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BASE AÉREA DE MORÓN (LEMO) SPAIN / BOEING B52H STRATOFORTRESS (MSN 464439) USAF (61-0012) / BOMBER TASK FORCE DEPLOYMENT
B-52H Stratofortresses, assigned to the 2nd Bomb Wing, Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, depart out of Morón Air Base, Spain, in support of Bomber Task Force Europe May 19, 2021. Strategic bomber missions enhance the readiness and training necessary to respond to any potential crisis or challenge across the globe.
Porsche 997 Turbo + Lamborghini Gallardo w/Premier4509 kit + Lamborghini Gallardo LP560-4 + Porsche 996 GT3
Aira Force is a waterfall in the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria.
The stream which flows over the waterfall is Aira Beck, which rises on the upper slopes of Stybarrow Dodd at a height of 720 metres (2,362 ft) and flows north-easterly before turning south, blocked by the high heather-covered slopes of Gowbarrow Fell. It turns south on its eight-kilometre journey to join Ullswater, at a height of 150 metres (492 ft). One kilometre before entering the lake, the beck makes the 20 metres (66 ft) leap down a rocky ravine at the falls known as Aira Force.
The river name Aira is derived from Old Norse eyrr, a gravel bank, and Old Norse á, a river, hence The river at the gravel bank, a reference to Aira Point, a gravelly spit where the river enters Ullswater. The Old Norse word fors, waterfall, has been adopted into several northern English dialects and is widely used for waterfalls, with the English spelling 'Force'. Thus, The waterfall on gravel-bank river.
Aira Force lies on land owned by the National Trust. The Trust purchased the 750 acre Gowbarrow Park (on which the force lies) in 1906 and has provided facilities, such as car parking, disabled access, graded paths, and viewing platforms to make Aira Force one of the most famous and most visited waterfalls in the Lake District.
A small arched bridge spans the stream just as the beck goes over the falls giving a spectacular view from the top as the water makes its leap. There is also a second bridge at the foot of the falls. Both bridges were constructed in honour of two members of the Spring family early in the 20th Century. Cecil Spring-Rice was the ambassador to the USA during World War I, while Stephen Spring Rice was a senior civil servant. The bridges are of particular interest: the lower is made of vertical stones, not traditional in these parts, while the higher has horizontal stones, more in keeping with the dale customs.
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Your Friendly Neighborhood Task Force
By Lois Lane.
When I woke up yesterday morning, with the birds chirping delightedly and the sun beaming down upon our bustling, thriving city, I expected a number of things to happen in roughly the same order they do every day. I would wake up, have breakfast with my darling Husband and son, grab my double-tall espresso at the CC Jitters down the street from The Daily Planet, and show up three minutes late, which for me, is right on time. What I did not expect yesterday, and what I’m sure many of you, dear readers, did not expect while shopping and working and dining downtown, was that a forty-foot dinosaur, a Tyrannosaurs Rex to be precise, would come barreling down main street, swatting cars with its tail and regrettably, devouring some of the unluckier passer-by. However, this colossal creature did not get far, it was soon felled, not by Superman as one in this fair city would expect, but by a whole-new group of government do-gooders. This crack team of all-American GI’s tranquilized and secured the beast in record time, and will soon return it to it’s island home.
After this chaotic event, I was able to speak with one of these courageous heroes, a woman who introduced herself by the name of Doctor Karin Grace. Doctor Grace, a lithe, cheerful woman, was all too happy to have a chat with me while her compatriots loaded the behemoth into a truck. She introduced them to me as they worked. There was Doctor Hugh Evans, team pretty boy with what I’m told is a very sizable brain, and an adrenaline-junkie attitude to match. Doctor Jess Bright; a physicist and chess-player by nature, Jess is never without a plan in mind. And finally, the leader of this little band, Colonel Richard Flag. Weapons master and a known military man whose honorable deeds run the length of my arm.
“It’s really very simple,” Doctor Grace told me when I asked how they managed to subdue this forty-foot fiend, “it takes fifteen milligrams of Etorphine to knock out an elephant, and your average adult male elephant weighs seven tons. So, Jess figured size that up accordingly to the weight of a T. Rex, and boom, you’ve bagged your prize!” When I asked how much Jess estimated how much sais T. Rex weighed, Doctor Grace laughed and replied, “a healthy number of elephants, Lois!”
Doctor Grace regrettably had to end our little chat there, but before her and her brigade ran off to take Rexy home, I managed to ask what the public should call this squad of dinosaur-wranglers. Doctor Karin Grace was happy to suggest that readers, “Just call them
TASK FORCE X.”
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And it begins. Roll title credits.
MSN 16604 LN. 33352
DOUGLAS C-47B-35-DK / DC3
CHALAIR
LFPM AIRPORT
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Ex 44-77020 USAF / KN655 ROYAL AIR FORCE / 1000 and 12965 ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE / C-GGJH and C-GSCC AIR MANITOBA /F-GIAZ F-GIDK
ZM412, Airbus A400M Atlas of the Royal Air Force, photographed from my back garden before she headed to Keevil.
