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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!
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!
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.
Houghton on the Hill is a deserted medieval village in Norfolk. The only surviving buildings are a farm and St Mary's church which was rescued from destruction in the 1990s after being left in a ruinous state. During the restoration very old wall paintings dating to about the time of the Norman Conquest were discovered; these are the earliest known large system of wall paintings in the UK. The restoration was driven by the tireless efforts of one man, Bob Davey MBE. The church is now maintained by a charitable trust, The Friends of St Mary's, which also provides public access and guided tours.
There is evidence of habitation in this area going back to prehistoric times, with flint tools and a Bronze Age spearhead being found in local fields. Some of these are now on show in the church. The village was located close to the Pedders Way ancient track. A large Roman villa and possibly a temple were located nearby. It is also possible that the church was built, by Saxons, on the site of a Roman bathhouse and incorporated at least one wall of the bathhouse. There is certainly much Roman material including brick extant in the present structure.
The village is mentioned in the 1086 Domesday Book as being owned by Reynold, son of Ivo. A man called Herlwin held land in Houghton from Reynold. The present nave of the church was probably built at this time, and the paintings inside date from this period.
An 1854 source said that the parish consisted of 10 houses, with 50 residents and 600 acres of land. During the First World War the church was damaged when a Zeppelin airship dropped a bomb into the churchyard. The last wedding in the church was in 1925. The last derelict cottages were pulled down in the 1990s.
After a fall of old wall plaster, extensive polychrome wall paintings were noticed during restoration in 1996, and it soon became evident that these were of major significance. Romanesque wall paintings are very rare while certain aspects of the iconography, particularly the quatrefoil cross on God’s knee on the east wall, have given rise to a date of around 1090.
The best-preserved scheme is on the east wall, which depicts the Last Judgement or 'Doom' painting. Over the arch of the chancel is the Trinity, comprising Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Beneath and to the left are the souls of the saved, and to the right, probably the souls of the damned.
Further down and to the left are a well-preserved set of figures holding scrolls, which might be apostles or saints, and to the right a badly-damaged matching group of figures that some have interpreted as demons.
The church is generally open from 2pm until 4pm with further details available from its website: www.houghtonstmarys.co.uk/
It can be a little tricky to find but Sat Nav to PE37 8FB or 8DP will get you to the trackway and there is a brown and while sign pointing up the track. Ignore the private driveway next door.
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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.
jackson Brown, Giorgio Moroder, Cat Power, TheeSatisfaction, Doug Aitken @ Winslow Station to Station, an artist-driven public art project made possible by the Levi’s
Picture taken 22 April 2004 shows a displaced Sudanese mother and her children who fled the fighting in the southern Darfur state in west Sudan, posing at the Bilail camp, 14 kms from Nyala, capital of southern Darfur province. Rival sides in Darfur wound up 25 April 2004 peace talks agreeing to hold further discussions at an unspecified date. Sudanese government troops and Arab militias have since February last year been fighting the Movement for the Liberation of Sudan (MLS) and the Movement for Justice and Equality (MJE) in Darfur. The war is estimated by the United Nations to have claimed at least 10,000 lives, uprooted a million people from their homes to other parts of Sudan, and driven more than 100,000 others to seek shelter across the Chadian border. AFP PHOTO/Salah OMAR
NASCAR K&N Pro Series and NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour at Limerock Park on 3rd July 2010. Also SCCA Trans-Am.
Victory Team Driven by Salem Ali Al Adidi and Talib Al Sayed speeds next to Sky Dive Dubai moments before overturning during the European GP 2013 UIM Skydive Dubai XCAT World series Round 5 on Lake Maggiore in Arona, Italy, September 8, 2013. Photo by Jack Dabaghian
nozzles lay scattered on the pavement; surprised they weren't locked into place or removed altogether.
Closed Clark station, Joliet, IL
4WD driven by hoons and bogged in a swampy area inside a National Park
seen at Apollo Road, Namadgi National Park, ACT Australia
The number plate has been digitally modified in the FLICKR version to obscure the owner's identity. The scene was photographed in order to report the incident to Namadgi NP visitor centre...but they already knew about it...
