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Taken while I was on the Underground tour of Seattle. The sky was a beautiful color and I loved how isolated this post was.
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Some background:
On 17 September 1942, personnel for 898 Naval Air Squadron gathered at RNAS Lee-on-Solent (HMS Daedalus) in Hampshire. They embarked in HMT Queen Mary, setting sail for the United States and arriving at NAS Norfolk, Virginia, where the squadron was officially established as a fighter unit on 15 October, under the command of Royal Marines Captain A.J. Wright. The squadron was equipped with six Grumman Martlet Mk IV, an American carrier-based fighter aircraft. These aircraft were the counterparts to the US Navy's F4F-4B variant and were generally comparable to the Mk II but featuring two extra wing-mounted guns and powered by a Wright Cyclone engine.
In January 1943, deck landing exercises were conducted on the USS Charger at Brunswick, Maine, after which the squadron joined HMS Victorious on 3 February. This occurred as HMS Victorious embarked on a journey to the Pacific through the Panama Canal to integrate with the United States Pacific Fleet. The USS Hornet was lost, and the USS Enterprise sustained significant damage during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, resulting in the United States Navy (USN) having only one operational fleet carrier, the USS Saratoga, in the Pacific theater. In response to a request for additional carrier support, the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Victorious was loaned to the USN in late December 1942.
A number of months was dedicated to operations in that theater, which encompassed reconnaissance missions in the Coral Sea region during May, succeeded in June by providing assistance for the landings conducted by United States forces in the Middle Solomons.[4] HMS Victorious arrived back in the United Kingdom on 26 September, with the squadron disembarking at RNAS Eglinton (HMS Gannet) in County Down, Northern Ireland. By this time, the unit had been re-equipped with ten Grumman Wildcat Mk V fighter aircraft and was integrated into the 7th Naval Fighter Wing. This version of aircraft was comparable to the FM-1 Wildcat of the United States Navy, manufactured by General Motors and equipped with the Pratt & Whitney R-1830 Twin Wasp engine.
On 12 September, the unit commenced operations aboard HMS Searcher, a Ruler-class escort carrier, to support North Atlantic convoys, primarily utilizing RNAS Hatston (HMS Sparrowhawk), Mainland, Orkney, as a base of operations. In April 1944, the 7th Naval Fighter Wing took part in an assault on the German battleship Tirpitz located in Altafjord, Norway. Over the subsequent two months, multiple shipping strikes were executed off the coast of Norway, resulting in the downing of a Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor maritime patrol aircraft and four Blohm & Voss BV 138 flying boats. In June 1944, the squadron offered protection for a convoy heading to Gibraltar, before being amalgamated into 882 Naval Air Squadron on July 5, 1944.
898 Naval Air Squadron was reformed at RNAS Wingfield (HMS Malagas), in Cape Town, South Africa on 8 January 1945, as a single-seat fighter unit. The squadron was equipped with twenty-four Grumman Hellcat F. Mk. II fighter aircraft. This version was comparable to the F6F-5 Hellcat of the United States Navy and was equipped with the Pratt & Whitney R-2800 Double Wasp engine. In June, it embarked in the escort carrier HMS Attacker for deployment to Ceylon, now augmented with brand-new Grumman Hellcat F. Mk. III fighters and Hellcat FR. Mk. III photo reconnaissance aircraft.
The Grumman F6F Hellcat was a carrier-based fighter aircraft conceived to replace the earlier F4F Wildcat in United States Navy (USN) service. The Hellcat was an erstwhile rival of the faster Vought F4U Corsair for use as a carrier-based fighter. However, the Corsair had significant issues with carrier landing that the Hellcat did not, allowing the Hellcat to steal a march as the Navy's dominant fighter in the second part of World War II, a position the Hellcat did not relinquish. The Corsair instead was primarily deployed to great effect in land-based use by the U.S. Marine Corps.
Although the F6F resembled the earlier F4F Wildcat in some ways, it was a completely new design, much bigger and powered by a 2,000 hp Pratt & Whitney R-2800, the same powerplant used for both the Corsair and the United States Army Air Force's (USAAF) Republic P-47 Thunderbolt fighters. Some military observers tagged the Hellcat as the "Wildcat's big brother".
