on runners or skis. Aerosleds were used for communications, mail deliveries, medical aid, emergency recovery, and patrolling borders in countries such as northern Russia, as well as for recreation. Aerosani were used by the Soviet Red Army during the Winter War and World War II for military purposes, too. The first aerosledges may have been built in 1903–05 by Sergei Nezhdanovsky. In 1909–10, young Igor Sikorsky designed and tested an aerosledge, before going on to build multi-engine airplanes and helicopters. Traditionally they were light plywood vehicles on skis, powered by used vintage aircraft engines and propellers.
Military use of the aerosani goes back to at least the 1910s. During World War I, aerosani were used for reconnaissance, communicating, and light raiding in northern areas. During the 1939–40 Winter War against Finland some were equipped with a machine gun ring mount on the roof. They could carry four or five men and tow four more on skis. The aerosani were initially used for transport, liaison, and medical evacuation in deep snow, mostly in open country and on frozen lakes and rivers because of their poor hill-climbing ability and limited maneuverability on winding forest roads.
During World War II aerosani were used for reconnaissance, communication, and light raiding in northern areas thanks to their high mobility (25–35 km/h) in deep snow, where many vehicles could not move at all. Responsibility for aerosani was transferred to the Soviet Armored Forces (GABTU) and orders were submitted for design and fabrication of lightly armored versions, protected by ten millimeters of steel plate on the front. They were organized into transport or combat battalions of 45 vehicles, in three companies, often employed in cooperation with ski infantry. Troops were usually carried or towed by transport aerosani, while fire support was provided by the heavier machine gun-armed, armored models. The light aerosani were not used for direct assault because of their vulnerability to explosives such as mortar rounds, though.
However, with the success of these vehicles in the winter of 1943/44 aircraft engineer Andrei Tupolev, who had already built a successful series of aerosani designated ANT-I through ANT-V in the 1920s and ’30s, was requested to construct a heavier vehicle that could add more firepower and protection to the armed troops. This became the ббс-I (or BBS-1, бронированные боевые сани, literally ’Armored Battle Sledge’). Compared with earlier vehicles of this type, the BBS-1 was an all-metal construction and basically a dramatically scaled-up re-interpreration of the original aerosan. The gigantic vehicle – probably inspired by the appearance of new and massive German tanks like Panzer V Panther or Panzer VI Tiger - was rather reminiscent of an armored train or draisine than of a light-footed aerosan. At first glance the new vehicle looked like an outdated box-shaped WWI tank with four skis instead of tracks, even like a mobile bunker made from sheet metal. A KV series tank turret was placed on top of the sloped roof and a radial engine, an air-cooled Shvetzov M-63-S with 1.100 hp/800 kW was mounted on massive struts onto the hull. It was placed directly behind the turret, together with an armored fairing and driving a reversible four-bladed metal pusher propeller. This engine was originally designed for aircraft, but for the use on the aerosan it was optimized for operations at low temperatures and high air density. It also received reinforced elements to reduce overhaul periods.
Steering was provided only through the skis, which were held by external suspension arms on all four corners of the box-shaped hull, for a wide stance and to provide the vehicle with stability. The four skis were relatively wide to distribute the aerosan’s weight over a large area to reduce ground pressure and to ensure operations on fragile ground like deep snow or even frozen water. Front and rear pair of skis were connected through rods and the vehicle was directed through mirrored steering angles from front and rear skis, what helped especially at high speed to keep the large and heavy aerosan stable. The BBS-1 was fully protected by armor, its boxy hull was made from riveted rolled steel armor plates of 6-20 mm strength bolted onto a simple but rigid metal chassis. The cast turret at its was armed with a long-barreled 76.2 mm M1941 ZiS-5 gun, and a total of four DT machine guns were mounted in the turret (one co-axial with the gun) and in stations around the hull (front and on each side). The unusual vehicle had a basis crew of seven eight and an operational weight of 38 tons!
While the BBS-1 was under hasty development, Wehrmacht planners were convinced that the Red Army would attack again in the south, where the front was 80 km (50 mi) from Lviv and offered the most direct route to Berlin. Accordingly, they stripped troops from Army Group Centre, whose front still protruded deep into the Soviet Union. The Germans had transferred some units to France to counter the invasion of Normandy two weeks before. The Belorussian Offensive (codenamed Operation Bagration), which was agreed upon by Allies at the Tehran Conference in December 1943 and launched on 22 June 1944, was a massive Soviet attack, consisting of four Soviet army groups totaling over 120 divisions that smashed into a thinly held German line.
They focused their massive attacks on Army Group Centre, not Army Group North Ukraine as the Germans had originally expected. More than 2.3 million Soviet troops went into action against German Army Group Centre, which had a strength of fewer than 800,000 men. At the points of attack, the numerical and quality advantages of the Soviet forces were overwhelming. The Red Army achieved a ratio of ten to one in tanks and seven to one in aircraft over their enemy. The Germans crumbled. The capital of Belarus, Minsk, was taken on 3 July, trapping some 100,000 Germans. Ten days later the Red Army reached the prewar Polish border. Bagration was, by any measure, one of the largest single operations of the war.
