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Aberdeen Marine Operations Centre. They need to fix the blue lights in the lower two windows.
HDR using the A200's lame +/-0.7 auto bracketing. I tried to keep it subtle / realistic to look how it did at the time.
Please do not post large or sparky graphics in comments, thanks.
Today marks the final day of Arriva operation of the Route 159, Wednesday 9th December also marked 10 years to the day since the last routemaster operation on the route and also in London. So RML2682 is seen crossing Westminster Bridge shortly followed by a DW also working on the Route 159. (09/12/15)
Once this was the biggest airfield in Eastern Germany with thousands of Soviet soldiers living here - but when the Iron Curtain was lifted, they left. For 30 years now, this has been a ghost town. This time, we set out to explore a Soviet wasteland! Learn the full story in this episode on YouTube: youtu.be/t-pYZenXMyk
May 15, 2020
Canadian Forces Snowbirds fly over Edmonton on their cross country tour to salute front line healthcare workers and all Canadians doing their part to fight the spread of Covid-19 - dubbed OPERATION INSPIRATION. Heather and I saw the CT-114 Tutors fly almost directly over our house at 14:37 in the Snowbird signature formation called BIG DIAMOND. Two days later, on May 17th, Snowbird 11 crashed shortly after takeoff in Kamloops, BC. We mourn the death of Captain Jenn Casey and hope for the speedy recovery of Captain Richard MacDougall.
© 2020 Paul Chan - Canada. Photos are copyrighted. All rights reserved. Pictures can not be used without explicit permission by the creator.
The Krkov-Pilaniek revolving rifle is a true oddity in the world of firearms. While it may look like a bolt action rifle with a revolving magazine, its actual operation is much odder. The "magazine" is actually a rotating system of open-topped compartments that fit closely against the walls of the drum, and each of these compartments is filled from the top with loose powder and ball. The "bolt" serves as both a ramrod and a breech face, and is both used to move loads from the magazine into the chamber and to block the chamber while the round is fired. The weapon is readied by bringing the ramrod assembly to the rear, pressing the drum rotator located in front of the trigger to align a new chamber with the ramrod, pushing the ramrod home and turning the handle down to lock it, and then priming the percussion lock with a percussion cap. This allows for a higher rate of fire (roughly six shots a minute from an eight-shot magazine) than a contemporary muzzle loading rifle.
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I may not be so inactive after all, guys. I'm getting quite a bit more free time now, but exams are looming so don't hold your breath.
G-CIVW operating as BAW294 Heavy rotates off of runway 28R in Chicago.
British Airways Boeing 747-436 (G-CIVW) cn 25822/1157
A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
After recovering the VX gas, the team was extracted by two HH-60 helicopters
Final part of Operation Alcatraz.
"You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months. The eyes of the world are upon you. The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you. In company with our brave Allies and brothers-in-arms on other Fronts, you will bring about the destruction of the German war machine, the elimination of Nazi tyranny over the oppressed peoples of Europe, and security for ourselves in a free world."- Supreme Allied Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower.
80 years ago today, the largest land, air, and sea invasion in the history of the world took place. After years of careful planning and deception, the Allied powers began the invasion of Nazi occupied Europe. In the early morning hours of June 6th, 1944, American and British paratroopers descended from their planes into the towns of Normandy to secure strategic towns and bridges, while the Allied navy was transporting the ground forces across the English Channel. The Americans would land at Omaha and Utah beaches, while the British and Canadians would land at Gold, Sword, and Juno beaches. They were also accompanied by free French, Dutch, Greek, Norwegian, Polish, Czech and others from occupied nations. A total of 156,000 of allied troops would take part in the invasion.
Upon landing, the Allies would encounter fierce German resistance, and the defenses of the Atlantic Wall. Despite suffering heavy casualties, the landings were successful. The Germans did not expect landings at such a scale to take place in Normandy, and instead prepared for landings at Calais. Within months, much of France would be liberated, with few remaining German holdouts. By the end of the invasion, a total of 1.4 million allied troops would be in France, with more on the way. The success of the invasion would pave the way for the eventual end of the war against Nazi Germany.
A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
After insertion, the team patrols towards the ambush site.
Part two of Operation Alcatraz.
Officer Michelle "Cupcake" Brown and her buddy Officer Joe "Coffee" hand out toys to kids in Lego City.
Officer Brown is a LAPD minifigure from Brick Police. You can find them on Facebook: www.facebook.com/BrickPolice and their website: www.brickpolice.com
Officer Joe "Coffee" is from the 2013 Lego City Advent Calendar. He arrived with a coffee cup, that's how he got his nickname :-)
A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
The team ambushing the convoy.