The F6F series were designed to take damage and get the pilot safely back to base. A bullet-resistant windshield and a total of 212 lb (96 kg) of cockpit armor was fitted, along with armor around the oil tank and oil cooler. A 250 gal (946 l) self-sealing fuel tank was fitted in the fuselage. The design proved to be very balanced, even though attempts were made to improve the Hellcat's performance.
The F6F-6 was the last version that eventually entered service during WWII. It used the 18-cylinder 2,100 hp (1,567 kW) Pratt and Whitney R-2800-18W two-stage supercharged radial engine with water injection. This uprated engine had to be combined with a Hamilton-Standard four-bladed propeller to cope with the extra power. The F6F-6s were the fastest version of the Hellcat series during wartime, with a top speed of 417 mph (671 km/h vs. the F6F-5's 391 mph/629 km/h). To ensure directional stability at high speed the F6F-6 received a slightly taller tail fin. The armament was beefed up to four 20mm M2 cannons in the wings, while the F6F-5's standard external ordnance (including unguided missiles, iron bombs and drop tanks) was retained. However, the ordnance options were insofar widened that the F6F-6 received plumbing to carry a pair of drop tanks on the formerly “dry” bomb hardpoints under the wing roots instead of only a single auxiliary tank under the fuselage.
The F6F-6 was cleared for production in September 1944 and entered service with both US Navy and Royal Navy (as F6F-6 and Hellcat F Mk. III, respectively) in early 1945. Small numbers of the “Double Six” were also delivered to New Zealand and the Netherlands (to former NL-KNIL units in the Pacific theatre under Royal Air Force command). A photo reconnaissance version, the F6F-6P (FR Mk. III in Royal Navy service), was developed and built in small numbers, too. It retained all offensive capabilities of the standard fighter but featured a pair of cameras in the rear fuselage with respective vertical and side view ports. In operational use, though, two of the four M2 cannons in the wings were removed to save weight.
The Royal Navy received about fifty F6F-6s, and one of its main operators in the SEAC region was NAS 898, using both the standard F6F-6 as well as the F6F-6P. The fighters were delivered and operated in standard US Navy livery, in all-over Dark Sea Blue, but the photo reconnaissance aircraft quickly received for their missions at high altitude an improvised new paint scheme in an overall medium blue tone. This was not a standard color, rather an improvised mix of British Insignia Blue and white, reminiscent of RAF Azure Blue, and the standard SEAC markings were retained on these aircraft.
However, after deployment to Ceylon with the new aircraft NAS 898 did not engage in any combat prior to V-J Day. Subsequently, the pilots returned home aboard the Attacker-class escort carrier HMS Pursuer, without their aircraft, and the squadron was officially disbanded upon their arrival to the United Kingdom on 12 December.
General characteristics
Crew: 1
Length: 33 ft 7 in (10.24 m)
Wingspan: 42 ft 10 in (13.06 m)
Height: 13 ft 1 in (3.99 m)
Wing area: 334 ft² (31 m²)
Airfoil: NACA 23015.6 mod root; NACA 23009 tip
Empty weight: 9,238 lb (4,190 kg)
Loaded weight: 12,598 lb (5,714 kg)
Max. takeoff weight: 15,415 lb (6,990 kg)
Internal fuel capacity: 250 US gal (950 l)
Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0211
Drag area: 7.05 ft² (0.65 m²)
Aspect ratio: 5.5
Powerplant:
1× Pratt & Whitney R-2800-18W "Double Wasp" two-row radial engine with a two-speed two-stage supercharger, delivering 2,100 hp (1,566 kW) at 2,800 rpm at 1,000 ft (305 m) and 1,800 hp (1,342 kW) at 2,800 rpm at 25,500 ft (7,772 m), driving a Hamilton Standard four-blade propeller of 13 ft 1 in (4.0 m) diameter
Performance:
Maximum speed: 330 kn (417 mph, 671 km/h)
Stall speed: 73 kn (84 mph, 135 km/h)
Combat radius: 820 nmi (945 mi, 1.520 km)
Ferry range: 1,330 nmi (1,530 mi, 2.460 km)
Service ceiling: 39,305 ft (12.000 m)
Rate of climb: 3,800 ft/min (19,5 m/s)
Wing loading: 37.7 lb/ft² (184 kg/m²)
Time-to-altitude: 7.0 min to 20,000 ft (6,100 m)
Lift-to-drag ratio: 12.2
Takeoff roll: 799 ft (244 m)
Armament:
4× 0.79 in (20 mm) M2 cannons with 250 RPG in the outer wings
Up to 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) of external loads, including 6× 5 in (127 mm) HVARs, 2× Tiny Tim unguided rockets, 1× 2,000 lb (907 kg) bomb or 1× Mk.13-3 torpedo on the fuselage centerline rack, or 2× 1,000 lb (450 kg), 4× 500 lb (227 kg) or 8× 250 lb (110 kg) bombs on two weapon racks on either side of fuselage under the wing center-section, or up to 3× 150 US gal (570 l) external drop tanks