By the end of August 1944, it had cost the Germans ~400,000 dead, wounded, missing and sick, from whom 160,000 were captured, as well as 2,000 tanks and 57,000 other vehicles. In the operation, the Red Army lost ~180,000 dead and missing (765,815 in total, including wounded and sick plus 5,073 Poles), as well as 2,957 tanks and assault guns. The offensive at Estonia claimed another 480,000 Soviet soldiers, 100,000 of them classed as dead.
On the Karelian Isthmus, the Red Army launched a Vyborg–Petrozavodsk Offensive against the Finnish lines on 9 June 1944 (coordinated with the Western Allied Invasion of Normandy). Three armies were pitted there against the Finns, among them several experienced guards rifle formations, and the BS-1s (three had been built so far, with low priority due to the fact that they had to be assembled manually in workshops, since there was no factory of production line for these exotic vehicles) were earmarked to be deployed there once enough snow had fallen to make the armored aerosans operational. The attack breached the Finnish front line of defense in Valkeasaari on 10 June and the Finnish forces retreated to their secondary defense line, the VT-line. The Soviet attack was supported by a heavy artillery barrage, air bombardments and armored forces. The VT-line was breached on 14 June and after a failed counterattack in Kuuterselkä by the Finnish armored division, the Finnish defense had to be pulled back to the VKT-line. After heavy fighting in the battles of Tali-Ihantala and Ilomantsi, Finnish troops finally managed to halt the Soviet attack.
The Moscow Armistice ending the war with Finland was already signed on 19 September 1944, though. The entire isthmus became Soviet, although most of it had never been captured by the Soviets in battles. This time the ceded territories of the Karelian Isthmus (including the districts of Jääski, Kexholm and Vyborg) were incorporated into Leningrad Oblast (unlike Ladoga Karelia, which remained within the Karelo-Finnish SSR). Since their transfer and utility in southern regions, where the Soviet Army kept on pressing westward for Warsaw, the BBS-1s remained in the Karelian region, helped to secure the border to Finland, but never became involved in active battles. In fact, they rather had a psychological impact than a truly military use, because their operation turned out to be hazardous. One BBS-1 was quickly lost when it broke into the ice of lake Sokolozero and sank, killing its crew but one member who was able to escape in time, and the heavy vehicles’ handling even on solid ground was, due to the lack of mechanical brakes and the limited effectiveness of the ski steering system especially at higher speed, dangerous. Furthermore, the propeller kicked up lots of snow and the engine noise made the BBS-1 hard to conceal, so that it was rather used for “showing off” along the borderlines – with crews that were happy when they did not end up in a ditch or among trees. Apparently, the BBS-1 was not a success. Plans to upgrade the BBS-1 with a 85 mm DT-5 or an even bigger gun were not executed, and in early 1945, lacking snow and ice to keep the exotic and cumbersome vehicles operational, the remaining armored aerosans were retired and eventually scrapped.
Specifications:
Crew: seven to nine
Weight: 38 tonnes
Length overall: 12.60 m (41 ft 3 ¼ in)
Width overall: 5.47 m (17 ft 11 in)
Height (incl. propeller disc): 5.61 m (18 ft 4 ¾ in)
Suspension: Coil springs
Fuel capacity: 650 l
Armor:
6–20 mm (0.24 – 0.78 in)
Performance:
Maximum speed: 85 km/h (53 mph)
Operational range: 240 km (150 mi)
Power/weight: 29 hp/tonne
Engine:
1x air-cooled Shvetzov M-63-S 9-cylinder radial engine, delivering 1.100 hp/800 kW,
driving a reversible 4-blade pusher metal propeller
Armament:
1× 76.2 mm M1941 ZiS-5 gun with 118 rounds, stored in the turret and the hull
4× 7.62 mm DT machine guns (one mounted co-axially with the main gun,
and the others in the front of the hull and side stations, with a total of 7.250 rounds)
The kit and its assembly:
This kitbashing project was a dedicated submission for the “Polar Wars” Group Build at whatifmodellers.com, and the result of a search for a military vehicle that could reflect the GB’s topic in a rather dramatic fashion but also demonstrate a certain madness and megalomania. I eventually stumbled upon the (light!) Soviet and Finnish aerosan vehicles from WWII, and wondered what a fully armored type could have looked like? I did not want to put a standard tank onto skis, though, and rather looked for a different basis – and inspiration eventually struck when I came across an 1:35 aerosan kit from Trumpeter AND the Chinese manufacturer’s 1:72 model of a Soviet armored draisine – combining both plus a radial engine with a pusher propeller should yield something …zany.
Effectively, this build was not too complex, because it is basically a slightly modified core box with add-ons. Things started slowly, with the OOB KV-1 turret as the main armament of this aerosan behemoth. The main body consists of a Soviet armored draisine from Trumpeter, but I found the body to be too long and symmetrical for my plans, so that I took out a ~2cm plug and glued everything back together. The engine came from a MisterCraft PZL 23 bomber, an ugly one-piece blob that I never expected to find a good use on a model. It was modified to look a bit more delicate, and at its rear an extension fairing was added, partly consisting of a piece from a plastic ballpoint pen casing. The pusher prop consists of a reversed F8F piece, with a metal axis and a spinner transplant from an Italeri F4U.
