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The air show at Kleine Brogel this year celebrated 100 years of the Belgian Air Force a segment lasting an hour illustrated Belgian Air Power. This formation of a Lockheed Hercules and three F-16AMs were part of this.
As you can see, blue skies prevailed.
Kleine Brogel, Belgium
12th September 2014
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After barely escaping imperial fleest with the old Z-AV, Kass Mothma realized that he needed more speed and better control, with that in mind he decided to do some modifications to it, to keep it lightweight, the laser canon had been removed and replaced with 4 homing ion missiles and laser turrets, for better control wings were added, and for more speed a much powerful central engine installed along with maneuver assist engines at the end of the wings for a much needed agilty and renamed the fighter T-AG for its shape an agility.
Airmen and Soldiers from the New Jersey National Guard search house to house for victims of Hurricane Sandy on Long Beach Island, N.J. on Nov 1. Soldiers from the Cherry Hill, N.J. Armory provided vehicles and medics, while Airmen from the 177th Fighter Wing and 108th Wing provided ground support in the search and rescue operation. When confronted with an empty house, they marked the entry way with red tape. Homeowners who were found were advised of the mandatory evacuation, and queried on if they had food and water. Due to limited cell reception, the Airmen and Soldiers relied on text messaging for communications in the field. U.S. Air Force photo/Tech. Sgt. Matt Hecht
The Feuerwehr is a number of German fire departments. The responsible body for operating and equipping fire departments are the German communities ("Gemeinden") and cities ("Städte"). By law, they are required to operate a fire-fighting force including Emergency medical services (EMS) in numbers corresponding to the inhabitants of the county or city. In cities, this is usually performed by the Fire Prevention Bureau, one of the higher-ranking authorities.
Most of Germany's 1,383,730 fire fighters are members of voluntary fire brigades, with a lesser number working in professional fire brigades either operated by
a municipal body, such as the city of Berlin (Berufsfeuerwehr - full-time city department)
a larger company ("Werkfeuerwehr", for the needs of the company operating them) e.g. refineries or chemical industry production facilities
airports to meet the ICAO requirements ("Flughafenfeuerwehr" - this includes airplane factories like that of Airbus in Hamburg)
the armed forces ("Bundeswehr-Feuerwehr" with specialized divisions such as "Fliegerhorstfeuerwehr Cologne-Wahn"/located at German air force bases, military bases, naval bases as well as on any ship of the German navy).
By law, cities with a population of more than 80,000-100,000 people (depending on the state) are required to have a professional fire fighting force ("Berufsfeuerwehr"). Others such as smaller cities and towns can set up a full-time force ("Hauptamtliche Wachbereitschaft"), which is basically a group or a squadron occupying one large fire station around the clock. This force deals with smaller incidents on its own and is supported by voluntary forces for larger incidents. Each community meets the need of fire-fighting personnel by setting up a voluntary force ("Freiwillige Feuerwehr"). A community or a city may also set up a professional fire fighting force without additional volunteer forces. In case it is not possible to recruit enough personnel for this job, the mayor of a city is required to set up a "Pflichtfeuerwehr" (compulsory fire brigade), where he will draft the number of personnel required.
Lieutenant-Colonel Darcy Molstad, from 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron, 3 Wing Bagotville, Quebec. Lieutenant-Colonel Molstad’s hometown is Edmonton, Alberta.
The Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) Region is set to track and escort Santa Claus during his annual visit to Canada and has selected four CF-18 fighter pilots for the high profile job.
Lieutenant-Colonel Darcy Molstad and Captain Sébastien Gorelov of 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron from 3 Wing Bagotville, Quebec, will conduct the first escort duties to welcome Santa into Canada when they join him off the coast of Newfoundland and Labrador.
As Santa zooms across Canada and approaches the Ontario-Manitoba border, escort duties will switch to Captain Rich Cohen and Captain Brian Kilroy of 409 Tactical Fighter Squadron from 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta.
PHOTO: DND
Le lieutenant-colonel Darcy Molstad, du 425e Escadron d'appui tactique à la 4e Escadre Bagotville, au Québec. Le ville natale du lieutenant-colonel est Edmonton, Alberta.
À la Région canadienne du Commandement de la défense aérospatiale de l’Amérique du Nord (NORAD), on est fin prêt à suivre les déplacements du père Noël et à l'escorter pendant sa visite annuelle au Canada. De fait, quatre pilotes de chasseurs CF-18 viennent d’être choisis pour accomplir cette mission importante.
Le lieutenant-colonel Darcy Molstad et le capitaine Sébastien Gorelov du 425e Escadron d’appui tactique à la 3e Escadre Bagotville, au Québec, entameront la mission d'escorte en accueillant le père Noël la côte de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.
Quand le père Noël atteindra le centre transversal du pays, près de la frontière entre l'Ontario et le Manitoba, le capitaine Cohen et le capitaine Kilroy, du 409e Escadron d'appui tactique à la 4e Escadre Cold Lake, en Alberta, prendront la relève pour la traversée de l'ouest du Canada.