These costumes kicked butt!!
And so does the 3/4's of Laura's Thor illustration seen in the background
Gris-Gris on the South Coast of Mauritius is a known beauty spot. There are half dozen picnic tables and this slightly wind/weather battered hut. You didn't want to get too close to the edge as long way down from this point as the water was pretty feisty this particular day. But if you stood alone and listened to the waves roar, and watch them coming in and crashing against the rocks you truly felt at one with nature.
Mauritius - south Coast, August 2013
( it was extra windy for our few days due to an anti-cylone that was disturbing the weather/making it windier than normal )
G-SPIT RAF Supermarine Spitfire FR MkXIV Z MV293 8 Squadron Royal Indian Air Force
Served with the Royal Air Force as MV293 Later went on to serve with 8 Squadron Royal Indian Air Force
Photo taken at the Imperial War Museum Duxford Cambridgeshire 7th Sept 2025 Battle of Britain Air Show
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MV Unity Force (IMO 9726023) a Bahamas registered bulk carrier pulls in running high at Vancouver BC
Title: Magnum Force.
Author: Mel Valley & John Milius.
Publisher: Warner Paperback Library.
Date: 1977.
Artist:
Israeli Soldiers from the Caracal Battalion during their basic training – 2012
The Caracal Battalion is an infantry combat battalion of the Israel Defense Forces, composed of both male and female soldiers, of both Jewish and Arab descent.[It is named after the Caracal, a small cat whose sexes appear the same. As of 2009, approximately 70% of the battalion was female.It is part of the 512th "Sagi" Brigade of Israel's Southern territorial command.
Prior to Caracal's formation in 2000, women had been prevented from serving in direct combat positions with the IDF. The unit has since been tasked with patrolling the Israeli-Egyptian border. It took part in Israel's unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2005.
The unit badge, adopted in 2009, incorporates the Sagi Brigade badge, with the addition of the Caracal cat.
New recruits in the Caracal Battalion, are issued the Israeli-made Tavor assault rifle. Battalion members partake in a four-month basic training period that includes physical training at the Givati Brigade training base.
Soldiers specialize in various weapons including machine guns, advanced weaponry, grenades, and mortars.
All female soldiers who join the battalion are required to sign up for a third year of military service, the same as their male counterparts. The men are drawn from Nahal garinim, or have volunteered.
The United State Air Force Memorial
Arlington, Virginia
James Ingo Freed, Architect
www.airforcememorial.org/memorial/index.asp
Looks Better on Black ... just type "L" for Lightbox
17 juni wasik op amersfoort voor de karel foundation en nog andere dingen en ik zag deze trein dus naartuurlijk even gespot
na ruim 15/20 minuten gewacht te hebben kwam er beweging in de trein het is 13.01 dat de trein vertrekt uit amersfoort centraal vertrekt
hier rijd de Lineas 186 384-4 met logo van akiem rechts boven bij de bij de bijrijders kant zie foto onderweg met de volvo trein onderweg naar antwerpen ondertoezicht van 10 spotters
CP 7023 (Air Force) leads CPKC 180-03 at Roselle on the wrong main in frigid cold air, after completing a crew change west of Bensenville, they would proceed west wrong main around Metra before returning to Main 1 at the Roselle West signal.
Crowds gather en masse on the South Promenade at Blackpool to watch the Red Arrows Display Team as part of the opening of a new Red Arrows ride in the Pleasure Beach.
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Nothing you see here is real, even though the conversion or the presented background story might be based historical facts. BEWARE!
Some background:
The Messerschmitt Bf 94 was a fighter aircraft built in Germany shortly before World War II. It was designed to meet a 1935 requirement by the Czechoslovakian Air Force for a replacement for their B-534 fighter biplanes. It was developed by the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (at which the engineer Messerschmitt led the development of the plane), primarily intended for export customers since the German Luftwaffe already planned more advanced types. It was actually built on a level inferior to the tactical requirements for a single-seat fighter that the RLM had issued in the document L.A. 1432/33 in late March 1933.
The Bf 94 was a sleek, low-wing monoplane with a fixed, spatted landing gear. As with the earlier Bf 108, the aircraft was based on Messerschmitt's "lightweight construction" principle, which aimed to minimise the number of separate parts in the aircraft. Examples of this could be found in the use of two large, complex brackets which were fitted to the firewall. These brackets incorporated the lower engine mounts and landing gear pivot point into one unit. A large forging attached to the firewall housed the main spar pick-up points, and carried most of the wing loads. Contemporary design practice was usually to have these main load-bearing structures mounted on different parts of the airframe, with the loads being distributed through the structure via a series of strong-points. By concentrating the loads in the firewall, the structure of the Bf 94 could be made relatively light and uncomplicated, and this principle was later also found in the famous Bf 109 fighter.