Part six of Operation Alcatraz.
Union Pacific Railroad Operation Lifesaver caboose at North Little Rock, Arkansas on July 31, 1986, Kodachrome by Chuck Zeiler. This car was known as EAST ONE when it was on the Missouri Pacific. Yeah, I know, I could have framed this shot better. I was not an invited guest, so I grabbed the shot from my car and moved on.
In the eleven years since freight started using HS1 I have yet to photograph one until today as the majority of workings have been nocturnal. However since the pandemic occasional daylight operation has occurred thanks to the decimation of Eurostar services providing plenty of free capacity and this morning a post on SE-Gen just gave me time to dash to either here at Rainham or Ebbsfleet. In the end I decided if the sun was out (ha,ha - well it was when I left home!) Ebbsfleet was not an option and besides Rainham was much the cheaper destination as my Travelcard reaches as far as the c2c station alongside. Of course someone had completely switched the lights out on arrival, which was half an hour earlier than I expected as I had made a 30 second connection into a Grays service at West Ham. In compensation the loaded Transfesa service did run parallel with 4M56 12.57 London Gateway - Garston and typically the sun did come out a minute later, albeit fairly weakly!
Rail Operations Group 47813 'Jack Frost' accelerates through Wadborough with Class 117 DMU in tow and recent long term hired in traction DRS 57303 on the rear. The Class 117 car numbers were 977988 and 977987.
A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
The team reached the ambush site. Snipers setup an overwatch.
Part three of Operation Alcatraz.
PHILIPPINE SEA (Feb. 2, 2021) An MV-22B Osprey, attached to Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 265, and U.S. Marines from Force Reconnaissance Company, III Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), conduct a movement with the Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726), deployed in U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations, during an integration exercise off the coast of Okinawa, Japan. The exercise was part of ongoing III MEF-U.S. 7th Fleet efforts to provide flexible, forward-postured and quick-response options to regional commanders. (U.S Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Destiny Dempsey)
Shhhh
I'm performing surgery
Close your mouth, close your eyes
He has a ticking part
That may pop out
And cause someone surprise
Don't worry
There won't be much blood
It will be quick, he'll never know
That his ticking part
His missing part
Is something that has to go
Intelligence obtained from Operation Blue Moon indicated that an exchange of radioactive material will be taking place in the Middle East in an area within the Russian sphere of influence. Additionally, intelligence suggested that the Russian arms dealer, codename Panther, will be personally at the exchange.
To capture the radioactive material and the High Value Individual Panther, a Victorian special operations task force was assigned with the operation. As soon as the task force arrived at the forward operating base Camp Oasis, they immediately made preparations for the upcoming operation.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
If you have the chance and the time, visit the USS Midway Aircraft Carrier museum in San Diego's harbor. Take the time for the guide island tour. On the command center for flight deck operations you will find the list shown in the picture. Quite interesting detail you will get on the ready room's tour, all the names are pilots which are died, missing or get captured.
Rail Operations Group Class 37, 37884 Cepheus about to pass through Rugeley Trent Valley working 0Z42 Leicester L.I.P. to Crewe IEMD, taken 18th May 2020
Once this was the biggest airfield in Eastern Germany with thousands of Soviet soldiers living here - but when the Iron Curtain was lifted, they left. For 30 years now, this has been a ghost town. This time, we set out to explore a Soviet wasteland! Learn the full story in this episode on YouTube: youtu.be/t-pYZenXMyk
A special operations forces team is tasked to intercept a convoy heading to a terrorist cell. The convoy is carrying a crate containing VX nerve gas. The team's objective is to ambush the convoy and retrieve the crate of VX gas.
The team reached the ambush site. Snipers setup an overwatch.
Part three of Operation Alcatraz.
Colonel Robert Olds' F-4C following a North Vietnamese MiG-21 Fishbed during Operation Bolo. This month is the 50th anniversary of that famous air battle.
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Still testing out Blender, so I thought I'd pit my F-4C against its nemesis; the MiG-21. Awe was kind enough to donate his stellar MiG-21, 'cuz he's a boss.
Nope, those barrels weren't involved in making Jim Beam's Devil's Cut, but they made for a decent photo prop. Passing by the former Soo Line depot in Superior.
(Nov 04, 2017) 18 parked Airbus aircrafts at Berlin Schönefeld airport apron E. As a result of the insolvency, Air Berlin has ceased its own commercial flight operations. Parts of the company are taken over by Eurowings (Lufthansa group). Some aircraft may have already been repainted from Air Berlin to Eurowings. Both Lufthansa Technik and airberlin technik have maintenance hangars at Schönefeld.