The kit and its assembly:
This mild what-if Hellcat is more or less a remake of a similar build, a fictional F6F-6 in late-WWII Netherlands markings. Some time ago I read about RN Hellcats in the SEAC theatre and that photo-recce F6F had been re-painted in an overall medium blue scheme, and it took a while to find out more – esp. about the blue tone that had been applied. I initially thought it had been FS 35164 (USN Intermediate Blue), but trustworthy sources claimed that it had been an improvised/mixed color, what made a build even more attractive. Another odd “variant” for photo recce Hellcats provided by the same source claims an apparently all-over glossy black scheme, intended to reduce drag through the shiny finish.
Since I had a leftover F6F-5 kit in store as a basis I eventually took action and procured a set of brass gun barrels for an A-1 Skyraider (the same that I has used on my first F6F-6 build, too), and started the build. The kit is/was, however, a Mistercraft reboxing of the Heller Hellcat (a mold from the Seventies…), which I had originally procured only because of its vast and exotic decal set.
This kit turned out to be a HUGE disappointment. The bright blue plastic is poor and takes ages to cure after glueing. Details are all raised and limited, but that would be acceptable for the kit’s age and low price point. But the fit is …horrible, esp. the separate cowling and the fuselage/hull intersection, which left me with 1mm (!) gaps and other misalignments that required massive PSR to bridge and compensate.
Another special horror: the cowling and the engine. Sane designers would have mounted the engine block to the bulkhead/front wall of the hull and then place the completed cowling over it, held by locator pins or other mounting aids. But not in France! The engine block has to be glued onto pins that are molded into the front(!) ring of the cowling, and esp. the lower ones remain well visible. I tried to mill them away and just use the upper pair, but that turned out to be so shaky that I had to add struts to the rear cylinder bank to stabilize the motor block which hangs, more or less, in free air(!?). But even then, the problems do not cease: the cowling turned out to be too wide, leaving gaps outside of the cooler flaps, and that hull and wing section (which consists of the lower fuselage half, see above) do not match was not helpful either. The lack of any orientation aids worsens the fight with the hardware. I eventually added a blob of putty to the engine block’s rear and to create more adhesive area and tried to glue the cowling to the hull as flush as possible, but it required several PSR turns to blend everything together. In hindsight I also regretted that I opened the cooling flaps a little to make the model look a bit more life-like – since the cowling does not align well with the rest of the hull this discrepancy became even more obvious, but I left it that way.
My conversion measures were limited and circled around the propulsion system: a new 4-blade propeller, left over from an Academy P-47D, mounted on a metal axis and inserted into the engine block. Since I wanted some more external difference to the F6F-3/5, I decided to extend the fin at the tip. It's just a subtle change, maybe 3mm net, done with 1mm plastic sheet and some PSR.
The gun barrels are aftermarket brass pieces (see above), outfitted with flame dampers – I think these were more expensive than the whole Heller kit itself!
I also sanded away the dubious underwing hardpoints, since they appear very primitive and toy-like, just like the six missiles which neither look like American HVARs nor like British 60 lb. RP-3 missiles.
Instead, for long-range reconnaissance missions in the PTO, I gave the Hellcat a pair of drop tanks on the inner wing stations, both procured from Academy P-47 kits.
Camera port fairings behind the wings’ trailing edge, scratched from styrene sheet and PSRed in/onto the hull, with openings that were later filled with ClearFix, would set the -P variant apart from its standard brethren (and somewhat hide the loss of many surface details due to the massive PSR work all around the hull…). An IDF loop antenna was added under the fuselage as another detail for a long-range recce aircraft.