The Bf 94's fuselage was constructed from welded steel tube, covered in metal. Only the rudders were covered with fabric. The cockpit was not completely closed - the windscreen was fixed and two side panels could be lowered for access or taxiing, but a roof was missing. Power was to be provided by the new Junkers Jumo 210 engine of about 522 kW (700 hp), driving a wooden 2 blade propeller with fixed pitch.
Despite the rather outdated overall layout, the first prototype, the Bf 94 A-0, displayed excellent flying characteristics and high speed. Testing continued with a total of three prototypes until 22 November 1937. Until then, several orders had been placed, e. g. from Romania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece, Estonia and Lithuania. The Czechoslovakian Air Force had lost interest, though, preferring the indigenous Avia B.35 instead.
Total production numbers remained low, since more modern aircraft with retractable landing gear and and more powerful engines and armament were steadily introduced - only about eighty aircraft were produced and entered service with smaller European air forces during the advent of WWII.
The Lithuanian Air Force operated a single squadron with Bf 94 A-1 (a total of 16 aircraft), which were to replace the Gloster Gladiators. The German machines received locally a modified armament consisting of a pair of 0.303” Browning machine guns, so that the standard ammunition could be used. In 1940, the Lithuanian Air Force consisted of eight Air Squadrons, including reconnaissance, fighter, bomber and training units. Air Force bases had been established in the cities and towns of Kaunas /Žagariškės, Šiauliai /Zokniai (Zokniai airfield), Panevėžys /Pajuostis. In the summer time, airports in the cities of Palanga and Rukla were also used. A total of 117 aircraft and 230 pilots and observers were listed in the books at that time.
General characteristics:
Crew: One
Length: 8.70 m (28 ft 6 in)
Wingspan: 9,9 m (32 ft 5 in)
Height: 2,45 m (8 ft 1 in)
Wing area: 16,35 m² (175.41 ft²)
Empty weight: 1,510 kg (3,325 lb)
Loaded weight: 1,940 kg (4,273 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 2,150 kg (4,735 lb)
Powerplant:
1× Jumo 210 D inverted V12 engine, rated at 700 hp (522 kW),
driving a wooden two-blade, fixed pitch propeller
Performance:
Maximum speed: 495 km/h (308 mph)
Range: 500 km (311 miles)
Rate of climb: 13.0 m/s (2,560 ft/min)
Armament:
2× 7,92 mm MG17 on top of the engine, synchronized to fire through the propeller arc
(In Lithuanian machines replaced with a pair of 0.303" (7,7mm) Browning machine guns)
The kit and its assembly:
This whif kit was inspired by a similar build at whatifmodelers.com: an early Bf 109 with spats! This looked so nice and convincing that I had to “try this at home”. As donation parts for the landing gear I also had a pair of Avia B.35 spats from a vintage KP at hand – easy and straightforward.
Basis is the Bf 109 B/C Heller kit, which is rare but available at affordable prices if you are patient. It was mostly built OOB, the only major mod were the closed landing gear wells, using the original covers and some putty, the addition of the B.35 spat, and for an even more retrograded look I also exchanged the canopy. The original, closed cockpit was replaced by an open alternative, taken from a Macchi C.200. This screen is consideraly shorter and not as deep as the Bf 109 parts, so the cockpit walls had to be raised, too, and the spine elongated forward. But it works and adds to the retro look. A HUMA pilot was added in the cockpit, too.
Et voilà, a simple German export aircraft!
As a side note: the “94” is one of the RLM type numbers that had not been used in Germany. It had been allocated to Heinkel though, but I wanted to use the highest possible number before the “109” for this whif, so the manufacturer switch is IMHO acceptable.
Painting and markings:
Finding a potential user was a bit more tricky. I finally settled for Lithuania – exotic, but with a colorful air force before WWII. The whiffy Bf 94 could have been the country's first monoplane fighter!
For the paint scheme I kept things simple, partly inspired by contemporary Bf 109 during the Spanish Civil War and Lithuanian Gloster Gladiators of the pre WWII era. I combined a light grey (RLM 63) upper fuselage, fin and spats with light blue undersides (RLM 65), together with dark Green (FS 34079) upper wing surfaces. This green was also used for the contrast background under the national insignia under the wings, while the rudder became white. It's actually not bright and colorful, but different from typical cammo paint schemes or bare metal, and Lithuanian aircraft appear to have carried such dry schemes.
The decals were puzzled together. The Lithuanian insignia come from a Blue Rider sheet, the tactical code actually belongs to a Hobby Boss F-86 in Luftwaffe markings, and the horse emblem is from an Italian Fiat C.32. The white stripes on the wings are a personal addition, I wanted to add some more contrast to the national insignia, since the overall livery is rather simple and subdued.
The interior was painted in dark grey (Humbrol 111), but the canopy is so tight that you cannot see anything inside except for the pilot's head. For some contrast, all trim tabs were painted in a reddish brown (Humbrol 100), and the two-blade propeller reveiced an aluminum front and a black back side.
A simple whif, but again it's one less on the long idea an project list. Realized in just three days from box to dry varnish, plus some additional time for the pics.