A Victorian special operations task force was assigned to ambush an exchange of radioactive material and capture a high value individual (HVI) codename Panther, a Russian arms dealer.
The tasks were assigned to the TF through drawing straws. The assault team consisted of Team 8, the Squadron Master Chief (Callsign Orca-minor), and two machine gunners from Team 7. The extraction team consisted of Team 55 with Squadron Commander (Callsign Orca-actual), and a fire support section from the Special Operations Regiment. The extraction team are mounted in two GMV, one LAV-FSV, one LAV-ICV, and one HMWV Cargo. The remaining operators from Team 7 in two HH-60 Pave Hawks would be the QRF and positioned at FOB Spade. Video links with the Task Force's TOC, Victoria’s National Command Centre (NCC), United States’ Situation Room and United Kingdom’s COBRA were also setup to monitor the mission on the day of the exchange.
As the assault team patrol to the exchange site after being inserted into the AO by high altitude high opening (HAHO) insertion, the extraction team departed the staging base and arrived at a rendezvous point.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.
Our collaboration (created by Deltaforceguy) at Brickfair VA 2012.
Based off Operation: Iraqi Freedom.
Metra's Operation North Pole trainset arrives into Des Plaines, IL with a inbound train. It was cool to finally catch this fully wrapped train, and on Christmas Eve to boot!
Aug 2oth 1968. The rumble of Russian tanks broke the silence of the streets of Prague Czechoslovakia. 250,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 2000 tanks entered the Country.
The 2017 field season was record-breaking for Operation IceBridge, NASA’s aerial survey of the state of polar ice. For the first time in its nine-year history, the mission, which aims to close the gap between two NASA satellite campaigns that study changes in the height of polar ice, carried out seven field campaigns in the Arctic and Antarctic in a single year. In total, the IceBridge scientists and instruments flew over 214,000 miles, the equivalent of orbiting the Earth 8.6 times at the equator.
The mission of Operation IceBridge, NASA’s longest-running airborne mission to monitor polar ice, is to collect data on changing polar land and sea ice and maintain continuity of measurements between ICESat missions. The original ICESat mission launched in 2003 and ended in 2009, and its successor, ICESat-2, is scheduled for launch in the fall of 2018. Operation IceBridge began in 2009 and is currently funded until 2020. The planned overlap with ICESat-2 will help scientists connect with the satellite’s measurements.
Read more: www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/big-year-for-icebridge
For more about Operation IceBridge and to follow future campaigns, visit: www.nasa.gov/icebridge
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center enables NASA’s mission through four scientific endeavors: Earth Science, Heliophysics, Solar System Exploration, and Astrophysics. Goddard plays a leading role in NASA’s accomplishments by contributing compelling scientific knowledge to advance the Agency’s mission.
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The OBL (Osama Bin Ladin) raid has been accurately recreated in lego for the one and only Brick Fair Virginia 2013. This collaborative MOC has been registered as an official collaboration and will be on display in a specific place at the convention for attendees and the public to veiw.
A door gunner with the Tactical Aviation Detachment watches out of a CH-146 Griffon helicopter during Operation IMPACT on September 27, 2017.
Photo: Op IMPACT, DND
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Un mitrailleur de porte du détachement d’aviation tactique à bord d’un hélicoptère CH-146 Griffon assure la surveillance au cours de l’opération IMPACT, le 27 septembre 2017.
Photo : Op IMPACT, MDN
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One of the former operation rooms in Pripyat hospital. Operating lights and medication are all that remain here....Did the workers and firemen after the Chernobyl Disaster pass through here those fateful hours and days after the explosion?
One of G M North's Olympians with its yellow stripe seen in Liverpool on 15th May 1995.
Route 34 was, I think, already a GM Buses operation being a former Lancashire United service.
Operation Christmas Cheer brought food and support to looked-out workers at MANA, Hamilton. This was one very appreciative worker. Shot on Tri-X 400 and developed in Blazinal for 17.5 minutes at 18 degrees Celsius.
A Sunwing passenger jet (SW703) traveling from Barkley Island to Victoria was hijacked by two gunmen from the Samedi Gang.
After two weeks of neogiation, an exchange of food and water for hostages, and the indication that the gunmen had a remote control, possibly a trigger for a bomb onboard, the Government of Victoria approved a hostage rescue and Team 7 of the National Mission Unit was deployed.
Just at dawn, snipers from Team 7 established an over-watch. Approaching from the plane's blind spot, the assault team also moved into position.
To be continued...
Note: The story, all names, characters, and incidents are fictitious.