A great example of environmental vandalism in a national park...not only has the vehicle caused damage to the bog and peatland, but the necessary extraction will compound the impact...
© Dirk HR Spennemann 2012, All Rights Reserved
1962 Morgan Plus 4 SLR driven by Simon Orebi Gann during the Fordwater Trophy on Saturday at the 2012 Goodwood Revival.
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A convoy of trucks driven by Afghans wait patiently on highway 1 for elements of the U.S. military to clear the dangerous stretch of road ahead of any possible Imrovised Explosive Devices and enemy fighters in Sayed-Abad District, Wardak Province, Afghanistan, 28 March 2010. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt Russell Gilchrest\Released)(100328-A-6225G-005)
What a sight this was. Bare aluminum (HELLO!) 427 Shelby Cobra CSX Continuation car. Driven hard all weekend including a couple of spin outs.
From eBay:
In 2012, this Bobcat was driven from Wisconsin to San Francisco. I bought it after it was discovered that the #3 cylinder had lost 2/3 of its compression.
I opted not to drop in another 2.3 because it's rusty underneath. Clutch, power steering and manual brakes work well, and it starts every time.
Pluses:
- Starts every time
- Has power to top San Francisco's steepest hills, and it runs all around the city
- Factory alloy wheels with Mustang II centers
- Odo reads just under 80K miles. Maybe it has 180K, but it has fewer rattles than the Fairmont with 135K I had
- Reclining seats are from a later-model GM. They're used but fit the platform well, driving position is a nice bump up in height
- Body is relatively free of rust, headliner is intact, good trim
Minuses:
- Engine was reported to have low compression in #3 cylinder. Runs rough, backfires
- Underbody is rusted. No foot through the floor but not far from it
- Exhaust is rusted
- Radiator leaks
- Driver's side front fender and door skin have been 'facelifted'
- Orange paint looks good from 10 feet, but closer inspection reveals the drips of an amateur respray
- Tie rods and ball joints are shot, steering play. Fine around town but gets nautical as speeds climb
Lots of good parts here, would rather sell it whole.
Thanks for looking!
1955 Aston Martin DB3S driven by David Bennett and Richard Hope during qualifying on Friday for the Freddie March Memorial Trophy at the 2012 Goodwood Revival.
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I've driven past this many times and finally stopped to get a look at it. This was once the Leow's New Rochelle Theatre, opened in 1925 and closed in the 80's, when so many other single or twin-screen cinemas in urban areas throughout the country closed. Any efforts to revive this theater would doubtless be difficult due to the closeby New Roc City complex.
cinematreasures.org/theater/4558/
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On Saturday 2 September, Assange solidarity activists worldwide held an Australian Embassy Day appealing to the Australian government to intervene in the politically driven case against Julian Assange. In London they gathered outside Australia House on the Strand.
[ I hope to post a few more photos from last weekend later this week. ]
They were also demonstrating against the continued imprisonment of Julian Assange and the US extradition proceedings, for revealing the truth about US, UK and other Western war crimes, the mass surveillance of their populations and other crimes.
Meanwhile, the war crimes themselves go largely ignored and the political leaders responsible for them are not only immunized against prosecution, but several are growing wealthy on the basis of their contacts with their overseas accomplices across the Middle East and elsewhere.
Apart from last Saturday's protest, there are also weekly protests in solidarity with Assange outside Australia House in London every Wednesday between 3 and 5 pm.
There are many good reasons why Assange should be released, but arguably the three most important are as follows -
Freedom of Speech: Assange's case raises important concerns about freedom of the press and whistleblowers' rights, which are crucial for a transparent society.
Health Concerns: Julian Assange's physical and mental health deteriorated in prison. Releasing him could provide access to better medical care and reduce the risk of serious health issues.
Human Rights: His prolonged detention without trial or conviction goes against fundamental human rights principles.
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