Painting and markings:
As mentioned above, the odd paint scheme (or better: the color) was what tempted me into building this British Hellcat. Since the uniform medium blue livery would be very simple, I decided to implement the idea of an overpainted original Dark Sea Blue (FS 35042) standard USN livery, with the lighter tone flaking off here and there. With this concept the landing gear and the wells became Dark Sea Blue, too, while cockpit and cowling interior were painted with American Interior Green.
The medium blue was not mixed, though, and I rather used Humbrol 157 (RAF Azure Blue) over an XtraColor FS 35042 basis on leading edges and some areas that are normally exposed to wear and tear. The medium blue was furthermore unevenly applied, to emphasize the camouflage’s improvised nature.
The markings remained RN standard, even though I puzzled the decals together form various sources. The roundels came from a Revell Hellcat, as well as the serail number, while the small white tactical code came from the Mistercraft sheet; the white ID striped were created with generic white decal material. As an exotic twist I gave the machine a Type C fin flash but painted the leading red field out with a different shade of medium blue-grey.
The kit received a light black ink wash, some light post-panel-shading and weathering (leading edges, exhaust and gun smoke stains), and was finally sealed with matt acrylic varnish (Italeri).
The Heller kit is sh!t, but the finished model looks interesting. What I expected to be a relatively simple project turned out to be a major cosmetic surgery nightmare. However, with the odd blue livery I find the result quite convincing, almost like an early “low-vis” camouflage with the only blue-and-white SEAC Royal Navy markings.
Note the old fashioned yellow and black striped traffic light post which is still in use today (July 2022).
Hoenheim Nord Terminus Strasbourg, France
Architect: Zaha Hadid
BACKGROUND - The city of Strasbourg has been developing a new tram-line service to combat increasing congestion and pollution in the city centre. It encourages people to leave their cars outside the city in specially designed car parks, and then take a tram to the more inner parts of the city. The first part of this initiative was the development of Line ‘A’ that ran east to west across Strasbourg. Zaha Hadid has been invited, as part of the new artist’s interventions, to design the tram-station and a car park for 700 cars at the northern apex of the line.
CONCEPT - The overall concept towards the planning of the car park and the station is one of overlapping fields and lines that knit together to form a constantly shifting whole. Those ‘fields’ are the patterns of movement engendered by cars, trams, bicycles and pedestrians. Each has a trajectory and a trace, as well as a static fixture. It is as though the transition between transport types (car to tram, train to tram) is rendered as the material and spatial transitions of the station, the landscaping and the context.
MATERIALISED VECTORS - The Station contains a basic program of waiting space, bicycle storage, toilets and shop. This sense of three dimensional vectors is enhanced in the treatment of space: the play of lines continues as light lines in the floor, or furniture pieces or strip-lights in the ceiling. Viewed in plan, all the ‘lines’ coalesce to create a synchronous whole. The idea is to create an energetic and attractive space that is clearly defined in terms of function and circulation, which is made possible through three-dimensional graphics of light and openings.
MAGNETIC FIELDS - The car park is divided into two parts to cater for 700 cars. The notion of the cars as being ephemeral and constantly changing elements on site is manifest as a ‘magnetic field’ of white lines on the black tarmac. These delineate each parking space and start off aligned north/south at the lowest part of the site, then gently rotate according to the curvature of the site boundaries. Each space has a vertical light post. In contrast with the lines on the ground, an area of darker concrete, almost an imaginary ‘shadow’, cuts gently through the car park, linking the field of the station to the one of the car park. Overall, the ‘field’ of the light posts maintains a constant datum height that combines with the gradient of the floor slope. Again, the intention is to reciprocate between static and dynamic elements at all scales.
Date: 1999/2001
Client: Compagnie des Transports Strasbourgeois
Architectural design Zaha Hadid
Project architect: Stéphane Hof
Structural engineer: Dr. Ing. Luigi Martino
Superficie: 25.000 m²
Bus and Tram Station 3.000 m²
Parking 700 places.
This fella didn't seem to mind me very much as most hawks do. Usually, they'll fly away at first movement. I was able to circle around him and get about 45 feet away and he never moved, only giving me an occasional glance.