PHOTO: DND
XF-2A#63-8501,ADTW,Japan air self defence force
,13 Aug.2014 Air park HAMAMATSU,JAPAN
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F32 T-12 Beast is a mobile weapons platform. Equipped with hover technology, it has an advatage over regular space fighters in that it can fly within planets upper atmospheres.
ATAIU stands for Allied Technical Air Intelligence Unit. ATAIU recovered damaged Japanese planes during the war and rebuilt them for training allied pilots in fighting the japanese planes
home.st.net.au/~dunn/usaaf/atiu.htm
The Naval Officer in the background is from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force . There was a large group of them walking around the museum
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-816
FORCE STRUCTURE: Better Information Needed to Support Air Force A-10 and Other Future Divestment Decisions
my friend joamar, a kali instructor, knife fighter.. muay thai fighter, and yaw-yan kampilan instructor.. never mess with a walking weapon.
strobist: vivitar 285 right and behind subject 1/4 power, canon 277t speedlight at left and front of subject. stopped down ambient 3 stops.
Painting and markings:
Even though this was supposed to become a late WWII IJA fighter, I did neither want the stereotype NMF look nor the classic green/grey livery or a respective mottled scheme. What I finally settled upon, though, took a long while to manifest, and it looks ...odd.
I wanted a camouflage scheme, but none of the more exotic real world options was fine for me; there had been fighters with black upper surfaces, bright blue ones, or blue mottle on top of NMF. But all this did not convince me, and I eventually created an experimental scheme. And the paint was supposed to look heavily worn, as if the paint had been applied directly onto the bare metal, without primer, so that it chips and flakes off easily.
The tones were supposed to be suitable for high altitudes, but not the classic IJA colors - nothing even close. eventuelly I came up with an all-around turquoise green (ModelMaster Fulcrum Grey Green) plus a pale grey-green (ModelMaster RAF Dark Slate Grey) as contrast for the upper sides. Sick combination, yes, esp. with the Aluminum shining through, which was applied first as a kind of acrylic primer. The camouflage paint was carefully brushed on top of that, with panel-wise strokes from back to front. Tedious, but effective.
The black tail was applied similarly, it is a free interpretation of real IJA markings; for instance, the 244th Sentai arcraft bore all-red tail sections. Black is an uncommon color, but since I wanted to create fictional squadron markings, too, this was a suitable concept. And it looks cool and mysterious...
The cockpit interior was painted with Aodake Iro (Modelmaster), the section behind the pilot's seat and where the sliding canopy moves on the outside, were painted with IJA Dark Green - just an odd idea. In front of the cockpit a black anti glare panel was added. The landing gear and the respective wells were painted with Steel Metallizer (just to set them apart from the lighter Aluminum all around). The propeller was painted in reddish brown tones, the spinner in Humbrol 160 and the blades in 173.
After this basic painting the kit received a black ink wash, and decals were applied. These were taken from various aftermarket sheets, including generic, white and yellow sheet for the Home Defence markings on wings and fuselage, the white fuselage trim or the yellow ID markings on the wings' leading edges.
As next step the complete kit was carefully wet-sanded, primarily from front to back, so that more of the aluminum primer showed through, the decals (esp. the Hinomaru) were worn out and the camouflage paint on top lost some of its hard edges.
The sanding residues had to be cleaned away thoroughly (with a soft toothbrush and lots of water), and then, repairs, e .g. where the bare plastic came through, as well as extra effects with dry-painted, lighter camouflage tones were done. Final cosmetics also include oil and dirt stains with Tamiya"Smoke", also applied by brush.
Once everything was dry and clean (despite the kit's look), everything was sealed under a coat of varnish - a 3:1 mix of matt and gloss Revell Acrylics.
A complex and lengthy painting process, but I think the effort paid out because the procedure mimicks the structure and look of a worn paint job instead of trying to look like it when you paint a cammo scheme and add metal effects "on top". This works for small chips, but not for the flaked look I had been looking for.
It’s been 20 long years since Foo Fighters defied all expectations and successfully avoided the dreaded sophomore slump with The Colour and the Shape.
Loud and sarcastic, he has a reputation for being satistic and always pointing out the negative sides of things. He also is a sniper, though considerably more layed-back than Nightfall. Though he dresses like a common janitor, he fights like a pro.
Crystal Fighters.
7 december 2011.
AB Brussels.
photo: Alex Vanhee.
Crystal Fighters are a British electronic band with Spanish influences who formed in London, UK in 2007. .
Crystal Fighters' are Sebastian Pringle (lead vocals, guitar), Gilbert Vierich (electronics, guitars, txalaparta, percussion) and Graham Dickson (guitar/ txalaparta), with Laure Stockley and Mimi Borelli (vocals)..
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