The suspension had been taken wholesale from the 1:35 kit, even though I had to lengthen some of the control struts. While safety was not an inherent design feature of this thing, I thought that the prop would need some protection, so I started to scratch/construct a cage for it from soft iron wire. Its ugly intersections were hidden behind a pair of fins (sections from 1:72 Panzer IV side skirts!) – though improvised it turned out better that hoped for. In parallel, the four skis were put together, too - again taken OOB from the small 1:35 aerosan kit, just w/o the delicate PE parts. Once the basic hull was assembled, I added a few more details, like entry ladders and sideboards to cross the steering struts, and an improvised shallow snowplow at the front to lift the vehicle’s body over shallow humps. On the roof some details like a ventilation opening were added, too.
Painting and markings:
Due to the model’s zaniness I wanted the livery to be rather simple, so I gave the BBS-1 an overall coat with medium green (actually RAL 6003) from the rattle can. Then the decals – all gathered from the scrap box – were applied and a coat of whitewash was simulated with thinned matt acrylic paint, applied with a flat soft brush so that the green would shine through here and there. Once dry I finally added a thin coat of simulated snow, created with white tile grout blown onto the wetted model from the front as if it had collected the stuff while speeding through the Karelian landscape. Worked out quite well, since this always bears some risk that it looks goofy and artificial. Finally, the tile grout and the paint were fixed with a generous coat of matt acrylic varnish.
1962 Triumph TR4 driven by Sean Alexander during Sprint Race #1 on Saturday at the 2015 Jefferson 500.
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Driven from the North Cape of Norway to Cape Town, South Africa between July and October 1955.
Heritage Motor Museum, Gaydon, Warwickshire, October 2013
Blake Shelton makes it an even dozen as “Over” shoots 4-1 to become the artist’s 12th leader on the audience-driven Country Songs, and the fourth consecutive No. 1 from his “Red River Blue” set (No. 27 on Top Country Albums).
Released last summer, the album also spawned “Honey Bee” (four weeks at No. 1), “God Gave Me You” (three weeks) and “Drink On It” (two weeks). Following a No. 13 peak in July on Country Digital Songs, “Over” ranks at No. 19 in its 12th chart week (22,000 sold).
With 25,000 sold according to Nielsen SoundScan, Zac Brown Band’s “Uncaged” returns to No. 1 (2-1) on Country Albums for a fifth week after being pushed to No. 2 last week by Colt Ford’s “Declaration of Independence,” which dips to No. 4 (16,000 sold).
But it’s the chart moves of another country superstar, Taylor Swift, that has grabbed most of the attention this week. Her new pop single, “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together,” launches on the Hot 100 at No. 1, Country Songs (No. 13), Adult Contemporary (No. 16), Pop Songs (No. 18) and Adult Pop Songs (No. 21). The song sold 623,000 downloads during its first week of release, the largest sum by a woman.
How did she do it? Big Machine and Universal Republic Records teamed with Clear Channel to help premiere “Never,” as several of the chain’s country, pop and adult stations gave it top-of-the-hour airplay upon its release late Monday (Aug. 13) through the following night. On Country Songs, the bow of “Never” ties as the second-best since BDS data began powering the chart in 1990 and is the best among women in that span.
In April, Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw’s “Feel Like a Rock Star” (also aided by promotional Clear Channel airplay) likewise debuted at No. 13; Garth Brooks’ “More Than a Memory” blasted in at No. 1 the week of Sept. 15, 2007.
1964 Lotus Super 7 driven by Win Seipp during the afternoon race for Group 7B (1961-1966 GT Cars under 2500cc) on Sunday at the 2012 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
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Lucia S. Foster, Chief Economist, United States Census Bureau, speaks at a panel discussion entitled “The Future of Innovation-Driven Growth: Stagnation or Revival?” during the launch event for the Global Innovation Index 2022.
Held at WIPO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, the launch event featured a presentation of key findings, two panel discussions, as well as a high-level opening and a series of ministerial statements.
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Copyright: WIPO. Photo: Violaine Martin. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
This car was driven through outback Australia searching for suitable landing strips. The QANTAS Founders Museum is located at Longreach Airport, western Queensland Australia.
nozzles lay scattered on the pavement; surprised they weren't locked into place or removed altogether.
Closed Clark station, Joliet, IL
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Full Length Movie FBI informant Jim Hoffman lures troubled automobile magnate John DeLorean to an undercover sting for cocaine trafficking.
Release Date : Aug 15, 2019
Runtime : 113 minutes
Genres : Thriller, Drama
Production Company : Tempo Productions Limited, Blue Rider Pictures, Greenroom Entertainment, Pimienta
Production Countries : Puerto Rico, United Kingdom, United States of America
Casts : Jason Sudeikis, Lee Pace, Judy Greer, Corey Stoll, Isabel Arraiza, Erin Moriarty, Michael Cudlitz, Justin Bartha, Tara Summers, Iddo Goldberg
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