For a bird newbie like me, the highly polymorphic Red-tailed Hawk can throw me off. I believe this is an adult light-morph Harlan's classification. Please comment if you know differently! Matt? :)
Tomada al azar, una de esas que vienen con suerte, estaba tomando fotografías en un lugar, vi arriba, parecía bonita, una foto y zas!, muy bonito!
An office pendulum traces out curves in sand below it.
Details: handheld, 100mm macro lens, natural light, light post-processing to up highlights.
Does anybody know what this stands for? (I think the letters are ACC, but they might be AEC, based on how the "A" overlaps with the next letter.)
Today's image is a suggestion from my friend Evelyn. She brought her daughter over to play with Rylie and we ended up doing a shoot, lol. Thanks to our husbands for entertaining the girls while we did this!! You guys are wonderful! Evelyn suggested that since I have so many "pretty" portraits, we should try to do a more artistic and story-telling image. (I later realized that she actually wanted to do something a little different, so we might try that once I have a better setup). We shot outside and in my house and I even pulled out both studio lights, but in the end this was the best. It has a story-telling element that the others just didn't. The color temperature and lighting were right from camera, (Thanks to Ben for holding the silver reflector) so editing wasn't a matter of correcting like I might do normally, but rather artistically enhancing and fine-tuning. I had to remove a whole house and light post from behind the fence on the left top of the image because they were just too distracting. This took forever! I wanted to do it cleanly and right and since I don't have the luxurious feature in the newest ps, (a little thing called "content aware fill") I had to pain-stakingly make the selection in ps around the fence and through the chain. I'm not really a fan of this and don't do it much. I usually try to shoot right from the camera so that I don't have to edit, but this one needed to have a low-ground camera angle and we didn't have much of a choice on location. I decided to do the color swipe since a fellow artist, follower, and friend who suggested recently that I do a selective color swipe. I've been waiting for the best time to use this, and today's the day! I limited the color swipe to a small triangle that forces the viewer up to the face, and kept it very narrow so as to limit the amount of happy colors (in her outfit, grass, and sky) in order to further emphasize the depressed nature of her expression and makeup. (As if to say that the world is closing in on her). Thanks for the suggestion Evelyn, it turned out pretty cool! (Can't tell she's an art teacher, can ya??? ;) What would creative types do without other creative types???! ;) 1/320sec@f/6.3 ISO200 FL:50mm
Federica during the closing conference of our workshop in Salvitelle (SA), Irpinia, July 2012.
More from this picture here: View On Black
Original shot taken with a Nikon F-801 AF, Arsenal 35mm MIR F2 24N (Nikon mount), 24x36 format on Agfa Vista 400 asa film, light post processing.
Banners on light posts look great in downtown areas and campuses.
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The old decorative signage with Native American symbols on a light post at Winrock Shopping Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Only one remains now (see below) as they move forward with the remodel of the shopping center. The signs are quite large as you will notice in the next two images.
When my parents moved to the NE Heights in Albuquerque, the nearest grocery store (Safeway) was at Winrock. I remember being fascinated with these signs before I could even read. Later, they served as great reminders for where the car had been parked.
So many good memories of the old Winrock, when it had an open-air roof: eating at the counter at Walgreen's, shopping at Jordan's, Lerner's, Ben Franklin's, Penney's and Ward's--Ward's had a good cafeteria, too. Diamond Jim's...we would dare to take a peek inside to take a look at the bar. Cooper's Western Wear, Fedway, and Thelma Lu's Candy Shop with the giant lollipops. And not to forget Pastian's Bakery with the chocolate chip meringue cookies. Lots of good old memories of the shops that came and went, and the times spent there having fun.
Winrock back then:
albuquerquemodernism.unm.edu/wp/winrock-center/
What the future Winrock will look like here:
www.abqjournal.com/578937/abqnewsseeker/winrock-remake-ha...
Cantigny Park
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Note the old fashioned yellow and black striped traffic light post which is still in use today (July 2022).
Show lounge - Pacific Dawn on a Sydney to New Caledonia cruise.
Available light
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The light post in Narnia has always fascinated me
Pattern here: liljabs.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/the-light-of-narnia.pdf
7" pattern
I think it's like 3/5 for some small pieces :)